I’ve worked on The Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor In Paradise franchise for 7+ years. Under Warner Horizon, things moved along very smoothly and very little pushback regarding budgets.

I’d rather Abrams just go away entirely. He couldn’t end a story to save his life. Good at opening, shit at the rest.

It’s because they think this case will prove for one and for all that it’s the WOMEN who are the abusive ones, always mouthing off to men, and making men hit them, and pull guns on them,,,and then they take away your guns! Can you believe that? They take away your guns, violating your rights, that are in the…

You’re basically admitting that Chapelle has devolved into Don Jr “Oh does that TRIGGER U?” level of conservative comedy. That’s basically the point but you’re too stupid to realize it.

She is on tape admitting to hitting him to stop him drunkenly crushing her toes against a door. Wow. How abusive of her. And oh shit, she hasn’t been able to give that money to charity amid being sued repeatedly by her ex. I forgot that defending yourself in multiple libel and defamation trials is totally free!

This is amusing since Depp’s fanbase was crowing about how Wan and Momoa unfollowed Heard on social media a few days ago. And Twitter has been circulating a video of Momoa avoiding a hug from Heard during the press tour for Aquaman.

Todd in the Shadows actually looked into the legal aspects of it and he concluded that Depp was very much guilty.

“I’m team TERF”

The real secret (I learned during Louie CK) is that all these comedians who we think are good or great or decent .... really aren’t because they are in such little bubbles that just like the rest of the world, if they think people are being jerks to their friends, they think it’s not because their friends need a good…

And once again, let’s not forget that it isn’t merely being a transphobic asshole that is so mind boggling. (Transphobic assholes are pretty common).

“[Y]ou don’t have to believe in his innocence to believe he should be free[.]”

At first I was actually really taken back that Tynion isn’t listed here as he is one of the three centrals writers on the book over the past decade, but thinking it might be partially because of not wanting to include recent stuff and the fact that he didn’t have such a long run due to his own choice. As well as these…

It’s always nice to see Batman Eternal and Batman & Robin Eternal get some love, they’re severely underrated. B&RE in particular is one of my favorites.

A lot of stories about the early days of TV show that without some lucky breaks, there would be very few classic shows that we could still see. There is the story about Terry Jones getting the call from a friend at the BBC saying “Hey, they are going to erase and reuse the tapes for the first two Monty Python series,…

they chose to shoot on film for practical reasons, so they could produce the show in California at a time when nearly all primetime network television was being broadcast live out of studios in New York. That one business decision paid lasting dividends, allowing for lucrative syndication deals for the I Love Lucy…

Very well reasoned. Appreciate it.

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

Did someone finally get around to explaining to Ms. Shepherd that this planet isn’t flat? Also, the woman’s name was spelled two different ways in the same piece. 

I like the Weeknd. He makes good music to like, chill to. “Blinding Lights” is a very good song. I thought the sound guy did him dirty this time around, but conceptually, I liked it. Mostly, I like that he decided to go a little weird with it. Weirder than the usual Super Bowl fare, anyway.

Johnny Depp is still making movies after allegedly beating his ex-wife. Casey Affleck won an Academy Award. Roman Polanski is still making movies. I don’t think this will have any major impact on Affleck.