All of this is a giant bummer. It's sad how just a few years ago TV Club pretty much dominated the site. Not really digging the new "clickbait and internet memes" direction. The AV Club shouldn't be Twitter.

FOX still has a legitimately great comedy slate and ABC has a solid group of family sitcoms.

I think it'll be fine. It's a low priority timeslot and ratings can't really get much worse than they already are. Previous CW shows have gone to Fridays, performed the same as they were previously and gotten renewed (Reign, Vampire Diaries)

It seems to be worse than ever. Critics complain about Netflix not sending out entire seasons for screening but maybe things like this are why they don't.

The Vulture headlines are really bad, especially compared with the Vox article. I'm not spoilerphobic at all most of the time (I am someone who sometimes googles "who dies during this episode" just to calm my nerves) but this bothered even me. I have to imagine the amount of people who were finished with the show by…

Normally I'm not a spoilerphobe but the amount of spoilers out there for OITNB S4 is kind of excessive. Can we at least not make [MINOR SPOILERS] headlines that strongly suggest a character's death? Did critics forget that not everyone got the entire season on screeners 2 weeks ago?

Yeah social media totally spoiled me on a major plot development, to the point where I might even recommend unfollowing anyone and anything related to OITNB. I'm not usually a spoilerphobe but the spoilers for this season are blatantly everywhere right now in a way I've really never seen for any other season of TV.

The 3-season renewal worried me too but if S4 is as good as critics say then maybe it'll be fine. I hope the show is smart enough to move beyond Piper though rather than using contrived situations to extend her sentence.

Honestly, Cooter Burger on 30 Rock is one of his best roles.

I believe this took place around 2011, pre-Broad City. Don't think Abbi and Ilana would be doing big-name festivals yet.

I'm definitely ready for the presedential announcement at this point. The election feels like it's gone on just a bit too long.

I think the show definitely feels different but not to a level where I really care that much. It's still sharp and funny and great. That said, I haven't seen this one yet so I'm interested to see if this one is noticebly below the show's typical level.

It took several months for Master of None and Jessica Jones to get confirmed second season renewals too, which had similar "this is self-contained enough to be it" vibes. I feel like with shows like that Netflix just puts the ball totally in the creators' courts.

This show comes so much closer to the spirit of Arrested Development than the fourth season of Arrested Development did.

Jane the Virgin S1 ratings were significantly better than CEG's S1 ratings. They were more equal this past year..but it also had a lower lead-in. (In CEG)

I really just don't think CW really cares that much about ratings at this point. They haven't cancelled a show in its second season in years, even miserably rated stuff like Reign and Beauty and the Beast. Reign just survived a Friday night run.

I think CEG will be fine, and as much as I love it, considering the ratings its lucky it got both a second season *and* a fall timeslot. My guess is they don't really care about its ratings at this point, they just like the prestige.

The Good Place is surprisingly high-concept for a Schur show.

So NBC had an actual promising comedy emerge this season with Superstore, their first freshman comedy to have a ratings pulse in years, and where do they put it?

I don't think it's a repeat of Family Fracas. Bob could've won over Pesto but chose not to. In general I'm not a big fan of the Bob/Pesto feud (it feels very S1) but this felt like something a little different.