This should have been a landmark case for domestic violence. That's clearly what Clark and the LA DA were preparing. But the reputation of the LAPD destroyed that approach.

No, not because he was black per se but because the defense made it seem as if the LAPD rushed to convict him because he was black.

It has been great throughout.

Bar scene toward the end of Season 6. Don not so enamored of Nixon anymore.

not mean so much as defensive. this was a time when straight people feared what others thought of their sexuality, too. Less dangerous obviously, but the half digested psychology of the whole thing triggered stupid behavior, as this episode illustrated.

Count on it. AV Club and other quibblers with "Joy" will be stampeding to claim they recognized "Joy" as a classic a year or two from now.

That was part of the point, I think. If a character dies, so does their storyline, finished or not. But at least they let Hank explain his ideas for a new, universal language that would rely on pictures to prevent needless violence. That's a vision I can buy into wholeheartedly.

Old-school middle eastern radicals of Arab descent — think Yassir Arafat — were secularists. They were caught off guard by the rise of militant religious extremism, and had to adapt, even though their own ideological training was more left socialism.

Mere criticism of Obama's oddly passive approach to Islamic extremism is not proof of ideological "right wing" leanings so much as proof of its intelligence community connections. A lot of smart people across the ideological spectrum are baffled by POTUS' policies and think he's simply in over his head and/or getting…

This struck me as more a series of cavils than a critique.

This was the review I expected to read in AV Club. How can anyone not respond to the great storytelling in this episode. Yes, what happens to Quinn is crazy. It's crazy, but it makes perfect sense that this anti-jihad badass warrior is saved by a Muslim angel. Daring and highly entertaining.

This is a fair point. The show seemed mostly dull and unfocused with a few good moments, which you cited. But to consign it to an "F" overlooks how bad SNL can often be, especially in the post Tina Fey/Amy Poehler/Kristin Wiig era. This was bad, but not exceptionally bad. It was just kind of typically bad for this…

That women are often depicted in films as victims is so true as to be a truism. I don't blame feminists and feminist critics for being alert to that tendency. But it's misapplied here, and only shows up in the article because King used the depiction of Wendy, I would say dishonestly, to marshall support for his…

If "the Kubrick circlejerk is strong today" rose to the level of an opinion, I'd have "accepted" it as such. But this wasn't an opinion, it was an insult, and a pretty mindless one. Gawker is where dumb guys who want others to think they are smart all go. Please, you'll feel more welcome there. You'll get 50 anal…

I love feminists. I just don't like when white male writers feel the need to pander to them when the merits of the case don't call for it. As many have pointed out in these comments, the idea that Kubrick's Wendy is a two-dimensional insult to women is just wrong, objectively. But the urge to keep feminist twitter at…

If you're going to troll, troll big?

There's a moronic Gawker comment thread with your name on it. Their bottomless appetite for falsely knowing snark needs a new member to make a minion.

If you thought the movie was "fine, but flawed," you need to watch it again. It is a masterpiece and nothing less. It is an adaptation of the novel that transforms the novel into a film, and leave behind what doesn't fit the filmmaker's vision. So I can totally understand big fans of the novel being angry about what…

It's the kind of pandering that all of these pop culture sites have to do from time time. Criticizing the depiction of Wendy on feminist grounds. Criticizing the depiction of Halloran on racial-justice grounds. It's a nod to the easily-offended sections of the grandstand, meant only to calm their fragile nerves and…

Good point. It's a bit of a pander to criticize the depiction of her character on feminist grounds. Her scene with the therapist early in the film shows a woman who is struggling with divided loyalties between her husband and her son and struggling to confront her own denial of what is strange and upsetting about each…