At the very least, there’s a large gulf in quality between their best and their worst.

Maybe it’s more of a recent history thing? Of Fox’s animated shows in the past decade, Bob’s Burgers is the best by far. Otherwise it’s Allen Gregory, Napoleon Dynamite, Bordertown, and Cleveland Show; all of which are absolutely abysmal in quality.

I think it’s a matter of the older episodes letting the show do the heavy lifting as you’re still watching a bad movie to laugh at. There’s some dead space, but it allows the jokes to otherwise land Otherwise the newest season played out like a funnier version of the current Simpsons where they seem to be deadset on…

There’s been plenty of criticism. Most seem to think it was good overall, but with some glaring flaws. Joel makes it sound like they’ve recognised some criticism, so hopefully some of it will be addressed.

I want to say that I read somewhere that newer films were harder to do due to different editing/pacing (though that sure as shit didn’t stop last season from throwing out every damn joke that came to mind). This one looks like it has the same glacial pace as many classic mst3k fare.

It was funnier when it would visibly get under Trump’s skin, and it possibly still has merits if only for that... but I’d rather not have to put up with it when I want to watch SNL. Maybe if it could get under Trump’s skin and be funny...

I haven’t played it since it came out and I can certainly see it not holding up well at all, but I recall C64 getting quite a bit better after the first few levels or so.

After all, having TV’s Roseanne die in such an overtly tragic way does seem like a little much, and hearing this might not give viewers a lot of faith in The Conners.

This felt like a whole lot of nothing. Some of the tertiary details that, in retrospect, seem more like a way to provide a jumping off point for later seasons seem more interesting, but the main plot didn’t feel like anything went anywhere.

Mostly agree, though I would also add Gardner with Strong and Bryant both being underrated. Not sure about Mooney; I think he wants to be Andy Samberg a bit too much.

SNL’s writing last season was atrocious though...

Anyway, in the case of his Predator review, he did give it three stars but highlighting the relevant section below, it seemed obvious even to pre-teenage me when I first saw it that the predator was the obvious equivalent to a big game hunter on Earth and so everything it did after that stemmed from that.

Only its last half hour or so is at all worthwhile. The rest is trash.

I can’t hate the new Spiritualized and if it is a finale, it works reasonably well, but man I wish Pearce had branched out a bit as his career went on. I feel like he’s been mining the same territory since Let It Come Down, and while it’s never bad, it’s fairly boring. I mean, even A Perfect Miracle more or less…

The political jokes felt pretty half-baked for Sunny. Normally their political stuff is either the core of the episode, or just throwaway one-liners. 

There’s probably some truth to this, but The Real World is a better (well, worse) thing to point to for MTV’s move away from its core.

to be fair, it’s only been a year since he died. That said, a lot of the stuff like Emo Rap that a lot of people are pointing to as Nu Metal’s successor has also seen its fair share of deaths that may’ve killed some of its hype.

Looking back, sure, MTV could have probably leaned even harder into Oasis, but they were still trying to reach the angry white teen market, and Oasis wasn’t going to quench that thirst.

It’s the latter that’s more of a factor than the former. A revival doesn’t really need the original acts to be around, but a genre that never really went away and was generally considered terrible as the original acts fell off doesn’t make for the likelihood of a revival happening anytime soon.

they deleted all or most of their pre-2000s reviews, mostly out of shame for how bad they were.