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You’re right! I just finished up season 4 today, and it was really refreshing that it ended on a hopeful note — and like, a real hopeful note and not just Bojack seeing something and smiling enigmatically while staring into the middle distance.

In much the same way that a ton of people never understood that Beavis and Butthead were the target of vicious satire and not role models to be emulated; the song remains the same.

She went a bit far in claiming to be “extremely disgusted” by what was surely just some bored animator pulling a prank, but I think it’s entirely reasonable to expect kids shows not to have drawings of dicks in them.

Eh, I think worrying about a show disappearing up its own ass is a legitimate worry. I think Bojack kind of did that some point in the middle of Season 3 for me. You can only keep revisiting the same “winking at the never-ending pit of nihilism” thing so long before it’s just repetitive.

Two pedantic things -

I don’t understand shotgunning and beer bongs. Isn’t it essentially 100% head when you drink it this way?

Yeah, the show just really didn’t know what to do with PB&J after they got married. The Niagra Falls episode really should’ve just been the season finale since it resolved the main plot driver of the show.

Yep, the AV Club stays in the topmost navigation now. I still think it’s weird that the section links are not visible once you go into a section, but maybe that’s just because I’m used to the old layout (and, ahem, every previous layout of The AV Club ever).

Interestingly, it seems to be there if you view it on mobile (there’s a “hamburger icon” that opens to a menu of all the sections).

The most glaring thing so far IMHO is that there does not appear to be any navigation to get back to the “main” AV Club once you’re in a feature section (Film, TV, etc).

Yeah, there's a tiny coalition of "black bloc" protesters who use any public protest as an opportunity to break shit and start things on fire (like the handful at the Women's March earlier this year). They are the ones with the face masks and the helmets and whatnot (well, the ones who aren't cops or right-wing

Yeah, it feels gross because it's both ridiculing someone who is not actually in on the joke and also he's profiting from it despite being super shady and probably a criminal.

I just get a weird, off-putting vibe from all the cult of personality around it. Wiseau is just a creepy weirdo who made a vanity project with (probably) ill-gotten money and now he's living as some kind of minor rock star mini celebrity because he decided to pretend he's in on the joke. It all feels really gross and

I'd be all - in on a 30 Rock revival, except they basically already have one in "Great News," which is.. err… very good. Fey is even gonna be on the next season!

I think part of the reason it was weird with Nicky specifically is that her "made-over" look really drew attention to how much stuff happened in such a supposedly short span of time.

Just finished the season. As this review gets at, I have an admiration for Jenji Kohan's willingness to blow up the status quo of her shows, which happened several times on Weeds as well.

Yeah, it's kind of a perfect example of a one-hit-wonder because it's an insanely hooky earworm summer jam, but also there's no one on Earth who would argue that anything else by L.E.N. is worth listening to.

Hah! When I read the premise of this Q&A, I immediately thought of Steal My Sunshine, but I certainly didn't expect it to actually be in the list.

I think it's mostly extra noticeable in this case because he's also 11 years older than her

I bought their first album after seeing them on SNL last time, and while it's not bad, I do feel a bit like I'd been sold a bill of goods since "The Wire" is so much better than the rest of the album's more new wave-y, Wilson Phillips-ish stuff.