The new season of Doctor Who probably deserves to be included though it is a pretty good list & there aren’t shows that are glaringly undeserving to be on it that jump out at me

Tangentially related: I used to listen to Chris Hardwick’s various podcasts years ago and he used to say “oh, I adooore [person/franchise/pop culture thing]” a lot. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that phrase, but same thing, it always sounded weird and off-putting. This has been on my mind for years.

“Just handed in a film script that I think may be the funniest and best thing I’ve ever worked on...” doesn’t mean a whole lot coming from Josh Gad.

When comment sections were being shut down at Root and Jezebel and AVC was circling towards shallow clickbait nonsense, I assumed that was going to be pretty much it and I’d have to find something else to do with my online pop culture time.  This is my favorite website and I feel like it’s gotten a pardon from…

If we’re talking staff, let’s get Will Harris on Random Roles again

I hope The A.V. Club also brings back Page to Screen and One-Season Wonders.

“The biggest lie in television history”

I hold particular personal disdain for Monsters University and Incredibles 2 because they make such boring broad story choices in such interesting worlds but I agree that it's not badly made

Another fundamental issue for me is their style is stale. At its core, every Pixar film has the same feel. The same movement of the characters. The same kind of mic drop humor where a character freezes and something plops to the ground. They can conjure anything they want, and they just repeat the same kinds of…

The Slipper and the Rose, for which the Sherman Bros. wrote the songs, is one of my underappreciated favorites. It’s an adaptation of Cinderella, and it’s not perfect, but their songs are all wonderful. I often get them stuck in my head. 

I’m more inclined to think we should he blaming editorial for this; there’s no way the demand for “content” covering this story wasn’t coming down from on high, IMO, and that’s the real source of this kind of trickle down toxicity. 

His and Ryan Gosling’s recent tonsorial moves indicate that 2024 is to men’s hair what 1980 was to pop music: Nobody knows what the hell they’re supposed to be doing.

What a bizarre critique. The special was funny;  like, really fucking funny. He revealed as much as he needed to in order to make the jokes work. Not every special needs to be doing some sort of Hannah Gadsby style confession.

Oh yeah, great episode. The ending is chilling. 

that ending is awesome

That episode haunted me for years

Well that just sounds sensible.

I remember that one! Immediately after seeing it I day dreamed about finding a time stopping pendant of my own.

That’s my favorite 80s Twilight Zone! That’s a Wes Craven episode, so it makes sense that I love it, but also the premise is pretty great

He’s our preeminent farting corpse with hidden layers of depth!