This season has had its problems, but they have done an excellent job of making sure the surprises stay hidden. Both The Master and Captain Jack caught me, not to mention Doctor Ruth. Usually that stuff would be all over the interwebs before the season premiere aired.

Yeah something tells me that Percy Shelley could have died and the world won’t really be any different for it. Especially compared to stopping the Cybermen, who have killed billions and needed to have a galaxy nuked out of existence to be stopped.

The real question really is “why are ANY of the outfits still tied to gender?”

It’s Anderson for sure. He’s only gotten better. I’m not a big fan of his early work but I love Grand Budapest and Isle of Dogs. Burton hasn’t made a good movie in at about 15 years.

Damn, these looks good. It’s a testament to Greta Gerwig that she went all out and brought on set a period appropriate photographer, in addition to banning things like smartphones.

Yeah, but pretending that the twisted, murderous (though admittedly sympathetic) monster of the story was black the whole time suddenly adds a hell of a lot of subtext that the author clearly never intended. Which, hey, that could be fun to explore—perhaps in a film adaptation!—but just leaving the text as-is and…

There is no way that the Secret Garden could be anything but a white girl.  It’s about a spoiled white girl who grew up in India, pampered by her servants who is sent to live on an estate in England.

At first I felt like yeah, this is a clearly bad idea that should have been rejected very quickly but is on some level maybe well-intentioned. Then I got to the statement at the end, and realized the idea was “You know what’s a great way to celebrate Black History Month? Direct people to white authors who were writing…

Chuck Forsman is awesome. Glad to see A/V Club always willing to lift up independent artists whose works are optioned.amd not just throw unnecessary shade onto said work.

Look, I know you’re a pop culture website, but:

1.) This marketing campaign barely counts, even under the broader definitions.

2.) You’re doing their work for them.

3.) I think I speak for the group when I say we’d be fine without this stuff.

I did it accidentally over and over until I realized “wait, they can’t get out without a ladder?”

I once had a Sims 3 household where the entire family were very bohemian creative types; the daughter of the original couple grew up to be an author/painter. She had a child with her best friend but the two never married and honestly didn’t even really stay in a relationship, he just kept stopping by the house to…

These are... not all that weird. Most of it’s just totally normal, awkward Sims gameplay. I was expecting more along the lines of Seanbaby’s Subject Beef Experiments: https://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/

In Sims 3, with many mods and cheat codes, I had a polyamorous family of 13 gay male sims (including werewolves, a fairy, a ghost, and a merman) with 2 gay dogs and a gay unicorn living in a 5-store mansion with 3 basements (the bottom one being a secret laboratory with a time machine.

I made alien vampire farmers who built a mansion underground on the largest plot and turned the entire plot above ground into a farm/orchard. Then they built a secret dungeon on the bottom floor of their underground mansion to marinate their “food” in. Of course they could only farm by the light of the moon, so I kept…

I ensured that they improved themselves, learned to live while saving for the future, ate well, stayed in good shape and got enough rest, while maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

Yeah, the complaint that the game is the billionth to cover the main story is a legit one, but “godawful” just seems hot-takey.

The reasoning behind the sonic sunglasses was lovely though. It gave kids at home a toy they could pick up around the house and use instead of having to pay $20 for a sonic screwdriver toy. Same reasoning behind Capaldi’s more stripped down outfit as well. I think that contrasts with the stylized costume Whittaker…

That final scene between Tesla and Edison was much more nuanced than I expected, with respect and resentment on both sides. Maybe not at the very top end of NuWho's "The Doctor Meets a Celebrity" episodes like Van Gogh and Parks but a massive improvement on last week. 

Tesla is an interesting guy to build a historical around. Always interesting to meet the “losers” (in fame, which might be a flawed metric for measuring such value, but still), so to speak. Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror definitely benefitted from having him in it. The writing for him was pretty good, and his…