Sold.

I used her plenty. She probably didn’t notice.

Finally!

but this one has a knack for tackling complicated issues without either diminishing them or going full Very Special Episode

They’ll keep doing a cover of a cover of cover, recursively, each altering just enough, until by the end, the cover is just shrieking as blood comes from their eyes.

Re: barking dogs Weezer covers

Jesus. Weezer are the Jimmy Fallon of pop rock music.

A person thinking ‘Black Panther’ is not a Best Picture caliber movie does not make said person either one of those things.

They’ve gotten worse, in fact.  Our most reliable printer is an ancient HP laser jet workhorse that is 15 years old if it’s a day.  The new printers they’re giving us are plastic pieces of crap. 

It’s definitely becoming acceptable for some people, but not everyone. At my office we have remote workers but had to jump through a bunch of hoops and even then it’s exclusively the domain of “important” people. If I asked to work from Iowa I’d get told to fuck off back to my cube.

.. Which is funny, don’t get me wrong. Parks and Rec chose to go the “Springfield” route and make their small town absurd and it worked perfectly well. And to be fair King of the Hill would do the same thing, having lots of boutiques and liberal citizens and the like you probably wouldn’t see in 90s Texas outside…

I’m glad they pointed out the part about the guys having to trudge through a draining ditch to get anywhere to eat. The absolute last things those suburban office complexes are designed for is pedestrian traffic, as anyone who has ever been near one can attest. 

Something Office Space and King of the Hill have that none of their successors share is a real sense of suburban America. As good as The Office (USA) or anything else cited in the article are, they still feel like shows made in California and written by people who went to ivy league schools. Judge really knows how to…

“There’s some grim satisfaction in seeing a well-to-do white man, as secure in his position as he is in his skin, being played by a couple of cops just looking for an excuse.”

Well put. This article goes into the annals of Misbegotten AV Club Reviews alongside Sonya Saraiya’s ‘WKRP In Cincinnati needed to do more social commentary’ and David Sims’ ‘30 Rock spends too much time telling jokes’. 

I can see how it would seem the more narratively cowardly way out to have our protagonists effectively forced to kill Harris rather than it happening almost entirely from their own decisions, but the show already did that with Reggie Ledoux in season 1.

But his death is his own doing, a choice they were forced to make, not a natural consequence of their violence.
That isn’t ambiguity. It isn’t poetic. It’s narrative cowardice.

“But his death is his own doing, a choice they were forced to make, not a natural consequence of their violence.”