I think Boys Doing The Twist is one of the best Gilmore Girls episodes. It’s not an important episode at all, it’s just fun and executed well. Dialogue sparkles, jokes are funny, they watch Power of Myth, one of the funniest cold opens, and a pre-Garden State Shins cameo. I prefer to watch Gilmore Girls as a 40 minute…

Oh no!

This is the early highlight of the season and holds on to it until the 11th episode. I really appreciate the ambition of the episode and the blurring of the two timelines into one. It doesn’t quite pull it off, it’s a little messy, but I’d rather a show try something ambitious like this and not quite stick the…

Well it’s obvious what its intention is to parody; the Cabbage Patch kids. The bad movie conceit is something you’ve strawmanned.

A parody can only be bad if it intends to be bad?

“The old AV Club can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh! ‘Cause she’s dead!”

Jess & Rory? Boo!

This album sounds like Adam Granduciel woke up and realised they were still playing, on every song. It’s only 6 minutes longer than Lost in the Dream, but it feels twice as long. There’s so many examples in the past of bands trying to meet expectations by going over the top more, there’s no excuse for repeating that…