As someone who grew up in evangelical culture, I am unsurprised that the lone black woman is styled to look EXACTLY like those white women. That’s the survival trick. The only way to achieve provisional acceptance is to seem exactly the same but tanner. All will be revealed if she starts to bristle at being the BBF, th…

So being a female Christian influencer means being made up like a beauty contestant and sexualizing yourself performing mundane tasks like eating donuts, laughing, and sitting in a car?

There was a time when the name “Wendy Williams” invoked Wendy O. Williams, the bad-ass take-no-shit rebellious lead singer of the legendary Plasmatics. Now though, it invokes this sad-sack-sorry pile of narcissistic crazy shit. The real Wendy Williams would have mopped the floor with this sea hag.

I applaud this clear guidance on what should be obvious. You might want to update your ‘about the author’ text, at least until the need for isolation passes. A bit of cognitive dissonance gets triggered at “she can be found ... at her local boxing gym” at the close of the article. 

I dunno, becoming ‘helpful’ Borg Queen Seven would be a good arc for her.

Yes, but also that is very tempting. She’s like an addict. She has to fight it every day and she knows it’s bad but if she succumbs to it again she knows that, just like all the drones, she won’t want to leave.

It’s calling back to her conversation with Picard about regaining her humanity from a couple of episodes back.  Reinstating the collective on the cube is explicitly going against what she’s been fighting for “every damn day”

Yeah, I read the scene completely differently than Zack. I think Seven was afraid to reconnect to the collective, but for a different reason than it being “the worst nightmare of her life”—she said it herself: she was worried she wouldn’t want to disconnect from the collective. That is far more interesting than the…

To be fair, If I lived my entire adult life on a starship, my retirement home would have an Alexa powered security system, a wood burning pizza oven and an outdoor shower.

I like how the show somehow figured a way for Riker to yell “SHEILDS UP!”

“Hey - remember when you wanted to go saving all those Romulans’ lives and I told not to?”

In their off-hours, AV Club reviewers sit around with friends, sipping red wine and discussing the latest Criterion Collection releases. If they were to give honest grades to fun movies and shows like Infinity War, Captain Marvel, and Star Trek Discovery, they’d lose all credibility with their after-work pals.

I’m not sure Zack’s going particularly near themes at this point. He doesn’t like it because it’s bad and it’s bad because he doesn’t like it. The review beats above include:

Here’s what we learn from Spock: the Red Angel appeared to him as a child and helped him save Burnham’s life through the magic of time travel.

I normally read the review here to check how much emotional damage the reviewer suffered this week and how long it takes until the first Orville-troll shows up. Then I head over to io9 to read something more balanced.

What if someone who likes the show did the reviews? Asking for a friend.

I’m beginning to think the AV Club in general is just unfit to review anything. They gave Captain Marvel a C and Batman v Superman a C-. Seriously, in what universe is Batman v Superman 1.) only a minus less than Captain Marvel (a legitimately fun and enjoyable movie, if not Marvel’s best) and 2.) How did it even get…

I mean by TOS standards it wasn’t terrible, definitely a middle-tier episode (though I think most of TOS is pretty bad and watching it now I see why it was cancelled). I just didn’t like that 1) Kirk fell in love with this woman within minutes of meeting her (which wouldn’t be as big of a deal if he didn’t always pull…

Discovery isn’t perfect, but last night I watched two Star Trek episodes - this and TOS “Requiem for Methuselah” (the episode that aired exactly 50 years prior) and it just made Discovery stand out more. Going through TOS (most episode for the first time) on their 50th anniversaries has really helped me appreciate…

My two methods: