What, you don’t like a slow-burn romance, dumb jokes, and gross corpses in tight close-up?  (I mean, clearly people do like those things or it wouldn’t have gone on for so long.)  

Like the reviewer here, I had my first kid in ‘09 and Avatar was the first movie we went to see on our own afterwards.  We had fun, even sitting in the first row as we unfortunately did.  But I can’t say I ever had even a passing impulse to watch it again.  

People watching the show and reading the books were OK with all of these deconstructions as long as there was more boobs to be seen.

Er ... you realize this is the AV Club, right?  

Ugh I wrote one like that and I got a response: “you’re right, and thank you for the understanding. But why do you keep fucking up now? You’re an adult, and you know better!!”

Given that Schumer’s actual husband is a chef I’m going to hazard a guess that Cera’s her love interest. I can’t picture them as a couple, but who knows.  Trainwreck worked because she had great chemistry with Bill Hader, which I would not have predicted either.  

Whose idea was it to name the main character “Marvyn”? 

You’re too self-deprecating, this is an important distinction. If it were actually a 3-D printer we’d be in Star Trek dining-hall territory.

And all the palpable effort that went into straightening his hair.

It’s the Lion-O Problem.

Agreed. He’s charismatic, and I’d say underused except I don’t know if he seeks out big movies or not, these days.

Sorry if it’s a filmed show and not a podcast, but same idea, right?

Not much to spark interest, if Dennis’s critiques are anything to go by. I did watch the Obama/Springsteen bit, which was mildly funny, because without even having to listen to it I know how annoying that podcast must be. These two guys have driven various podcasters wild with joy at the opportunity to interview them,…

This makes a lot of sense and they should do it. It would give the show a boost, too. If they hand it off to the game show equivalent of Ryan Seacrest it would be a bummer.  

yikes!!

She has got to stop working with her husband. A huge talent being absolutely squandered. But maybe it’s worth it for the warm family fun (that’s had on set, not by viewers).

You might call this the History X method.

I never contemplated until this day how much those short wooden pepper grinders look like chess pieces.

Yeah, I can imagine a letter from the GF’s point of view and either way I think they should break up. Co-parenting is a disruptive, challenging dimension to add to your partnership at the best of times. If you’re not on solid ground beforehand you sure as shit won’t be once there are kids in the mix.

This can be a problem with sci-fi series. I got really sick of that in Marvel movies, where an ever-more-galactic threat had to be defeated each time—and I really think that’s partly why Deadpool was such a huge hit: the stakes were quite low, so the story and the action scenes were both easier to swallow.