lol was there another draft of this review that you’re referencing?

lol of course this season’s terrible Atlanta reviews end with the reviewer completely missing the uber-important end-credits sequence that tied together several seemingly unrelated episodes. [/headdesk]

lol wut? because community college doesn’t exist? because apprenticeships and work experience don’t exist or count for anything? because he wouldn’t ever think to start his own small business? these days having a Bachelor’s degree guarantees less and less for new grads.

he probably refused to fill out the FAFSA because he understands that no university degree is worth $200k and didn’t want to saddle himself and his son with crippling 6-figure debt before the age of 22. that’s how i read it, anyway.

lol why are you surprised? this reviewer has fumbled the point of this assignment every single week.

sigh. i just counted thirteen (13!) individual instances in this piece where the reviewer was simply praising the show for being good/funny.

2 of this season’s 7 episodes do not even feature Earn as a character AT ALL (save for that final shot of him waking up in ep1) so for a guy with a “minor gripe” you seem to be really devoted to dying on this hill.

these were your exact words: “But what’s the point of his character then? Like if he’s supposed to be a shitty person who is incompetant (sic), why would he be a primary protagonist?”

it’s only frustrating because you seem dead-set on insisting that Earn isn’t a compelling character, yet we’ve gone back and forth multiple times today discussing why he is (or isn’t, in your mind.) i think the very fact that we’re even having this discussion means that he’s a worthwhile character. maybe just not…

not exactly. the history of tipping in the United States is actually a deeply racist practice, that began during Reconstruction. newly-freed slaves were seeking work anyplace that would hire them, so restaurant owners said, “okay, we’ll hire you to serve us, since you’re so good at that and we’re so used to it already.…

“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,…