I will entertain the concept that certain actors on that show deserve consideration, but… Lillard?

Lynch is great, but he's also kind of a pussy for not attending. Face your Return of the Jedi questions like a man, dammit!

*AVClub publishes five anti-ScratStitch articles in three days*

But then… there was a dragon. A dragon is going to eat all the black people in this series. I know it's true, because we don't really know anything about this series, but I know the worst case scenario in my head, and it just outrages me!!!!! )-:

This is what happens when Bill Maher is on hiatus. His wagging finger needs the exercise!

That seems reductive at best. You're telling me that the history of slavery in the United States would have unfolded exactly the same way if, say, Lincoln had never been president? Or if a vehemently pro-slavery figure had been in his place? That seems a bit much. In so many circumstances, history stands on the edge…

Can we trust Benioff and Weiss, with their history, not to feature Robert E. Lee riding a dragon that's, like, breathing fire at all the black people and stuff? Because that would be outrageous. I understand why people are mad. Benioff and Weiss have demonstrated zero ability to make stories without dragons and I…

"And again, it’s a fantasy authors have indulged in repeatedly, to the point where it’s starting to feel less like a sobering speculation and more like an expression of some sick, secret longing."

Respectfully, that seems Pollyanna-ish to me. Slavery is the baseline of the world, not freedom. Freedom is the aberration. Slavery persists in some parts of the globe; its abolition in other parts is a relatively novel state of affairs. Do not assume it will be forever banned where it is currently banned. Cataclysm…

More edgy than an Escher painting, right here.

Bill Clinton would have had to have appointed Ted Bundy as VP to be worse than McCain.

"Mostly."
-Newt

You can't hit all the ways Steve King is terrible in a half hour show. You CAN'T.

Man, I remember your Dracula avatar popping into other threads to tell us how stupid we were for liking the show at hand. A plank in thine own side-eye, friend.

Nothing will convince me that you didn't just make up all those names.

People are being petulant enough about Sheeran to make me hope that the series ends with him sitting on the iron throne.

Why the fuck are they still making X-Files in 2017?

The Whitely Show with Jordan Klepper

"and Lynch doesn't really ever string something along with out a pay off."

… rape without a rapist. Whoa.