If you’ve designed a sensor that can tell whether the amount of dirt is due to one really dirty dish, or a bunch of moderately dirty dishes, I’m sure you could make a lot of money!

Let’s start all over. Kidman, you make the documentary, Poehler, you star in the biopic.

Ohhhhh you got one of them fancy dishwashers eh? Probably got that Sani Rinse setting, and Extra Wash and Power Wash noise... just sit back and listen to it blasting away all the foods. Your dishes probably get thoroughly dry and don’t get water spots either.... pshh. 

Well the rest of us real folk who dont do the…

I liked last years ceremony because it felt as Coppola described, gentle and intimate, and Regina King did a really good job keeping the event feeling warm and approachable.

Unfortunately true. I feel like during the switch to Kinja when everyone was saying how this would kill the community, someone on the tech side explicitly told us “you guys represent like, 2% of the site’s traffic.”

True, but these particular assholes report to a private equity group that does not respond well to seeing the value of its holdings diminished by those whims. I can only assume the ad revenue is better from numerous quick-hit clicks than people spending 10 minutes reading a feature and commenting on it multiple times.

Muscle memory is a good way to put it.  Which makes it even more depressing when you pop it open and it’s still the same stories from the previous afternoon.

I assume there’s data supporting that it’s more profitable to run a set of websites as clickbait content aggregators rather than producing actual, thoughtful commentary, or Giz wouldn’t be doing this. Doesn’t mean we have to like it.

I want to say I first started reading in the mid-2000s. I didn’t comment for a while because you’re spot-on that at that point in history you better come prepared because that was an educated crowd. I learned massive amounts about music and movies from other commenters, things I’d never heard of that are amazing. I…

who?

Truly, it’s the end of an era...

Because of Dowd, Vishnevetsky, and sometimes jesse, film coverage–specifically reviews–were pretty much the only thing that kept alive the old open-minded-but-critical spirit of AV Club. Depressing to see it go away entirely.

I will say, while I appreciate any lack of histrionics over the Future of the A.V. Club As We Know It!! (and imagine it has served the old-new guard well, ha), I would point out that past incidences of major exodus were either because a bunch of writers left together to start The Dissolve, or a few instances where…

Well, I definitely wasn’t expecting this to make me tear up, yet here we are.

Exactly. You should know how a writer feels by the time you finish reading their review (and definitely whether or not they recommend you see it) without a letter/number grade. If not, they’re a bad critic.

“Can I have an ORDINARY household task? One that you’d PROBABLY want to PUT OFF?”

Gone are the days of AV Club where the first comment would be:

I kind of wish that Atlanta would actually stay in Atlanta at this point. It’s not like we’re 100 episodes in.

Someone at the New York Times emailed an Australian reporter:

I was always under the impression that you simply couldn’t open those passenger / emergency exist doors while the plane was in flight. Maybe the plastic cover of the door moved a couple inches, but I doubt the door itself did.