This is like the most AVClub-ish response I could have imagined. We have separate sports categories for a reason, but let’s just throw that out the window. Sex doesn’t exist but gender identity is real, once someone says they’re a women then of course metaphysically they must actually be one for any and all purposes…

This. No one has any conception that her opinions are mainstream. People don’t think violent male sex offenders should go in womens’ prisons, or that men who went through puberty should play womens’ sports, or that a teenager girl who spontaneously wonders if she’s trans shouldn’t be thrown on puberty blockers after a…

It’s like not a single AVClub writer has ever bothered to read what she wrote. People act like she’s Pat Robertson or something, meanwhile she’s raising concerns with violent male sex offenders waving the magic wand, declaring they’re women, and being put in women’s prisons. I respect legal recognition for trans…

Nothing Rowlings has said is controversial. Her point, if you’ve ever actually tried to learn it, is that male-bodied people who identify as women do not belong in women’s prisons or women’s sports etc. or other places where it infringes on women’s sex-based rights. Agree or disagree you have to understand this is…

You’re remembering correctly. But hey, shorter road trip! I’m becoming more convinced of my state tax credit theory. Either that or they wanted to make a subtle dig in the ribs to the red staters. I’ve never been to Eastern Colorado but looking on google maps it doesn’t really look like corn country. 

Nah, I think the guy ain’t right in the head and some milquetoast zennial isn’t going to pull me into their game of feeling bad about oneself all the time.

The boot in the door was interesting. If you consider that the miniseries started with the crow, which was implied to have some deeper meaning, then it isn’t totally new and different. But I totally agree that the treatment of the incident as the inevitable outcome of man’s evil and hubris, with Flagg using it as an…

They will find a way to fuck up the tunnel scene. I guarantee they open the episode with them in the tunnel, but not having watched the slow collapse of new york and their escape it won’t have any effect. 

My biggest issue with King’s treatment of race is that he rarely has a black character who is just a run of the mill person. They always have to have some sort of background where he can include a vernacular he invented in his head or got from watching movies. He also likes to show how terrible a character is by…

As someone who recently read the book I can tell you this was a disorienting mess any way you cut it. It makes no sense to tell the story this way. 

It seemed like a pointless change to the story, like they did it for a state film tax credit.

I read it recently and she wasn’t that mean. Harold is mega obnoxious to her and she has to put him in his place and generally has very little patience for him, and her lack of patience comes off as deserved. But it wasn’t the kind of unexplained cruelty they showed in this episode where she acts like another…

They just kind of showed her as a dick without explaining where she was coming from in terms of her knowledge of Harold and her being pregnant and losing her dad who she had a strong relationship with. All we see is her having a massive hate on for Harold because he’s Harold, which puts her in the same category as the…

The fact the ditched this as the cold open in favour of Goldberg’s voiceover in a corn field and then the body crew is so baffling. Whoever has the reigns on this thing really is clueless.

I kept thinking of the perspective of the viewer who doesn’t know the book, and what kept coming to mind is “why would anyone care about any of these people yet?” They’ve built absolutely no stakes for anything that happens. Okay, so Harold is a fucking weirdo creep and now he’s a villain even though he could have…

Watching civilization slowly disintegrate and collapse is the best part of the book and the 94 Miniseries, and it’s also integral to introducing us to the characters. In this case they they’re spreading it out is all so frantic and disjointed, I just reread the book and even I found is disorienting.

Yeah but people actually, you know, said what Weinstein did. Sort of an APPROPRIATE DETAIL TO TAKING SOMEONE DOWN PUBLICLY. So we’re going to compare him to Weinstein and celebrate him getting taking out and we don’t even know what the fuck he’s accused of?

What do you mean by Gadot supporting Fisher’s claims as plausible? We don’t even know what Fisher’s claims are, nevermind what Gadot’s issues were. 

With this kind of petulant, boring snark you could write for the AVClub 

Fair enough but I also think that it can be two things - I suspect Fisher is not quite right in the head, or has narcissistic personality disorder or something, because everything he’s done has been so insanely counter-productive to both his career and public perception. The AVClub is cancel culture, woke-mobbing…