I was straight-up shocked when Raylan threatened Ava that he could make her life even more miserable by talking to the guards and removing any modicum of protection she currently had. That's some evil, ruthless shit on Raylan's part and exposed a level of cruelty that I don't feel like we have seen from him before.

A moment of silence for Sebastian. I am going to miss him looking so nervous when he was on the phone (and he was always on the phone) that he actually made me nervous. R.I.P. little buddy.

How dare you call that nice man out on his casual misogny! Oh no, wait, he is much more interested in being identified as racist. I am glad that has been clarified.

Yeah. I don't want to watch another minute of Ava in prison not because her story isn't fleshed out enough (as the reviewer suggested) but because it is too miserable and nightmarish. Even in Justified's most gruesome or nail biting moments there is black humor and/or absurdity to be had — Ava in prison is an…

I was surprised that Spencer didn't point out to Kass that if he was voted out this time, she would be voted out the next time by Tasha and J'Tia using the exact same logic: it would be in Tasha's long term interest to keep J'Tia by her side, not Kass. J'Tia's post-tribal comment that she wished her former teammates…

Enjoy your brain before it turns on you whippersnapper! I remember when I use to remember.

When Ginger rises from the ditch with his muskrat army you will rue the day you dismissed his importance. Perhaps not. But In my viewing of True Detective I was unbothered by the grander sense of unanswered questions or missed connections that the av commentariat are obsessively debating (the significance of Cohle's…

Completely out of left field, but I have a question that has been on my mind since the shooting at the drug lab. When last we saw the motorcycle gang leader, Ginger (maybe?), he was tied up on the floor of Rust's pick-up truck. Cohle asks about him as he and Rust approach the compound and and Rust tells him that he…

With less Dallas (a complete grotesque of a character — and not in a good way), I find it much easier to enjoy the many great little comedic bits that this show has to offer. Yeah, it is still inconsistent as hell and it hits some bad notes, but then again: Chris Parnell drinking a borrowed cup of milk. The…

I watched the figure skating final during the day instead of the evening coverage which meant Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinsky were doing the commentary. Here is the thing: they acknowledged that the result would be controversial but they were in agreement that Sotnikova earned the gold. Their point was that as…

I just finished watching Transparent and I was thinking that in theory it sounds like a show I should like. It is not. The characters were, without exception, unpleasant, unlikable, and loaded with a combination of narcissism and self-loathing. The reviewer hit the nail on the head that Transparent is "like a…

Of all the strange and preposterous things in the episode, the most incongruous to me was that Janine would be in Magnusson's inner circle of employees. Magnusson would spend the whole day flicking her face and eyebrows, urinating in her purse and eating the best parts of her lunch and I don't think Janine would take…

Welcome to the comments section where almost every comment that expresses appreciation of an SNL episode gets voted down. Dickishness triumphs AND is now anonymous.

Each week SNL gets a critical beat-down on AV Club while Community gets bathed in praise by both reviewers and commenters. In both cases some of it is deserved, but most of it is not. I agree with you that this was a very strong episode and I don't know why the AV Club coverage of it is dominated by reviewers and…

This episode. If I am remembering correctly it was the burn on his hand where he tried to grasp the rosary on the warlock/priest's body. He actually glanced at his hand with something that approached a smile as it sealed up. Curiously, he had bandages around his ribs from where one of those graveyard critters…

I thought Nick's comments were balanced and I am thinking he was making an effort to appear balanced, even though we all know that that he was going to vote against Carlos's dish.

Did anyone else think Carlos had a wretched look when he heard his fellow chefs were judging the LCK? Without names attached to dishes, it would still be obvious which dish was his and he knows, at the very least, that there is no way in hell that Nick will vote for his dish.

Exactly. When his hand sealed up I thought "crap, this isn't going to end well" and then I kept being surprised that he seemed to be on the side of good as the episodes went on. But yeah, crap, it was even worse than I thought it might turn out to be. And all the more enjoyable because of it.

Oh. Here we all are. Banded together cooing about our beautifully ugly baby to one another and delighting in its perfection. In the absence of hot lesbian sex scenes (I'm looking at you OITNB), how does a show like this achieve critical mass? And where do I locate a copy of the James Stool Scale? (For a friend,…

I am trying to sell everyone I know on this show. It is the perfect antidote to the scourge of Grey's Anatomy and its ilk. Just the best damn show. I look forward to tracking down its BBC parents.