I have no doubt but that this is little more than a glorified DVD special feature (and maybe not even as good as many of those from back in the day) but if it piques the curiosity of even one casual viewer whose never seen a Powell/Pressburger movie enough into watching “The Red Shoes,” “A Matter of Life and Death,”…

Ha! I actually saw a re-release of The Ten Commandments with my family at a drive-in when I was four years-old. I fell asleep, and they woke me up for the parting of the Red Sea. I’m not kidding. I really did.

Actually I totally buy that. Who is going to go see Part 2 if they haven’t seen Part 1? I always thought the release date of the second was way to close to Part 1 when they announced the dates. Even the Matrix 2 & 3, enormous blockbusters many people saw, were 5 months apart.  You have to give your audience time to…

See, now this really does feel like the AV Club of yore. An article where the writer has clearly had to suffer, significantly, for many many hours, in order to put together a retrospective that’s so much more insightful than the relative crap it’s covering deserves that the contrast is staggering.

They did a pretty great job with the actor they got for Young John Lighgow too.

Yeah, it was the rare case of Disney seeming to want to jump on the DreamWorks bandwagon (though I’d also argue that Shrek was basically DreamWorks-ing Fractured Fairy Tales or any number of self-aware fairy-tale spoofs). The final product isn’t much in that tone (and is much better than any Shrek!) but you can see…

Since many of the posters here (me included) are often criticizing the writing on the site, it’s worth saying -- this review is very well written.

The Old Man Season 2?

i think it’ll be good and i’ll happily sit down and watch it, but man the scheduling and timing of these things really zaps my enthusiasm.

Wow that is another level. 

Per Se is Keller's NYC restaurant where I think that scene is intended to come from. Keller, being the mad genius control freak that he is has actually mirrored the entire kitchens from French Laundry and Per Se. They actually have a live simulcast, so each kitchen can see the other in real time, allowing Keller to…

Exactly. There were also scenes of Carmy with IRL Thomas Keller at The French Laundry which the reviewer didn’t mention.

Missed one restaurant: wandering around The French Laundry’s garden. 

This was absolutely NOT a filler episode. 

Fair enough. I do agree with you on the grade though...B- is too low.

This particular episode was definitely a great case for all the comedy awards the show keeps winning.

Carmy’s self-flagellating swirl of memories IS the aftermath of the opening. There’s never been anything unique or unpredictable going on in the plot of this show - it’s always been 100% a character piece. What little plot there is will only ever be a vehicle to show us how the characters think and grow and relate.

I dug it.

My parents like him still and watch him weekly, frankly I don’t understand why the AV Club is so adamant about his awfulness, especially since Jon Stewart worked through the last Writer’s Strike and that seems to be the start of the extreme grudge.

Author and commenters are such a bunch of crybabies. “Oh no someone verbalized opinions I don’t like and he invited guests who I also don’t like - it hurts my fragile brain to hear contrary opinions to my own so I need to go back to the echo chamber of cable news” (Fox MSNBC etc). If you don’t like Maher, don’t watch…