I’ve appreciated Handlen’s Discovery reviews. They remind me of “classic” A.V. Club - in depth, and actually critical. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the folks still watching this show would prefer fanboy patter.

1) Because it’s watched by the same boomers who love NCIS and Blue Bloods and The Closer and whatever other milquetoast nonsense appeals to people like my dad.

That last season was really, really awful 

I’m so very surprised that they’re doing a 5th season of Search. The drop in quality between seasons 3 and 4 was a kind of remarkable thing to behold. It’s not often that every aspect of a good show suddenly stops working. 

Is Brad Pitt’s company called Plan B? (I’ll probably look it up, I’m just expressing comic disbelief) Is it because his movies are like something you regret the next morning and try to erase with a pill?

I urge everyone to avoid Chili's at all costs.  Do not support them.  Let the chain crumble and go out of business.  It's the only way to be free of that goddamn awful jingle.  They asked for it with that sonic assault they've been inflicting in the public for years.  Death to Chili's!

Seems like a pretty basic human name. Kind of like for instance, “Lisa Rowe”.

Let’s see, there are 58 Jolibee locations across 12 states versus the 2718 Popeye’s across the US. The closest Jolibee location to me is at least two states away, guess what, I’m having the Popeyes. I guess it’s technically available across the US, but yeah, no, not really.

Sorry, but if there’s one thing that LeVar Burton’s stint taught us, it’s that there is no room to improve, and a shaky initial performance is an instant disqualifier.

Most standard multi-surface spray cleaners are a soap as well. So the act of spraying, waiting the X seconds, and wiping it away, is disinfection and cleaning.

Then you are doing dressing wrong. My mother makes a sausage cornbread version that can serve as a main course when served with a salad of some kind.

Perfectly normal. I once accidentally ate three-quarters of a Ford Escort during a particularly un-mindful driving snack. Only noticed what was going on when the engine burned my tongue.

You’ve probably done this. You’re happily munching on a Honeycrisp or Cosmic Crisp apple when you look down at it and realize that you’ve eaten half of the sticker. A momentary sense of panic kicks in, and you wonder if you’ve basically poisoned yourself.

I often don’t look at what I’m eating, and by the time I stop to pay attention I’ve eaten the apple sticker, the core, several of my own fingers, and half a can of Burma-shave that I had lying around. Is this okay?

Apparently who’s on first is a bunch of morons.

Reminder that all of these Google Trends-sourced “most popular in each state” are not actually that at all. It’s based on what people are searching for (and this one specifically states that it’s only over the last 12 months). So if you’re saying “I’m in this state and I’ve never heard of this flavor”, well, neither…

Maybe Ingraham is a Gielgud-level actor, but watching that made think she was stoned out of her gourd.

It’s so incredibly obvious it was on purpose. Nothing about it is natural. His first reply when she “misinterprets” him saying “on you” is just to repeat it. Nobody would do that - they’d say “The show called You” or something. Or she’d say “what do you mean” or something along those lines. On the very low chance it…

Yeah, it was basically an unfunny attempt to do a “Who’s on first” routine.

This series rely is just awful at this point. Confusing nonsensical babble just to appear clever writing (and it’s not great writing if it only makes sense on repeat, it’s a cop out) and as an excuse for 50 minutes of filler in an only six episode limited series is just the worst.