B+ for Shades alone

I guess you'd be the expert on whether something is pretentious or not.

I disagree that City did not have an emotional crux. It was just kinda unexpected that it would involve Bats being a mess over Joker's death.

Seriously. Especially after Sepinwall's grade-A fuck-up of a review of this same episode in which he totally misses just about every point and nuance to be had in this extremely layered hour, it's good to see someone give some thought to their review. I'll admit, I was sad when I knew Todd wouldn't be doing these…

Lolz at the one troll who voted this an F before it's even premiered…

How on god's green earth are The Hunt, The Babadook, and Birdman NOT on this list?? The former two belong in the top 20, the first probably in the top 10. I get that the AVClub tries to be alternative and includes a lot of films that lack exposure, but there is no way in hell these three should be missing from a list…

Whaddya mean? I comment around all the time.
And sure, maybe "PC police" wasn't the most PC term (HA! See what I did there??), but honestly the AV Club just annoys me some of the time by trying to find inflammatory things in pop culture where there doesn't need to be, to spark pointless far left-leaning debate without…

Well since Season 5 is resoundingly the best season of the series, and its recent revival was as good as the show's ever been, I'd say that it firmly does not belong on this list.

A small caveat to your point that's really bugging me: we didn't have a holy war with Islam. Muslim extremists waged a holy war on US. Religion has very little to do with the War on Terror from our side. Don't equate the two through poor phrasing.

Yeah, but Anna Gunn was the female lead of the show, and has two Emmys to show for it. Nobody really cared that Betsy Brandt was in the MJF Show, and she wasn't a focus of the advertising. Gunn is.

"…the idea of waiting for a call about 'meaning' is stupid"
Never read or seen Waiting for Godot, I take it?

Okay, Littlefinger.

Too bad she's probably gonna die and be the catalyst for a huge greyscale plague throughout Westeros with the dormant disease she had in her body :(

Or how about we just laugh at the things that are funny and stop trying to make everything overly politically correct. It's not like Harry and Lloyd are in any way real people; it's highly hyperbolized. They're not making fun of mental retardation, they're making fun of stupidity, which has been fair game since the…

Ah, hubris. The tragic flaw that's been the hamartia of many a great man.

Listen, champ. That's short for champion.

Oh I don't think it was joyful at all. The song may have had an upbeat tempo, but what Bert was singing to him was very ominous (as if being serenaded by a dead man wasn't ominous enough). Just look at Don's face when the sequence is over; very foreboding.

What a marvelous send-off for musical theatre legend Robert Morse too. Of course the man who originated J. Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed and the Wizard (before Joel Grey) in Wicked would go out with a song and a dance. Morse was always fantastic in the role, even when the show used him more and more sparingly. What…

Its 4 consecutive Emmys for Best Drama Series and heaps of acclaim as the greatest show since The Sopranos, maybe the greatest show ever aren't enough to convince you?

Ohh okay. I never read Scenic Routes when the feature shows up. I should probably get on that.