He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

I love how at no point in this article do they comment on whether his special was good...or bad...or worth watching.

There have always been National Enquirer style gossip mags but they didn’t pretend to be anything but that. AVClub feels like they’re commenting on something they’re deeply a part of without bringing that up. Or maybe they’re so vain they don’t see the song is about them.

I know this site’s been trending this way for a while, but this week especially, it’s stopped feeling like an entertainment site, and started feeling like a visit to the morality police, so I might have remove to my bookmark and stop visiting for the first time since 2001. That’s okay! Things change. I guess I just…

Nothing wrong with confronting your old material but when you have places like the AVClub whose business model now seems to go through a celebrity’s past like a lawyer looking for anything that they did that you can hashtag and make a career destroying scandal out of, don’t you think less people will want to risk…

At risk of starting a “thing”, the exact quote was “Latino movie stars.” Not “Latinx”.

“cost $2.93 billion in copyright violation damages”

Oh man, you didn’t check in to see how this insane stretch of a nothing-burger was getting roasted over at The Root? Cause it’s getting no traction there, and it feels like their readership should know.

I mean, he’s clearly talking about “cancelled” as in “not renewed” or “not getting past the pilot stage,” but OK, whatever.

As a Jew, I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.  He didn’t say anything anti-semitic and condemned hate speech.  What do you want him to do?

The anti-sexuality of today’s America is actually quite scary to see. Disregarding that they’re bringing itch.io up here for no reason and being stupid which is honestly a quite shameful display, what the hell does it matter if an adult chooses to buy and/or download adult content? What’s next, Pornhub not being…

I’m so glad we have Apple to police morals for us. We can’t have consenting adults accessing adult content! Somebody think of the children!

That $465 million budget? It situates just one season of Tolkien life in between Israel and Ireland—as in, the countries—on the list of national gross domestic product. It’s a lot of money, is our point.

No.

Not that it will prevent AVClub to regularly urge its readers to financially support Amazon, of course. Any good deals on Amazon lately ? Anything we “won’t regret dropping money on” ? Any particular commission G/O Media may get if we enrich Bezos at the expense of his slaves ?

To Henry Cavill: Welcome to the world of literally every woman.

Who cares that Hannity vapes during commercial breaks? What was the point of sharing this?

How is this news? Next will we find out he’s in a dad band, or that when he goes out to the garage, he just looks at porn on his phone and sighs?

The really troubling part of this is not his, ahem, “provocative” lyrics, which are exactly as troubling as a teenage rendering of The Aristocrats (and which come from more or less the same place): what’s troubling is that high profile, mainstream-adjacent artists tapping into the “anti cancel culture” movement in…

Some of this likely reflects a generational shift: Whereas millennial stars like Perry and Bieber were arguably part of the last guard of traditionally stage-managed personas, Gen-Z artists like Eilish or Bella Thorne grew up documenting their lives online, with a warts-and-all openness that our culture still has yet…