God, do I hate, hate, hate that episode. I hate it for being dull, I hate it for being overly sappy, I hate it for making Vulcans look like stuck-up dicks (say what you will about Spock and Sarek, they were clearly FUN AS FUCK to be around, and you could never call them boring), I hate it for coming off as a watered…

Really, what is spinach if not the vegetable equivalent of Ernst's Europe After the Rain?

Really, what is spinach if not the vegetable equivalent of Ernst's Europe After the Rain?

GORDON TIPPLE OR GTFO

GORDON TIPPLE OR GTFO

Right. When you're a kid, and saddled with all the horrors unique to childhood, you wish you could be grown up and have the power that comes with adulthood, which is why you envy and look up to the adults and semi-adults around you (older siblings, cool aunts and uncles, etc.). When you're an adult, and saddled with…

Right. When you're a kid, and saddled with all the horrors unique to childhood, you wish you could be grown up and have the power that comes with adulthood, which is why you envy and look up to the adults and semi-adults around you (older siblings, cool aunts and uncles, etc.). When you're an adult, and saddled with…

NOW HIS STORY CAN FINALLY BE TOLD

NOW HIS STORY CAN FINALLY BE TOLD

I don't trust doctors, no. Asperger's is wildly overdiagnosed. So is depression, so is anxiety, so is ADD. These are actual disorders caused by physical, chemical things going on in the brain, and they can be easily conflated with general unhappiness or social awkwardness or alienation from an increasingly inhuman and…

I don't trust doctors, no. Asperger's is wildly overdiagnosed. So is depression, so is anxiety, so is ADD. These are actual disorders caused by physical, chemical things going on in the brain, and they can be easily conflated with general unhappiness or social awkwardness or alienation from an increasingly inhuman and…

It's always awesome to offhandedly dismiss any politics to the left of yours as "reductive."

It's always awesome to offhandedly dismiss any politics to the left of yours as "reductive."

I agree and disagree, I guess. I've often been down on Community the past year or so, but was actually pretty sold on this last run of episodes - including all the stuff with the Dreamatorium you hated - and had to credit the show for its increasing ambition, which often managed to pay off in both character…

I agree and disagree, I guess. I've often been down on Community the past year or so, but was actually pretty sold on this last run of episodes - including all the stuff with the Dreamatorium you hated - and had to credit the show for its increasing ambition, which often managed to pay off in both character…

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on this. Asperger's is a real thing, but like depression, anxiety, and ADD, it's also wildly overdiagnosed and applied to people who are either just eccentric or socially awkward or don't totally conform to society's expectation's of what a "normal" person is supposed to be. As a result you…

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on this. Asperger's is a real thing, but like depression, anxiety, and ADD, it's also wildly overdiagnosed and applied to people who are either just eccentric or socially awkward or don't totally conform to society's expectation's of what a "normal" person is supposed to be. As a result you…

I don't think it's an accident that that Orson Bean thread lends the ending a horror-movie feeling - as much as I love BJM, it's riddled with Kaufman's darkest and most misanthropic impulses, from the general lack of warmth for the characters to the horrifying ending he sets up for all of them. I think it's telling to…

"Love (a vile and scary thing in places other than most Hollywood comedies)"

Yes - I've always found this to be Kaufman's darkest, bleakest, harshest script (or at least, I did up until I saw Synecdoche, New York). Craig is essentially in hell, Malkovich - the closest thing the movie has to a likable character - has been possessed/destroyed by a horde of venomous old parasites who will now do…