His death was shocking at the time, but thinking back it really shouldn’t have been. The show is called Succession and that can’t really start till the king is dead. Yet I think most of us for some reason expected him to die in the last two episodes. 

Ya’ll ruined it for many of your readers by spoiling it in multiple headlines at the time and now you’re gonna pretend to care about spoilers? Such disdain for your audience, shameful.

That kind of annoying phrasing has been rampant at other sites (e.g. BuzzFeed, Cracked) for years. I hadn’t noticed it creep into AVC content until fairly recently. That and the whole, “Hey, let’s publish a listicle a day because that’s what gets engagement” approach to content. Just more evidence of how this site is…

No one thinks Smash Mouth wrote I’m a Believer 

“I Will Always Love You” is a cover of a Dolly Parton tune? Thank you, 1992 (yes, you got the year wrong) MTV veejay.

“You didn’t know” is a preeeeeeeeeeeetty big stretch for a lot of these, but there were a handful I wasn’t aware of, so those were fun!

because one of the primary tenets of the Jedi is to the help those who need help. It’s why Obi Wan has a hard time laying low, it’s why Cal keeps fighting, it’s why Kanan comes out of hiding.

I honestly don’t make the distinction between HBO Originals and HBO Max shows. That probably speaks to the larger problem of branding that you’re talking about. But since I stream everything, it’s all sort of the same thing to me since it’s all delivered and consumed in the same way.

Well, no. Apologies, but that analogy doesn’t work. No one cared where I was or what I was doing during those events because I didn’t have an entire government hunting me. One with super powerful mages (for lack of a better term) that could sense my presence from miles away. My existence wasn’t considered an…

Yeah, I don’t get it. HBO Max had a rough launch, but it’s been the streamer that we’ve watched the most consistently in our house over the past few years. Seriously: Succession, Barry, Hacks, The Righteous Gemstones, The Last of Us, Starstruck, The Flight Attendant, Mare of Easttown, Starstruck, The Tourist, Perry…

this is kind of a bootlicker take. HBO Max didn’t have an easy start but eventually offered more quality content than nearly any other streaming platform. And that would have been without the HBO Max originals like the Flight Attendant which were better than they should have been...with Showtime’s mostly boring…

This is a strange comment and I’m surprised people are liking it. Barry, since the beginning, has been split between serious drama and absurd comedy. It’s not a dramedy, and it’s not a drama with funny moments. Its tone is unlike that even of Coen Brothers movies. But comedy is baked into the DNA of the show, and that…

The last time I saw Rick was in 1995, when we were wrapping the final episode for season six of Better Dead Than Red. Unbeknown to us at the time, CBS had pulled the plug and that turned out to be the series finale. Honestly, the whole premise of two semi-retired CIA agents operating behind the iron curtain to bring…

Well, we lost ‘Best in Dough’, the competitive pizza making show, and ‘Best in Snow’, the competitive snow sculpture show, but I have high hopes for ‘Best in Joe’, the competitive coffee brewing show, and ‘Best in Blow’, the competitive cocaine smuggling show.

Holocaust denial started fairly quickly after WWII. And well, a Galaxy is much larger than a planet, and there were only 10k Jedi.

It was also an original idea that jedi could just have kids they could bequeath their laser swords, as with Anakin and Luke. The history of Star Wars is one of constant revision, both inside and outside the fictional universe.

exactly this, I think folks get too caught-up on the OT and Luke being the “only one,” able to defeat Vader (and another)...while ignoring all the times Lucas would swerve from “cannon,” and the million ways to interpret it, ways Lucas changed himself.

We’ll forward your sentiments to the show’s UK creator & showrunner for you.

Agreed. And it’s cowardly he limited comments on his post (so basically it makes it look like his “call out” made Gilroy change his mind).

I feel like there’s hostility being read into some fairly bland, tongue-in-cheek tweets/signs. I suppose “see you on the picket line” is kind of passive-aggressive, but that’s about it. Portraying it as “WGA assholes make delightful young actor a scapegoat for their strike” kind of reveals the writer’s sympathies.