“It’s unclear why the kids love Darnielle’s depressing song about the fictional miserable Alpha couple,...”

Looking forward to Aquaman beating up the mechanical spider from Wild Wild West!

I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my Batman full of German-expressionistic mise-en-scene!

So, a Nolan-era retread, then. It looks...fine. It’s fine. I’ll almost certainly see it, but I’ve come to the realization that I’m kind of just over Batman shit. He’s vengeance, he’s the night, he’s got a weird growly voice, yadda yadda yadda.

Surprising. The comedy special the article mentions, Nanette, made quite a stir. It was heavily praised but also got a lot of backlash from people who objected to the fact that it’s more of a personal essay than a series of jokes. Which is stupid in my opinion. If something is good, then it’s good. Who cares about the…

“While some employees disagree, we have a strong belief that content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.”

I love how transphobes like to claim that Netflix not taking down The Closer is somehow “noble” yet seem to ignore the fact that Netflix has removed content from their site before, including once when the Saudi government told them to…

Especially with all those kids there.  Doesn’t matter how slow the roll was.  Tony Hawk would have worn a helmet for that spot.

He should be wearing a helmet.

I get it, the news anchor is cool. But shouldn’t this be more about Mr. Premium? I mean, c’mon. My cold grey heart just grew three sizes today.

While they’re at it they should do one that involves George Wendt eating beans. 

But, you see, he’s rich now and being a transphobe is his business model now. 

For 10 or 15 years I’ve been lurking a few choice conservative websites in my daily rotation to keep tabs on what they are up to. In the last 48 hours I’ve seen tons of regulars—who never uttered this phrase before —high-fiving each other over the misery of “alphabet people” and how Dave is owning the libs.

I think transgender people have pretty decent representation in the tech sector, so there might be a considerable number of trans employees at Netflix, but I hope that they’re working with their cis allies to coordinate as big a walkout as they can. Netflix responding to an employee walking in to what she assumed was…

“In terms of our commitment to inclusion, we’re working hard to ensure more people see their lives reflected on screen and that under-represented communities are not defined by the single story. So we’re proud of titles like “Sex Education,” “Young Royals,” “Control Z” and “Disclosure.” Externally, particularly in…

On top of the tone-deaf memo, he had the nerve to use marketing speak like “stickiest.” He can go fuck himself.

I assume the mission with this one was to avoid the greatest horror of all, retroactively ruining fanboys’ childhoods.

Dude, if you’ve convinced yourself that the older, kinja-less version of the AVClub would go any easier on this trifle, I don’t know what to tell you.

Ghostbusters’ appeal was its irreverence—it understood that any ghost-hunting business would operate like a bunch of particularly nerdy exterminators, and that the kind of people who would actually set out to be a ghostbuster would be various flavors of crackpot. The tone of quivering Spielbergian reverence towards…

What’s funny is I was one of those guys who signed an online petition in hopes of bringing Family Guy back when it was cancelled but when it did eventually return, I checked out after about 2 more seasons.