This is far from the worst Christmas song you’ll hear by a very wide margin. The hate here seems misplaced.

In the first place, it’s a joke designed to shame him as the hack he is, so calm down.

It’s deeply disappointing to me that it looks like Brett Ratner is going to get run out of the business because of sexual harassment, when he should have been run out of the business for having no discernible talent.

Yeah, I’m about the same age as Sean and went through a passing curiousity about the assassination through the mid-90s as well. I loved JFK as a movie of course but vaguely knew most of it was probably horse puckey. Attempting to read Case Closed, Crossfire, and Garrison’s own book at various times in college only…

The range of emotions on his face, which just barely even alters, in the final seconds of Planes, Trains & Automobiles as he’s watching Steve Martin with Laila Robins together was nothing less than brilliant. He’s happy for his friend, even happy to be there, and yet so clearly sad that he can’t ever have that moment…

Also used in The Leftovers

John Candy could have been an absolutely amazing ‘straight actor’ on par with the likes of former funny men turned Oscar nominees like Tom Hanks and Bill Murray, had he lived beyond his mid-forties.

“Bah Gawd, that’s Black Francis’ music!”

Despite being something like 99% horseshit, this is still one of my favorite movies, in no small part due to John Candy’s absolutely showstopping turn as New Orleans attorney Dean Andrews. It’s too bad he didn’t have a chance to do more straight dramatic roles as a Sydney Greenstreet type.

Yep. I was around for several commenting format changes to the AVClub, and thus didn’t believe the warnings of the coming Kinjapocalypse. Turns out, they were all correct: Kinja killed this community, but good.

i don’t know where else to put it, so i’ll put it here.

This is one of the better finales up there, and I’ll put it with The Shield, Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, and TNG.

This show was a miracle.

Of all the characters on the show, I always identified with Gordon the most.

I get to make stuff for a living. Sometimes I’m good at it. Sometimes I’m not.
But it’s so easy to see and understand all that frustration and anxiety and insecurity mixed into his character.

How it drove him, and how it drove him to somewhat…

One of the most beautifully done, honest, and emotionally devastating episodes of television I’ve ever seen.

Should be the tagline for the AV Club being thrown into Kinjaland.

I rewatched it all a few weeks ago, and I don’t think season 1 is as bad as it’s rep.

I’m not crying, you’re crying!

Yeah, I always liked him, right from the beginning. He was horrible, but he was great. I love his redemption arc, as well.

hand holding
Can we please talk about the callback to the pilot? Where on her first day, Peggy put her hand on Don's, and he rejected her? And in tonight's final scene, he put his hand on hers? Beautiful. It made my heart hurt.