If Kroll Show could make it to three seasons, CC can probably swing a second season for this great show.

Maybe they don't want to introduce that to "canon" until they're renewed? Ending at the evidence box is not nearly as much of a (potentially disappointing) cliffhanger than Zdorkin being alive 4realz.

That whole Rico thing was just super well-executed. At the end, there were three completely distinct interpretations of the statement "bring down through Rico" (the chimp, the movie, the racketeering charges) born out of what seemed like a much simpler goof on Jack's obliviousness.

Don't know if this will work with Disqus, but from this point down there's a whole lot of rival-fan barbs being thrown. Read on if you want, but it's kinda meh.

I think it's kind of a symptom of the Silicon Valley VC mentality, which isn't unique to the area but is extremely visible and involves huge sums. As you say, a proof of concept isn't enough. The product you create has to be fully formed/basically ready to sell AND the audience (profit) has to be as certain as…

You know, the AV Club in the past few weeks is genuinely the first time that I've heard this (outright ridiculous) set of claims about the movie, and yet here it seems like it's a common complaint, and I also don't understand it.

I generally agree, but I think the climactic setpiece on the doors is truly great. Inventive, sometimes funny, impeccably paced, and completely specific to the world that they created. Even if the rest of the movie is "merely" good+cute (which I'm not trivializing, by the way), I think that particular sequence is…

Turns out Mort's been absent because they've got a huge character-based finale centered around him, when he has to prepare Teddy's body for his funeral. They had to go darker and edgier than last year's attempted murder somehow!

The Wire is a tough one. I really love it, but choosing to watch it is work. I would just say make sure you watch each season continuously, even if you wait a long time between seasons. That'll basically make it the TV equivalent of reading one book in five volumes.

Haha, yes and no. Venture Bros. is the densest show I've ever watched, bar none. Watching each episode one time (particularly episodes like the fourth season opener "Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel") probably isn't enough to catch up, at any rate.

I imagine they don't really know how to advertise it, but Kent Alterman (head of programming at Comedy Central) seems to be willing to give good shows space to develop if there's potential, so I'm hopeful.

I thought tonight's first two scenes were gold. A hysterical fantasy and therapy cutting straight to the boys in the back of the van was a hilarious juxtaposition, and the way the opening credits music was timed just right. Plus, the big blindfolded reconciliation was great.

I don't harbor any illusions that their minds will be changed, and that wasn't what I suggested would happen. What I suggested was that these people who are already in this denialist mindset (which, at this point, will obviously never change) would like nothing more than for people to just "let sleeping dogs lie,"…

I think it's still valuable because it lets him and all of his (upsettingly numerous) fans know that we haven't forgotten and will not forget just because they want to pretend nothing happened. It's an infinitesimal victory, as victories go, but it's cathartic and possibly worth the ticket price.

I completely agree. Probably helps that I love dogs, but I think it's more that it was disarming to see Louise treated unequivocally like a child by a gentle and kind adult. No nods to the precocious edge that we know her for, and yet it still felt perfectly in character.

I was confused for a bit, because cadence has another meaning that's more relevant to songwriting that is actually impossible to "rip off" because it's just how Western music works. But I guess you mean "spoken rhythm," and that's more possible to "rip off," I suppose. But again, pop music uses the same rhythmic…

At this point I'm just going to have to accept that I fundamentally disagree with the way these determinations are made, but seriously… If you can be afraid of a lawsuit over a simple rhythmic motif (1-2-3-and-a—and 1-and-2-and-a), then I fucking give up on writing music. Surely every time I tie the and of 2 across…

I thought that tonight's episode was a particularly good showcase for the father's character. The one bit where he talks about how he felt about receiving the "World's Greatest Bald Asshole" t-shirt from one of the boys when the kid was only six was really interesting: "Even though it hurt my feelings a little,…

Crime boinking?

If it makes you feel better, I think the ending is supposed to negate everything that happened in the flashbacks (because none of the Benders actually stole the shit they were supposed to steal, essentially the whole movie never happened; that's why there's such a paradox that it tears the universe apart). I just…