Yeah, compositional step 1 for the motif here was clearly “melody with the same meter as the phrase ‘WandaVision’”; not sure why the latest incarnation would necessarily be considered the “true” one.

Viacom’s been throwing money at every IP in their subsidiaries’ portfolios with some semblance of a devoted fanbase for the past few months in search of potential killer apps for the Paramount+ library; I have to imagine this news is just the Avatar folks being the latest beneficiaries of that approach, regardless of…

That “Closing Time” Song Exploder is one of the best episodes I’ve ever heard, even as someone who already knew the song’s Deep Hidden Meaning - just a wonderfully-told parallel narrative of a great, ubiquitous pop song’s creation and the specific moment in its creator’s life that it emerged from. Really enthusiastic…

I’m not sure how universally applicable these recommendations might be, but the Dogpatch USA and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure episodes really captured my imagination with what were, to my sensibilities, vividly pathetic portraits of malformed creative ambitions - and the endless supply of people who…

Hey, let’s give the A.V. Club some credit here, Hate Song was one of the numerous features they culled during the Univision-mandated changeover to free up space for Kinja Deals.

Excited for the Nolan bump finally resulting in people being able to distinguish this word and its meaning from “tenant”

It implies that they wanted the phrase “Breaking Bad” to be somewhere prominent in the marketing/logo design/Netflix metadata

I used to sort of be in this camp, but after seeing the same complaint in literally every comments section about her I’m starting to hope she sticks it out as long as possible.

As long as I’m early to this comments section, can we get a secondary source besides the Daily Mail before everything starts popping off bc it seems like there’s a story about them fudging celeb news of exactly this nature every few months

My primary takeaway from Midsommar is that I’m incredibly ready to see Ari Aster do a romantic comedy. That level of craft with that kind of attitude, but with an ultimately healthy relationship at the center - I genuinely can’t think of an existing movie to compare it to, but I can easily envision Aster making it,…

*eyeroll*

Well, to do something approaching due diligence on this relatively offhand remark: I don’t have anything particularly newer than when the news initially broke (hence the first possibility, which would amount to Pitchfork running a story to the effect of “Turner’s old band had some songs with sexist lyrics that the…

Anyway:

The choice to open with a musical number by Superorganism - who do passable psychedelia, but one of whose members is currently in a weird #MeToo liminal space where either the initial story was a misrepresentation or he’s getting away with suppressing coverage through an abuse of New Zealand libel law - was a strangely…

Just barely a step up in every respect.

If the actors in Endgame couldn’t be trusted to know what they were looking at in CGI shots for fear of spoilers then the staff of the one remaining non-Disney+ MCU show sure as hell wasn’t getting a plot synopsis ahead of time.

Maybe also worth noting that Waititi’s already on set for this episode as director, and has a vampire of his own he could be playing.

“Old Town Road” is absolutely a country song (especially insofar as most other charting country music nowadays is just about applying a southern accent and dwindling list of lyrical signifiers to more popular genres), but going in so hard on presenting Lil Nas X as a “country rapper” is an oversimplification that I…

So - wait, did he base his portrayal on Ted Cruz? That’s what I’m inferring, and the video probably confirms it, but the article never actually comes out and says that.

The current A.V. Club standard is that it becomes news when someone makes a video essay about it.