And that very well may be why we're currently seeing the contract law trial instead of Kesha bringing charges against him. It seems very likely that Kesha does not have the evidence to charge Dr. Luke with the abuse and that is why she is trying to go after a lower threshold of proof in a civil case instead of a…

Because the "damage to his reputation" is not a punishment for him abusing her, it is a product of her saying that he abused her, which is protected as free speech. Dr. Luke certainly has the right to go after her for defamation, but then the burden of proof falls on him to prove definitively that he never abused her.

Right, but Cosby had a really lengthy career to draw from, and a lot of previous cases that were swept underneath the rug. I really don't think Cosby needs to be the standard every situation is held to to infer a reasonable public opinion. Burden of proof in a court of law is something else, of course, with much…

Oh, he doesn't have to, it's just an option available to him. And music industry executives will still know who he is and what he can do and will still want to work with him. They just maybe won't want "Dr. Luke" in the headlines. Especially since he isn't changing his legal name, that's really easy and painless.

Kesha in no way is getting out of her contract.

There's definitely a lot of misogyny around Kim Kardashian (I'd argue it's extremely difficult to hate a woman in such a misogynistic society without some misogyny at least spilling into your expression of that hatred, see Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, etc.).

I was just talking to people today about how Netflix branching out more into reality TV could really help their bottomline - as cable quickly discovered, it's an easy way to create a lot of addictive content cheaply. Netflix has a few docuseries they're dipping their toe in the water with, and they'll probably have to…

Well, this is going to be fun when the Netflix model crashes and burns.

Yeah, I think you had a sensible reaction to the pilot. What I'm most curious about, in terms of gender subversion, is that Jonah is kinda the male equivalent of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl - if there's a single character on television I'd compare him to it would hands down be Jess in New Girl. Institutional sexism, of…

As a pretty ardent feminist myself, I've actually been really surprised by this series (on episode 9 now). They really take Jonah to task not just for the inappropriateness of his insistent interest in Amy, but also his superficial and condescending nice-guy "feminism" that often is anything but feminist.

So you just announced that you will be announcing AV Club's announcement of David Grohl announcing an upcoming announcement?

It actually would be pretty smart for Netflix to adopt the 10-90 model for their multicams, but they seem too obsessed with owning and keeping a hold on all their original content - if they've soured on licensing Netflix originals to international networks for foreign markets I doubt they'd be welcome to syndication…

Oh, the Netflix bubble is definitely going to burst. Hulu and Amazon are sustainable as streaming services because they are part of a much larger corporation(s, in Hulu's case). Netflix is a good streaming service, but that service is not worth the amount of money it requires to finance original programming for it.

Haven't watched it, so have no idea just how minor the old adults' roles are, but even assuming they're an extremely minor cameo that costs a whole lot more than it's probably worth.

It's weird. Traditional networks have an incentive to renew multicams because the main cost at the beginning is paying off the sets, but there's no real way to measure what profit Fuller House is bringing in to them. This is definitely cheaper to produce than the fourth season of Arrested Development, but reviving…

It actually is completely unsustainable - it's the tech start-up mentality of "spend a lot of money and as long as we're popular we'll eventually find a way to make money". Netflix would be a great asset to a large media conglomerate that can feed it original programming (which is why I think Disney should wait until…

If it means you have to wait a month before you have an orgasm with your partner, nope. I can understand using it the second time you have sex with somebody could feel like an indictment of their ability, but when that second time is the same day and you've expressed feeling sore A) clearly they're still interested in…

Sure, but a die-hard Star Wars fan will watch one of the movies with their date, not drag them to a convention on the first date. Every relationship has interests you share and interests you enjoy individually (I'd argue they're equally important!). Figuring out which is which requires a lot more tact than Gus is…

There shouldn't be, since Warner Bros. produces TBBT - that's why you see the DC properties emphasized over the Marvel.

In a TV landscape with no shortage of options for female-driven comedy, Mom is right up there with the best. It's tackling issues other shows aren't (it's definitely the best depiction of a financially struggling family on TV currently - something that's all but died out since the days of Roseanne), is doing really…