I believe the comic series Fatale (by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips) touches on that stuff a bit. It's worth checking out.

I got legit obsessed with their Woodstock performance of it a while back. The sound could be better, but there's just something magic about the way the camera stays on Grace Slick all the way through, only pulling out for the coda. All those strange phrasings and glissandos of hers shouldn't really work, but christ on…

I love it when cognitive dissonance works as a spice instead of a deterrent.

I just started watching Last Tango in Halifax yesterday. Anyone here on that? I was under the impression going in that it was going to be all fluffy and English, but there are all sorts of edges peeking out behind the more friendly bits. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given that it's a Sally Wainwright "joint".…

"A CAWP CAWR"

If a B- isn't "liking" a record, aren't you using the grading system poorly? From what I've understood, the AV Club doesn't use A+, which would make a B- the fifth highest score an album could get (out of seventeen). I know that using a grading system in the first place is ridiculous — and so is holding its usage to…

Trust me, none of "the women" like us.

Capitalising "Sharks" like that made me think that you were referring to the hockey team. Now I'm imagining Joe Thornton watching the live stream, salivating.

I would love to see what a BMX game endorsed by Matt Mira (instead of Dave Mirra) would be like.

On one level, I buy that reading — and who knows, maybe it played that way on the page — but the final product doesn't support it. Like you say, Walter's victory is pathetic, pyrrhic and rife with collateral damage, but its depiction on screen is an ode to an outlaw legend, allowing Heisenberg to go out in a blaze of…

Do you need to root for the main character(s) to be able to watch a show? I can understand the frustration if the writers want you to root for a character who's insufferable (latter-day HIMYM and Dexter definitely fall into this trap), but neither Mad Men nor Lost ever seemed particularly forgiving of their…

It seemed more like a highlight reel of a (thirteen-episode) first season than an actual first episode; making me fear that the actual first season is just going to consist of 22 variations on the pilot, character-development-wise. I have no problem understanding why the producers would want them to get her up and…

I watched this with my family at Christmas, and found myself enjoying it quite a bit. I was especially impressed by the final action sequence. Like you said, the effects were surprisingly strong, and Zemeckis (and his DP and editors) sustains the suspense masterfully. The finale of the first film is an all-time…

Among other procrastinations this weekend (mainly bingeing on my Marvel Unlimited app), I finished Justified. Unexpected ending, but very satisfying. I saw a commenter talking about how this finale was much better than Breaking Bad's. I don't care much about ranking shows up against each other, but it still got me to…

Breaking Bad was a show that aspired to (and very often achieved) greater things than Justified ever did. But for me, those achievements and aspirations were soured by the finale's failure to resist having its cake and eating it too. By leading Raylan right up to the edge of the abyss, but at the end having him walk…

Vaati's stuff is consistently great. I also recommend Matt Lees' Bloodborne Diaries for a more lighthearted take on the game.

If anyone, like me, should happen upon this comments section while spelunking in the dull hinterlands of old AV Club Newswires (as you do), you might like/need to know that the new Summer Camp album (the one featuring "Bad Love"), is out now, and absolutely flipping rad. The music coverage on this site is so random…

Giant Days is the flipping tits. All of you nerds follow Mr. Monger's advice right the noo.
I went on a Bad Machinery rereading jag lately, and there really isn't anything like it out there. It's a shame the recent, intertwined Bobbins and Expecting to Fly stories are (relatively) difficult to figure out how to read…

How on earth is that a plot hole? A beat is not a plot hole if the story couldn't have happened without it. Also, if the beat can be explained in-story without too-copious amounts of fan-wank, it's not a plot hole. Barry made a sacrifice in deciding not to save his mother, and torpedoed Eobard's time machine with the…

Now I'm a man/
Way past 21/
Want you to believe me baby/
That I sure can run