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GAME TIME!
Can you think of any too SUBURBAN for a role in a movie you recently saw?

Calling a grown Black man a “boy” doesn’t have any problematic baggage, no sir!

Sometimes there’s a PR kerfuffle.  Sometimes there’s a PR kerfuffle.  

Barsanti? Never!

As someone who loved “Power of The Dog” and loves Sam Elliot.
And listened to the WTF episode in full.
I have to say this an example of people editing what someone said in order to be out raged.

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And Season 2 of South Park 7 years before Brokeback.

Weirdly, I felt like Power of the Dog was a well-made but rather inert spin on the Western, with a “get it? THEY ARE GAY ACTUALLY” reveal that is completely predictable nowadays (certainly not back when the novel was written, I grant you). And when it ended, my sense of “that was it, huh” was fueled mostly by how

Yeah, this is a nothingburger.

Ummm...what exactly is Batman’s origin story? I don’t think it’s ever been told.

One of the best bits of all time, from any performer, is when he pulls a woman from the crowd and does a cold reading to show off his psychic skills, but gets increasingly specific and increasingly impressive, and the woman is stunned by how good he is at guessing, and it ends with:

Sometimes magic sounds like tape.

To be fair, I had the hardest time getting out of bed when I was 22.

The Axl Rose Method.

“Now that I’m older, MAYBE I could rise to the level of showing up for work on time.”

Seriously don’t understand why Barsanti gets paid to write such feeble semi-humor. Is it just working cheap and fast? Is it that AV Club chased away all the talent?

Emotional and physical abuse?

The AVClub adheres to dismissive and reductive “hot takes” in order to drive clicks and comments. 

I think internet commenters wildly overestimate how many people dislike the final seasons due to the internet bubble.