Agreed. Plus our politics have become legitimately terrifying to the point where very little of it lends itself to comedy anymore. It’s just such a different environment since 2016. During the Bush years there was Stewart and Olbermann and Moyers, and the rest of the media was jingoistic credulous trash. Then the…

Political comedy hasn’t done anything for me since Trump got elected, and I think it’s because it’s just not working. Republicans have stopped caring about being perceived as hypocritical and such, so the ol’ “So-And-So said this today, but said this in 2006" standby doesn’t affect them. 

I’m one of the people saying it, and that was based on my actual experience of trying to read it. (I also read Caves of Steel about a year ago and had a hard time with Asimov’s depiction of women - and by women, I mean one single woman character, who was on the verge of hysterics in practically every scene she was in;…

The first book doesn’t really have a plot because it’s not really a novel. It’s a collection of short stories and novellas, each of which deals with a political crisis and how it is solved.

Toby Huss! I’m in.

Because playing dumb gives Sony a marketing campaign that they don’t had to spend a dime on. If they acknowledged Garfield is in the movie back when it leaked, AV Club’s not writing articles about his interview today and we’re off discussing something else.

This article really hinges on the idea that Latin music (and urban music, for that matter) is an ethnically-exclusive category, which is positively vile and a concept lots of artists chafe against in their desire for artistic validation.

If Latin is a catch-all for styles including reggaeton and trap, and Rosalía makes music which is or is inspired by reggaeton and trap, where else should she be nominated? Should only people with “sufficiently” Latin ancestry be allowed in the category?

Do we really need a redemption story for a pill popping grifter?

Ugh, I remember this woman from the 80's... why would anyone try to redeem her and how could you possibly get someone like Jessica Chastain to play her? An awful, awful woman. 

If something like 300 votes in Florida had changed, Gore would have won. That means that almost literally anything that was bad for Gore played a part in getting Bush elected, definitely including the “I invented the internet” myth. It’s one of history’s greatest near-misses, not to mention an obvious pivot point on…

historians could make whole careers about the damage Jay Leno has done to our society

She gets no pass.  She’s nuts. 

After the last 4 years of T#### I see no need to pass on misinformation. If someone doesn’t like the actual policies and says so, that’s one thing - they can be examined. But the beliefs about this are entirely fabricated, in large part by Jay Leno’s writing staff, and I cannot help but think that it played a part in…

Is it just me or is every movie that came out in the last18 months a D? I don’t mean literally a D in AVC reviews, just generally terrible.

https://store.avclub.com/collections/frontpage/products/just-say-no-to-motion-smoothing-av-club-headline-tee

Mike Richards out-fucking-up Michael Richards is truly remarkable. All he had to do was not steal the hosting job. This is like if Michael B. Jordan was better at basketball than Michael Jordan.

Audiences didn’t get to fully grasp the important cinematography of scenes where Wonder Woman is still hung up over a guy she did her first mission with for a week 40 years ago (but her FIRST male she ever met) or that she non-consensually had sex with a guy who got possessed by her dead first male acquaintance…

I’ve said this before around these parts but after a year of watching HBO Max’s “straight to the dumpster” quality Blockbusters, it makes it harder and harder to say that these are assembly line. Like, we know they’re going to fight a bad guy at the end and 95% chance they’ll win, but if every other major franchise is…

I’m incredibly excited to watch this and am rooting for this movie to succeed. I’m a big fan of Kim’s Convenience, a big fan of Simu Liu, a big fan of Awkwafina, and a big fan of the MCU telling more diverse stories.