“stock price affect-ingly bad”?

I mentioned this above, but I can’t imagine if she was thinking that Momoa was purposefully dressing like Depp or was just triggered by the fact that he does dress like Johnny Depp, it probably wasn’t a good place for her to be.

“Drake briefly lifts a line from the Pet Shop Boys original, singing “East End boys and West End girls.” (As in the original song, he sings it twice.)”

I think the fact that it’s as big and messy as it is while still undeniably being among the very best shows of all time adds to its mythos, too. Most shows these days are so streamlined and uber-economical that they end up sacrificing that sense of sprawling detail and intimacy.

I think there is this idea that we as the audience have to take sides. I thought the idea of the episode was that arguments like this literally devolve into tribalism, everyone becomes protective of their own mythology. Also, the Zinn book AJ is citing was 20 years old in 2002, this was not new information. So yes,…

Why are we just taking this guy’s word for it that there are only 30 great sitcom writers? I’d suggest (also without evidence) that there have ALWAYS been way more great TV writers than that - they just had no opportunity when there were only three networks.

The worst episode in my book is “Luxury Lounge,” by a mile. You get Artie trying to be a tough guy in one storyline and the really broad “Chris goes to LA and meets celebrities!” crap in the other.

The problem streamers have is that they’ve had to license all of their hit sitcoms (before their original owners snapped them back up, a la Peacock and The Office). Sitcoms are relatively cheap to produce and can, if done right in the classic mode, churn out immense numbers of episodes that can create a reason for…

You’re right, it reads that way and on the face of it, it is an offer to pay the reward to the person who stole them. That would be a binding contract in most cases, BUT the law won’t enforce an agreement that allows someone to profit from committing a crime.

The worst episode is “A Hit is a Hit”, the one with Massive Genius

I always skip Mr. Ruggerio’s neighborhood, mainly because of the Peter Gunn mashup with The Police but it’s also just a bit too contrived. 

It’s always weird when people call something a “predictor,” or “before its time,” when in reality it’s depicting an issue that existed at the time and simply persists.

Anyone who thought this episode was bad, didn’t understand the show.

Seconded! Was very disappointed when Santa Clarita Diet was cancelled. Everyone on the show was great. A very fun show. 

Oh man you could ask a whole arsenal of questions specifically to trip up Michael Caine in a modern analysis

Of course that’s what it is. That’s the cycle now. Interviewer asks impossibly old person a question where the answer is pretty much a foregone conclusion and waits for the clicks to roll in. Then vultures like the AV Club throw up a link to said interview with a paragraph or two of withering condescension ladled over…

Well, he is 90, so we might want to imagine that we’re 90, we mention that we support trans rights, and then all the young people judge us for using such an outdated phrase to express support for something that everyone with a brain supports in the year 2080.

I don’t know if it was woke or not, but the AV Club has always had an anti-being-an-asshole bias. I think the difference now is the constant stream of articles designed expressly for outrage harvesting.

Eh, this seems pretty mild. If it was, say, Armie Hammer or Jared Leto or Ansel Elgort complaining about intimacy coordinators, I’d be a lot more squicked out than I am at hearing it from a 90-year-old who I doubt has shot an intimate scene in the last 15-20 years. 

This is literally the worst way to consume TV and movies. All the expense of purchasing the media, but none of the ownership.