This is the most bad faith response imaginable to a deeply personal exploration of the whys of Rowling’s opinions. it’s also, in a nutshell, emblematic of the reasons The A.V. Club has lost so much ground in the past few years. Namely, that articles like this are the norm for this site circa 2020.

How can you tell the quality of a book by skimming a few pages?

well, it’s not. Yet still the best comedy on TV this year. Sorry you’re disappointed the show isn’t sanitised to cable standard.

While the Cars series has always evaded the darker implications of a post-human reality

“most interesting season since season 2"...meaning better than season 3? Lol, convoluted way to say it!

Tom Hanks’ voice certainly endears us to Woody on a subliminal level for sure. Pixar gets away with his behavior for all the reasons the article mentions, but also simply because they were smart enough to establish his likeable features
first. The movie starts with how great he is as a leader to the rest of the toys,…

Anna Kendrick leads the first season as Darby Carter, an aimless postgrad

Great observations that I made myself, but couldn’t get to put in a post. Nice catch(es)!

Ah. That wasn’t about me per se. The point was that someone being out of your life, even if they were the most important person in your life, doesn’t mean they’re dead. Yet that’s the one conclusion many people went to the second Kim was introduced. As if that’s the only possible reason she’s not in BB.

Potentially…

Nacho has Doug Paulson’s piece of skull in an elbow because of Tuco doing his psychopathic lie detector and pulling a sawed-off shotgun and shooting him in the face, scarring Nacho for life, and Tuco didn’t even consider that Nacho was behind him. He also has a bullet in him for life from that little show Gus pulled…

That description of Kim as the secret protagonist of the show is spot-on. I think her speech to Howard proves it, and proves that people’s view of her as “the Jesse” of this show is wrong.

My new pet hope, an hour after watching the finale, is that they pull the cross on Howard and get the $2M, but that Kim manages to take Jimmy for it and go to LA to start her pro bono firm.

On the surface, Nacho, man of few words, doesn’t seem like he’s on the level of the top heroes and villains in this universe, but there’s a scrappy intelligence to him that makes me glad he’s in the game. I loved the padlock trick, and the kitchen sabotage, but even before that, I got the sense he was trying to get…

The parallel between last season’s final scene between Jimmy and Kim and this season’s final scene between them is brilliant. Last season the look of dawning horror was that Saul Goodman was not an act, but a deep, vital part of who Jimmy is. And now it’s Jimmy sitting there with dawning horror that Kim has now become…

Thank you for the lovely review, Donna.

Pretty much what I think also, seems to be what the show is portraying, except, Nacho is much less impulsive guy than Jesse, he also doesn’t hate his parents, and he could be justified in finding his dad ungrateful, but he wants to escape with him to Canada, no other options.

Jimmy’s story to Lalo was never the same, each telling got less believable and you could see him getting smaller literally before everyone’s eyes, Kim saved his ass but at what cost to herself I’m afraid to find out next week ? Also, seeing Saul get taunted by his buddy in the courthouse was wonderful 

Christoph Waltz - Hans Landa

I’ve definitely noted how as Jimmy and the cartel’s stories finally begin to intersect, Nacho is the character that seems to be pushed further into the margins. 

Rhea Seehorn as Kim Wexler as written by Gould/Gilligan writing room has become one of the more enigmatic female characters I’ve seen portrayed - she is such a great character, her motivations are sometimes opaque and yet always believably depicted - tonight was a rare example of Kim expressing her motivation via…