Sure, I’m not saying that there was nowhere else on the internet that I could get Adult Swim or that it’s the only reason I subscribe to HBO Max, just that it’s nice to have it right there alongside a bunch of other things that I also like watching. 

I’m kind of surprised HBO Max isn’t picking up more subscribers, because it has become my go-to streaming service when I’m looking for something to watch now. Aside from (obviously) the great HBO TV shows and whatever movies they have the streaming rights to in a given month, they have the entire Studio Ghibli…

I appreciate the sentiment but that commercial was so saccharine it rotted my teeth. I hit my limit on sappy “in these unprecedented times” commercials back in like April. If you’re a large business whose donations to “both sides of the aisle” in the interest of maintaining low corporate tax rates and a favorable…

The issue with characters not feeling fully fleshed is something that was imported from the books. Tolkien nailed the character arcs and story beats because (1) as a literary academic he had a solid grasp on myths, epics, and the hero’s journey, and (2) he was codifying the tropes of high fantasy as he went along. So…

Certainly my experience with WW84 was “this CGI is awful, I’m glad I didn’t pay to see this.” 

Yeah that’s probably part of it. I guess we shall see! 

I actually don’t think this is right - when a lot of places relaxed their restrictions over the summer you didn’t see a big return to theaters. When Tenet was released and bombed you could go see it in a theater in most of the country outside of New York and parts of California. 

But Ruby Rose quit? This is very much not a case of the showrunners deciding to kill a character to heighten drama or cause anguish for other characters; it was a case of a lead actor quitting, there being hard feelings on both sides, and the writers deciding that the most expedient way of dealing with losing their…

I mean, Geoff Johns is a hack and his outsized power at DC over the last 15 years has been a huge part of why I read so few non-Batman DC books in that time period, so I have no trouble believing that he’s a shitty dude. But this is all somewhat ironic because Geoff Johns is the one who shoehorned Cyborg into the…

Raimi’s Spider-Man movies suffer from the comparison to the MCU but they represented a giant step forward in big screen superhero storytelling and are still very entertaining, even if they do feel a bit dated. 

Whole lot of fucking racists in the AV Club commentariat these days. Whole lot of people who insist that they don’t see color too.

But the issue (at least in part) is that “not enough minorities or women get these awards” does not necessarily mean “not enough minorities or women enter the music business.” The argument is that women and people of color are consistently overlooked for awards, public recognition, career advancement, etc. because of…

Well, the issue though is that a lot of it is unfalsifiable. There’s no proof that there’s an afterlife or some kind of extra-dimensional spirit realm (and the “evidence” that people out forward for the existence of these things tends to be laughably weak horseshit), but if someone died, was revived, and said “I saw…

I’ve only really seen a few of the anime series that became big crossover hits in the West (so Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, etc) but I was blown away when I first saw Evangelion and how intensely it spoke to me, despite its weirdness and impenetrable plot, as someone who has struggled with anxiety and…

What the main character’s last name is Bridgerton and the first name of the actress playing her is Phoebe? Guys we’ve got to stop with the variations on this name combo. 

I would have included Wunmi Mosaku’s performance in Lovecraft Country. The show on the whole was very up and down but she was phenomenal I thought. 

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is legitimately one of the most audacious TV shows of the last decade and everyone should watch it. I’m also not typically into musicals but this is probably in my top 10 all time TV shows.

I’d be interested in seeing people’s lists of best TV of the year but including older shows that they just got around to. A number of the above shows would definitely be on my list (plus Season 2 of The Mandalorian and the final season of The Clone Wars) but my wife and I finally got around to watching Justified this…

Yeah, but the directing was pretty clearly an issue too. Natalie Portman is a fantastic actress but she also sucked in the prequels so clearly there was more going on than just bad writing.

Yeah I kind of did a double-take when I saw that line. Our default approach should be to take claims of abuse very seriously but at the same time when an accusation is pretty clearly money-grubbing bullshit it’s not just okay but necessary to say so, because false accusations take up such outsize importance in the…