I haven’t listened to Dirty Projectors since Amber Coffman left. I have very little interest in listening to something that’s primarily Longstreth.

I definitely agree that there’s a big mid-season quality dip, but this is the episode where it picks itself back up for me. Even though the Luke/Danny scenes in Defenders were fun, I was a bit concerned when I found out he’d be appearing in Luke Cage S2. Turns out it’s just this episode, and he’s more there for moral…

It’s funny, the Snoop track is almost the only thing distinguishing this as a Gorillaz album from any other Damon Albarn album, yet it totally feels like a lifeless Humanz leftover. Hell, “Sleeping Powder” might be my favorite thing from the last two years of Gorillaz, and that didn’t make it onto either album.

Lungs might forever remain my favorite Florence and the Machine album (though How Big, How Blue came pretty close), but I appreciate how this one remains introspective without needing to bust out into a huge arena anthem every song. It’s brisk but mature.

Every time I think I hear another goddamn Imagine Dragons song, it turns out it’s actually another goddamn Twenty One Pilots song, and vice versa.

Thanks for this, I’ll have to look into this one more, especially since I’m not playing anything at the moment. Glad to hear it’s not overbearing plot (platformers aren’t the genre I look for story in) or empty symbolism, and that it has options. I love challenging platformers but I draw a line somewhere.

“The wealth of feeling at the game’s core—it’s a parable for overcoming social anxiety—makes its way into all of the game’s systems, which gently encourage you to embrace the game’s difficulty at your own level.”

To be fair, I also rage-quit Majora’s Mask back in the day. One of the few Zelda games I could never muster up the will to finish.

It’s been a while since I’ve watched Game Grumps (they seem to mainly do PC and meme games these days, and I’m a stuck-up old-school game kind of guy), but it’s wild to me how they’ve basically become celebrities. Though on my first date with my girlfriend almost two years ago, we were in line for food behind Ross and…

Funnily enough, I normally don’t see the point of watching someone else play video games (speed runs, normal “Let’s Plays”, guys just screaming at difficult games, etc. are all insanely boring to me), but I’ve found the Game Grumps pretty entertaining. They’ve actually taken improv classes (Danny is a UCB alum) and…

It can’t be a coincidence that not one, but TWO Arcade Fire concert ads popped up for me on this article. Not sure I’d consider them that far past their prime yet, as I love their first four albums and will even defend a good chunk of Everything Now, but they never topped Funeral, an album so damn good that they could…

Understandable. “Ful Stop” is their most intense live song in a while, but it’s definitely more muted on record.

Yeah, I remember seeing a lot of Challengers hate around the time Together was being called a “return to form” (a term that would be much better suited to Brill Bruisers). And while Challengers is far from my favorite New Pornos album, “My Rights Versus Yours” and “Myriad Harbor” are two of the best songs they’ve…

I agree. With Dreamland, 8 episodes almost seemed too long. But here? While certainly not my favorite season either, it totally could’ve been fleshed out more, if only for more Crackers.

Well, precisely. It stayed cryptic, then physical manifestation of it appeared, it got quickly decapitated, and I can’t see the show circling back to it. I usually like how this show doesn’t hold its viewers’ hands, but the minotaur was just a big “Huh?” the whole time.

The first half of this season was honestly up to par with the first season for me. Plenty of mystery, mesmerizing scenes like the dance-off, and thought-provoking conundrums. Then the second half had some extremely weird pacing (people are saying David’s evil turn came too quickly, yet they spent several episodes just…

At first I wasn’t sure whether Farouk was going to live beyond this episode, so I was bummed out when that battle was neutralized so quickly by the choke thing. But for all the weird decisions this show made toward the end, it’s too smart to waste him like that.

It is what it is at this point. It’s certainly not classic Archer, but it’s entertaining, and I wasn’t really entertained last season. I’m not even convinced there’s any plan for the “bigger plot” anymore, though I totally understand if that rubs people the wrong way.

As a big fan of the first Wreck-It Ralph, it’s not just the Disney circlejerk that rubs me the wrong way here, since I feel like Disney won’t be the main part of a movie about the Internet, and it takes up most of the trailer to evoke fuzzies in people who have Disneyland tattoos (dating life in LA introduces you to…

I don’t know why I laughed every single time Archer got beaned in the head with a fruit and yelled “Ow!” (and it was at least 10 times), but I did.