I don’t really mean to knock The Office, which I watched while it ran and I’ll watch on syndication here and there. But it also (seemingly) has a very strange following, given that it was a very popular, long-running network sitcom, not Firefly or something.

It’s this decade’s answer to Friends, in that people like to love The Office more than they actually like the show itself. I mean it’s pretty good, but “most streamed show on Netflix” good???

Well he’d be head coach for the Suns but assistant coach for the Lakers.

And the headline isn’t some impenetrable inside-inside joke that would leave a casual reader with no clue what it’s about. Progress!

If you’re going to start an article about someone getting murdered with a callous joke, at least try to make it remotely funny.

But if a man wrote an article criticizing female celebrities for how they looked with shorter hair, that’s exactly the type of thing Jezebel would take kindly too.  And that’s the point.

Billy is so concerned about people being let down after getting falsely excited, but thinks that fans would be just excited about one of the most thrilling matches ever, if all the goals and back and forths were rendered absolutely meaningless by the blown call.

Was waiting for this. Every fan has had plenty of moments where they got super excited at a goal, only to see the flag up.

Shekels isn’t a “term”, it’s a currency, and one that is not being used here since presumably S&S pays its US employees in US dollars.

Killing Eve humor is very much not Die Another Day “humor”. There’s a reason why he asked for her specifically. I’m excited about this.

... nothing with it except build the projects?

If a road is going to be tolled anyway, the key difference to taxpayers is that for a typical road project the public owner has to pony up the cash up front, and then hope the toll revenues over the next 30 years cover the costs. As compared to a P3 where the state pays nothing up front, gets it’s road (or whatever),…

Saying “how can you criticize this person if you haven’t criticized literally everyone else??” is not calling out hypocrisy, it’s the very definition of whataboutism.

Yeah, her reasoning behind her shift feels very transparent. She correctly read the tea leaves that Dems weren’t going to continue accepting anti-LGBTQ politicians and knew she had to change course to in order to ever get elected. I would question how much her views have actually changed.

Criticizing Chelsea Manning for leaking confidential document does not in and of itself have anything, whatsoever, to do with her being transgender, and implying that Buttigieg’s doing so has something to do with his LGBTQ view is ridiculous.

“Guy who makes $30 million a year pouts after another guy who doesn’t make 1/10th of that doesn’t do exactly what he wants, gets the guy fired” doesn’t quite fit the labor vs. management narrative either.

What’s interesting to me is that the central mystery not being a priority (and you are spot on that it’s a reason why it stuck the landing) is almost definitely due to the reaction to the Lost finale. Lindelof took the criticism so hard that he made it extremely clear with Leftovers, from the beginning, that they…

You mean the ten different chapters of Quentyn just traveling and then dying wasn’t bringing things closer to an ending?

In fairness, Martin’s determination for it not to be a stock fantasy ending is a very big reason why he’ll never finish the books. He desperately wants to avoid Jon and Dany riding dragons north to burn the army of the dead, but the only alternative is having the Others win, which is certainly ballsier but not really…

I realize I wasn’t clear - I think this article basically treats Moss and her involvement in Scientology with kid gloves, whereas AVClub came down hard on Pratt over the Hillsong comments (not saying criticism was unwarranted).