Scrolled through expecting to see ‘Master of None’ and nothing.  Any series which manages to fit Aphex Twin, Vengaboys, Poison and Dorothy Ashby into its sound world must be worth a mention.

Poor Sparks, Two and a half hours devoted to them and they can’t even squeeze into the top 10.

...any writer who’s watched their beats or word counts shrink, or their employers diminish the appeal of subjects more esoteric than the lowest common denominator.

Or England in 2021.

I think you folks would love the British daytime TV staple Homes Under the Hammer, (mostly) low budget fixer-upper which is a tad more eccentric, if no less mercenary than shows like Fixer Upper.

Huzzah for this, but get Year of the Rabbit done first please.

Can, or should, you separate your views on the work from your views of the person making it?

Just want to say ‘cumblebrag’,  OMG. I just picked myself off the floor for lauging so much.

I assumed that I hadn’t seen this, but checking my list on icheckmovies it appears I did. I can’t remember a thing about it, though I guess there were some dinosaurs in it.

Wow, can’t believe Bob Balaban is interviewed twice for Random Roles, and passes on his role in ‘Midnight Cowboy’ both times. It’s quite something for his movie debut.

It’s not sophisticated or particularly clever but this compilation of the queen of the double entrendre never fails to crack me up.

For an act who appear to be the antithesis of bloated concept albums, Saint Etienne managed to release three in ‘So Tough’, ‘Words and Music by Saint Etienne’ and their masterpiece ‘Tales from Turnpike House’, which not even the reordering of tracks on the US issue could ruin.

No Coldwar Steve? Has Trump and Johnson hacked the AV Club.

I kind of assumed that it referred to companies skimming tips too, maybe not a big thing in the USA. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-mays-promise-ban-restaurants-13989950

Letitia Wright’s award is based on a public vote, so who knows what criteria they used.

Point of order: It wasn’t Tom Ewing who coined the phrase ‘Imperial Phase’, excellent writer that he is, but Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys speaking about their success between 1986 and 1988.

and ‘Josie and the Pussycats’ was an AV Club World of Flops Secret Success too, how soon they forget.

Thanks to the wonder of Netflix, several years after it aired, I’ve finally got around to watching Breaking Bad. In a way I’m glad I’ve waited as I can binge it 2 or 3 episodes a time. I don’t think I could bear waiting a week between shows and several months between seasons, doesn’t bear thinking about.

Ugh, video. Can’t you guys write anymore.

Throws 22inch CRT TV I got for Christmas into trash.