That would actually be a great take on his character, if he thought girls were into him because of his music and his soul but then finds out that all the girls think he's just as bland and boring as we do but are still into him because he's buff and uncomplicated.

That scene was a classic (and self-knowing?) example of my favorite teen TV trope: the HOURS of free time that fictional high school students have before school.

The whole maple syrup plotline reminds me of the vampire baseball bits in Twilight: it's so stupid and WTF it actually loops around to being almost cool, but then keeps going and circles all the way back to being stupid again.

Maybe next season we'll get an Archie plot that's "Archie does a thing" instead of "a thing happens to Archie."

This show's editing is always so bizarre, but that was a really good edit-joke. By withholding the full view of Cheryl's tree tapping outfit for about two minutes, the show made me literally laugh out loud when we finally saw her in a long shot.

I like it; as The Bill McNeal says below, it's good to have on while you're doing chores. But mostly, I just can't find fault with a show that highlights small family-owned restaurants across the country.

Your 90s-style web rant would probably get a lot more of the fuck-yeah upvotes you were expecting if it were more informed about its subject. (Hint: Triple D is not a cooking show.)

I've been using this account again for a while now, and I have a couple questions for folks with old school AV Club accounts:

A bit off-topic, but I've always found it somewhat interesting that Noah Emmerich (and his brother Toby, president of New Line) aren't related at all to Roland Emmerich. It's not a super-common last name, and it's neat that two different branches independently found success in Hollywood.

"We'll still do all the stuff that involves writing and shooting new material, but we'll recycle all the parts that involve me sitting on a couch talking to someone. Think of the time savings!"

Is this a haiku?

A clearly-no-longer-trying Lemony Snicket released his usual mordant statement: "Oh no, that's awful, this series sucks shit, why would you make more, etc etc"

The last line of this article is sublime: "The Oscar-winning Vikander, meanwhile, has been filming the Tomb Raider reboot."

The Cleopatra exchange also had a seriously great one-two from Pascal and Scott Rudin, who had been bickering about directors. After a bunch of sniping, Pascal finally reached out to Rudin for a sit-down conversation:

The most surprising part of the Sony hack was all the emails where the execs were giving real and constructive criticism to filmmakers. In parodies you see execs giving notes that are grossly tone-deaf or out-of-whack with what the film is trying to accomplish, and I'm sure that's out there too, but the feedback in…

The Walking Dead mastermind Robert Kirkman

In my browser tab, the truncated version of the title reads "Enter to win some of Dung"

I'm not; I haven't seen it.

Ha, I like the "Westworld good" phrasing. I usually say it as "is this actually good, or just good if you watch a lot of TV?" but this is much more succinct.

Heh, no. So it's not JUST my local theater. I bet this doesn't happen during those live opera telecasts!