I’m Vlad they’re so sanguine about the show’s chances. Hopefully, the humor will be as biting as the film’s.

Counterpoint: the millions of 10-15 year olds who watch this idiot aren’t getting their cultural cues from the AV Club, or the NY Times, or frankly anywhere you and I are familiar with. Articles like this are there to explain to the rest of us who otherwise wouldn’t know what the hell is going on.

This guy looks like a bad parody of a YouTube star in some subpar “ripped from the headlines” Law & Order episode.

Dorff can act (“Somewhere” attests to this) but he’s been lined up with wall-to-wall trash for a long, long time now. I’d love to see him redeem himself.

I know this has been covered elsewhere, but remember Vince Vaughn? Yikes he was bad. I think I’m still trying to take in all the badness, like a python digesting an Alsatian.

By what objective standard? I’ve tried really hard to not comment on several of your statements here, as I respect your opinion, but saying that Yeezus is objectively awful is just silly. Maybe unpackage that a bit?

This is SO important. It’s what made hacksaw ridge garbage for me. Too much time spent telling the shitty cut and paste love story and family life he has back home before you actually get to the movie itself. Dunkirk on the other hand is so fat free, with only the bare essentials to keep the tension tied together.

Omitting character development was, IMO, one of its best features. Literally all we need to know about these soldiers is that they’re trying to survive and get home; I don’t need some treacly melodrama surrounding a locket with a sweetheart picture or a dying mother.

Nah. “Yeezus” is the best hip-hop album released this decade. Which is no slouch, since “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is also probably in the top 10. Kanye’s public persona is annoying, so people want to shit on him, but he’s one of the rare braggarts who can actually back up his persona with talent.

I love so much of Kanye’s work but something about me is just sort of tired with him. Even visionaries fall off. I will always love Yeezus and everything before. (OK, not Cruel Summer)

Don’t cut yourself on that edge!

#52 Make sure you actually construct your superheroes, before trying to be clever by “deconstructing” them (and also make sure you know exactly what that means first and foremost).

Yeah I really enjoy seeing how everybody assesses what they like and don’t like about this show. With this season there seems like some degree of consensus about most episodes (people generally like USS Callister and Hang the DJ, think Arkangel, Black Museum and Crocodile are varying degrees or mediocre) but Metalhead…

Well, the episode itself established that you kind of had to go through hoops to get people to remember - smelling the beer, playing music... How exactly do you get a guinea pig to give up it’s memories? Give it some carrot sticks? Not to mention that they figured it out before the play was even over.

“Sorry but I didn’t go into this episode looking for some deep life altering out look on the aspects of technology” oh come on. thats the cheapest fucking way to attack a critic.

You know how sometimes, just to mix things up a bit, Kinja actually reduces the number of stars visible beside a comment after you try to give your own star. Well, I was pretty sure in each case it’s just a temporary glitch with no real net effect, until I read another commenter state that yes, you are in fact…

Arkangel is just too silly. You’re installing a chip in your kid that makes it so if they’re ever attacked or molested, they can’t see the attacker, or accurately describe anything that happened. What if the angry dog wasn’t on a leash? She’d just be getting mauled by a big blur that makes weird noises? She wouldn’t…

But now I want to see Kiran Sonia Sawar in more things, so there’s that.

I actually thought this was a season highlight, and maybe even a show highlight. The simplicity of the narrative (and lack of heavy-handed moralising) was really refreshing, and the b/w cinematography was stunning. It’s a shame the season didn’t end here.

Renner seems like a very talented character actor being shoved into some generic leading man action star role he’s not built for.