what life is like as an ancillary character in a Chosen One story

Good summary of why Philip defies both canonization and demonization.

Yeah, one of the major problems with Ed’s decision is that is boils down to either Gordo pulling himself up by his bootstraps and getting back up there - and if he somehow manages to do so, there’s a decent chance it’ll be a disaster - or quitting the program and drinking himself to death. When your best friend…

Entry 2 in my ‘Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind’ reviews - along with brief thoughts on Shadow and Bone. Spoilers ahead.

While there’s good reason to believe the vast majority of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was complete fantasy, I’ve always wondered if the Dating Game drill instructor/network censor had some basis in reality along with the supposedly clean cut 1960s contestants tossing innuendos back and forth before they cracked…

I’m far more excited to learn that there’s apparently a major Zelazny novel that I’m fairly sure that I’ve never read than for the rest of the announcement.

How was the vacation?

Never even knew it existed before this article. The SNES version looks a lot more playable than the PC one.

Thank you for what may be the best researched piece I’ve ever read on AV Club.

I suspect we might be having a reference or two to the changes, but if we use Season 1 as a baseline I doubt we’ll get them explored much beyond that. Someone on reddit paused to catch all of them which I’m linking below since it otherwise breaks posts, along with another site’s review of a few of the changes: looks…

Since AV Club is using a great image from For All Mankind’s Season 2 premiere, Every Little Thing, yet bizarrely still not doing episode by episode reviews, let’s do a short one here since it was my major media consumption yesterday. A few spoilers ahead.

I’ve phrased it before as well in a slightly different way: the sequels made me appreciate far more the risks Lucas took in the prequels.

In one of the few press pieces they’ve done, it came out that one of the most interesting things that apparently got cut for time was the full arc on Nixon being responsible for destroying the Teddy Kennedy administration by leaking the latter’s ongoing affair. Unfortunately, that’s only barely hinted at in the one…

...there’s an efficiency to For All Mankind’s storytelling. What looked like loose threads three episodes ago...

I didn’t do it!

I know! It’s terribly hard to Door Dash our double chai lattes with artisanal cream art in the boonies, so we’re just terribly bougie daring to ask for equal internet access so we can one star drivers and give $0.30 tips.

Yeah, the urban, large city dwellers snarking can’t understand why someone might pull a stunt like this.

I don’t remember ever seeing this, but your version sounds interesting enough so that I might seek this out to watch it the way you accidentally did the first time.

The mysticism surrounding Mother A and this girl all amounts to a well-trodden trope that doesn’t really provide the characters with specificity or humanity. They’re devices—quite explicitly here merely to ease the lives of two white characters.

Was the VW Force commercial in 2011 the best of all time? Probably not.