This woman gets worse day by day.

This person is insufferable. Even with an indecent level of privilege she, like, can’t even produce a complete sentence. How can you even tell if anything she says is true she thinks she’s a farking Elf for pity’s sake.

She’s a white rich bitch. This isn’t how she “turned out” - she was always like this. She comes from a coddled, privileged background where she experienced little pushback or boundaries.

I insist every article about Grimes start with “...Grimes (or ‘Grimey’ as she likes to be called)...”

“his 50-city “Boo” tour” LOL that made my morning

Barsanti's "I'm an ALLY, damn it!" hot takes are one of the few sources of entertainment left for me on this site.

Why is a random white man nobody’s neither heard of or cares about getting outraged over A Talented English Actor playing a role? Surely Hugh Grant could be like a John Hurt type of Doctor? It’d put butts into seats.

More spin-offs could be fun, but at the risk of editorializing

I’d like to see Paddington Bear as the next Doctor. There, I said it!

Worth it for the “it would be an INSULT to Jodie Whitaker’s memory if the new Doctor isn’t sufficiently woke” take.

Doctor Who is the name of the show, not the person, but you know what we mean

Yeah, before people get too wound up in a cloud of self-righteous fury or whatever’s going on here, Grant’s already came out and said it’s not true.

He’d be just fine, he’s been doing great TV work that the AV Club has mostly ignored for years now. I doubt it, tho. At most some RTD sleight of hand for a special or two.

But Disney is the one who calls the shots here unless she was personally nominated.

It’s probably more common in the 7-10 Best Picture nominees era than before. What’s interesting is she seems like she’d be a prime candidate to present one of the handful of categories they chose not to televise since the Academy traditionally picks breakout stars and ingénues for those awards.

The only possible explanation I could think of is if due to Covid rules they’re only inviting people who were nominated by name.

After more research, it actually appears normal that the Academy only individually invites people who were individually nominated, and presenters. So even the leads of a film nominated wouldn’t receive an invite unless they were a named nominee in some single category.

Actually, after doing more research it looks like it is normal practice to NOT invite anyone who wasn’t an individually named nominee. Even the lead of a nominated film.

Yeah, I hope that’s not the case, but I think that’s where we’re headed. I think the powers that be want AV Club to have a chummier relationship to Hollywood rather than a critical distance. That’s my lay of the land of the new editorial direction, or at least how it has seemed to me. Less substance, more industry…

The idea that SNL–which, for example, refused to lay a glove on the Tea Party at their peak–is liberal is ridiculous. Yes they go after Trump, but he’s low-hanging fruit, and Balwin’s portrayal is really more ‘bloated doofus’ than ‘evil person destroying the world’, which you might expect from a partisan comedy. If…