This story reminds me of the stuff with Stephen Glass at the New Republic. His stories align with his worldview so much that the stories he told came off as more compelling than reality often is. This Smollett story plays into tropes about Trump supporters a little too much. Also, how many racist, homophobic Trump…

The original comment was asking about an alternate timeline explanation, which is exactly the explanation in Ingloroius Basterds. 

I agree with what you said about the media around the show focusing on the annoyingly loud minority, but saying kanye is appropriating? That’s more than a little hyperbolic. How many people made Simpsons avatars of themselves? Are they all appropriating? Do you have agree with a viewers politics to be ok with them…

Everything else aside, how long has he been out of the game and how long would it take to get back in NFL shape and up to speed with the offense? He'd probably lose out of you brought him in today. Here's a guy who needs a whole off-season at least

Webb was great at Tech. The only reason he transferred to Cal was because the guy in front of him is the current NFL MVP favorite. What a dumb move by the Giants

Couldn’t this same argument be used against those who got upset that Scarlett Johansen was going to play a transgender woman? 

I understand you disagree with his worldview, but to say he believes lgtb people shouldn’t exist is a gross mischaracterisation and argument in bad faith.

While a large majority of the #metoo stories have been true and have justly ended careers, there have been a handful that did not pass the smell test (Aziz Ansari, Garrison keiler) and the accusations against Tambor seem to fit in that category. If sthey were true, more info and details would have come forward, and…

All that does is make for disingenuous overtures. The best possible thing that has happened to advocate for black filmmakers and is black panther and get out being international critical and financial sensations. All you have to do in Hollywood is prove you will make them a lot of money and they’ll do whatever you…

This has the same problem that hate speech laws have, “Who gets to define moral integrity?” I don’t think either party would be happy if the other one got to define “moral integrity.”

I understand the National Review is unabashedly conservative, but of the conservative opinion sites, it is definitely one of the most civil, intellectually honest and non-Trumpian. If National Review is out-of-bounds reading, there really is no way to have a civil discourse anymore. It’s on the same level as people…

Have you seen some of the Apu-centric episodes? They’re some of the more humanizing and nuanced of the series.

There is much more material to draw upon than there was with Harry Potter. Although, I wish they would just have done the Silmarillion, which is best suited for TV than cinema anyway.

Lucille Ball?

There was an interesting trope on Star Trek where they would name two pre-21st century things and then one made-up thing to combat this problem. They would say something like, “You were the most influential physicist since Newton, Hawking, and Glorp-Glorp!”

I liked the movie a lot, and think most of the criticisms are not that convincing, but your characterization of tlj haters as intimidated by women is lazy and just as dumb as most of the actual reasons people didn’t like it. Yes, maybe like three people on Twitter said they didn’t like how women were the main…

What exactly is douchey about him?

Alert the local food courts at the shopping malls for this Alfred character.

Certain books. Probably not political books.

Remember when AV Club was a pop culture site?