A Harry Potter poster. Yet I doubt he really was a wizard. Poseur.

This? This is nothing. Todd's Sopranos reviews averaged a higher word count than the scripts for the episodes he was reviewing.

I challenge anyone to come up with a ridiculous Av Club Inventory list you wouldn't actually love to read.

I once pointed out that the Av Club has no black writers on an article making fun of Saturday Night Live for having only one black cast member. People got pretty offended. I would have offended them less if I'd done a blackface routine I think.

"You assumed wrong, and now we must both pay the consequences."

Offerman's reddit ama made him sound like he really wanted people to think he's Ron Swanson in real life, which is an incredibly un-Swanson thing to want.

That doesn't really fool anyone though, does it? It's not like I didn't realise Seinfeld was a bad actor because he was playing himself, he still had to play a version of himself that was not in a tv studio reading lines from a script. That's where he failed.

Oh, not saying Hackman wasn't cool, just he had an unconventional look for a movie star. Dreyfuss wasn't cool, but he's explained as a Spielberg folly, part of his obsession with forcing annoying manic douches on the public that would later lead to Shia LeBoeuf and that weird few months of "Jeff Goldblum- Action…

The 70s, that brief time when film directors, mad with power, started casting actors who looked like them. Elliot Gould seemed like Brad Pitt when the alternatives were Richard Dreyfuss and Gene Hackman.

""The moment I feel like I’m being told what to think about something, I feel that I want to resist the authority of the documented."

Agreed completely with S.A.M, also annoyed by Tobias' use of propaganda. If someone wrote a book about hunger in America and made an argument backed up by facts and case studies, no one would be calling it propaganda. Critics are way too quick to call any film that has an opinion and a goal other than artistic merit…

Inauthentic is such a silly criticism, and one people only use on musicians (I've heard it used to diss Tom Waits as well). A good song is a good song, is Pulp Fiction less enjoyable because Tarantino's not really a gangster?

I remember that, that was a bit though. Thurston Moore asked him weird questions and he behaved strangely. They had clearly planned to do it ahead of time, so he wasn't being rude.

It's like if Kurt Cobain hadn't died but just sat on his ass doing nothing after '94. No matter how big the Foo Fighters got the second question in every Dave Grohl interview would be "so… talked to Kurt recently?"

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That makes sense for somewhere like North Korea, where the government actively oppresses the population, but the reason America would be a better place to live as an average joe than Venezuala is America is a lot richer. Obviously everyone given the choice would rather…

The classic Chavez criticism backpedal.

Agreed. There's nothing wrong with old school, riff based rock'n'roll, but you have to at least write some of your own riffs. These guys are right on the edge of outright plagiarism.

I think it's funny that he recorded a song for the only show where the character names are sillier than the names of people in Hold Steady songs.

Yeah, okay, that's probably one of the reasons for doing reviews like this. It's certainly not the main reason. You'll notice there was no attempt in the review to establish The Shield in the context of when it originally aired. I watched the Shield first in 2009 and I'd wager most of the people here didn't watch it…

I'd swap out Deadwood for Mad Men, but that's a pretty canon list.