No you're seriously over-thinking what the show was doing - it's was making jokes about Douglas being oblivious and shallow, basically the same sort of jokes they always make about Douglas. That it involved a transsexual is beside the point. Of course he's not going to be cool with dating someone who used to be a man…

@tomandlu:disqus, well the evidence is that the children are obese, even I recall seeing one of them chugging a can of redbull for goodness sake.

If you make your children eat such crap they are obese you're either stupid, lazy or malicious. None of which are ok and should never in anyway be supported by a TV show or audience.

Well you should probably tell the SATC creators that, not me.

Well Sex and the City is one, but this show is for anyone.

Yes that was a great bit, after he tells Bennett about how women see him as a piece of meat, never ask about him about his day and then Bennett tells Daya that, all she has to do is ask him how his shift is going and boom he's in love with her, it showed up how brittle he really is which puts his sadistic, horrifying…

For a lot of people (thought not everyone) being as anti big commercial entertainment as Moore now is makes them uncomfortable so they jump on any excuse to bash him for it even it's pointed out to them the victimhood quotes are either taken out of humorous context or purposefully hyperbolic. Also some of them…

I think it's more that there's just no context to anything in the trailer. A full trailer and we'd probably be able to tell. But as @avclub-52883377da5367bc9205062d52c08dbc:disqus says, McCarthy doing dumb is seriously highly unlikely. Give Ridley a solid script and he can still bring it.

Eh, generally if they are using overblown verbiage they aren't truly intellectual, see Derrida, or doing it on purpose, see Zizek. And anyway much discourse needs to use unusual language to strip away subjective, unchecked biases.

A) it shouldn't be used that way but it is, and that usage is increasing
B) well yeh, but then it all hinges on who decides what's justified and what isn't, so it's entirely arbitrary, in which case "prententious" soon becomes meaningless.

There is a great quote from someone ( I think a french writer), the gist of which is that only  the English could event a word that dismisses all those who try to be better than what they were born. Wish I could remember it because it's the essence of why "pretentious" is such a boring, destructive, anti-intellectual…

"and to include no character movement or growth,"

Ha, yeh - the Telegraph or Daily Fail are always good to remind why you read the Guardian in the first place.

I think the biggest criticism you can level at Girls is that it's biggest fans are 35+ males, not women in their early to mid 20's. It's speaking to people but not to the people it's about. It's quite an odd phenomenon

I never got the sense it was going for The Wire of politics (which The Wire kinda was anyway). It's much pulpier than that to begin with. I'd say they were more going for the Breaking Bad of politics, which, yeh nowhere near the genius of BB but then nothing else is. HoC is still a great show and The AVC bashing it so…

Urgh, it's horrible to think of Campbell as a man suited for his time and place. I guess it depends on if you think facilitating a supreme international war crime can ever suit anybody.

Urgh, it's horrible to think of Campbell as a man suited for his time and place. I guess it depends on if you think facilitating a supreme international war crime can ever suit anybody.

@avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus  - standard dystopia reference with a whiff of Englishness about it.

@avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus  - standard dystopia reference with a whiff of Englishness about it.

I've not reached the point where I find him impossible to empathise with, but I don't sympathise exactly and the whole "hes just providing for his famly skylars a bitch" type talk is utter bullshit to me. But I still root for him on other levels, as I say - his willpower, his daring, his terrier like persistence, the…