The “boop/beep” thing was a direct insult to Pedro Pascal, after he put pronouns in his bio as a show of support for his trans sister. Publicly attacking the star of the hugely successful show you somehow landed a part on is exactly the kind of stupid-as-shit career move that leads directly to working for Ben Shapiro.

Yeah I remember that being really the biggest part of all of it. She was super anti-trans and I think Pascal even tried to talk her rationally about it at first, but after repeatedly going down that hole, he definitely went to the Disney powers and said to tell her to get the fuck out

Which isn’t even getting to the biggest part yet: the actual star of the show she appeared in has become a superstar over the course of it, famously has a trans sister whom he truly loves and supports in every way, and presumably told their bosses: “shut her up or get her the fuck off my show.”  And, not being idiots,…

Well consider I’ve been told my lifetime breast cancer risk is like 39% this is terrifying. (And I don’t have the brca gene.)

Germans are gonna find AV Club comments in their search results for sure, now.

I see, so she cheated with a married man and implied on a podcast that one of her ex-boyfriends was a closeted gay man, and for that she deserves...[checks cosmic ledger] breast cancer, a double mastectomy, and, potentially, death. Yep, that definitely evens out.

Good thing she left Aaron  Rodgers. If he was still with her, he’d have suggested she rub grape jelly and bird boogers on her boobs.

What a shit ass thing to say

Nah, I’m fine with terrible and unfair things happening to terrible people. They can both get fucked and rot.

I don’t care what anybody says... the fact that they sat on it for years, and have now decided to dump it on streaming  rather than the originally intended release definitely implies that they DO think is is pretty weak, if not outright flop material.

“Oh look, some other work that involved massive amounts of corporate time and money that I can bury and burn for a quick quarterly bump in tax savings” - responsible CEO

“Sometimes, dead is better...”

“Eugen Vidineac, the Tates’ counsel, said there’s “no truth” to what Ross read live, ardently expressing the brothers’ intent to “actively [participate] in the legal process” in order to defend their reputation.”

“...aren’t the biggest fans of Martin Scorsese. The director has been nominated 16 times...”

Oh fuck all the way off twice. Emma Stone did nothing wrong.

Scorsese’s epic was undoubtedly one of the best films of the year.

Did the AV Club forget that it put not just Oppenheimer, but also Poor Things, ahead of Killers of the Flower Moon in its list of the best picture of 2023? So why all the sudden wailing about the fact that the Academy . . . agreed with you? How is a movie “snubbed” when you think the actual winner was better?

Your first theory is probably the most likely. Your second theory, maybe. Your third really seems to be a stretch, especially considering how many awards 12 Years a Slave won three Oscars.

“It’s too long!” cries the drooling audience before going back to their 7th consecutive hour of Ugly People On Dates: British Cake Edition.

Given the option between China or Kotick having my data, I would choose China every time.