So many dumb things, 1) asking David Crosby about EVH’s death...like, who cares what David Crosby thinks about that... 2) the odd answer (again, to a question he clearly didn’t even care about) 3) other wildy-offended multi-millionaires immediately lashing out inane screeds upon him for not paying the respect they…

I think the potential misstep was making her an obvious AOC clone, cause there’s only one person in culture you can really compare her to. So any story about her, or anything they say about her will (rightly or wrongly) be applied to the real congresswoman.

I don’t know how you could possibly think that this episode was suggesting “both sides are bad” or any sort of equivalency between Nazis and progressives. That’s just ridiculous. Some people fake/use progressivism in order to gain power and wealth; Neuman is one of those people.

I think you are projecting too much on this. The Neuman reveal doesn’t mean Progressives = Nazis. It means she’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing and we have not a clue what her game is. I didn’t get that take at all. Cults of personalities are bad things was my biggest take away. If, next year, they show her as committed…

Yeah, if this is the definition of ghost-writing for a recording of a song then there are a LOT of ghost writers out there.  (I mean, to be fair, there genuinely are, but still...)  Stuff like this would fall more into arrangement, etc, if anywhere.

Saying he “ghostwrote” the song doesn’t seem accurate. He changed some chords on his solo. If he actually wrote Beat It he definitely would have claimed credit for it, since that songwriting credit alone that would have made him an incredible amount of money.

Ghost wrote is a bit of a stretch. By the sounds of things he apparently asked Quincy Jones, who arranged all the music, to rearrange the chords on the part he soloed on. He also did not play the guitar riff as this article suggests, that was Paul Jackson.

“You keep fighting me but has it ever occurred to you that you and me are exactly the same, Bruce James Luke Callahan Sherlock Indiana Spike Doctor ?”

Not sure what is hard to understand about that synopsis. 

After the mess of Preacher it’s wild how much better this show is than the source material. It feels stripped down to its core elements and reassembled from there, peppering in references to some of the comics worst excesses without indulging in them, Preacher in hindsight feels like a messy first draft of what…

“AV Club’s stubborn insistence on not providing any information on where a particular show airs is really something else.”

Why would you expect that kind of information in a “review” that doesn’t even contain an actual review of the program?

I think the boy he’s seeing is his dead son.  I’m not sure if that means he had 4 kids and now he has 3, or he had 3 and now he has 2. But did it say the child he lost was a daughter? If so, I didn’t catch it.

I haven’t watched much television this summer, but now I’ve got appointment TV back. God I love Jude Law and Emily Watson. However...

Alright, I’ve read the overly-detailed recap and the stray observations, but this was supposed to be a review, no?

this is the oddest “review” I have ever read, it’s more like the opening of a choose-your-own-adventure book...like do I have to watch the episode now?

Wow this truly was an actual recap and not much of a review... (I did pick up on one thing I missed—that it was Epona’s shirt he saw in the “nightmare’). I disagree with the write up—I think Sam does still have two daughters and a son (I assume though the way this show is going, maybe not) and the dead daughter was…

And they explained the polar bears anyway! I legitimately never understood why that was the go to example for people complaining about the unresolved mysteries when it was something that they actually did address.

No kidding, it drove me nuts when the episode aired. “OH so they WERE all dead the whole time. I was right!” No, you never were and never will be.

Jordan Peele’s date of birth, February, 1979, puts him squarely in Gen X.

I actually loved Adaptation at the time, but I also feel the more perspective I gain in life the less Kaufman seems to speak to me. I think there’s a certain level of narcism to Kaufman that plays to my mid 20s sensibilities more than it does now, but I still enjoy him.