Sean — and I say this with an incredible amount of respect for you as a writer (one of my favorites on the internet), a journalist, and a person — this is legitimately clickbait bullshit. The mountain of qualifiers heaped in the second half of this article practically unwrites the first and proves that point. Except…

Remember when people mocked the idea of there being a witch hunt? Well, now you’re writing articles calling people out for what they may or may have not known at some point in time. You’re dragging names through the mud even though they haven’t been accused of anything. This is guilt by association. In other words, a…

Could you fuckers get off your high horse? Stop patting yourselves on the back with this “Oh yeah, we believed the rumors before anyone else” bullshit. Are we really going after anyone who might have possibly heard a fucking rumor and didn’t act upon said rumor in whatever way you deem appropriate?

What? You don’t like critique coming from a foregone conclusion and then filtered through annoying irony? Are you some kind of deviant?

Yep. I see half-hour sitcoms that are treated with more insight and critique than this show, which is at least attempting something to varying degrees off success. (Though I’m a bit biased because a friend of mine is one of the writers.)

Also, when a straight Yakov Smirnoff reference makes it into a finished piece, either the writer doesn’t care about the material or the editor doesn’t care about how the writer comes off. That stuff doesn’t work as a joke or even an anti-joke, it just lays on the screen like a bad tweet.

This is probably the first time I find myself hoping that a show changes reviewers between seasons (presuming this gets a second). I don’t really enjoy reading extended analysis of non-diegetic music choices that resembles analysis of inconsistent engine specifications on the starship Enterprise. The way it’s deployed…

I was happy that Debbie and Holden broke up. This is a workplace drama. That’s the interesting stuff. We don’t need to follow people home.

Re: Wade. It was a different era, AV Club. I’m sure Wade thought what he was doing was entirely innocent. People didn’t think the same way back then. So yeah, I do feel sorry for him.

Re: Rader. I would love if this show fast-forwarded at some point to Rader’s downfall and capture in 2005, but no way they’re gonna do…

These reviews are terrible.

Hopefully we can have a new reviewer for Season 2 because these reviews are painful to get through. We get, you’re trying really hard not to like it for some reason.

Your criticism of Roger Wade is based on 2017 morals, not 1970s. He had many teachers and parents who were okay with it and, in his mind, he was fully in…

“ when he says shit like “I am the exact same person that you reeled in with that jumpsuit” and she lets the gross she-was-asking-for-it implications of that objectifying statement slide by completely,”- it’d be fairly gross if he used it as a justification for rape or something, but for starting up a conversation at…

thought Jen Kirkman already said she never got harassed by him:

That link itself states it’s all conjecture and innuendo. First, Kirkman has since said that it flat out wasn’t Louis CK... so that “almost certainly” is factually false. Second, Notaro herself has stated he has to deal with the rumors based upon Gawker’s two items and Kirman’s supposed confirmation. Neither Gawker…

That’s the problem, he hasn’t be accused of sexual harassment. The linkage has always been Jen Kirkman, who just recently categorically denied Louis CK harassed her. Neither Tig Notaro nor Roseanne Barr have directly accused him of anything, just stated “well known” rumors. If he’s done something, then come out and…

“Wow. That is some weak shit” was literally my first thought when I saw this. Thanks for making me feel less alone and more disposable.

He’s not been “accused.” There have been unsubstantiated rumors floating about for years, ever since Gawker first started the damned thing.

It’s super gross and pretty shameful ethically that you’d lump LCK in with these shitbags based on some anon Tumblr bitching over comedy routines. Seriously, wtf were you thinking with that? ESPECIALLY if “your mileage may vary?” Sounds like you aren’t too sure of it yourself Nick!

Louis CK’s act is to be the opposite of PC. Don’t confuse that with people who are legitimately disgusting humans. If you had any integrity you would remove his picture.

Your mileage may vary.