I like it too. I felt like it was the first time the show ever really put Buffy in the context of the larger world of police and human law. For once the show didn't use the "people are in denial" cop out. I also think it was neccessary for Buffy to have such a close call with killing a human without ACTUALLY doing it.…

@avclub-e053e4f47a7ccbc51be254596e483d7c:disqus  I think if you view Antichrist along side Melancholia, it could be argued that Lars Von Trier is saying that "creation" is evil, and in a sense women symbolize creation.

I can definitely see where she's coming from. And yet, in a weird way, I think the film is oddly empowering. Virtually every slasher movie ever made is about a psycho-sexual man chasing down, torturing, and killing weak women (does that make them misandrist?) Antichrist reverses the dynamic, almost as if Gainsbourg is…

@avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus  That's fair. As much as I like to discuss and debate the merits/flaws of art and pop culture, comedy tends to come down to a hard to define personal sensibility. It really is the hardest genre to analyze in my opinion.
 Still, even the hardcore Community fans I've talked…

I don't know if this qualifies me as a shipper, but I was rooting for Wes and Fred from the get go. From an analytical perspective I agree with a lot of what people are saying (especially the part about how the men in the show put Fred on a pedestal), but for me, those two had the most chemistry of any two characters…

I'm sort of repeating my point from an earlier topic, but I think the thing that elevates Arrested Development, Classic Simpsons, and Seinfeld high high HIGH above Community is their ensemble casts. In those other shows virtually every actor pulls their weight in every episode.  I can name a dozen secondary actors on…

There's something patronizing about the theory perpetually tossed around by Community fans that it's too meta, or insular for us non obsessives to "get". I've seen every episode of the first 2 seasons and I have never felt as if a joke went over my head. If anything it feels like it goes for easy targets a little too…

I saw him do stand-up just last week! It was ok.

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I read the whole film as being an allegory for global warming and environmentalism, so from that mindset having the ending be real made sense (kind of a better safe than sorry be prepared for the worst message).
Unfortunately, the film should be able to work okay on a literal level too, and I think the ending…

YES. THIS.

edited because i'm dumb, and got my t.v. characters confused :(

Where I live, we call them Donairs. What's the deal with that?

I'm surprised there was no mention of this scene in the write up. It seems to serve the same purpose as the Kobayashi Maru exam, to show that Kirk/Veronica don't play by the rules and that doing so gives them an advantage over more conventional thinkers.

This is some serious brotherly love right here. You know deep down that Ricky picks on Karl as a sign of affection, and Karl takes it because he knows it too.

I'm with you there. I don't know why this is confusing others:

Don't forget "The Naked Truth" with Tea Leoni!

I had a Seinfeld screensaver that would play clips whenever the computer went idle. It was revolutionary at the time!

I recently was sharing a hotel room with a few friends including one who said he never got why people liked Seinfeld. We found it on T.V., ready to show him what he was missing (he had only seen it as a kid), and it was The Strong Box. It might be the worst Seinfeld episode of all time, and did not help our case at…

Elaine repeatedly referring to Kevin McDonald as "Denim Vest" is almost as good. I'm trying to remember if this was a running gag and there were other observational (and demeaning) nicknames she gave people.

I guess I phrased that wrong. Those shows were around, but the point remains they only had to fulfill half the number of hours to get through their arcs. Had The Wire signed on to 22 episodes a season we probably would have seen a very different show, with a great deal of filler. That is assuming the writing team…