The AV Club’s ongoing antipathy for South Park rests somewhere between ritualistic effigy burning and knowing self-parody.

To be fair to Shannon, that’s exactly the point she was making; this is sweeping the problem under the rug (putting aside whether or not said episode of television is actually representative of “the problem), while doing little to nothing in terms of concrete and substantive change. I think she was quite clear on…

The Sunny episodes are definitely not just lazy jokes or clueless writers. In most of the episodes the Gang have long conversations about the ethics of white people either playing nonwhite people or even just telling the stories of nonwhite people, including nuanced acknowledgement that what is acceptable or…

Another useful reminder for why we should make sure physical media never disappears. Unless you can hold it, you don’t have it.

Why this, specific episode of The Boondocks, and only this episode? How is this episode significantly different than any other episode which deals with racism, questions of blackness, anti-blackness, self-hating anti-blackness, and the meaning of language (i.e. every single episode of The Boondocks)? It’s almost as…

“Population of just China - 1.393 billion.

“I know those words, but that sign makes no sense.”

I think most folks would argue that, in regards to the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, LBJ was pushing through legislation that JFK either initiated or expressed his support for prior. Now, one can argue that the “JFK Legacy” and the national feeling of loss were important for solidifying support, or that you…

South Park is unique as an American tv show that is over twenty years old, and yet the same two creators have been in control with very little input from others for the entire run. It is the closest thing to “auteur” in the television world. And it is not the same show as it was in the late ‘90s! The political,…

Wow! That episode is 16 years old, and they’re still catching shit for it (no pun intended).

Ratched: Yasssss Queen, Slay! Girl Boss!

Just go to the drive-in. I’m going tonight to see New Mutants.

This is actually an underground plot to bring down the escape room industry, just how Mambo #5 brought down Uber.

I think the decision to spend one, hour long episode per story is very hit-and-miss. It commits the same error as the typical SNL movie; drawing out a narrative which is very effective for 8-10 minutes. But, without a host, how would you smoothly transition from one segment to the next?

Also missing from the Netflix dump-six-episodes-and-wait-six-months formula are the UPDATE segments that would come at the end of each episode. I also noticed, conspicuously absent, are the heartfelt family reunion, lost love type stories you’d often get in a typical episode. I suppose that that sort of thing might be…

Second James Earl Jones. Keith David would also be a very fine choice. 

Trust me, EVERYONE is stressing out about who Loren Bouchard will cast in his next cartoon.

Los Angeles Plays Itself 

I’m 35, I was a senior in high school during the run-up for the Iraq War, I have clear memories of the 2004 election and “Rock Against Bush” and punks campaigning for Kerry; none of it had much of an impact. 

That’ll show’m.