@Panicking Calmly:

I want to make one exception to the salad in a bag thing, and that's coleslaw in a bag. Which is natural and right and how God intended. But otherwise, it's a scam people, a scam, the convenience you perceive is actually non-existent — it takes no more time to rip a fistful of lettuce into a bowl than it does to…

i and 1 — I doubt it. It's a race. The rules are fairly straightforward and the soap opera elements are minimal. "Be first, and if you can't be first then don't be last" — that about sums it up.

Another vote for continued coverage. I've always thought the TV Club format was best suited to these kinds of shows.

You seem enthusiastic!

I dunno, are Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys "creations"? Same procedure.

Fidel: I don't know. That's changing the premise of the game. Everyone else is trying to play a balancing act kind of game (ignoring loons like Coach and people like Sugar who aren't really playing to win); a guy like Russell comes in, plays slash and burn, and then whines and maligns because slashing and burning…

Stephen (from the JT/Coach season) put it best: you have to give the jury a reason to want to vote for you. Russell could have tried to give the jury a "voting for me will show what a good sport you are" kind of sell, but instead he tried the "vote for me because you are scum and I am your master" sell. Which tends…

By all accounts (ie exit interviews) Russell was even more obnoxious, on a day to day basis, than we were shown.

Oh, Fidel. Russell got twice outplayed by people who realized that a noxious filthy troll like him was the perfect goat to take to Tribal; that he would do all the dirty work, alienate everyone in the process, and then make whoever was with him at the end the mpre palatable choice.

Island of the Dead
Like most American initiatives, Rdemption Island was apparently tested on Israelis first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Oof. Think more Marshall McLuhan. Form/style/technique and content are indistinguishable. I used the phrase "technique and form convey content" at one point but "technique and form embody content" would have been more accurate.

@Saartje: No, I don't think so. If poisonous hate-filled paranoid ramblings have a wide appeal, you can bet it's the content of those poisonous hate-filled paranoid ramblings that are the source of the appeal, and not the putative artfulness of their delivery. Suggesting that it's Beck's style or technique or…

Oh, and miles, you're damn right that was a Bloom County reference.

Well, I said it was tricky (it is). I don't have a pat answer certainly. Ten years ago (say) I would have been solidly in idiotking's camp, and yours Todd. (Of course equating a cheap sack of shit political-huckster like Beck with Griffiths or Riefenstahl is itself ludicrous, but nevermind.)

Distinction without a difference?
"I don't think he thinks there's a conspiracy…."

http://www.heretical.com/po…

I liked Parks & Rec better when it was called "Fire Joe Morgan."

Speaking of Oldman and batshit crazy, anyone else remember Track 29? I'd enjoy a write-up of that. I don't think it fits New Cult Canon and I know it don't fit Year of Flops — they need a new regular column maybe, called WTF?! Films.

Frankly I think they should re-brand this whole site as "SEAN O'NEAL'S NEWSWIRE featuring the AV Club players".