Oh, for Christ’s sake, it’s a televised awards show. It is not compelled to meet you weird ethical demands. The fact that some people like it is the justification for it existing.

If you think the Oscars are just an outdated relic, and you dislike them so much, maybe the people who like them can just keep them as they are. 

Right. It’s frequently the case that the nominees for Best Lead Actress are not actually the lead in their movies.

If we have to explain that the actors in movies do not actually become the characters they’re depicting onscreen, we’re gonna be here all night.

“Were you mad about Emma Stone winning the Oscar over Lily Gladstone last year? Well, I’ve got good news and bad news. Let’s start with the good news first — that’s not going to happen anymore.”

Like fights about sports, I think it’s a mistake for transgender/gender nonconforming people to be choosing this fight. It means that, when many people are still very uncertain where they stand on gender issues, public battles are being fought on ground that is not especially favorable.

It’s also not clear if the author means that, for some people, gender expression exists on a spectrum, or for all people, gender expression falls on that spectrum. I’d expect that even many of the people willing to recognize that gender is not binary for some people consider themselves as being clearly one of two…

It’s posts like this that make me suspect that you are Julian Day, the Calendar Man!

Jason wanted to chase his latest victim to a dilapidated lakeside shed, but arrived only to find it was an overpriced juice bar now.

I don’t buy into the AV Club (and, maybe, your) eagerness to reach some kind of overall assessment of whether a celebrity is good or bad, and then judge all their behavior that way, regardless of what the behavior is.

But due to inflation, a standard hockey mask now costs $11 million.

This comment isn’t getting enough love.

“No! We had a deal!”

I think public opinion has swung so far in Jackson’s favor about the incident that people are willing to believe things about it that plainly are not true. Jackson did not deserve the amount of heat she got about the halftime show, and she certainly did not deserve to get heat while Timberlake skated, but it’s clear…

The low period of . . . being accused a year ago of using a blaccent 20 years ago? No, I don’t think that’s relevant.

I’m not sure what Justin Timberlake maybe using a blaccent 20 years ago has to do with a drunk driving arrest today, but then again, I’m not the AV Club.

Obviously, this is bad behavior. But the AV Club should do more to put it in context.

Huh?

OK, but most workers’ pay does not depend in an immediate way on how their workplace is performing. For movie theater workers, that’s generally been a good thing in recent years, because revenue from movies is way down. If workers are supposed to set a pay increase for Barbenheimer, do they get a pay decrease when Fall…

That’s why they don’t have more Bridgerton cast members on.