As a Scream-head, I find the beauty of the series is in how it’s basically the same movie every time, with incremental differences. Not to get too hoity-toity, but it lends itself to the whole meta theme.

That’s a good poing, though the suggestion is more not to tell war stories in meetings, or as part of your story if you’re a speaker, I think. I mean, AA (or whatever) doesn’t have any spokespersons, that’s kind of a biggie. As a comedian, his job might be kinda to talk about himself. I don’t have Netflix and can’t…

the ticketing platform has been an anvil in the side of the already-floundering live performance industry

Presumably, the UK government doesn’t really have their own mechanism for distributing admission tickets to events, so they decided to contract it out to Ticketmaster instead of trying to build it from scratch

The writing is just ... so bad. I was talking about this with my dad just last night. I really, really like Mehcad Brooks and Hugh Dancy and was excited to see them in the revival. But the stories are just so milquetoast! Dancy’s character is weak and ineffectual and worst of all, boring. I miss Linus Roache. Cutter…

It’s not just this special. I listened to a podcast with himand another comedian with addiction history. I remember thinking he sounded like he missed it and hope he wouldn't relapse soon. 

That first sentence is a doozy, man.

I’m a huge fan of John Mulaney. He’s probably my favorite stand-up currently, but I found a lot of this last special hard to listen too. Not because it wasn’t funny, it was. It just seemed like he did a lot of what I was told not to do in recovery. I’ve been sober since Jan. 16th of last year, and a big part of what I…

I dunno. Mulaney was absolutely blitzed and exhausted doing those segments on Late Night at the end, and while it was obvious in retrospect, in the moment I saw a lot of people saying “Boy, Mulaney sure is doing a weird and unfunny schtick” and not a lot saying “Boy, Mulaney’s clearly at the tail end of a bender.”…

I mean, the fact that the men who claimed to rally together because they’re tired of women rejecting them being angry their leader got laid sorta gives away the game here.

They want to prove that they’re the ones worth the love and attention that other groups get, which is clearly completely undermined when somebody shows one of them love and attention obviously. Perfect logical sense, certainly not just a bunch of hormonal morons throwing tantrums that they don’t even understand. 

From what I understand, they’re entirely motivated by sex (they’re not ace). The movement is for women to realize that the men they’re chasing are trash, and they should get with the incels because they know how to treat ladies right, not like Chads who just fuck ‘em and dump ‘em, leaving them single mothers who’ve…

Wow, did not expect to find such thoughtful discussion of HK cinema in the comments section of the review of Evil Dead Rise. Makes me feel like the AV Club of old is not completely dead. :’)

I mean, DeSatan is right there.

Pretty sure Christie was alive when “And Then There Were None” had its title changed the first and maybe the second time.

To me, public outcry implies the general public, not the online media sphere. Which, if you hop backwards through this “story,” it all boils down to Variety publishing a few excerpts from the book, particularly the Reeves line, because that’s what these companies do with celeb memoirs: cop an early copy and comb it…

“DeSanctus is being absolutely destroyed by Disney,” the former president posted “His original P.R. plan fizzled, so now he’s going back with a new one in order to save face.”

Though Dahl did edit his own books to fit the times when he was alive.

“Self-censoring”? I’m pretty sure the term for that is “editing,” but you dummies wouldn’t be familiar with that process now, would ya?

I’ll stand up for those final years too. They went out on a high note, with the best detective pairing in years, a tremendously watchable lead prosecutor, and newfound energy crackling from the writers’ room.