Is it? I'll gladly eat crow if I simply didn't pick up on the irony, but on reread I still think it's the same click-baity horseshit that is taking over internet journalism.

Eww AV Club, I'm gonna stop reading if you're gonna start posting Huffington Post headers like "X eviserated Y!" and "This shrill partisan ANNIHILATED that marginally less likable partisan!"

Yeah I'm not the biggest Lil' Wolverine fan (though there's still a significant amount of Freaks and Geeks good will left over), but people are just reflexively piling on at this point. He was perfectly fine and entirely gracious about losing. If anyone was prickly it was Kumail Nanjiani trying to play the game for…

@avclub-5729ca33ae94a781cb6466b86979fa06:disqus Does it? I don't share that mentality so maybe it's me, but I'll read some of these and realize they're just recapping and can only think, "I know what I just saw, I have zero reason to read this." I mean the way you describe it makes it sound like a placeholder for a…

Haha, no, they're not, but it does safely put a nail in the coffin of any argument denying Bob's smile was a facade for a more complicated psyche. And it can be said with certainty that he didn't do those favors simply out of the kindness of his heart.

TV criticism is interesting in that I'm still not really sure what the objective function is supposed to be. Like we know a book or film review is supposed to tell you what kind of story/creative vision you're in for and how well they succeed. But TV reviews seems to be less about answering "Is this worth your time?"…

I was totally with him on the Marcel Marceau thing. C'mon, that was a good line.

Yeah, the first time we really saw behind the mask. Anyone still interested in posing Bob as just a nice guy we're projecting ulterior motives on?

Yeah I like/fear this new unholy alliance. I'm confused by Todd's take, wasn't Pete's subtext not to banish Bob but to have him basically be at his beck and call?

Yes, this. I'm sorry, all of a sudden we're moralizing about propriety at SC&P? To quote Sally Draper, bullshit.

Anyone else expecting the reveal of Peggy to be listening in after her scheming with Joan on the intercom?

https://vine.co/v/hBrJrXzFuMH

That beautiful matter of fact nod he gave after letting that information just sit there for a moment was the sublime comedic take John Slattery has ever done. And that's really saying something.

I got a weirdly specific crush on Garofalo from her multi-episode Seinfeld turn. Late 90s Garofalo was where it was at.

Oh good, you've said everything I feel on the matter. Let's all defer to @NathanielTheGreat:disqus !

@avclub-a70b90ac4dd557918e5a1c5cb19399ec:disqus Haha, I don't remember saying anything about an editorial coup. No, I just think their different comedic voices lend to a different approach. There's no question in the writers room Stewart set the tone of what the approach is, then the writers find the clips/jokes in…

"Sir, I just wanted to see if you were happy with your long distance service."

@avclub-1ef83ff6aceb6847da6c91867e20611b:disqus Huh? Fuck MSNBC. No, Stewart's a terrible interviewer because he had two of the main architects of the Iraq War (Rice and Rumsfeld) and didn't manage to factually challenge any of their blatantly manipulative narrative. Even Meet The Press could handle that much. They…

@avclub-6b4a9e228208a5008088d8ad6e1b3dd7:disqus It was at Boston University, he was nice enough to hang out every week for about a month or two, doing a small retrospective on mostly his documentaries (I don't even remember Willy Wonka being shown) for a half-filled small lecture hall (20-30 people each week). Before…

You're mistaking playful facetiousness for a Lincoln/Douglas debate.