That sucks. He was fun to watch.

So excited. Alien is in my top three favorite movies of all time and Aliens isn’t far behind. One of my favorite memories ever involving movies was a few Christmases ago, where my sister (who I get along with well but has fully different interests when it comes to movies) decided out of the blue that she wanted to…

He was good in Shattered Glass.

The Weyland-Yutani of digital entertainment/largely shuttered theme parks has had a very good track record of transforming its film brands into TV shows of late, though, so it’s not wholly surprising that they’d brush off Hawley’s pitch and see what it can do at FX.

No, that’s straight up Discount R&M.  Family Guy was the trend of adult cartoons becoming far worse looking.  The Simpsons were a certain style but had depth, Futurama was drawn using computers but still had depth and flow.  FG is generally where the simplistic level of illustration came into vogue and then Bob’s…

Is this the new cartoon aesthetic or something? I’d say ‘discount Rick and Morty’ but I’m sure it’s been around longer.

Bill from Marketing loosens his tie, takes a deep and ragged breath, then steps off the building. Tonight begins the “peanut adolescence” stage of his synergy strategy. Prior to hitting the ground, his last thoughts are a jumbled flash of peanuts and resentment. He welcomed death. He just prayed that the peanuts would…

The AVClub: “BRANDS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!!!!! Now please read this press release we just received.”

Hi.  Please stop reporting on ad campaigns.

in the old design newswires used to be little side articles that never had the weight of a regular piece and could be as short and sweet as made sense.

Yeah I’m all for a little snark and sarcasm but god, it’s laid on so thick in every single article now. It’s just gotten obnoxious and juvenile and I feel like I’m reading something written by a try-hard high-schooler. Then again, the general quality of writing here has gone downhill since the great Kinjapocalypse. 

Question for the AV Club staff: when did the site’s house style officially change to “be so smug and snarky that whatever credible point might be buried in the article is invalidated”?

nah just a white girl overestimating the ebonics of the title

He’s probably defending it because he was in it, and interviewers ask him questions about it. Occam’s razor, and all that.

These are hilarious and seem macabre, but they also have a wholesome Dia de los Muertos vibe. Year round let’s share our homes with the giant bones of our ancestors.

I remember that. Didn’t she eat like five times what she was supposed to?

Also she makes sense if you know she palled around with Hannibal Lecter for a time.

It doesn’t feel like very long ago that, if I was pressed for time, I’d skip the front page and go directly to the Editorials and OpEd. Some of it was crap (coughMaureenDowdcough), but it genuinely felt like the most essential thing in the paper. It’s very easy not to click on the OpEd header these days.

That’s a reference to the legend that the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was started by a cow knocking over a lantern.

I mean, it’s about “poaching” in the medieval sense of the word - poor people daring to hunt on rich people’s land.  I think that is pretty cool since I’m not really supportive of regressive aristocratic customs.