"In a world where the best television episode is either Big Bang Theory or New Girl, one television viewer smashes his head with a brick over and over again, until he has suffered sufficient neurological damage to appreciate either of those programs."

Is there a guide for new viewers of this program who are still incapable of telling the male characters apart?  I started watching this show weeks ago and I still can't distinguish between any of the male characters… they all look exactly the same.  Look, I *get* that the CW casting directors have a "type" and that…

The Do No Harm pilot was brilliant.  And 30 Rock was never funny, not even once.  But this is exactly the sort of bullshit I've, sadly, come to expect from AVclub.  Everything that's terrible is puffed up, everything that's decent is a target for projectile defecation.  Congrats, AVclub, you have finally become just…

So… this is another thing we're pretending is great even though it's ultimately just as banal and obvious as the worst Chuck Lorre sitcom?  Fair enough.  It's like the comedy version of "Girls", even though we've been told that "Girls" is a comedy.  You know, despite the fact that it isn't remotely funny.  Fair play…

But he was only half-funny early in his career.  Combo-Miller would be lucky to achieve 25% funny, even on a good day.

You're certainly right, that Iannucci's satire isn't geared towards particular policies so much as the toxic personalities and processes that characterize modern politics.  But I don't think that makes his satire vague or safe.  Rather, I think his satire (The Thick of It, in particular) cuts to the core of what's…

If Todd VanDerWerff hates something, you can be reasonably certain the thing in question is *brilliant*.  It's logical.  If you are inclined to encourage people to eat human excrement, you are more or less obliged to convince those people that everything besides human excrement is toxic.  Because once the seething…

This will free up the budget for Syfy to go ahead with a new Stargate program.  Starring Shannon Doherty as a magical space alien who convinces impoverished humans/viewers to give their credit card information to a diploma mill/identity theft scam.  Kato Kaelin co-stars as "The Guy Who Provides Shannon Doherty an…

Can you back up any of these statements you make with… I dunno… *facts*, or do these pronouncements leap, fully formed from your head, as Athena did from Zeus?

Bragging about a Golden Globe award is roughly equivalent to bragging about how your youtube video has received over 50 'likes'.  The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a motley conspiracy of fewer than 100 quasi-journalists, rich/connected folk, and friends of friends of Hollywood big shots.

The production is nice, but the delivery sounds like a watered down take on Princess Superstar's style.

In Hollywood, the phrase "this is the worst screenplay I've ever read" is considered generally synonymous with the phrase "get Kate Heigl's agent on the phone."

In Hollywood, the phrase "this is the worst screenplay I've ever read" is considered generally synonymous with the phrase "get Kate Heigl's agent on the phone."

Congrats to Les Chappel, Will Harris, Brandon Nowalk, Nathan Rabin, Alasdair Wilkinds and Claire Zulkey.  You were the only ones on this list who had the guts to exclude HBO's "Girls" from your Best Of list.  I hope you all have great success writing for whoever hires you next… since we can assume the AVCLUB has…

Congrats to Les Chappel, Will Harris, Brandon Nowalk, Nathan Rabin, Alasdair Wilkinds and Claire Zulkey.  You were the only ones on this list who had the guts to exclude HBO's "Girls" from your Best Of list.  I hope you all have great success writing for whoever hires you next… since we can assume the AVCLUB has…

That was a long way to go for an intensely lame joke.  I approve wholeheartedly!

That was a long way to go for an intensely lame joke.  I approve wholeheartedly!

If Lena Dunham had taken a shit, recorded it and released it as a single, Todd Vanderwerff would have threatened to set himself on fire if the avclub hadn't ranked it among the top 5 songs of the year.

If Lena Dunham had taken a shit, recorded it and released it as a single, Todd Vanderwerff would have threatened to set himself on fire if the avclub hadn't ranked it among the top 5 songs of the year.

Ducks are nice, but they poop all over the place.  I'll stick with alcoholism and soul-crushing loneliness.  It works for me.