i won't see they fucked up the sue-becky relationship, but it sort of gets an easy pass because it's the disabled student and the teacher.

I feel the same way about McNutt's  reviewing he has nothing new to say about the show. don't worry, i won't stay here and rain on his parade, i just couldn't find another write-up on my google reader

You didn't say much about how these guys are best known as holdouts from the declining last few years of the abysmal Mad TV show. Perhaps, you have to kind of hold these guys responsible just a little for being on such a tasteless program?

This shouldn't be newswire, it's just your personal opinions. If you're going to post your idiosyncratic opinions, I'm going to post mine http://bit.ly/z9i0If

Yeah, McCarthy's nom was excessive. I agree. What's scary is she might win too. She wasn't that great. It is starting to feel like affirmative action for the overweight. Gary Oldman isn't my favorite character actor at all. I perfer Turturro, Buscemi, Reilly, Tommy Lee Jones, PS Hoffman, Bruce Greenwood and many…

Totally agree. Tinker Tailor made my lists of pleasant surprises: http://bit.ly/z9i0If

Melissa McCarthy is comedy proof extroadinaire. She didn't even deserve it either. Fargo-not a comedy. Midnight in Paris, only loosely a comedy. I believe Hannah and her Sisters was a comedy and that got nominated though. It is really exciting that Kristen Wiig got a screenplay for best comedy. Most of the titles on…

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My take on the nominations, thumbs up, thumbs down and all. I agree with Tobias about Brooks omission. I'm not thrilled for Nolte and couldn't care less about Shannon

I routinely forget Creed's existence. How meta-commentary is that the actor is in the credits when he appears in 2% of the scenes and the character is still on the company's payroll for doing nothing

i wasn't looking enough closely at the screen, what did the check say?

it was a cry for help to the SNL writers room, is what it probably was. hopefully the writers saw that and said "ok, let's do something else

also, pharoh being uncomfortable interviewing someone was the point of the show

I did not know they had brittish ppl reviewing for the AV Club. It always seemed like something that should be reserved for Americans, just b/c our cultures don't completely coincide. SNL is an American institution, it helps if you grew up in America and had the experience of staying up late as a teenager to watch it…

i'll admit what you wrote is amusing to read: it's a funny, snarky take on things. I've been hired to write snarky stuff. I completely understand that. Hell, Sean O'Neal's made an entire career out of it. I just don't think what you or Phil Nugent wrote holds any water.
-The Pixie Dream Girl, for example, (I can't…

this is more of a reply to the ppl below Bill, but Bohannan isn't an idealist saint who refuses everything from everyone. He did accept a whiskey from the Swede even though the Swede is his enemy.

Or more what I'm saying is I'm not convinced that many critics have a consistent standard for why Bernie Mac or Kumal Nanjiani are bold comedians for breaching the topic of race (a lot of their stuff would be stereotypical if applied in a sitcom format, they mostly get credit for talking about a taboo subject) while…

I agree. I'm in the tldnr category too. Plus, I disagree with the thesis of the article. Why is it that critics feel some people attack race in a thoughtful way while others don't.

Tons of great characters….the Swede, Durant, and Bohannan are all pretty impressively drawn out figures and the father just got a lot more interesting

Who gives a crap whether the small cabal of people who are TV critics like a show or not. I happen to think it's very good. I'm tempted to become a more prominent TV critic just so my faint cries defending this show can be heard more loudly. I do find that there's a lot of critical groupthink anyways. Honestly TV…

I'm comfortable with that being an informed ability. With all the different characters they have to get to every week, we don't need to waste an extra couple minutes of Bohannen actually doing his job at foreman to see it actually being done