Editorial seems to lay down talking points to the reviewers. For Designated Survivor, it means talking about 24, which doesn't have a damn thing to do with this series. But it's not necessary, or even desirable, to mention that general. The only excuse for that character is to show someone habitually deferred to,…

This is a terrible show because the Bull character is all wise yet so all suffering a juror pities him for his greatness bought with such terrible suffering. The curse of being the wisest, most insightful man in the room (always) is dreadful, not least when it's inflicted on a hapless audience.

The Cage line is awful, but it is politically correct to pretend that the conservatives in the military and in the security apparatus actually have some independence of mind, moral principles, like wanting tax money to be spent to some purpose, etc. If there hadn't been something so blatantly obvious as this and the…

Reviewing Citizenfour instead of the movie Snowden would be an oddity, were it not AVClub.

ha ha, good one

clearly you're not someone who actually watched the movie

Yes, that definitely proves the characters have genitalia. One masturbation joke in seven volumes, emissions of fluids isn't really in the picture I think. But…why is Myrtle finally getting curious after all those years?

If "just salty" means completely batshit, yeah. In my memory Grindlewald 's mind was more or less gone and my brain filled that in to be the result of the battle between Dumbledore and Grindlewald. Dumbledore of course anguishes and regrets that outcome. Also, I'm confusing on this point because if stunning and…

Thanks, I really should have remembered that one.

Right, no doubt Grindelwald was easily overcome by these novelties.
It was the shock of the unexpected that literally blew his mind.

I thought for the superduper wand to be his he had to defeat the previous owner, which almost invariably means kill. (Harry's defeat of Draco without murder was very much a fluke.)

Missed that one, obviously a double entendre. Aimed at adults reading to their kids or Cedric's double entendre to whomever? I don't remember Cedric's coolness including ribaldry.

Read the play as well as the novels. So far as character sexuality goes, there is none. There is a chaste romancing, with "snogging" and hand holding and drama. But it's not clear to me that infants aren't delivered by storks in the Potterverse. In any event, here are no fluids in magical sex. Boys do not masturbate,…

Note on usage permitted? The thing is, even is a misuse is common it still causes confusion. So perhaps it would clarify remarks to distinguish "cuckold" from "wittold," the latter being a person accepting the infidelity.

The grammar is informal but an honest and competent reader knows it attributes the use of "SJW" to lying ignorant bigots. This may be unfair of me, but I don't think so.

Not everybody likes music videos as movies.

Many good things about that movie, but having turning a genuine apocalypse into a metaphysical/moral one so you don't have piles of corpses and leads uglied up by hunger, wounds and randomly selected clothing is a bit of a cheat. Worse, that was obvious while watching, not an hour later.

The dialogue is very colorful indeed, and is this movie's only real strength. If the movie relied solely on the dramatic choices of the main characters and the histrionics of their interactions, it would however be a pretty feeble entry. It is the bit players.

"James G. Blaine, James G. Blaines,
Continental liar from the state of Maine!"

Yes, well, second season True Detective wasn't such outlandish BS as first season, which made it watchable for viewers who weren't into active denial of reality. Nonetheless, the disappointment for the people who actually like the notion that cray-cray is cool does not demand nutty remarks about child abuse in a siege…