I was mostly happy to see Punkie get a chance, but I agree the writing wasn’t very good. I do hope it leads to more for her.

I know of Mumford and Sons—they’re pretty big, but I admit I can’t tell you any of their hits...

Fair point about Promising Young Woman.  It’s been on VOD in the US since January, but not as a free part of any streaming service.  That said it is up for Best Picture along with a lot of other awards--it seems as likely…

Okay — just checking.

he’s legally presumed innocent and that’s entirely appropriate becuase that’s a constitutional right. But when you methodically kill someone on video over the course of 9 fuckin minutes, the rest of the world has a right to act like you’re guilty of murder, even though you’re not legally guilty (yet).

Dana lives on the West Coast so under the current circumstances I’m not sure he would come in. I don’t really think his softer impression on Colbert would work in the SNL format, but I do wish there was a way he could work with Moffat, who sure isn’t getting any help from the writers.

If anything posting these probably means I’d never get a job at AV Club. I mostly just post them because there are only a few sites which have people who talk about the show as in actual conversations instead of just “Lib agenda” or “It hasn’t been funny since Kristen Wiig left,” or stan posts. I’m usually more…

1) Comedy is allowed to make fun of the various slimy ways the rich & powerful use to sleaze their way out of consequences for their action. It’s like, I dunno, there are two  types of legal punishment! One for them, and a far harsher one for the rest of us!

I can’t decide -- are you trying out for a job here, or trying to get us to go to your recaps site...?

Kenan Thompson pronouncing it as “terlet”

that cardigan Cudi was wearing sure looked like Kurt Cobain’s old cardigan. I think Cudi is a very talented songwriter and producer (which kind of means songwriter these days except orchestrations are part of the songwriting) but god damn that guy cannot sing! It’s okay, use autotune! He fucked up the one good song on…

Heinous Typo Takedown Alert:

That’s fine. Honestly I was maybe too glib by saying that he deserves what he’s getting—my main point was simply that this review struck me simply as being heavily biased because it was Joss (having watched the pilot now, I honestly didn’t think the “Joss tropes” were as overly abundant as the critic states) and that…

Yeah, I thought the Steampunk genre was kind of dead because people finally realized that the Victorian era was a bit icky when you realize where the economic success of Britain was coming from (extractive colonization of Africa and Asia), and why the “explorers” with their cool pith helmets were trying to find the…

Yeah, Joss Whedon was my favorite filmmaker as a teenager and I still love a lot of his shows, but I’m never watching anything he does in the future after all the revelations about him, because the merit of his artistic output isn’t the issue here. I will say, though, that I can understand some negative critical…

Honestly his stock had been on a downward trend since Age of Ultron was a bit of a letdown - though I wasn’t nearly as down on it as a lot of people - and Justice League whipping wildly between Snyder’s “every moment is epic” and Whedon’s quippier approach was a pretty major blow to his reputation even before the…

I remember there was a Buffy week on the AV club shortly before Kai Cole’s public declaration about him, and the site switched gears pretty fast without any real acknowledgement of the disconnect.

A corollary of people overlooking shitty behavior of artists they like is this trend of people acting like someone who is…

I’d bump up this grade slightly to a B+. Everything mostly worked this week and was pleasantly enjoyable. While there was nothing must see, there wasn’t anything bad either and it rare to get a show where nothing is flat out bad.

As soon as we saw Carey Mulligan’s husband (I had no idea she was married to the Mumford guy; I thought he was one of those guys who had the beards that are half-emo, half-ZZ Top, not...adorable sitcom dad) join her for much of her monologue, I had a feeling they were telegraphing that she wouldn’t be thrown into…

Me last night: Wow this episode is actually funny. I bet AVClub still gives it a B-.

Not much to spark interest, if Dennis’s critiques are anything to go by. I did watch the Obama/Springsteen bit, which was mildly funny, because without even having to listen to it I know how annoying that podcast must be. These two guys have driven various podcasters wild with joy at the opportunity to interview them,…