I miss Ignatiy 

Cool. Didn’t finish Infinite Jest. Maybe you did? 

Racism is bad. The little pang in my heart was the freaking goalkeeper number. 

I think I’m ok at a low-order tiebreaker taking into account the kinds of professional fouls that sabotage goalscoring. That isn’t the same as yellow cards, I get that. VAR now kicks in, red cards come out. But for smaller teams who play a primarily defensive game, opportunities for goalscoring take time to emerge or…

I am less confident in England besting Sweden or Switzerland than Belgium taking Brazil or Mexico. And with Colombia, they don’t have flashes of Neymar or Messi magic but from games I almost get the impression they are the most dependable of the South and Central American teams this year. I’m not relying on an…

I’ve flagged a comment once and it was then removed. A homophobic insult. Does work sometimes. 

Haha, yeah exactly. I was wondering if I should be waiting for one of them to pop up and start something rash.

Ok thanks. Can you also tell me something... the Nauvoo was built for Mormons who wanted to go into some other solar system, but Drummer went and got it and brought it back as the Behemoth, the ghetto battleship. What happened to those Mormons? I can’t remember where they got to. I thought that Drummer arrived at an…

Ok that’s fair for stories about USA politics. AV club news about TV/movies and the entertainment business is much more like ordinary reporting with added jokes and they are the overwhelming majority of stories I read here.

Mate, take it easy! Pay the shit out of me, I deserve it, but the structure of basic reporting practiced all across the world isn’t ludicrous! A news story that puts the news it is reporting (airing the swearing on the TV news) in the second sentence of the second paragraph should be rewritten. The second sentence of…

As a reader of the books can you tell me if the Melba story from the show was more or less a faithful version of the story in the books? I just now finished the last episode and tried but couldn’t buy her big moral transformation. The Ashford turning into space Hugo Chavez was clumsy but I was way happier going along…

Not super sure where you’re going with thoughts and prayers and great wounds of suffering? Everyone else got in a pretty good jab at me. But what am I upset about exactly?

This guy in the greys knows where it’s at.

I know reading is a challenge. I had a go at your opening sentence, your cheery murder sentence was the one after that. There was a full stop between them. But sure, I’ll take your sarcastic apology, thanks.

Can an editor start reading the first paragraphs of these “news” articles? Or is the mandatory, overlong woe is us opening sentence just part of the AV Club style guide?

Content like this woke AF trailer is going to date horrendously.

Pete Doctor is a Pixar chief who has a noticeably different sort of affect in comparison to the others. Sometimes small changes in personalities at the top can translate to significant new ground throughout a workforce.

You Were Never Really Here will be very difficult to top.

This back-and-forth over the right to call Gary Ross a nobody is worse than that time I defended something Kellyanne Conway said to make a point about the opioid crisis. 

There is no real dividing line between a story and the way that story is told. Placing them in a hierarchy diminishes every single piece of storytelling you come across.