Oh, and speaking of Of Mice and Men: I still can't decide if I love Chris O'Dowd enough to put up with Franco [in the forthcoming Broadway production of said show]. I think I do, 'cause I really love him a lot. But I'm not sure. What are your feelings on the matter, AV Club denizens?

Many of those shots had major gif potential, I agree.

OK, thank you; I feel validated now—I'm seeing people all over other sites saying how amazing and tragic and moving this episode was, but I was just sitting here rolling my eyes. I just have no patience at ALL for "kids do dumb/illogical/dangerous things to move the plot along because hey, they're kids! And we don't…

Okay, we reeeeeeeally really need a spoiler space for this one, because it unnerved the everloving fuck out of me and I really need to talk it through. Really not sure what it was trying to say about gender/women in general??? And that final shot—I am just never ever sleeping again. I definitely agree with some of…

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of waiting for someone to point out that if Mary Beth is "ugly," then so is Tank, as they're both kind of big. Personally I don't think either one is ugly at all and I know there's a ridiculous gender double standard here, especially with frat boys, but I'd kinda like someone to acknowledge it.

Definitely. He's pretty insightful and I love how much he genuinely cares about her, but it seems like it's just always all about her problems. Last time they tried to discuss his life—namely his online sort-of girlfriend, she got all pushed out of shape and jealous. Those one-way friendships are never a good idea.

Yeah, exactly. I actually like him and Max Adler a lot, but it's so obvious that he's going to be tossed aside for Emmett and/or Ty really soon and it just feels like a waste of time to get invested. And it's even more annoying because of the many, MANY other time-waster love interests we've had (the summer guy,…

This movie made me really really want to visit New Orleans. I think I may have missed the point.

I actually, genuinely thought they were going there for a while when Raj and Stuart were bonding, and I was into it even though I knew the writers would possibly-probably-definitely screw it up. But then…no.

Seriously. They totally wrote themselves into a corner with that can't-talk-without-being-drunk thing, though they did briefly suggest that it was a placebo effect thing and then, inexplicably, never followed up on it. And then he just sort of magically got over it, and yet they haven't moved any further on the…

Okay, but those ears looked nothing alike. When Joan was examining the photos of the severed one(s) and Sarah's head side-by-side and said "they're identical," they were in fact noticeably different. Even to me, and I am not an ear expert. I guess an ear looks different when detached from a head, but still, it bugs me…

I mean, normally I'm not a fan of the "let's find a random quote from ages ago and use it against this person out of context!!1" Internet-hate tactic, but when it's quite literally a manifesto and it says a lot of stuff that would be questionable/hateful under any historical circumstances…I just really don't know what…

"Thought-provoking," yes. But not in a positive way.

Ugh, I really don't want to believe anything bad about this movie at all (I mean, aside from the horrifying-true-story part) because it was my personal #1 of the year and the cast all seems so lovely and supportive or one another and it actually won the awards it deserved (well, minus a few). I adore McQueen and…

Okay, yeah, that did get a little heavy-handed with the angst and Breakfast Club-ish ("It was a banner fuckin' year at the old Bender house! The old man grabbed me and said 'hey, smoke up, Johnny!'"), but my biggest issue with this show is how little I care about the characters and how redshirt-y they can be…

It annoys me to no end that people seem to be conflating their (fairly understandable) hatred of TBBT and of the character of Sheldon with Jim himself—y'all, he did a whole song explaining that he's not Sheldon—and I always feel compelled to defend him because he himself is a lovely, endearing person. That being…

No love for The Black Donnellys?! That was one of the craziest season-turned-series finales ever, with practically every character's life hanging in the balance; they at least oughta give us a few more episodes just to see what the hell happened. I guess Olivia Wilde's too famous for it now, but hell, I liked it. And…

I will never not enjoy how Neville’s the only one calling out the overtones of the Miles/Monroe friendship.
Neville and I are soulmates.

I thought that's what she was going to say when she saw Travis and Mary Beth together, but instead it was about his skipping the interview. And then at dinner I thought it was going to be about Travis wanting to go to her school instead of Gallaudet, but instead it was Melody noticing his lie about the stalled car. I…

I…eeshk. Is that model working for Glee, the back-and-forth with different cities and schools? 'Cuz I kinda hear it's not. But that's the problem with a show focusing on teens; eventually they gotta go somewhere.