Maybe Stuart and Wade are friends from far back (this is certainly implied). I have and have seen friendships buoyed by only nostalgia or time, where friends remain intact long after their individual goals change. But even if they don't go way back, fundamentally Stuart and Wade are cut from the same cloth, and that…

Every single narrative work ever made requires conflict to sustain itself. Narrative IS conflict.

I know you have to pump these things out quickly, Alasdair, but I'd like to suggest that your writing would be sharper if you took out the adverbs/qualifiers. A lot of them repeat (paragraph one: "pretty much," "pretty much," paragraph three: "basically," "basically", paragraph seven: "simply," "simply", three…

[EDIT] "I hope you pause once in a while and appreciate how nice it is to choose to have money."

It was mentioned before, but it's worth repeating: Kyle Mooney is fucking hilarious.

To corroborate: those are very common prices, especially for L.A., especially at a "first-date" location. I'm not saying they're fair, but they are common.

Too much of that BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Writers' Guild of Britain, Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, Television Critics Association, AFI, ALMA, Banff Rockie, British Comedy, Broadcasting Press Guild, Golden Nymph, Golden Rose, Prism, Satellite, Teen Choice, and TV Land…

Like David Brent, in whom you could always see a sort of plausible human core of insecurity and desperation motivating much of his ugly behavior, with Stuart it seems like there's a sort of plausible human core of insecurity and desperation motivating much of his ugly behavior.

I mean, Stephen barely ever talks at all on An Idiot Abroad. And he is clearly funnier on the podcasts. All Ricky does is provoke and giggle; Stephen provides a constant stream of uproarious side comments. Maybe that's really how best to summarize their relationships: Ricky's provokin' & gigglin', Stephen's muttering…

Where are these minus buttons that were supposed to be arriving today?

The old well-worded-but-factually-inaccurate rejoinder. Wuzzit, sophistry?

There was no "degrading" of the waiter. There was no "nastiness" towards him. That's ridiculous. It was Stephen's/Stuart's stinginess; the waiter was the straight man and conduit of that. I agree it wasn't the strongest scene, but it didn't feature comeuppance because no comeuppance was called for because no one was…

"(When Mayer discusses his indifference about whether critics like the musical, it’s displayed as a Facebook “like” button that animates from a thumbs-up to a middle finger.)"

Yeah, I'd failed to consider mere page views. Thanks for the catch, and for being amiable about it. But I still think there needs to be a sponsor present for clickbait to make sense marketingwise. I'm not sure reviewing this album is meaningfully driving up page views.

Or Lorde.

Do you know what clickbait is? That would imply that RCA hired the AV Club to write this review.

I agree. The precociousness has to have some blind spots somewhere.

Oh, dontbanmebro, you have the most obvious opinion.

"…Masters has deep compassion for the humanity of his patients, so it confuses him to no end that they keep running around pursuing sex for fun, when he finds it so deeply shameful or overly complicated."
This is flagrantly wrong. He certainly doesn't find sex "deeply shameful"; he rails against those who do once per…

I have no love for anyone who has no love for Crowded House.