I guess this isn't the "age of the geek, baby" after all.

mince-Meathead pie or deep-fried Live at the Milky Way bars, I presume

Sorry, Syd. Too busy making truffles for Captain Serious.

Ask 9 out of 10 working chefs in this country to make you chocolate truffles or blueberry pie, and they'll glare at you. That's not what chefs do! You might as well ask a hockey player to hit a home run (sports are all the same, right?).

Ooh, maybe they're both hallucinations of her Angels in America character. Double twist!
I'll take any excuse to get more of Jeffrey Wright's amazing Mr. Lies.

Titled "Charlie Does Charlie," of course.

Regionals

Lin-Manuel went to Wesleyan and idolizes Sondheim. Love him to death, but you can't use his stuff as evidence that hip hop "works" on Broadway. He's a beautiful little outlier.

If Karen Gillan walked around in a shark costume and never explained why, I would watch that show forever.
Can John Cho pull off a speargun? I'm thinking yes.

I haven't watched the show enough to know the rules, but it really bugged me when the girls were teaching Francis how to make a compound butter from the balcony. If you're down on the floor and want to risk your own neck by helping someone, that's OK I guess. But this felt like straight-up cheating.

Random shout-out for Myles' reviews of Awkward. It's easy to blow off a teen show on MTV, but Myles always gave it a fair shot. If you haven't checked them out, it's a fun read over the summer.

This whole project seems out-of-character for the AV Club. The judgments are too long for pithy one-liners (like What's On Tonight), but too short for meaningful analysis. It comes across as slapdash and lazy, which is sad, because I would never think of (most of) these reviewers as lazy. They take their…

"How Your Mother Met Me" isn't your typical late-HIMYM episode. For (too many) years, we've waited to meet this character who's supposedly better than all the other options Ted has met, then they throw her at us in one beautiful, ambitious episode loaded with callbacks, charm and genuine emotion. While the late…

I feel like this tournament would have been better served to have critics who love each particular show face off against one another. Make your arguments for the populist "23 episodes per season on a CW budget" vs. the niche "8 episodes on HBO with Hollywood leads." That way, we'd all walk away with the tools to…