Well son of a bitch I guess I have to watch THAT now...

I loved Treme and I’ve never been to NOLA; if I were to speculate as to why it never gained traction with a larger audience my money would be on the fact that it had no immediate narrative hook to draw you in. You had more traditional procedural storylines like Melissa Leo’s civil rights work uncovering larger…

What none of the sequels have ever been able to recapture is the primal terror and hopelessness of taking a very slightly wrong turn and ending up in the middle of something that just shouldn’t exist in the real world (while still making it plausible). Marketing it as a true story and filming it in 16mm grindhouse…

Sally, who’s been hunting Leatherface her whole life

The second season of Party Down released each episode on Netflix a day or two after it aired on Starz, which was how I came across it. Of course, this was when Netflix’s streaming service (“Netflix Instant” as it was branded at the time) was only a few months old - if it had anything like the user base it does now I…

He's currently being played by Tig Notaro.

When the first promotional still dropped, and the cast looked like they wandered off the set for an Iphone ad, I instantly knew this was going to suck.

Remember when there would be hundreds of comments on a recap/review of a single TV episode on this site? And if it was for an episode of Community the number would be in the thousands? And you could look forward to a Sean O’Neal masterpiece every Friday afternoon? It’s so sad to see the AV Club going through a…

You’re certainly entitled to your opinion, but I don’t think it’s representative of the city. Here’s a New Orleans-based GQ writer theorizing that its problem was partially that it was too insular and relied to much on a preexisting knowledge of and love for the locale, and ends by calling it “ one of the best…

I think what Simon has that those other guys don’t is the hard journalism background. His projects always feel meticulously researched and have a deep sense of been rooted in a real physical place where he’s been trained to see relationships between vastly different subcultures. His shows cast a wide net and attempt…

Jon Cena is like a far more talented Arnold Schwarzenegger. I hope he’s cast in way more things (and actually picks good movies, unlike Johnson).

I have watched and rewatched Vigilante’s “Black contributions to American culture” jail bit more than I care to admit.

Tickets for The Contractor will cost twice the stated amount, and the film may or may not play at the showtimes listed.

You know what? Good for him. Voice actors in general are underpaid compared to other starring TV talent and that shouldn’t be the norm, especially not on a show that’s been popular for over 20 years at this point.

Anyway, looking forward to episode 1 of the revival, where Bender is killed offscreen and then instantly…

You’re not wrong about some teachers and workers deserving better pay, but pro sports makes billions of dollars. The athletes do all the heavy lifting, but franchise owners take most of the money. The 2021 NFL salary cap is $182.5 million and 95% of it must go to players. I don’t know the logistics of practice squad,…

Sure he does. People take way less than their labor is actually worth all the time, it’s one of the big issues of our time and part of the whole minimum wage conversation. It’s not insulting to say that they should be paid more, it’s insulting that they don’t get paid fair wages from the jump, even if they’re…

“70 episodes, about 30 good ones.”

Two good endings, one okay one.

I dont mean to be snarky , but...a documentary about a marvel movie no one was excited for*, a past its prime animated show , and a documentary about a mentally ill man .If you were planning on starting a new book ,tonights a good time to get on it.

I remember the shameless slander of the pilots by Boeing and the disgraceful behaviour of the Boeing CEO at the time too.

IMO one can trace both crashes back to two events in Boeing’s history: buying McDonnell Douglas back in 1997 and moving its headquarters to Chicago from Seattle in 2001. The company has been kind of a shit-show since then.