Nobody gets a pass on bad writing simply because they're attacking something popular.

It's an amusing double standard:
TV is so much better than movies!
Marvel movies suck! They're too TV-like!
You know, maybe the problem is the MCU isn't serialized ENOUGH. After all, "good" TV these days isn't allowed to have self-contained episodes… every series has to have a season or series-long arc that all episodes…

Again, this is nothing new. "James Bond will be back in…", etc. Generally, the executors of a franchise want it to go long for as long as it can. There were, what, a dozen Charlie Chan movies in the 1930s and 40s? And Tom Laughlin wanted to make a fifth "Billy Jack" movie long after it was clear nobody cared.

I'm sorry Disney forcing you to purge all memories of your childhood and replace them with this. Raiding your house and confiscating all of your blu-rays was definitely the last straw.

The worst thing about The AV Club? That anyone thinks those in-jokes and memes are funny.

I'm curious why "phrasing" was explicitly discarded when the immeasurably worse "not listening because I'm drinking" was allowed to remain, and "screaming Lana's name only to say something asinine" was merely reduced.

Christopher Lee had a couple of great passages in his memoir about the difficulties of being 6'5" in 40s-50s era England in general and show business in particular. As he put it, it's hard to be cast as the romantic lead when you're two heads taller than the actress who's supposed to be your love interest.

I hope that "Rocketman" gets off the ground pretty soon. Tom Hardy as Elton John sounds like pure gold,

My biggest fear is if that oft-discussed "Colombo" revival with Mark Ruffalo ever gets off the ground, whichever network runs it will insist on a season-long arc. That would destroy the dynamic of the series.

Wow… a review of a TV drama where the use of self-contained stories is not only accepted but praised? WHAT WORLD IS THIS!?!

I like to imagine the only reason Eddie Deezen hasn't appeared on TBBT yet is because he finds the writer beneath the standards of nuance and substance he expects from his characters.

Good.

AND is recovering from a stroke.

I can't either… I live in Minnesota. But I paid $20 for the album and loved it.

It still amounts to you choosing to punish a work because it inspires passion among its fans and deliberately avoiding it for reasons tangential to its quality at best.
And I don't know which circles you run in where people forcibly insist you enjoy a Broadway musical. That's a problem I wouldn't mind having, myself.

"People are passionate about this work of art, therefore I am obligated to reject it"
What was that about being off-putting again?

Seth Rogen has already been confirmed for the role of Sandy.

Lake Terry Gilliam without the bitterness and entitlement?

There's a movie called "The Rapture" that kinda deals with that, I think…

Watched "The Revenant". Got home, walked the dog for half an hour without gloves, got a little frostbite on my left thumb.