I know that Friends is part of the pantheon of TV shows set in NYC with ridiculously spacious apartments, but I don't think either of you have actually watched this show.

My favorite scene was the imperfect docking scene, with Hans Zimmer going ham on the score. I don't know, I liked quite a lot of the other scenes but they all felt like riffs on scenes from other movies, or other directors' styles. The docking scene was pure Nolan and the kind of crazy adrenaline kick we've come to…

The all-too-brief scene where he's gently sparring with Edward Norton is one of the best parts of the entire movie. So soft-spoken and yet able to convey so many multitudes of their characters and relationship to each other; respect, wariness, a noble sense of mutual morality. In that moment I completely forgot that…

Are you really focusing your energy on defending this bullcrap when there are people currently hyperventilating about the existence of black people in fictional worlds?

Top of the Lake did resolve the sibling-incest storyline, though. In the final episode, it's revealed that Elisabeth Moss' would-be half brother actually had a different father.

Poor you, having to acknowledge the existence and realties of people with disabilities on your TV programming. Must be difficult to ignore them the way you do in real life.

Yeah, because Walter White is definitely the white knight of the anti-capitalism movement.

Does it really go the GoT route, though? They devoted a considerable amount of time to the post-near-rape to capture the tension between Claire and Dougal and her emotions when he saved her life from the boar. It seemed to imply a mutual agreement to move on and not refer to what had happened between them.

I think it merits a mention when Claire has been shown to be unusually progressive, even for her own time, and absolutely unwilling to adjust her standards of feminism for the 18th century—she flips out when any dude tries to manhandle her, she's openly furious when Dougal asks her to mend a shirt, etc. I disagree…

I'm pretty sure that regardless of what era, women made jokes and had the ability to be funny. It's not like, a modern invention that came with political rights or something that didn't exist since it was left out of the history books. Sarcasm is a pretty fundamental human impulse.

This was actually the first episode in which I felt wholly comfortable with Claire's voiceover—although partially I'm just used to it by now. I felt like it synced well with all the maneuvering that was going on in her head. I have the least amount of patience with it when she's monologuing about how…

Nah, it is that good. I had to read it twice for two different classes and each time I was struck on a new level by just how well-woven and resonant the themes were. It could probably be improved in some places but there's still that undeniable stroke of raw genius, not just "gifted." I mean, that should be evident by…

I don't really think anyone will be watching Girls in the year 2214, though.

I mean, I just finished Breaking Bad the other week and in one episode they track the day in the life of a prostitute who is shown repeatedly going down her male customers. So yeah.

your loss. they're just very strange, campy fun, and in a way, just as good.

Ahh so psyched. This is what i primarily love about AHS—their obvious appreciation for and willingness to give nice, meaty, scene-chewing roles to people who are usually either character actors (and underrated by default) or sinfully underemployed movie stars. Angela Bassett and Jessica Lange throwing barbed shade at…

SPOILERS I felt like the movie was trying to sidestep the usual cliches of the last survivors definitively "making it," and miraculously finding other survivors/places to live, which is a lot more prevalent in American movies. A polar bear is definitely hope—it has shelter somewhere! It has a meat diet! They could eat…

Yes, because they've never cast unknowns for any Big Hollywood productions. From Gone With The Wind to Star Wars to half the comic book movies, and even the Hunger Games and Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to some extent (Lawrence and Mara were known within the industry, but hardly household names). Oh, you say, but big…

Yeah, maybe that has something to do with Hollywood somehow finding dozens of Middle Easterns when it comes to playing PoC extras and terrorists, and refusing to cast them in any substantial roles, relevant to their heritage or not (cough Prince of Persia)

Was the AV Club reading Tumblr? I swear a couple weeks ago, a post about the *real* origins of Monopoly was going viral on that site