This was an "A" episode if ever there has been one this season! So many strong performances and great scenes here, even if it was a "bridge" episode in some ways.

Where is my Community notification for this cursory Alison Brie reference?

I -really- hate BuzzFeed so your post probably seemed much more incendiary to me than was intended.

That's a reasonable point to make, but one that certainly isn't contained in just labeling the A.V. Club a "slightly wordy BuzzFeed". I think the focus on a single year is much more specific than the "catch-all quality" you rightly ascribe to BuzzFeed lists, and I also think that this list doesn't pander to nostalgia…

The A.V. Club has been doing lists for a long time. So have Cracked and a number of other sites. It's not their fault that BuzzFeed has recently become popular with their abundance of shitty, content-pilfering lists.

"Except" the quality of music isn't reducible to its lyrical content.

Wh…what? I got a Community update notification and the news story is ACTUALLY about Community? What gives?

The quality of either song is entirely irrelevant. @avclub-cf6bbbd488d89fe790b2b1c83aba9e94:disqus was claiming that Arcade Fire's references were "pretentious" while praising artists like Nick Cave. E.g. when Nick Cave titles an album after Orpheus it's fine, but Arcade Fire reference him in a song and suddenly it's…

I'm not sure why I'm even bothering to comment, since I know I'm not going to change your opinions, but…

I can't understand anyone saying that Reflektor (the title track) is "tak[ing] a four-minute idea and play[ing] it for seven." When someone writes that, I can safely write off the review as not aligning remotely with my own tastes.

And they'd be killing Lars in glorious 3D!

Jim McNulty from the first season of The Wire. Though, to be fair, very few of the characters were especially interesting on season 1 of The Wire.

…and the headline on the linked article calls the band "Nine In Nails".

Much as I hate to remind anyone of this, there was a lot of water in Episode 1 when they use that boat to go through the core of Naboo.

Apparently not.

Thank you for writing this piece. I agree wholeheartedly.

It ISN'T made with sensitivity and perceptiveness. That's the problem. It's a movie made with saccharine platitudes, and no heart.

I guess the HBO CEO of Tits hasn't read about Summerhall.

No red hair.

If you cared about spoilers you'd know better than to let yourself look at a comments section on any GoT article by now.