Sad to see you’re leaving. Been enjoying your reviews for years. It really sucks that G/O media is systematically destroying the last few good remaining websites on the internet.

I’m gonna go on record here and say that it’s absolutely fine for actors to be self-important but un-self-aware kooks who annoy their costars and don’t quite understand the intent behind the material

G/O media wants every brand it acquired to fail, I’m sure of it.

The thing is, although I have no respect for these people (to put it lightly), they are experienced professional broadcasters, and part of that is being able to communicate simple ideas clearly so that the audience can understand. If it were real, after the first misunderstanding, it would have immediately been…

This is so, so obviously a planned bit and it’s embarrassing that anyone would think otherwise. 

comedies aren’t for laughing at anymore. they’re for agreeing with what the characters say and do

it was also a joke that was, more or less, considered acceptable to make on twitter until maybe 2016. People forget this.

I don’t agree with the Dexter comparison but this is pitching a line that is absolutely believable for (we assume) Ryan to say, as the character was an asshole, and their character’s relationship was toxic. The punchline isn’t someone being fat, it’s someone being shallow. It is different from BJ Novak saying “Hey…

I guess it’s just odd to me that she held onto it for so long. She was already successful then as a writer and actor, and she is now incredibly successful as writer, actor, author, producer, show runner, Office residuals-check casher, etc.

so someone suggested that a character tell her character to lose 15 pounds? like i understand she plays the character and how that translates to her body, but what was the context? if it was BJ Novak, wouldn’t that fit with Ryan being an asshole? I am really at a loss here as to why this is a “thing.”

100% this. it blows my mind that people think that South Park is the cause of the libertarian/centrist/”both sides are equally bad!” mindset, as if it did not exist before the show aired and Matt and Trey came up with it themselves. To say nothing of the absurd notion that an entire generation based their politics on…

And you see a coffin-sized box being loaded ... and the couple at the airport says someone died ...

a decade after “Friday,” Rebecca Black has apparently hired a hell of a publicist

It wasn’t well known though. Hannibal’s bit didn’t go viral because everyone knew, it was because the vast majority of the public did not. He released a special in 2013; The Cosby Show was still airing in reruns. It’s very these people are telling the truth when they say they were not aware of his history.

Actually, he’s got a whole chapter on this one guy who used to shop at a music shop he worked at

i’m fine with two highly paid actors being rude to each other on set. bill murray being a dick is very believeable; I don’t care. I don’t have to work with him or hang out with him.

The weirdest thing with Clerks II was how Randal books a donkey show and they’re all ready for a donkey to fuck a woman but it turns out the donkey is going to get fucked by a man. And that’s fuckin GAY! GROSS!

does she know tv isn’t real and everyone is pretending

the clip where he mocked AV Club comments with a slide whistle was so funny, and the comments on the inevitable AV Club article about it were even funnier - almost no one was able to laugh at themselves

I dunno if this it nit picky but the prostitute characters seemed pretty dated. Probably could have gone without that subplot entirely because this was a stunner otherwise.