John K Samson - formerly of The Weakerthans, currently probably the best lyricist alive - released a new song too. It’s less than two minutes long, but it sums up my current feelings on life more aptly than any 40-minute album I’ve heard all year, which is kinda the way he’s always done it. No one else could turn a…

it’s a real shame Sam Esmail wasn’t grabbed to direct this. he’s probably the only director working now that I think could recreate the incredible visual palette and cinematography of the British series

this album is approximately infinitely better than I thought it would be. “Exile” and “Peace” are something else

poor Deke spent literal years building a new SHIELD team, looked after two Macks of different ages who were both grieving, and built a dope-ass chrome shotgun-axe and he still gets no respect from this team! I’d almost be upset but the line was so goddamn funny

if you would have told me at the start of S5 that I’d be in full-on tears about Enoch sacrificing himself... as much as it wasn’t a surprise he was the one to go, this show always puts in the work with character development, and does it so well I never feel cheated when we get to an ending like this. RIP my boy Enoch

I'd say Linkin Park and Deftones were the cream of the crop who between them justified an absolutely miserable and cringeworthy genre of music

similar feelings, although I’ll happily still stand up, in 2020, for Linkin Park being Actually Good. we can (and should) laugh at nu-metal all we want, but LP pulled away from that sound pretty successfully, and were always good at synthesising a bunch of styles into their own while being, like, actually good at…

this is fine but if it’s taking precedence over a Rebels sequel then it’s less fine

every time he showed up was great and the dialogue was wonderfully written, for sure. I just feel like we needed a few more scenes to chart Roy’s arc from where he is when we first see him to the end of the movie. I know they have a reason for the change and it was solid, but it still felt a bit abrupt to me.

I’ve already said it but Palm Springs is great. It’s funny enough not to be too downbeat, dark enough to not be too fuzzy, romantic enough that it doesn’t devolve into pure nihilism. The whole film walks a very fine line and does it extremely well. And, seriously, there aren’t enough good things to say about Cristin…

Spongebob never had the makings of a varsity athlete

absolutely loved this movie. Simmons made this most of his unfortunately limited screentime, but really it was Milioti’s feature through and through, and she’s absolutely magnificent in it

I thought the review mistook muddled politics for a muddled film, personally. I thought it was a beautifully made and acted piece of work that I never wanted to look away from.

Gotcha. Well, each season of AoS builds on the previous one in a really satisfying way, and they lay some groundwork in the first few episodes that doesn’t pay off until S5 even. So I honestly think the best bet is just to go from the start. Thing is, it depends on your tolerance for slow starts, because S1 sucks for…

which show were you asking for, Agents of SHIELD?

I don’t think S4 is all bad, so much as it has a couple atrocious episodes (puppets, Germans, Inspector Spacetime convention and the finale especially) and a serious lack of the heart that defines the show otherwise. That being said, I’ll always go to bat for a few episodes: the Halloween one is brilliant and lives up…

it’s so, so wild. if you’d told me after Seasons 1 of Daredevil and AoS that the latter would not only last years longer, but would massively overtake the former in quality I’d have laughed in your face - but here we are. I honestly have love for every season, even the weird little black sheep that is 6, but that run…

TV is basically the only bright spot in these shitty days for me anymore. At this point, I’m pretty much living for it, between rewatching Community (for probably the half-dozenth time) and Curb while keeping up with new shows as much as my lazy fucking motivation will allow. To that end, I think Better Call Saul is…

sounds like Sufjan is delivering the follow-up to The Age of Adz and I could not be more excited about that

this tops Mack Hammer and Alfie as my favourite nickname the show’s ever given him