Yeah, glad they didn’t do that.

And then it actually commits to the bit by having said characters fuck at the end of the episode, proving Hailey right.

No that's Armie Hammer

Even better, from what I’ve heard <leans into ganews> They cannot arrest a husband and wife...for the SAME crime.

*Mortytorium. 

This is only complicated by what DID get inclusion, namely the number two pick. I guess we all just forgot the #MeToo allegations against Matt Wiener?

It’s 100% commentary, and in no way do I think the writers have any malice towards women or anything like that (nor do the writers on Sunny, for that matter.) I just frankly don’t get a lot out of that commentary myself anymore, as it’s something I’ve seen time and time again in TV comedies. I’d much rather Summer…

I mean, “sympathetic” in terms of that current moment, sure...Dee would almost certainly do something terrible in the next scene to take that away, though :)

I agree that Michael Scott was a complete asshole to Toby, no question. But the writers handled that in a way that was unique and unexpected, and had Michael insult and belittle the man in ways that were more than just yammering out a string of insults. Of course this goes to the tone of the show, and the character of…

Criticism ≠ offense. And if reading complaints about a show makes your “eyes and soul hurt,” umm...maybe you don’t want to be on the AV Club. It won’t get better for you here.

Of course male characters are not immune from being the butt of the joke, despised character — in fact, Rick and Morty already has one in Jerry, and a very funny one at that. But to me, there’s a difference between the Toby’s of the world and the Britta’s, in that one seemed to be created from the start to serve that…

This isn’t the first time Rick and Morty yelled at Summer to end an episode (my mind goes back to “Morty’s Mind Blowers”) and, frankly, it’s a bit of a worrying trend. Well my hope is that it’s meta-commentary on the writers’ part, frankly, the running joke of the main characters insulting the “boring” female lead of…

That probably goes back to, as Dennis mentions in the review, the episode’s writer coming from Kaitlin’s former show, The Mick. That show was built pretty heavily on the thesis “Kaitlin Olson is just the funniest, no?”, and proved it on a week to week basis. Not surprised the writer would lean into writing for an…

Eh, I think he’s actually aged a ton (or at least appropriate to a man in his mid 70's) -- the show just does a lot of work to make him look younger. He pretty much only sports grey hair in real life now, for instance. 

“No, that's the thing I'm most sensitive about!"

I didn’t know WE were on Disqus. Are we back in 2014? Was Kinja just some kind of weirdo fever dream?

Hmm...it’s like the Recommended Stories are trying to tell me something here. But what???

If you squint kind of hard, you can see why Cruise was okay (and maybe even fought for) Kurtzman doing Mummy. He had worked with him previously before as a writer with strong results in Mission: Impossible III, and was a big hand in Alias, a series that Cruise was apparently a big fan of (he specifically got Abrams on…

All four of the directors you named are solid if not great. Doug Liman has made great movies (including Edge of Tomorrow.) Edward Zwick has made great movies including The Last Samurai. And Jospeh Kosinski has...well, nothing he’s done has been bad, at least. And as a visuals, at least he’s more interesting than…

I mean, the difference is that Christopher McQuarrie is a GREAT filmmaker, and Cruise seeks him out so much because he knows that. The man is a gigantic film buff (he’s spoken at length about it), so he knows talent when he sees it.