“what is the big deal with this movie?”

Well said. There’s a thing in the literature world called “autofiction”, which are essentially autobiographies with a thin veneer of fiction laid over them to avoid any outright calls of narcissism...as well as present themselve- sorry, the totally fictional protagonist of their totally fictional novel in the best…

That is the most tldr; I have seen today

Comedians and such were able to upload their material without previous Funny or Die approval, kind of like a walled-garden YouTube. That ability was removed in 2018, the same time the sketch was brought to their attention and deleted.

IIRC It was apparently user-submitted content, not something that Funny or Die themselves produced. Spears and Haddish were the ones who wrote and produced it, they just uploaded it to Funny or Die. 

Bad Sisters is my pick for best new series of the year.  It would be a marvelous series to recap, it’s so full of mystery and well constructed.  But nope, we need constant coverage about a gormless heiress who is desperate to be taken seriously as a filmmaker.

Cold take: white upper-middle class people who were raised by extremely media-savvy parents, and who have entered filmmaking largely through the portal of “basically being a bankable actor”, don’t often make insightful art of their own.

No, like 15% less obsessed than that

We’re not talking like “Shoot the president to impress Florence” obsessed, are we?

Yup. Wondering if we’re going to get a Rick and Morty review, or if that’s another one under the bus.

Don’t you know that the Academy of Motion Pictures that gave Pugh an Oscar nomination consists of just her publicist?

I mean, I get it, I am kind of obsessed with Florence Pugh too. But this site probably should try to find other things to write about also. Are there any new TV shows they could watch and review, for example?

“Florence Pugh is a very good actress” is hardly a take so improbable that her publicist would have to be behind it.

I mean, this review is hardly an outsider in its characterization of both Pugh and the movie itself. The Guardian, USA Today, IndieWire, Deadline, Daily Beast and The Hollywood Reporter all have some version of this same sentiment in their reviews: The movie has serious flaws but Pugh herself is very good in it. So…

Were they hyping it, though? There’s been a lot of breathless coverage of the behind the scenes shenanigans and feuds, but precious little said about the film itself.

Okay, this review on top of not shutting the fuck up about the movie is actually some of the best trolling ever. Bring on the chaos.

See, this response probably made you feel nice and snarky, but the fact that you care more about us reading than us enjoying what we’re reading is kind of the problem.

Is Florence Pugh’s publicist paying you?

Well, when you write endless, cynical gossip to drive clicks, you inevitably end up contradicting yourself. Hilarious that an article they literally published yesterday said this movie was supposed to be great. At this point I only visit the site to see what new level of embarrassment they’ve reached.

Well, at least New AV Club is continuing the Old AV Club tradition of hyping some random movie to the hilt only to ultimately give it a C-.