It’s also home to the episode’s worst element, in how perfunctorily the show dismisses the high-profile controversy about a certain specific character.

I didn’t use it as a pejorative, you apparently don’t know how to use asomething as a pejorative. I said—correctly—that SJ is censorious now the way conservatives used to be.

Absolutely wrong. Lisa a liberal and would absolutely be against retconning classic books for social justice bullshittery, while Marge is known as almost a Fundy Christian-level scold, which is precisely what SJ does. Social justice isn’t liberal.

The Lisa-Marge plotline never really settled on what it was trying to say. It raises an interesting issue—how to handle classic stories, that are overflowing with outdated and terrible values—but takes a shotgun approach, blasting ideas in every scene and none of them stick. Is it that attempting to ‘update’ the…

Yeah, I thought that’s where that plotline was going to go—Lisa is horrified by the casual racism of the older book, while Marge is more sanguine in a “it was a different time, the story is still good if you look past it” way. They end up visiting the academics, but both Marge and Lisa take issue with the academic…

Does Shatner even count as right-wing? The other AV Club article linked here calls him historically left-leaning, and you don’t need to be on the right to shitpost SJWs. Anyway, what the hell are Death Grips?

Not that I’ve seen the movie, but the rebooted Lara Croft game wasn’t really supposed to be an giddy adolescent adventure. It was supposed to be a redefining of a character from a pretty brazenly objectified character to someone possessing a personality (that was the intention anyway - she is still objectified, just a…

Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender are quite the “disappointing video game adaption” power couple.

The movie doesn’t need to make a comment about the bigotry. It presents characters and a story. The audience can determine if the character has minor character flaws or is repugnant.

One thing I liked about the film was that it didn’t go in the direction I thought it would. I went in thinking that Woody Harrelson would be the villain, but it turns out that, actually, there is no evidence, and that’s why no one has been arrested. I think too many movies paint their villains and heroes in broad…

The movie wasn’t really about racism or violence, it was about anger. Most of the actions taken by the two leads were driven by anger, and any perceived redemption arc for either character was about them learning to let go of their anger, though the movie ends before it’s clear whether or not the lessons they learned…

Which is fine for me as how often do you think bigots really change? It made the film feel more real rather than some pablum where he reforms and sees the error of his ways

He gets fired and gets half his face burnt off. It’s not as though the film does not ‘punish’ him.

The idea that it’s “offensive” to suggest we might see our preferred cultural targets as anything less than one-dimensional monsters is a reminder that when people say they like art that’s “challenging” and “subversive”, they don’t really mean it.

But still... PT Anderson directing Daniel Day Lewis. Goddamnit. Fine.

A-. A-. Dowd

I found it legitimately disturbing.

The talking cat being ticked off that now it has to talk to Homer made me laugh. Marge being openly pleased at Helen Lovejoy getting murdered made me laugh. Homer’s acknowledgment that he had taken some extreme steps to avoid leaving the house made me laugh. That’s one laugh per segment, which is better than some of…

I dunno, the last segment kind of got to me — it may have been pretty bloodless but the premise is genuinely queasymaking. Which may say more about what bothers me than it does about the episode itself. I still liked it better than the last couple of Treehouse of Horrors, though.

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