I’m no law talking guy, but if the prosecution’s case hinges on a single person’s testimony or one piece of very incriminating evidence, the defense can dedicate all its attention to seeding doubt in that person and/or making that evidence inadmissible. So the prosecution needs multiple overlapping pieces of…

Right? Johnston is not a standup, and to my knowledge never has been. He’s an improv guy and comic actor, and those people get most of their paid work acting. Which it seems like he hasn’t done much lately outside of voice work.

That is tough to watch, in the best way. Just a lot of raw, honest expression that appropriately captures the importance of these moments and the understandable mix of emotions they produce.

> Someone from the production had to have had a conversation with Johnston about it before firing him

That was a really underrated show.

You may recall Jay from this particular Sarah Silverman skit:

At least he’s guaranteed a role in David Zucker’s next spoof on liberals, right next to comedy powerhouse Kevin Sorbo.

Coincidentally, ‘clumsy regressive imperial nostalgic garbage trying to skate by with a thin layer of jokey irony’ would also be my review for the current UK government.

Even though I had completely forgotten its name, when you made the comparison I thought “I wonder if Killing Them Softly is that super cynical Brad Pitt movie”. Yep totally nailed it.

“But really, it didn’t matter if Tony got whacked there, or some other time, or not at all.”

I personally love the ending and honestly I’m not sure what more anyone could’ve wanted. It’s perfect. Anything more literal would’ve been disappointing to me.

I never really understood how it was controversial to believe Tony died. The entire final season is suffused with death in both plot and imagery. There are multiple scenes (most prominently, Bobby saying “you probably don’t even hear it when it happens” and the one where a guy gets whacked right next to Silvio and…

He will always be Sledge to me.

As someone above mentioned, the issue above is not the snark, but the quality of the snark.

The commentariat isn’t defensive or insulted at modern snark, we’re insulting how badly written the modern snark is.

this is true, but i also don’t remember the commentariat way-back-when being so defensive and insulted when the newswires were snarky. in the reviews themselves when the fans showed up sure, but most people knew that snarky newswires were more like threads for us to comment on and for the site to gain traffic rather…

AV Club has always had kind of a too cool for school hipster mentality, but I think that as they’ve aged, it’s soured and become a bit noxious. As you say, disdainful. Like a high school kid bent on edginess, everything has to be held at arm’s length now, lest you be seen liking something. I really miss Emily VanDerWer…

I mean, EON is Amazon adjacent now. They will be fine, and the Bond films will be on Prime.

The real Bond girl in that film is Sophie Marceau, and she’s one of the best Girls/Villains