That photo looks like the cover from first issue of “Obvious Rapists” quarterly.

Because a solid 80 percent of the people on here are naysaying assholes.

Why is everyone roasting the AV Club for this? It is the right thing to do and even if they are not the Times or The Post, it still matters.

You mean by being female and qualified?

Cate Blanchett’s best role is her cameo in Hot Fuzz - discuss.

What? You don’t like critique coming from a foregone conclusion and then filtered through annoying irony? Are you some kind of deviant?

This is probably the first time I find myself hoping that a show changes reviewers between seasons (presuming this gets a second). I don’t really enjoy reading extended analysis of non-diegetic music choices that resembles analysis of inconsistent engine specifications on the starship Enterprise. The way it’s deployed…

I was happy that Debbie and Holden broke up. This is a workplace drama. That’s the interesting stuff. We don’t need to follow people home.

These reviews are terrible.

So when I saw this episode, I was convinced by the end that Holden has encephalitis, several years ahead of the real John Douglas (but on about the same seasonal timetable as Will Graham on Hannibal). Now I’m less sure. Thoughts?

I met David Cross at a house party in either the late 90s or early 2000s, and he was a bit of an Asshole, but I had the same first thought as you. Also, me pestering him to say “Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot, Chicken Pot Pie” probably didn’t help.

Emma Stone, is that you?

I will give Quentin the benefit of the doubt. He lives so far up his own ass that he would be just as stunned to learn that Samuel L Jackson was black.

Let’s not rush to judgement here - he just needs a few more days to process his pain (of likely knowing that his friend of 25 years was a serial abuser, but said nothing, making him complicit in a systemic cycle of abuse), emotions (related to likely knowing that his friend of 25 years was a serial abuser, but…

If you turn up to a Halloween party dressed as a giant tea kettle, and your friends don’t instantly realize that you’re dressed as the ghostly form of David Bowie, then they’re really not friends worth having.

...Man, I think I’m going to keep coming back to this piece all day, thinking about it more. Upon reflection, this bit is really sticking with me:

This is amazing — thoroughly researched, relentlessly argued and really compellingly written. Thank you for making my morning with it!

Parks & Rec. I’d catch portions of the marathons they played on weekends on some channel, and never really got it. I have no idea why it eventually clicked and I started liking it.

There are settings (somewhere) to disable auto-play, but there are shows where auto-play is helpful, so I think creating a system where episodes where end credits contain some type of musical sting/continuity don’t auto-play as quickly is the clear answer, at least for Netflix Originals where they’re logging the…