I started watching it because there was nothing else on. And I keep watching it becauuuuse… nothing else is on…

Yes, Chevy Chase is an asshole. But… Dan Harmon apparently thinks that playing Chase's asshole voice mails to total strangers is just fucking HILARIOUS, which makes him just as much an asshole. That, combined with the fact that Harmon claims to have Asperger's, which - honestly, if you've met anyone who claims to have…

@avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus  1. That episode is terrible; 2. While "Hearts of Darkness" makes for morbidly interesting, trainwreck fascination viewing, there's no fucking way it's nearly as good as, much less better than, Apocalypse Now.

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@avclub-b3d6e130a30b176f2ca5af7d1e73953f:disqus I don't think it was intentional at all (on the part of Goldberg, that is) - I think it was an indicator that no, he doesn't get women - none of these guys do, and making an ad that's super-rapey for a product women are supposed to buy following on the heels of a high…

As Doctor Who-era BBC used to say, it's "CSO."

God, O'Neal, you are such a douchebag. I thought it was pretty obvious, once I actually clicked through to the actual interview linked from that previous article, that Simon's complaints were fairly standard and reasonable when taken in context. I know that being a smug asshole is kind of your shtick, but god, it gets…

NEWWWWWW Gurrrl is so QUIIIIRRRRR-keeeee!

Y'know what? I actually clicked through to the actual NYT interview, and those quotes are way more reasonable in context, where Simon is basically complaining about how the show nearly got cancelled in the middle of its run for lack of viewers, and how the tendency to make instant snap reviews of every episode of…

Totally. Nixon does a very good job of humanizing its subject while retaining a sense of politics - compare recent attempts like J Edgar and The Iron Lady, which come across as light, apolitical mush, treating highly-charged political figures the same way you might treat an airbrushed biopic of a recently deceased…

If it's funny for two and a half minutes, it's got to be HILARIOUS for half an hour straight!

"I don't get why some people like eating snails - I've tried eating snails, and they just seem weird and gross."
"Have you tried eating a whole plate of snails? You really owe it to yourself to eat an entire heaping plate of snails."

He'd better hit Athens quick before the rioters kill him and dry him out for jerky.

The problem with that, @avclub-7fd1d5cec910c61b1864a51eb7e18cbc:disqus , is that at the end of the day the Bartlett administration's politics are precisely the same as the real-world Clinton administration's - only while we know that Clinton's foreign policy was intimately shaped by his administration's cozy…

@avclub-07cbebc173aad442e9feb1513fb0e5d1:disqus , I never said the show wasn't ideological. I just said that the show's ideology never represented any "end of the spectrum" - rather, it was plain old neoliberal politics - cruise missiles, deregulation, and globalization. That's an ideology, and in fact it's the…

Davros was awesome in that. BUT THEY SHOULD'VE LEFT HIM DEAD, DAMMIT. He had one of the best appearances - and one of the best death scenes - of any villain in the series; after that it was all diminishing returns.

Here's the thing, @avclub-07cbebc173aad442e9feb1513fb0e5d1:disqus - the version of the political process presented on the West Wing is such an absurd fairy tale, so divorced from anything resembling reality, that it became really grating to watch it while hearing people praise it as anything other than childish…

No, that is not a "very good example of American politics," it's a hilariously childish fantasy. When actual politicians and policy-makers are deciding to, say, funnel trillions of dollars in funds towards endless war and to prop up Wall Street while gutting essential services for the working poor, they aren't…

The West Wing was not a "good political tv show," unless you happen to believe that government is really and truly stuffed to the gills with earnest, witty do-gooders devoted to Duty and High Ideals.

Nursing dragons? Are you trying to tell me that dragons are mammals, Katz? 'Cause I've never seen a scaly mammal that hatches out of an egg.