Oh for sure, “Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot” doesn’t exactly scream Jewish cipher. But, “evil Moses” aside, I’m just not sure how much of it was conscious or subconscious, because some tropes that were founded in prejudice remain without that context.

The moment you title your movie Batman VERSUS Superman, you’re going to have to reverse-engineer it.

To be fair, Eisenberg’s Luthor is more calculating (bald) businessman than on-the-spectrum tech-bro at the end of Justice League. There were clearly plans for that but because every screenwriter thinks every character needs a journey to become their character we had to suffer through Jolly Ranchers and jars of piss.

I think maybe people take for granted what a subtle actor Nicholson typically is, and maybe have seen The Shining too many times. There’s a distinct difference between Jack as Jack Napier and as the Joker, and they’re both pretty great performances.

Yeah, even Nosferatu himself was an antisemitic caricature. The German expressionistic films that Burton loved and referenced are unfortunately full of antisemitic tropes. I would say Burton simply referenced that aesthetic, but then he did make Penguin into a twisted baby Moses. Maybe that’s why Max Shreck is…

Who Batman even fights unlike several on this list.

German expressionism was obviously an influence on Batman Returns and Batman (which ends in a chase up a tall cathedral, just like Metropolis*) but Devito’s Penguin seemed more inspired by Dr Caligari or even Lon Chaney’s lost London After Midnight (most of which unfortunately are full of Jewish caricatures).

Same. A total kitchen sink episode so there was no time to explore the actual case. Just a lot of mindless melodrama. Law & Order may not have been subtle, but it was usually thoughtful, and this episode never explored any of the legal or social issues it clunkily brought up.

He’s about as old as Adam Shiff was when he left the show.

There was a bartender who provided an alibi - OFF SCREEN.

They actually elminated the random discovery in the cold open in Lupo’s first season, which is when the show first started going down hill. I was hoping they’d reinstate it and correct that mistake with this season but nope. It’s like eliminating the pre-credit sequence in a Bond movie. The whole procedural was…

No I’m with you. Jamie was great, but I’m also a huge Licence to Kill fan. I liked her way more than Abbi, thought Jamie was a more fleshed out character.

They needed a scene of Jack and Jamie talking over scotch at some hoidy toidy private club.

I agree, it felt like someone’s fan-fic idea of a Law & Order episode. Law & Order got 2 things right - the genuine mystery of the crime procedural as they peel back the onion, and the thoughtful discussion of law. It was such a great format and why people still can turn it off but I fear SVU’s melodrama has dragged…

I haven’t seen the episode yet, but this doesn’t surprise me and confirms my fears for this reboot. Original L&O was filmed like a 70s cinema, the audience was an observer on the streets and in the court room. But not only did the final season of L&O back in 2010 slowly ditch the iconic format that made it so memorable…

I grew up in Madison, birthplace of The Onion, so it was always readily available around town in the 1990s. Taking the print copy to lunch every week through out college was my routine, and the AV Club eventually became the main attraction. I started reading the online version in the mid-2000s when I moved and the…

The Godfather was the box office champ of 1972.

Yeah but who is is playing Nixon?

I wouldn’t say looks “nothing” like him, but I think he embodies Elvis in a teen idol way, it works for me.

He did play a not-so-subtle Mel Gibson-type on Law & Order. Maybe a little too on-the-nose.