Yeah, the characters acknowledge a couple of times that their actions don’t mean anything official, but I think there are two decent readings of the show. One is just that the kids are overestimating their own strength and import, which I would argue has been a theme from the beginning. But the other, just tonally, is…

After rehashing his critique of Marvel movies, and then every reaction to that critique, I’m going to say, seven thousand times, the headline feels pretty ironic.

Yeah, I think this is one of maybe three shows currently on television that can at least explain why their cast is mostly white in a way that isn’t eye-rolling. The whole thesis of the show is that this level of wealth is virtually always built on a Mount Everest of unacknowledged privilege that starts with being a…

I feel like if you watch the movie with a functional moral compass, it’s not hard to read it as two people with deep-seated psychological trauma trying to cope with it by straining for connections — to be a father figure or a grown man’s girlfriend — that they’re not really equipped to make or handle, Leon because…

I support the strike, but the AV Club’s rah-rah position seems a little ironic given that it recently got nearly the entire staff to quit over a mandatory uncompensated relocation. At least some of this ire seems like it should be directed at your own parent company.

The era of Fox News and elderly QAnon supporters falling for youtube conspiracy theories has really done a number on the notion that age and wisdom are linked in any way.

This show, and Gotham by the same guys, is so fundamentally wacky in tone that it’s hard to take it seriously for long-term character implications. It’s better to think of it as a prequel to the Adam West show than any modern Batmen, and I know how weird that is to say about something with a body count this high.

He’s one of 2-3 supporting characters who has appeared in Batman comics every year since the ‘40's.  We should all be grateful he’s not a time-traveling assassin’s clone or something.

Yeah, this. There are enough differences in the industry and the world itself that direct comparisons are inherently flawed, but by most estimates on straight inflation-adjusted box office, Gone With the Wind is still the highest grossing movie of all time and has been since 1939, with about $4.25 billion.

I, too, am available if they want me to show up or do a Spider-Man thing.

You can chicken and egg whether refusing to kill off Clay when Jax took over the club was the result or cause of the writing problems, but it stalled out the show’s central conflict and suddenly nobody’s character really made sense anymore.  It was a bad writing decision that fucked up everything they tried to do next.

I still find enough to enjoy here, but the holes are really starting to show for me. Logan’s never felt closer to going down than he did in the Season 2 finale, and that ended up fizzling out so easily and anti-climatically that it felt more like a shitty week than an existential threat to his business empire. The…

I agree in general terms, but I think what Cameron brings to those films that Disney won’t is an almost obsessive attention to detail and a commitment to making them good at all costs, which is why they take decades to make. Even if you don’t like them, it’s hard to deny that the effort that went into them is all up…

You’re not wrong that we don’t enough information to know exactly if or how much money this lost, but if you account for the differences in being the lead on a Star Wars show on Disney+ with all the residuals and likely future appearances that implies and opening a movie no average person has heard of on a website…

I’m guessing the scale of those controversies feels different if you don’t regularly visit film websites. I don’t personally know anyone who gives a shit who’s playing the Little Mermaid, and it’s only a big deal to a smattering of Twitter weirdoes, emotionally stunted racists, and bored entertainment reporters who…

And he’s the one who’s going to pick his successor!  So his “wait and see how much the next guy I hire sucks!” is really one last self-own on the way out the door.

His “be careful what you wish for” messaging is probably meant as a “you’ll see! You’ll all see!” given his whole vibe, but it can more comfortably be read as the moral of the story of a man who got to be the center of the whole world’s attention for a few months, rapidly driving himself insane.

Anyway, it’s a far cry…

Yeah, there were also some rumblings of criticism from the wider culture when he was running Tesla, but he was also surrounded by an army of tech bro sycophants hailing him as a genius, so I’m guessing those voices were mostly drowned out in his personal orbit. The suck-ups and kiss-asses are still there, but…

It’s kinda been hilarious watching him realize that 1.) running a platform totally free of any or even most speech restrictions and running a profitable business are incompatible and mutually exclusive goals, and 2.) the internet itself resulted in the freest speech we’ve had in the country’s entire existence (you can…

On the one hand, this is an insane way for a company the size of Twitter to pick its C-Suite. On the other hand, it’s been pretty clear for weeks now that he’s in way over his head and he’s not really enjoying this. It also seems easy to rig, but if that’s what were happening, he probably wouldn’t be -14% in the…