The Variety article also slips into the body itself the clarifier that it's just the most binged Netflix drama "this year." It came out mid-March. So… it beat A Series of Unfortunate Events.

They're still growing into it, but it's already starting to reshapen around Noah's sensibilities faster than I thought. It's not quite vital, but neither were Stewart's later years, and at the very least I haven't missed a Noah episode yet because I'm delighted to see where they're taking it.

So, questions I have that I'm not sure if I just missed the answers to:
- The strong implication is that Luke Cage's powers via experimentation is part of the same program as Kilgrave, right? Reva wanted him to find the USB key of videos of kids being experimented on, and Jessica made a point to say she hadn't watched…

The first Avengers didn't feel quite as bloated, though, because once the team got together it was pretty simple momentum: they were mostly all in the same place, wanted the same things. Even the conflict between them, from a viewer's perspective, was cleanly swept under the umbrella of "Loki's messing with them." It…

Yeah, but I mean his physical transformation felt too rapid, throwing out the creepiness of a hyper-articulate A.I. with a blank expression to go full CGI face with eyeballs and mouth pieces. I actually liked it a lot when, at the end, the fully evolved Ultron intelligence was forced to inhabit the rigid-faced drone.

Yeah, I think it was a matter of variety. Flying snake-whales. Aliens on flying chariots. Aliens on buildings. Aliens on the ground. Loki running around but separate from the army, which allowed the "puny God" moment without taking away from the invasion.

Maybe he gets divorced first. I think the problem is Renner's range doesn't include the kind of charming, endearing fuck-up a Fraction take needs.

It at least made sense for Renner's world-weary Hawkeye. Much as I try not to, I just can't help but pine for Fraction's sad-sack putz Hawkeye. Or even the pre-Fraction irritating your-cousin-the-amateur-comedian Hawkeye.

Well, I said Marvel "asked" to compromise. That was probably generous. I believe Whedon's metaphor was that Marvel put a gun to the farm sequence's head and threatened to shoot if the cave wasn't taken out.

He goes from super creepy puppet to full Spader between two scenes. I would've loved a slower transition, allowing more of an Ultron similar to the broken, leaking Iron Legion drone that was far scarier than anything after.

The idea that Marvel demanded the cave stuff is a misunderstanding. Whedon words it in a way that's easy to misread in print, but when listening to the Empire Magazine podcast interview the quotes come from, it's clear he means Marvel wanted the cave sequence - and Hawkeye's farm - cut out as much as possible. Marvel…

Dear Keith and the Girl: get ready for regular AV Club commenters to hate your podcast forever out of spite.

I have to imagine the "AV Club was wrong about Iron Man 3/Arrested Development" votes were evenly split between people who thought they were praised too highly and people who thought they were much better than the credit they were given.

Jaime Weinman is getting very excited that someone else has noticed/disliked Futurama's meta, reference-a-joke-or-cliche-rather-than-do-anything-to-subvert-it… uh, -ness.

Jaime Weinman is getting very excited that someone else has noticed/disliked Futurama's meta, reference-a-joke-or-cliche-rather-than-do-anything-to-subvert-it… uh, -ness.

I want Paul F. Tompkins to be to Nick on this show what the Janitor was to Zach Braff on Scrubs.

I want Paul F. Tompkins to be to Nick on this show what the Janitor was to Zach Braff on Scrubs.

I genuinely find Justin Bartha enjoyable and wish he'd gotten the expanded role instead.

I genuinely find Justin Bartha enjoyable and wish he'd gotten the expanded role instead.

Anyone a fan of the Rooster Teeth Podcast? Used to find it a little too meandering but I think in the last year they've hit upon a good groove of constant giving-each-other-shit and a seemingly endless well of great anecdotes.