Wholly agreed. Have to watch the Leftovers, but what I think differentiates this show from Fargo and Better Call Saul is the depth and the ideas. It's more art while the others are more entertainment. We're talking about a rich family drama and a rich parable about the Cold War and the dangers of ideology. (The …

Holy crap, that was a stomach-churning episode. Two suicide fake-outs—Oleg and Paige—and then Tuan's real Pasha plan with that cliffhanger ending. Plus I thought Oleg (and maybe along with his family in the apartment) would get killed, which is where this could still be going! And the most heartbreaking tension of…

I shouldn't be because this is what filmmaking has always been, but I'm struck by the whiplash just now reading the latest Cannes entry, and reading this; and critics like Iggy and Dowd reviewing all of them with the same precision and care. I want the audiences for all those Cannes films and the Pirate movies to…

I don't watch any of his current shows, but—he doesn't care? He already made it, he's older now, and it's easy money?

Wow. That's a head of state acting like the AV Club's bad Ariana Grande comedians from yesterday. In that both are commenting online, with cheap shots based on hate, without thinking, just pure reflex created by this culture.

Hopefully—this really the wrong word here—they're just taking credit and had nothing to do with it. Taking false credit for a mass slaughter of children is still horribly evil, but it's a bit better than making it real official ISIS policy. Though now I fear with the worldwide reaction and have-to media coverage,…

I want this to be the work of a couple of outlier lone wolfs and not targeting children to be the new playbook of terrorists in the West, but now that door's been horribly open. If most terrorists have a code, like prisoners going after child molesters.

Mike had a pretty good meet cute, when Anita thought he was stereotyping her as a black woman janitor. I had never thought that Mike would get a love interest, but he should! At least if there was no BB. Now here's another character who might end up dead or gone, and that drives Mike to be who he is on BB.
Man, I love…

Yes.

Yeah, maybe, like their "hipness." But that's not a culture critique when you do it after these things: that's just you being a jerk.

In addition to that, it's not worth going dark comedy if the comedy is so cliched and hacky. Not that we should find creative jokes for this tragedy, but it's amazing that joking is the first response by people, and that you feel a lame joke whose kind has been heard a billion times before is so good that it overrides…

Grande is 23 years old. I can't imagine the guilt she'll be going through. Maybe she can channel it into progressive action like Amy Schumer did with her violent incident.

At least they fixed that Twin Peaks autoplay video!

Hmm, not the AV Club's finest hour below. Come on, people. (And she's actually a great singer, too.)

Welcome to the party, pal!

All hail Queen Allison Janney!

Even if you had problems with Selma, it did a lot of things right. And that's even before 13th.

Oh ffs, it took me way too long to identify and stop the automatic Twin Peaks clip from the Michael Cera joins it newswire that's playing over the others. I hate autoplay video.

I mean, this is how it starts, InfoWars getting a day pass until it becomes part of the permanent press corps. Funny it was given after Jones lost his custody trial and had to apologize to a yogurt company. Though it's in character for this incompetent administration.

I apologize for saying that. I really don't want anybody to lose their health care and die. I was thinking that a big painful change would have to happen before people woke up and realized how much they valued their health care so that it wouldn't be a privilege but a right. (Or like any revolutionary change in…