I think you have a point. Plenty of shows right the ship by the end of their first season, and while this might not necessarily be true for The Strain, it would at least be nice of AVClub to make it clear in the title that they haven't passed judgement on the entire thirteen episodes.

For whatever reason, it didn't bother me too much with The Wire. But you're spot on with The Walking Dead. Every once in a while there's a solid episode of that series, but it's almost always an episode that could, more or less, play on its own as a self contained story. Smart TV shows can do both at once. I think…

Also, I read the book a while ago, and the reviewer did a pretty good job of describing its strengths and weaknesses. There are some fun ideas there, but the characters are awful, especially the protagonist. The custody battle subplot was painful.

"The Strain is heavily serialized, but none of the writers involved seem to know how to manage that; instead of episodes that rise and and fall over the course of an hour, each segment is a series of 'and then this happened' scenes".

It's sad to see Stallone trying to relive his glory days. Sorry, Sly, but you'll never make another hit like your gangster comedy Oscar, so you might as well stop trying.

I demand that you apologize to Steve Guttenberg!

Strangely enough I was at a high school graduation for my partner's sister about a week ago. They had a band made up of sixteen/seventeen year olds, and they played almost exclusively pop-punk from the 90s and early aughts. I was genuinely surprised to hear Green Day and Blink-182, bands I listened to in middle…

For me, unfortunately, a lot of this music just hasn't held up. i used to listen to a lot of pop-punk in the 90s, some because I genuinely enjoyed it and some because I had a friend or two who were really, really into the stuff. Of all of the punk bands mentioned above, I only really listen to Fugazi,…

Count me among the Superman Returns apologists. It's an unexpected take on Superman. Its devotion to the Richard Donner films is an intriguing experiment, even if it does drag the film down somewhat. I would have loved to have seen a sequel.

Either you have not seen this film or you don't know what virtual reality means.

I think you have to give them credit for being the only group able to pull off the rap/rock combo. As a genre rap/rock is rightfully hated. But somehow they made it work.

I appreciate that this guy is trying to do something different by connecting the song to his personal recollection, but I just can't stand it when people attack people with causes for supposedly being hypocrites or not solving all of the worlds problems yet. It makes the guy come off as somewhat douchey. And the…

Maladroit is the only post-Pinkerton album that I can actually listen to these days. I think the heavier, more Kiss inspired songs helped briefly invigorate the band. It's not as good as the Blue Album or Pinkerton, but it's a lot more interesting than the bland Green Album or as uniformly terrible as Make Believe.

I completely agree with Todd. I hate those youtube videos that think they're being clever by supposedly pointing out some logical inconsistency in some recent blockbuster. The nitpicky nature of them bothers me some. But I'm even more bothered by the fact that often if you put these "logical inconsistencies" into…

So judging by this comments section, is it safe to say that the Wachowskis have become the most polarizing creatives in Hollywood? For me, the good of their filmography heavily outweighs the bad. I'm looking forward to seeing what they will do with a television show.

Thank you for speaking truth to power, Shakes McQueen. I was ready to write off the Wachowskis after the Matrix sequels, but Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas restored my faith in their creative vision. They're both underrated films that will likely see a resurgence in popularity in coming years. (I think this is already…

Muppet Babies and Tiny Toons were the only two cartoons that managed to carry out this concept well. And Tiny Toons barely counts since they were teenagers and they weren't younger versions of other characters, exactly.

Does this mean it's time for a bunch of Harrison Ford is old jokes?

You're right, but a lot of Miller's politics in his earlier work at least spanned the political spectrum. If anything, he was more of a libertarian with some liberal thoughts thrown in every now and again. These days he's become a neocon nutcase.

I feel like this guy was inching towards a legitimate critique of the album. I agree that it's vague, and it has the outline of a musical without really adding to the form. But he's way too stuck on the fact that members of Green Day are wealthy. I'm not sure that's all too important when just looking at their…