The article that you describe would have been interesting, but the article that was written was not what you describe!

I was expecting a trademark AV Club breakdown of how technical and directorial choices throughout, and especially in the final episode, undermined Poussey's death, which did not have the emotional impact that it should have. Instead, I found a poorly conceived (and even more poorly executed) attempt at disparaging the…

It's totally true that the beginning of the book with Toph is basically wonderful, and then for the rest of the book (career), Eggers just doesn't have the chops to really pull off some of the modernist things he is trying to do.

Was trying to be very precise with words, but don't think I was precise enough. I meant critical acclaim FROM an adult audience. I realize that as written, it's totally ambigious as to whether the "for" is referring to "comedies" or "acclaim", and the best guess is probably "comedies", which is not what I meant.

Animated American television comedies with critical acclaim for an adult audience? Maybe Bob's Burgers should be on the list, too, but I think the other shows are a little weirder/more difficult to approach (probably going to annoy someone with this claim!), while Bob's is going after a somewhat less adventurous crowd…

I can't keep up with when stuff comes out anymore! Guess there is a season for me to watch.

Amazing that an article about highly irregular broadcasts Cartoon Network adult shows did not include Venture Bros. I guess everyone has forgotten about it by now it's been so long since new episodes, but in my mind, it's better than the rest of its ilk (Archer, Adv Time, Steven, Rick & Morty).

1. Staples proposed the 1000 plays = 1 album equivalence.
2. I think that artists really do get around $1 or so for an album sale. Surely you don't think that Staples himself is getting all $10 when you buy something on iTunes? (Apple is getting $3 of that themselves!)

I think 2 or 3 cents is a pretty implausibly high estimate. How many times do you listen to a good album over 5 years? Taking Staples' claim of 1000 tracks = 1 album as given, listening to a physical album 100 times would make Spotify/s 1/8 of a penny a better deal for the artist, as the album probably has a little…

One album sale per 1000 individual track plays seems not that far off, to be honest. Sure, I guess I never listened to bad albums 75-100 times over 5-6 years, but hopefully Staples and other artists are not complaining that they can no longer trick us into buying shitty albums!

Anyone have recommendations for people that really liked R&G? Especially in written form. Obviously, other Shakespeare plays or Waiting for Godot. Are there other highly recommended alt-takes on Shakespeare, prose or play? What are the top tier Stoppard plays for reading?

I love New Girl and consider it to be the best network comedy on the air. It does a great job combining abstract comedy with compelling character relationships, and the cast is very talented, McDonald's commercials notwithstanding. I am heavily biased to fast-paced, occasionally surreal comedies. (Peak Happy Endings…

My wife, who is not normally a zany comedy kind of gal but is very much a Bachelor/Rom-Com one, loved UKS on Netflix, so it was very much a winner in creating attractive content for that demographic. I can get her to watch New Girl with me (Happy Endings, too, before it ended), but shows like Community or even 30 Rock…

spotify playlists, man

Why on earth are the embedded links to youtube instead of the simple Spotify playlist?

I disagree. I had seen maybe five minutes of the movie at some point on Comedy Central, but it didn't seem worth watching ads at the time. I decided to watch FDOC based on its critical adulation and loved it, which made me watch the movie. I think that FDOC is actually probably overall better since it spends less time…

HEAVY SPOILERS I definitely understand where you are coming from, and I share your frustration that the mysticism of the Giver series went in such a fantasy direction with the tradesman rather than the sci-fi dystopia that The Giver seemed to promise. I think that I enjoyed the climax of Son so much because of the…

You can probably skip Gathering Blue, but I would say that Messenger is important. I bet that you could get away without reading either (the things that you will like best about Son are callbacks to The Giver), but I haven't put this to the test.

There are now four Giver books. Gathering Blue is a little uninspired, Messenger is very nearly bad, but the final book, Son, is spectacular. Just as a bad ending to a series can sour everything that came before it, Son recasts the previous two books as laying the groundwork necessary for the conclusion.

Either way, these books seem like they would be a perfect fit for CGI Pinata's taste. The original trilogy is borderline YA, and as someone who read the entire series last year for the first time, I did not find anything that seemed archaic or clunky for a modern reader.