I clicked the link, so mission accomplished, but man, AV Club’s really been churning out some difficult to parse headlines lately.

My first thought when I saw that thumbnail was “oh, Nanba’s in this?” (I might have been playing too much Like a Dragon and not getting enough sleep.)

I understand what the words mean (but thanks for being a random dick to me, person I frequently see around here and whom I generally respect). I suppose I still don’t understand the author’s point, here. Specifically, “most recognizable” is an odd capper for that list of attributes, as I think most people would agree…

Between Knives Out and Poker Face, Johnson seems to be on a mission to work with the best, brightest, most interesting, and ultimately most recognizable actors Hollywood has to offer.

No lie, I’ve held this up to multiple people as one of the all-time best written sketches. The “two-pipe problem” line is so brilliantly stupid.

“Ritchie says this Sherlock will be an ‘exhilarating new version’ of the story ‘everyone thinks they know.’ He promises to ‘crack open’ the character, see ‘what makes him tick, and learn how he becomes the genius we all love.’”

He'll always be Crucifictorious's frontman to me.

“Trump’s people are denouncing it as “direct foreign interference in America’s elections”

It’s crazy how awful AI has made practically every corner of the internet these days. Question/answer websites like Quora are unreadable gibberish now, and Facebook is a vast wasteland of bots endlessly sharing bad AI art with other bots. Granted, Facebook has been on the decline for years, but it’s still surprising…

I assume it’s typical Kinja formatting fuckery rather than something intentional.

Oh...no. You can stop making this. It's a bad idea. Have another idea for a show and make that, maybe, but stop making this one.

“Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ long-running, low-key examination of Texas life (and Texas life accessories) has steadily ascended to the status of “foundational text” over the years since it first aired—at least around our households, where shouts of “That’s my purse, I don’t know you!’ and “Pocket sand!” are…

Who is the “we” in this headline?

The AV Club’s similarly maximalist review of Babylon contains one of my all-time favorite pointlessly overwritten phrases:

To borrow from Laurence Olivier: my dear boy, why don't you just try writing?

A film review is not “talking about film” in general. A film review is neither an academic exegesis nor some poetic collage of impressions. However much reviewers might like to scream “I am a writer!” to the heavens, a film review does, indeed have specific function, audience, and set of stylistic limitations. You…

This is a real peach of a sentence as well:

But almost four years and three very short seasons in, Bridgerton seems to have lost its shine. It makes you wonder, was Bridgerton ever actually good?

Thanks to algorithmically driven social media siloing the concept of “viral” just doesn’t make sense anymore. I haven’t seen Glee-related social media content—or as much as thought about the show—in years.

I like how Community’s constant grousing about Glee was entirely appropriate at the time—Glee was a mega-hit!—but on rewatches it just feels confusing at best, like kicking a puppy at worst.