Oh fine, you win Don’t Worry Darling people, I’ll buy a ticket just to shut you up.

Appreciate how you went in there and made it about you.

Is regular old HBO still a thing? It’s weird to me that they were a premium channel for years. Then they launched the HBOgo app so their subscribers could watch on demand.

These reviews are Manuel rehearsing for the more thoughtful reviews he’ll be writing when it comes time to write his reviews.

Can we have someone else redo these reviews?

I’d rather this have been reviewed by a bitter young person who hates people older than them.

Rright? I thought maybe it was satirical at first but damn man, if “performative wokeness” and Pete Davidson really bug you so bad, maybe it’s time to change lanes, move out of the pop culture beat and start an obliquely bigoted paid newsletter on Substack, maybe?

Thanks for this - we British got taught very little about the horrible particulars of the Empire, or those that resisted it, in school (in the eighties when I was there, that is). The curriculum was mostly “ships, trade, trains, masses of territory, Queen Victoria, we ‘granted’ everyone independence out of the…

It’s exceedingly important in the times we live in for talk show hosts to be capable of changing minds rather than reaffirming the beliefs of their audience. Bee may have been terrible at this, but so are they all. Just another reminder of the dire state of the genre.

“As a haunting rendition of “Pure Imagination””

It’s not completely inexcusable for “check out this list of TV series / films”
It’s a bit less justifiable for “here is a review of Lightyear in slideshow format”

The patriotism shown in RRR is the opposite of what Modi preaches. The film presents a united India, especially in terms of religion- the decision to have Bheem be looked after by the Muslim community shows this. Modi and the leading party- the BJP- have been implementing dangerous policies with the intention of…

Thanks for write up, As a Indian Telugu American I’m really excited my native language is getting finally recognition it has been due for 50+ years, it was always been better and lavish than Bollywood; but with low recognition ; Telugu is spoken in two different neighboring States with different dialects . Alluri…

It does seem to be an actual quote and not the sarcastic “air quotes” kind

This is great for everyone involved. Lizzo not only apologized from the heart but also made amends, and quickly.

Ding. Chicago has always seemed to have this weird “hey, it’s cool, we don’t want to be like you WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE’RE NOT LIKE YOU? YOU WANNA MAKE SOMETHIN OF IT?” vibe. Like they’re only too cool for school if someone directly asks them about it, while they just spend their entire lives seething in the background.

Harsh!

Ouch.

It’s a fun thing to look back on, now that both LoT and the AV Club are over.