A.P. Bio was a great show, but I don’t know how long it could last. It’s already a stretch that the second season takes place during the same school year. (And that Jack only teaches one class, but they specifically mentioned that in an episode; he didn’t realize that other teachers have more than one.) Eventually…

Everything is political, absolutely, but politics is not the only interpretive framework with which to evaluate art. I would argue that the way political readings are wielded, especially online, they tend to shut down discussions more than other approaches. So I’d say the problem is that politics are used too much in…

Genysis was about 35% interesting - the Time War, lets mess with 1984 bit was a pretty cool idea, but the wheels fell off the wagon once they timejumped to 199X. Then it went to shit.

Well, that looks very bad and corny. Just like Alien, this should have ended after one perfect original and one improbably good, slightly-new-direction sequel. Everything after that in both series has been either a wan retread or a misguided, mediocre-to-terrible experiment.

This seems interesting enough to check out. But it sounds like it may suffer from deciding that its Superman stand-in needed to become fully evil in the way that the iconic version of Superman is fully good. Once you make an all-powerful character fully evil it seems like you’re locked into some predictable endgames.…

I remember seeing it and understanding the final point of the movie. But that doesn’t make it a good movie at all. I saw it once and I thought it was Meh at best.

On top of that, I was also super disappointed that AV Club gave near perfect scores to every single episode of that season. 

“If you thought the Extremely Online fandoms for Game of Thrones, Star Wars, and Star Trek were getting increasingly angry and insufferable...Adult Swim wants you to hold. Its. Beer.”

Counterpoint: Look at the replies to any popular tweet, and you will see different people (not even professional comedians!) repeating the same obvious jokes over and over again, with minimal variation.

‘But SNL has a platform, and one that it’s courted, developed, and climbed to intermittent heights of ratings (and even critical) success. Basically, throwing in the towel when you’re in the position to most directly affect a sitting president (who you arguably helped elect) is cowardly. Or lazy. Or cynical. Anything…

If SNL had any courage at all, they would have had Baldwin’s Trump trying to seduce Canteen Boy.

A friend and I were talking recently about how fascinating - in a depressing, soul-crushing, infuriating kind of way - it is that, next to actual politics, science-fiction entertainment has become the biggest hotbed of right-wing politics in American culture. *So much* of the seminal stuff from the early days - whether…

Because, the 1960s marked the transition from the old studio system to the blockbuster era. You can see the blockbuster take shape in the 1960s, especially in the Bond films of that decade, which have basically become a template for action movies that came after.

Imagine if Joe McCarthy found out the President was colluding with Russia. Why he'd... do nothing,  because Republicans were always hypocritical assholes and this whole thing was some we're always at war with Eastasia kabuki theater. 

Can we start a campaign to get rid of the plastic AND all the beards? Any man under 30 growing a big bushy old man beard is akin to a 9-year-old girl playing dress-up. Beards are a cheap, ugly fad, like hot pants.

Look at the Ford/ Carter debate satire. Or Hammond’s Clinton. Carvey may have been parody, but he deftly captured Bush’s aimless presidency, arguably better than Doonesbury.

True. I do think some of that era IS hard - Hartman’s Clinton sketches are very rough, sometimes brutally so (remember the Cops sketch?). Others, like Dana Carvey twitching and smirking for an eternity, were not.

The Mueller report line didn’t bother me. The line was mostly there to sum up the glibness and short attention span of cable news. I could say that they are sending out overly simplistic messages by trying to act like the report was nothing and it’s time to move on, but it’s no more simplistic than having de Niro do…

Ill never understand people’s obsession with SNL being more political, like literally it’s peak at political humor was the bush/Dukakis debate back in 88, and even then it was more caricature than anything biting. It’s like watching law and order and being disappointed every week because it’s not funnier.

No. Subtlety was very much needed and lacking here. This was a pretty great episode for the first two-thirds. In tone and writing it actually felt like a Stephen King take on a very familiar story. You’re right about the tension and dread. Then when Steve Harris entered the story it devolved into a shitty ABC…