That Beverly hate is not necessarily coming from nowhere. In those high-end restaurant kitchens you need a killer, no-BS attitude to be a chef in the true sense of the weird ("chief") and, at least from how the show has been portraying her so far, Beverly exudes the opposite of that (that, plus not standing up for…

I think you mean chicky-chicky nug-nugs.

What, Jen/Katherine Parkinson not interesting enough to merit an adjective in your write-up, Gilmer? Throw her a bone!

Ralph vs a frankenstein

It seems like almost every guest judge, location, or product featured on Top Chef gets showered with hyperbolic praise.

Seeing "looses" instead of "loses" while surfing the internet doesn't surprise me, but on an AV Club article? Not here. Never here.

It's true. The Salt Lick isn't even the "best" barbecue in the Austin area, let alone Texas.

I'm also in the "don't get all the love for this movie" camp, for pretty much the same reasons you listed.

This movie is actually not that great. It's a "black lesbian coming-of-age story" run through the indie movie trope-o-matic.

What about Sarah Grueneberg? She's all kinds of delightful.

Regarding Hot Sauce Committee, I chalk it up to it being delayed, not having a big single (at least To the 5 Boroughs had "Ch-Ch-Check It Out"), and generally being pretty well-trodden territory by their standards (aside from that reggae-ish Santigold collab, perhaps).

Wow, I didn't realize people were coming around on this. I've been annoying people since day one, claiming it was at least on par with The Bends & OK Computer, and they'd cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and ask "what's to be done about this clumsy_plumsy?" True story.

I don't think critics ever really cared for C.S.S. They're a good story, but their music never lived up to the hype.

If the book is filled with the same empty symbolism and false analogies as in that quote, it's hard to see the value of reading it (beyond aesthetic reasons, I suppose).

"To steal someone else's argument; it is as if I walk into a town, and 95% of the people talk about knowing (or at least having some brief contact with) a guy named Tony" That's not a valid comparison at all. If the townsfolk try to convince you they know a guy named Mike and you have no reason to doubt them, why…

*twiddles thumbs*

Mo Monáe, mo problems

Groovy, man

Are they "just as common"? I can't think of any stories like that.

I believe what you are trying to say is that the makers of the film are what the French call "les incompetents".