Something has been bugging me about the AV Club reviews of South Park all season, and you pretty much nailed it. It reads like someone paying more attention to the reactions on Twitter than to the actual show.

Christ, this is so spot on. This writer has no business covering TV shows.

I’m not one to criticise a journalist’s approach to, uh, journalism, but I find the AV Club’s South Park coverage to be just, like, so weird. The first-name basis with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the attempt to reverse-engineer a cogent ideological statement out of every episode, the way you discuss theme as though…

Why does everything have to be a metaphor? I don’t think giving up RDR2 has anything to do with referencing the developers work conditions. It seemed pretty clear to me that literally everyone in South Park is playing the game so giving it up would be a tough sacrifice for them to make.

I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. I never took Manbearpig as a serious allegory for climate change from Trey and Matt. It was more of their usual hyperbolic nature to make fun of Al Gore. A super goofy idea to make fun of a super goofy guy.

Oh to have been born in the 30s or 40s, where if you graduated high school and could speak in complete sentences you could stumble, trip and fall backwards into the middle class

The tolerant, sane Left everybody!

huh?! This season has been excellent so far... maybe you should read more of the comments on your reviews and realize how much of a minority you’re in on your opinion... on top of the times you’re just flat making things up.

And if those Fox workers get fired, are you going to pay their salaries while they’re unemployed?

#serioushashtag

Is the whole thing not a comment on the inherent stupidity of the way any issue or debate that requires some kind of serious discussion is now just reduced to a hashtag.

A highly satirical show, with a twenty-year history of various controversies, claims that one of the least edgy and offensive shows out there is “actually the more racist one of the two”, and you can’t decide if they’re joking or not?

COME THE FUCK ON.

It was clearly a tongue in cheek joke.
I’m sure they realize they have no room to criticize Apu in any serious way, what with their Chinese restaurant guys.

“The fact that nobody can figure out whether its hashtag is serious or not is the point means they haven’t been paying attention for the last 20 years.”

This writer turns in first drafts.

I guess literally calling them “PC babies” wasn’t enough of a clue for you as to what Matt and Trey were going for.

“What really derails this episode, however, is that we’re never supposed to know exactly how we’re supposed to feel about what’s going on here.”

“I wanna stand by my friend”

I’m sincerely baffled by your need to be moralised-to by South Park. The ideology of South Park is “here are the things we think it’s politically OK to laugh at”. I don’t understand why you think you’re, er, supposed to be supposed to feel a particular way, beyond “thats funny and I am comfortable laughing at it” or…

Jesus Christ, the typos. Are you writing this shit on Ambien?