So . . . you’re arguing that the AV Club was wrong to editorialize about the questionable value of a safety feature that decapitated a rider? That’s not a biased take on the story, that is the story.

Yeah, I’m all for delving deeply into a work to tease out all its implications, but there’s a difference between meaningful close reading and rule grubbing of the “Why didn’t Skynet just shove a nuke up an elephant’s ass and send it back in time?” variety.

If anything, I think It Follows is underrated, partly because people get hung up on things that aren’t really the point, like a) trying to nail down extremely specific rules when part of the point is that no one really knows all the rules and they’re trying to figure the monster out while fleeing for their lives, and…

Uncanny resemblance, but this seems like the most depressing possible period in Garland’s life in which to anchor a biopic. She’s drugged out of her gourd and she loses her kids and then she dies. Some of the summaries seem to imply that the film is partly a love story about her relationship with her last husband,…

The video itself has the aired version, where they’re playing Uno, but you’re right that the thumbnail shows them playing Cards Against Humanity. It looks like they’ve just started using stills from the dress rehearsal for the thumbnails; you can see that Pete Davidson’s hair is different in the thumbnail than in his…

Publicly unrevealed as of yet, as far as I know. The trailer certainly doesn’t breathe a word of it.

Yep, I think this is all very likely, especially since folks on other forums are piecing together that this whole thing likely originates with the troubled production of episode 7 of season 2, “The Lost Sister.” The one person who’s come forward with a vague corroboration of Peyton Brown’s story, the show’s script…

Michael Shannon is weirdly the one celebrity who tends to show up unexpectedly at events I attend:

Interestingly enough, it’s because of the deer metaphor and the mom and the guilt stuff that I love Get Out as much as I do—because it takes the movie beyond the obvious horror of What if some white people claimed to liberal, but they were actually super racist? That’s a premise any filmmaker, black or white, could’ve…

This. The script in particular is absolutely terrible, throwing out everything Bram Stoker tried to say about the rational modern world confronting the unknowable, and replacing it with a lot of smug but meaningless “Love conquers all!” cliches.

Goddammit, Molly Parker, nothing you’re talking about has anything to do with evolution. Jumping right to a voiceover about how Humankind has evolved! apropos of nothing is a pretty strong sign that this is gonna be bullshit buzzword sci-fi and not legitimately interesting science fiction.

My opinion is exactly the opposite—that is, I think that Stranger Things is a pretty straightforward, often derivative show that only works as well as it does because the Duffer Brothers are so good at mining the nuances from these stock characters and shopworn situations.

I get why people like it more though! I think there are some wide preference differences with the show.

The reason it doesn’t show up above on my (and possibly also Dr Boot’s) list is we were listing our faves from this season ...)

My top ten:
10. “Strip Away My Conscience”
9. “I Could If I Wanted To”
8. “The End of the Movie”
7. “Where’s the Bathroom?”
6. “First Penis I Saw”
5. “Dream Ghost”
4. “Remember That We Suffered”
3. “Maybe She’s Not Such a Heinous Bitch After All”
2. “Feelin’ Kinda Naughty”
1. “The Math of Love Triangles”

Tambor’s role was probably already going to be pretty fucked, considering last season set things up so that George Sr. would be revealed as a transwoman, but the writers decided they’d have to renege on that so it wouldn’t look like they were ripping off Transparent.

If you look at photos of Obama, though, he’s got a prominent vein in his left temple right where the “sperm” appears. It’s just a rendering of how that part of his face actually looks.

It’s true that a lot of ’80s action shows were similar in that they had comedic elements, but I think Greatest American Hero was even more comedic than most. Most show at least tried to make the star look cool during the action segments, but Ralph was always a spaz who didn’t really know what he was doing. It would be…

“It sounds like this new take will be more overtly comedic than the original one was . . .”

Yeah, but it won’t, though. The writers didn’t compose “The Lost Sister” because they ran out of additional story to tell and needed some padding; they actually had so much story that they had to squeeze and trim a bunch of other stuff to fit into nine episodes, and they even considered scrapping “The Lost Sister” as…