Yeah dude. Somebody actually typed that because Russell didn’t have a special costume and accent they didn’t know he was Asian. Legit shocking.

My two observations:

Oh yes definitely, he needed to wear a bamboo hat and do Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I’ve never seen an Asian boy in a Scout uniform, and everyone knows Asian mouths are unable to produce a western accent.

And you couldn’t tell this by... looking at him for a few seconds?

As Meilin awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into a gigantic red panda. She was lying on her fluffy, as it were lined with fur, back and when she lifted her head a little she could see her furry black belly on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and…

It’s not stupid. Naming a major prestige show on your network exactly the name of your primary rival network would be a huge mistake, and almost certainly confuse some viewers into thinking the show is on Showtime. It’d be like McDonald’s advertising a King Burger or Microsoft advertising something with “Station” in…

I believe it’s your second guess - had something to do with naming it the same as their rival network. Stupid I know, but I can see that totally fits with the thinking of a TV exec.

As someone who loved “Power of The Dog” and loves Sam Elliot.
And listened to the WTF episode in full.
I have to say this an example of people editing what someone said in order to be out raged.

They say Covid causes loss of taste... in movies!

I honestly don’t even agree with the idea that the movie is smug. Preachy and didactic, sure. But self-satisfied? I don’t see it. I mean, the whole point of the movie is that everyone agrees that the comet is a problem; it’s just that moneyed interests prevent regular folk from stopping it. The movie isn’t saying,…

Libs are very quick to call these types of movies smug, as if it’s a race to get to the word before Fox News can. Like, we’re not one of those stuffy coastal film critics, we’re one of the good ones! We think it’s smug too!

He might not be technically wrong, but he’s also being simplistic as fuck and doing a little cherry picking here. We’ve been dealing with this for over tow years at this point. The situation has evolved and is complex. That little explainer of his barely scratches the surface.

I don’t get why there aren’t episode reviews of shows like 1883 (or Yellowstone), but we still get very detailed weekly reviews of a dying dinosaur like SNL.

Farewell to the AV Club Staffers who have chosen to resign and take their union-won severance rather than be moved to L.A. by a management increasingly determined to destroy everything interesting. The site will no doubt shamble on in your absence, zombie-like, but you will be sorely missed. Seriously, it sucks that…

When I saw the trailer for Station Eleven (I started reading the book several years ago, but found it too depressing at the time), my embittered first reaction was “who thought a post-apocalyptic TV series about a deadly flu pandemic was what the world needs right now?” But now I get it. The way it hit me was like,…

...Kirsten went from being so wary of Tyler that she stabbed him for freaking her out, to listening to him. The main problem is the way that Tyler terrorizes the Traveling Symphony is enough for Kirsten to not like him. Or did I mistake that sequence where he uses a child as a suicide bomber?...

Hearing Brian fucking Eno described as “one of Bono’s pals” is possibly one of the most disdainful things I’ve ever heard.

I just love it when beloved artists of my youth come out as sensible instead of raving lunatics in their elder age. 

i think “monetize” and “work” are both exaggerations.

I was listening to some early Doors today and had the thought it would be cool if by some trick of space and time Brian Eno produced something by them.