You’ve given me this image of Sam Barsanti going through the dumpster behind the AV Club office. He pulls out the “Platt is too young to play a high schooler” take. “Can you believe someone threw this away? It’s still good! You just scrape off the moldy parts, and there’s plenty to eat here.”

He was on with Terry Gross yesterday, and I was really gladdened when he said that one of the first things he had to do in getting ready for the movie was accept that he could not possibly pass for a high schooler and just work around it as best he could.  He was very realistic about that, so maybe the site can let it…

Seriously, how many nothing movies slide by under the radar every month where we gotta constantly hear about this one?  Does it owe AVC money or something?

Baller move. Yeah, don’t tell people things will be outside and then just construct a building in an outdoor space. That just makes it inside again! I’ve seen so many restaurants do this - offer outdoor space, then essentially build another building in the street with four walls and a ceiling. You just recreated…

I...think you’re probably safe with this take.

Not a fan of that theory. Men were playing women in all the plays, no problems with suspension of disbelief back then.

Omar Little was iconic for a reason. Williams turned in such a raw, layered performance that he managed to create a man who was frightening, aggressive, sensitive, emotional, and tender. On a recent rewatch of The Wire, I was struck again by the tragedy of Omar. He was a fundamentally kind-hearted person stuck in the…

I’ve heard from no-one that Drake’s goes straight down the middle while Kanye’s swerves right.

The so-called Golden Age of Disney animation (1989-94) weirdly means very little to me, because I was age 8-13 when those movies came out, too old to like Disney movies as a kid & not old enough to like them as a teen/adult (I would find out in a couple years that girls love to go see Disney movies on dates, which…

Oh, they had a plan. But then Goober the Janitor tripped over a cable and accidentally unplugged the Trebek clone’s life support.

I hope there’s a tell-all at some point, because it really seems like the lack of a succession plan was part of Richards’ cover to seize the podium.

This is truly the King Ralph/Designated Survivor of Jeopardy! scenarios.

Johnny Gilbert is 93, so they hopefully use this fiasco as a learning moment 

Similar to my bafflement over the lack of a succession plan. They had 20 months between Alex’s diagnosis and death. They should have had a plan ages ago because of his illness, which has an average life expectancy of only one year. I get that Alex wanted to keep working until he felt he no longer could and perhaps it…

It sounds like it was supposed to be Ken Jennings, but then enough people got upset over a few of his tweets that they thought it was too risky.

This isn’t Ken Jennings being canceled, this is Mike Richards using cancel culture to clear a path for himself in his bloodthirsty failed coup. Richards couldn’t possibly have cared less about an “ableist” tweet from 2014 (he said far worse things on his podcast and behaved far worse at his prior jobs), he just knew…

Yes.

What the hell is an Ansel Elgort?  Is that some obscure piece of abstract or surrealist art?  A viral infection of the throat?  Someone’s idea of a sick joke?

I find it kind of funny