The only news I heard about either show was the AV Club’s scathing review of Girls on the Bus.  So it’s not even a case where this website has championed a show that other critics and audiences in general haven’t responded to.  No one seems to care about these shows, which is a fine reason for them not to exist…

OK, but a person’s “boundary” can’t amount to a rule that you get to do whatever you want.  If you’re sensitive to people touching you, fair enough.  But then it’s on you to move when the person responsible for getting you to move -- which is what the usher’s job is -- tells you to move. 

I don’t understand the AV Club’s constant wailing about how cruel it is to cancel shows that no one (the AV Club included) gave a damn about. These shows ain’t Arrested Development or Freaks and Geeks. The aren’t critical darlings with a small but loyal fanbase.

“I’m just saying, it would be more immersive that way!”

I agree with you. I’m very into Star Wars, but I had no interest in pretending to be a Star Wars character for days at a time.

Damn, child murder?! Jeopardy has taken a weird turn.   Maybe I should be watching.

The site also increasingly features sentences that the author has fully lost control over. Take this one:

I think the video serves as an important reminder to hesitate before doing the kind of logical nitpicking that often happens in these cases. I could certainly imagine people going, “Wait, you’re saying P Diddy managed to run down a hallway at a fancy hotel, grab a woman, and kick her twice, all while wearing a towel?…

I think this is one of those times where critics are kind of looking around nervously, fearful that they’ll blast a movie that it turns out everyone else realizes is brilliant.  Then, when that doesn’t happen, everyone can breathe a sigh of relief and acknowledge that the movie sucks.

Ok, but when are we going to get an official release for “Love Take Me Down (To the Streets)?”

“Oh dammit, I forgot to thank my wife!  Christ, I’m never going to hear the end of that.”

The secret is to go to the theater bathroom during it, and imagine you’re finally getting the credit you deserve for taking really good dumps.

Yeah. When demand for Marvel stuff was high, this strategy of not immediately giving people what they want was effective. If you were really excited for the next Black Panther movie, you didn’t get another Black Panther movie right away, and maybe that made you more inclined to see the new Marvel thing that came out,…

I think the failure is to take the bare-bones events from the book and flesh them out with characters and scenes that allow more differences in tone.

Bronn was in Season 1. So was Syrio Forel, who served much the same role that the characters I listed in my post play in later seasons — entertaining non-royal characters and genuinely good people.

Does suicide by dragon count?  We had one of those.

Neither warrior holds a candle to dragon-riding twins Emonda and Mondae.

I watched all of season 1, and expect to watch all of season 2. But I can’t for the life of me understand how much this show has missed what made Game of Thrones appealing.

Steve Buscemi, bleeding profusely from face -- “You should see the other guy.”

Drew Barrymore would have been a perfectly reasonable choice for a host in the 90s/00s. The fact that the 49-year-old Barrymore was the planned host in the year 2024 suggests to me that at least some tinkering to make the show more contemporary is possible.