I think it’s been weirdly overlooked too. In my opinion, it’s The Office of the 2010s. They obviously don’t have the faux documentary framing and don’t have nearly as much cringe-inducing humor, but it’s a fairly smart and funny workplace comedy with a well-meaning, but inept boss, an arrogant disciplinarian as his…

Reading through his responses makes me realize how much they nailed the casting of Arthur. 

I’ve called in sick these past couple days and re-watched some of the last season to get refreshed for this Sunday. I’d remembered how dumb the plot to go beyond the wall was, but I forgot how dumb the whole meeting with Cersei was and how dumb Littlefinger’s comeuppance was.

I watched Animal House for the first time over the weekend. I looked up one of those best movies on Netflix right now lists and saw both that film and the biography about Doug Kenney and National Lampoon on there. I watched the biography first and liked it, and that made me realize I’d never watched Animal House all…

There are obviously lots of questions to be answered next week, but I’ve been wondering how Hoyt knew so quickly and so thoroughly about what happened to Harris James. I get that he’d suspect something is up if he didn’t show up for work, but how would he know for sure that James is gone for good and that Hayes played…

I agree that the reaction to the reviewer’s thoughts is tired at this point. I disagree with most of her takes on the season as well, but I’m glad that there is someone thoughtfully reviewing it, and I’m extra glad that we have the comments section to come up with our own interpretations if we disagree with Emily. 

It’s kind of weird for me. I liked some of the moves made in TLJ theoretically, but I don’t feel any pull to watch any of it again. Whereas with TFA, theoretically, it annoys me as remake of ANH, but I’m still drawn to go back and watch certain scenes that give me the feels (e.g., Han’s death, Rey and Finn’s fight…

And I think Hays is the type of guy who won’t openly dwell on the fact that systemic racism stalled his career. When he’s frustrated, he’s certainly alluded to the department taking Roland more seriously because he’s white, but he’s not going to just come out and blame racism for his life turning out as it has. 

Co-sign on the wish for AVClub coverage. I feel like this show in particular would benefit from having an episode-by-episode comment section for people to try to work out interpretations of what’s going on.

Yeah, I’ve made it through all of the Lord of the Rings movies and Infinity War without having to go to the bathroom, but what would it hurt to throw an intermission in there?

I’ve said this before, but my problem with season 2 was that if it was supposed to be about David’s transition from hero to villain, it was poorly executed. I’m OK with a show having its presumed hero turn into a villain (that’s why everyone loved Breaking Bad), but they didn’t do much to set up David’s transition,…

Yeah, I thought that was weird as well. Both as a memory of it and the way it played out in real time. If you’re at home alone with a significant other and you decide to get it on, it seems unrealistic that you’d stop to close the bedroom door. If you’re remembering the first time you hooked up with a crush, it’s also…

On a related note, I do like how the Hays’ family life in 1990 is being revealed as more and more similar to the Purcell family life in 1980. And then in 2015, Hays has no idea where his daughter is (whether it’s because he keeps forgetting she moved, or something bad really did happen to her) much like the 1990…

For me, season 1 was a clear A. Season 2 was probably a C-/D+ sort of effort. As of now, I’d say season 3 is a B/B+, so I’m not that far off the letter grades the reviewer is giving, but if I were writing the reviews, they’d be more positive in tone.

Yeah, I’ve been plugging Superstore on here occasionally. It’s a pretty good workplace comedy with a good, diverse set of actors. 

Yeah, I wouldn’t say that it’s completely beside the point, but I’ve always thought that for season 1 and this season it looks like, the procedural crime mystery isn’t the main mystery. It’s more about exploring this connection of memory, time, and self-identity, and what it would feel like for that to start coming…

Out of all those trailers, it was The Beach Bum that really sucked me in. It contains 3 of my guilty pleasures: 1) Matthew McConaughey, 2) Crimson and Clover, and 3) Florida weirdos. 

I caught a comment from Pizzolatto where he said that this season is about exploring the nature of memory through the device of a detective story. So, I’m guessing there is a philosophical bent, just not the sort of big philosophical question of season 1 (something like how we make existence worthwhile given the…

I kind of suspected that this was where the show was heading--demonstrating the absurdity of a thoroughly consequentialist ethical system. Suck it utilitarians!

I’m fine with Snoop saying what he did. I just find it funny to think about a furloughed federal employee saying, “Well, I was OK going without a paycheck, but now that Mr. Dogg has so trenchantly pointed out the unfairness of this situation, I am pissed off. Maybe I will take his wise advice and not vote for Trump in…