Yeah, I'm just about done with the AV Club. The content drift that you describe has been driving me away over time by making the site inessential, but the change to an aggravating, unreadable comment system will force a real break.

The real reason is that there was a conflict because Mandy is finally getting to do that passion project he's been waiting for.

I just discovered white sauce a few weeks ago on a trip to Nashville (and coincidentally watched the relevant Master of None episode a week later). All I can say is 'What a blessing at my advanced age to still be discovering new and awesome foods. I'm not a mayonnaise guy, but damn, that white sauce is good."

The season premiere was generally very good, but this whole sequence was a tremendous gut punch. As the article points out, it's all well-earned by the story and the acting, but I basically had to pause the show so I could sit there and be sad about the father, the daughter, the hound…and even after I started it…

Your commentary (and rejection of the criticism) is pretty much spot on. Great movie…

I remember when I lived in DC in the mid-90's, an article came out in the Washington Post saying that there were only 200 white high school kids in the entire DC public school system…and that 197 of those white kids were at only one high school (I think it was Woodrow Wilson in Tenleytown). DC has improved a lot…

Thanks for this comment/connection to the opening scene of the season. Are you inferring that he killed Helga just based on this conversation or did I miss another point in the season that made that connection?

To me, it appeared that the scene where the former chief is driving to the bus crash has her in black-in-white within the screen (with the colored lights framing her). Your comment makes me wonder at a possible connection (rather than just assuming that it was a lighting decision.

I think this is an important correction because I think that there are a number of other places in the film where it subverts the expectation of "it's hard for a woman working in a man's world"; for example [SMALL SPOILER], without exposition, I originally thought that scene outside the car where she brushes away the…

Finally saw this last night and it's everything that people have been saying. What an great movie and it feels nearly impossible to explain to people what it is and how it works. It's slow, long and subtitled, but I couldn't stop watching it (with a grin on my face the entire time). I didn't find it cringe-y at…

This was a very pleasant, relevant AV Club article and the comment section was also a pleasure to read without the Breitbart trolls having a reason to find their way over.

He was interesting, but that movie was such a disappointment to me. I must've missed something because other people seemed to like it a lot. I just kinda felt like it was a boring "aliens among us" version of Children of Men.

"needlessly reductive way to talk about a complex situation"

Great article, AV Club. Please have more of this and less "Can you believe Trump likes well-done steak?" articles.

Interestingly, he was NOT involved with that, but it's what did him under. For many years he had a "secret complex strategy" that involved an arbitrage of matching S&P index shares, derivatives and individual stock movements. He claimed to be effectively "cashed out" every day, meaning that he didn't "have any risk"…

The Totinos ads were just the most obvious example of that terrifically funny through-line for her where she does where she tries to maintain some semblance of dignity around terrible people and situations. Relative to many of the other cast members (over time), she seems to really shine as an actress and not just a…

Interesting, but the intent was in-line with your definition. 10% is probably close to the correct figure that I meant. I wasn't implying that these people were financially destroyed and on the streets, merely that a large number of linked people were significantly affected by Madoff to a measurably alike degree. …

I believe that most of the Madoff funding actually came through "feeder funds." These professionals who didn't do even cursory due diligence or sanity checks completely failed in their fiduciary duty. Given that their indifference (worse than mere incompetence) was coupled with the fact that that they were also…

This is a good analysis. It points to why this has been so difficult to resolve the pool. It's also interesting how the impacts have been so meaningful in certain specific communities (e.g., certain Jewish networks in Florida were decimated, leading to specific country clubs, etc., losing all of their funding).

I actually really liked that version - I stumbled upon it the first night (which was weird since I rarely channel surf) and was completely taken with it. Dreyfuss was so good in it and Danner's character was reasonably complex. I felt so bad for the sons, and maybe that treatment (towards the end) was a little…