“Taking advantage of a rich, old white person who doesn’t know what he’s doing...”

here’s how i personally read the Socks (not Sox) thing:

i view Earn’s character as a vessel, mostly. he’s a window into a world that looks different than mine. he doesn’t know exactly what he wants out of life, which is a feeling that many millennials also have. is he the most compelling character? no. but by following his travels have we been able to experience a weird,…

it’s simple; anyone who saw the ending as a “nightmare” is projecting their own fear and racism into the story. if you’re scared about a world where black folks are finally made whole for all of the injustices they’ve suffered since being brought to this country against their will, that’s just your white guilt and…

man, you really need to pass these reviews off to someone who isn’t just going to outline the plot and say, “this was great” over and over again. this site used to be about ANALYSIS, not just, “so-and-so’s performance was stellar, [x] show is the best on television.” this recap’s first two paragraphs both end with you…

you realize that not every show needs to be about superheroes, yeah?

corporate assholes out here killing everything we’ve ever loved in the name of profit. feels bad, man. 

any chance you’ll pop into Myles’ new Substack project, Episodic Medium? looks like Donna made it over there (thank god, because life without her Better Call Saul reviews was a life not worth living) so perhaps it could become a new pseudo-home for displaced TV Club superfans and writers?

“We find out where the Russells came from — what modest/impoverished origins do they have?”

yeah man, like, Ozzy was one of the very first reality-TV celebs to really go viral, and his entire shtick was how incomprehensible and doddering he was. the way Daya played him as like, lucid? such a profoundly wrong choice that displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of him as a character. to get laughs as Ozzy,…

man, i honestly don’t know if i’ve ever disliked a queen more than i dislike Daya. the way she *constantly* bullies Jasmine for being “annoying” is 100x ruder and more obnoxious than anything Jasmine has done so far.

hi, #1, pretty certain MM is a woman. #2, this isn’t a creative writing class in college, it’s a publication that used to publish some of the sharpest cultural criticism of pop culture on the internet. and now, thanks to union-busting capital vultures, this is what it’s come to; 23 year-olds who have no business…

Cassie cannot just be a villain with no exploration of how she got here.

i’m not the one being paid to write for this website, so i’ll stylize how i want, yo.

oh, 100% this. 

the person writing these reviews is patently unqualified. (which is not surprising, considering the downhill trajectory of writing at the AVC over the last few years) so much of the subtext of this show is lost in her facile play-by-play recaps, it’s truly upsetting. i don’t have time to pick apart her entire recap…

“In contrast, Nate has been cold and bitter his entire life. Euphoria raises questions about how bitterness can linger even when the source of pain is physically gone, but it doesn’t do the work to really dig into them.”

idk why you’re arguing such a weird semantic point here, but the reviewer’s full statement was: “It turns out insider trading was only the beginning for Patrick Morris and his old money pals. Having passed the law allowing George to build a new train station, thereby making a profit on their shares, they’re turning…

lol i hate to break it to the reviewer, but short selling is still very much legal in the US. naked short-selling is illegal (ie: selling short interest in shares not currently in the seller’s possession) but there are all kinds of ways around that, in fact, the DOJ is currently investigating over 30 trading firms…

the Russells are a stand-in for the Vanderbuilts in this series, ie: the “new money” interlopers that high society shunned.