It wasn't all ups in his career. Playing Mr. Universe, the hero of the Serenity movie, while pictured as an idiot perv, can't have been rewarding.

No doubt living in a trailer is so dreadful it alone justifies doing anything to get that little girls out of there. But even worse, a mom so evil as to accuse her daughter of doing something criminal for money…

Jane Levy's character was much, much more terrified and enraged about a turkey baster insemination than about her boy friend being shot in front of her eyes.

As near as I can tell, the problem with Dexter is too many of the producers agreed with this view of the "tension." But it seemed to me the real tension came from Dexter going sane. In the first season he gives up his darker impulses and rejects his brother. Then, instead of developing this, they repeat the same…

Superficially, this is a meller about a noble hero catching the bad guys in the nick of time. Given victory was a foregone conclusion, there isn't much tension to that part of the movie. A brisk pace and a short running time keep it from going slack, even if though it confused the timeline for the OP.

Saw this. The naval battle and the race were exciting action. The story was radically changed with both a pacifist and pro-Israel message built in. Of course, AV Club wouldn't be interested in anything like the script. I think the actors were ill-served by the direction. (Toby Kebbell was really good in The East.) The…

No feigning, genuinely unable to tolerate the combination of stupid and mean. Your pretense at internet telepathy makes you appear both stupid and malicious. Also, Outcast is the trendy, which is why it's being reviewed on the obsessively trendy AV Club. Trying to imply that being critical of the show is trendy is…

Galley slaves were a huge thing in the Mediterranean for centuries after the Romans. The last great galley battle, Lepanto, had numerous galleys rowed by captives. (Christian on Turkish ships, Muslims on Spanish, Venetian and Genoese ships.) Further, in the rather well known novel Les Miserables Jean Valjean is…

"Wat" is the only real condescension here. It also seems to me one issue I raised, the obvious disdain the woman felt for her husband, has already panned out in her murder of the man. The reviewer's repeated insistence that demonic possession doesn't confuse issues of personal responsibility and personal guilt when…

Questions, questions…therefore, answers, answers. First, nobody expecting advances, not even a teen age girl, runs through a hall way in a towel rather than taking clothes into the bathroom. And the grown woman was indifferent to her husband, but not to the grow foster brother. Second, no, it wasn't clear that she…

Just glancing at the review (had to give up actually watching but there's a mild curiosity about whether the show has actually committed to..well, anything,) I see Megan has killed Mark. One of the things that stood out very early on was that Megan didn't love her husband, deeply resented him for his inadequacy…

In any event, Gibson's fired. Oddly enough that's less offensive than AV Club's haste to defend the bosses.

Not entirely serious, just serious enough to compensate AV Club's servile outrage at how awful, awful, awful it all is.

There's more than one way of kicking people, and producers do it over and over and over. But you're okay with that, so long as the underlings never lose their temper. Well, we know whose moral philosophy you uphold.

Kicking a producer? This is a bad thing?

True enough…but the movie opted to pretend a ring of trash in the sky was the problem.

I thought the key scene for Margot Robbie was the same for everyone else, the bar scene, where they all decide to be heroes. Sorry but I think the only one who managed to sell it was Jay Hernandez. In my estimation that makes him MVP. Will Smith's Deadshot with the tripe about not shooting women and children didn't…

Sent to deceive with false hope, or sent to die in front of their eyes?

The death of the old hero as he passes the mantle to a new one is more origin story.
Since it's pretty much a no-brainer about choosing to be a superhero, as opposed to fallible, vulnerable regular hero, there's not much dramatic potential. Which last point, incidentally, highlights the competition from supposed…

The challenge of not doing origin stories over and over, and the challenge of not setting up fake conflicts between two heroes that leaves everything pretty much the same and the challenge of doing a plot resolution that convincingly relies on a fist fight…these challenges haven't been met by comics. I suspect that…