What exactly do people want out of this show? Obviously it’s nowhere near being Star Trek level good, but TNG was even further away from being Star Trek level good in its first season. Most of the comedy misses rather than hits, but at this point I don’t care because The Orville is clearly a sci-fi drama, not a sci-fi…

I continue to be shocked by how much I enjoy Nicole Richie on this show. The China launches missile/Blac Chyna launches lip gloss confusion was a good joke, but Portia screaming “That’s even worse!” and running from the room in response made it great.

The skeletons dancing take it to whole new level.

Here’s the thing he’s not getting, I think: a movie can’t be all things for feminism because feminism is about freedom to be whatever you want.

Great episode, love the new season so far.

sooo— anybody having kinja problems? comments missing no matter what browser i use, almost impossible to reply, really fun.

Yea! The Good Place has turned into something genuinely brilliant and weirdly intricately plotted for a sitcom, Superstore has one of the best comedy ensembles on TV, and I can work up some nostalgia for Will and Grace, especially since they seem to be ignoring their trainwreck of an original finale. (Great News . . .…

We call that the Before Times.

Damn Gretchen, damn.

Yaaaaay Superstore is back!!

Wasn’t this article usually more than a paragraph about a network programming notification?

Dust off the ol’ Disqus account because the Jeopardy! discussions live on with a bunch of old AV Club regular commentators over at AV Club After Dark:

We are getting awfully loose with the term “tonight” if the AVC is putting this up before even Wednesday night’s shows have aired.

With over three million people dead it’s a Pyrrhic victory at best. While Vietnam was a regional power after the war, it didn’t save them from Chinese attacks. Vietnam was internationally isolated, had terrible after effects of the war and missed out on the beginning globalization that made China rich (they are…

Unless my mind is leaving me (not an unreasonable thought), a Pyrrhic victory is a win where the human cost is so heavy that it negates a true sense of achievement or profit. Their cities were in ruins, millions of people died, agent orange affected them for generations, and the devastation is still felt 40 years…

Dat Pyrrhic victory tho

Fair to say the North Vietnamese army won, but its people sure didn’t.

I attended a talk by Burns last week, and he made a pretty damning allusion to the current president by discussing how Vietnam echoes today, referencing Nixon’s newly discovered treacherous efforts to undermine Vietnam piece in ‘68 to bolster his election chances. I really hope there is a hell, so Nixon can be there…