I’m not endorsing, defending, or even particularly familiar with Morrissey’s political beliefs or actions, and his best music is three to four decades behind him imho, but I’ll just ask anyway: do you really need to approve of an artist’s beliefs in order to enjoy his/her art? I mean to each his own, but if that were…

I thought you were quoting the article.

It would have been a little better and more classic Simpsons (and a little braver) if the new Itchy and Scratchy sucked and Lisa was pretending to like it; torn between trying to be true to the cause and true to herself. If she doesn’t support it, she is seen as a bad feminist. If she does, she is betraying…

Came here to say just this. People think Joe Rogan is dumb, great, that’s fine, but he’s intellectually curious and probably brighter than your average person. He gets people to talk to him and more importantly he listens to what they’re saying, which is something many interviewers have forgotten how to do.

Except Rogan is rich and famous and never went to college.

I don’t know. Rogan’s already had, like, three separate careers, in each of which he’s likely been more successful that the forgettable clever person will ever be at anything.

I’m having a hard time with all the “Kim’s reaction as Jimmy hardens” interpretations—and it’s only a problem insofar as many viewers seem to think it foreshadows their breakup.

Yeah I love this show but I feel like I look at my phone a lot during the cartel bits. Kim, Jimmy, and most of Mike’s scenes though, I’m super focused. And I loved Breaking Bad, but if I wanted to watch Breaking Bad, I’d just put that on instead. I know it has to kind of all go together but it’s not my favorite.  

Unfortunately, the more this show fills in the blanks with backstory about Gus, Hector, the cartel and the larger drug world, the less I’m interested. The Breaking Bad fanservice is only interesting in very small doses.

Nah. she wouldn’t have reacted that way if she knew what was in it.  Clearly, it was written before Jimmy left the mail room.

It’s not too hard to understand the satiric tone of those thatistheplan videos. Fantano is a critic who spends a lot of time reading shit on the internet. When he picks on SJWs, it’s only because they tend to think in dogmatic cliches (his real target).

This is a garbage hitpiece. I thought the AV Club had better editing/research standards than this.

This actually seemed to be starting out strong. I get why people over here would be more irritated by the college PC jokes than entertained, but I thought Mr. Burns played off that dynamic pretty well. Plus it was kinda nice to see a mainstream classically liberal show take a bit of the piss out of the…

I would take this review seriously if not for the fact that two years ago saw Yale experience one of the most ridiculous and absurd debates over political correctness in recent memory. Rather than focus on some generic PC issues, this episode virtually echoed a real incident. When Homer goes "bot-face" at the end, it…

I actually really like the Vanessa scenes this episode. Some nice understated visuals in an episode full of nice understated visuals— Vanessa complaining her kids are "bouncing off the walls" in a wide shot where Julio and Agusto are static, Rico pushing that little toy ambulance off the table.

They were eaten by raptors that then:
1) were removed in the 2nd draft of the script
2) jumped into the sea in a desperate search for Lysine
3) entered the hatch from Lost
It's a mystery. Sure makes the scene creepy, eh? But there is no good answer.

I'm one of the few people who love The Lost World, but fucking NO!
You are better than these idiotic reaction inducing titles, AV Club!

This is one of my favorite opening death sequences.  The brief, beautiful ones are the ones that hit the hardest, and that it's familiar characters makes it all the more suddenly brutal.  Good tone set for later opening death sequences.  (No spoilers, but you know who I'm talking about.)

Interesting…she goes up and down in her bonkers level, but to me this week felt like a return to crazy after a short period of fairly reasonable concern. It's hard not to sound nuts when you're exclaiming "Did she touch Maya?? Did she look at her???" like the child has been exposed to a plague victim.

Lisa can be so grating, but I started feeling really sorry for her with this episode. The inevitability of Nate and Brenda, and how there's nothing she can do about it, and, as John pointed out, she's tried every way she can to connect with him but can't.