Oh maaaaan my honest heartfelt message included a hilarious fuck up.   Well that's what the AV Club deserves, attempted polite gesture but fails anyway.

I get the impression that a lot of people today think the old AVC comment boards were a hive of scum and villainy, but that’s way overstated, and the music discussions here were the greatest. On top of good music/reviews articles a lot of great discussion by commenters with deep record collections. Steven Hyden and…

IM2 also had Sam Rockwell AND Sam Rockwell dancing, which on its own almost guarantees an A grade.  

Aw, thank you! As much as I sometimes jokingly shake my fist at the comments section, it’s been such a crazy and still-novel pleasure to discover people actually read stuff I write and say funny or insightful or tangential or even aggrieved stuff about it! I truly loved writing for this site AND reading it AND jumping…

Captain America: TFA may not be the “best” MCU film, but it’s certainly my favorite and the one I’ve rewatched more than others by a positively gigantic margin.

The first Thor movie has some charm to it. It feels more like a rom-com and surprisingly low budget compared to Marvel’s other films. 

My feeling has always (well, often) been that the newswire stuff isn’t of much interest to me (even at its best, the assignment tends to be “write up the news these other sites are writing up”), but is a necessary part of most broad-interest entertainment sites’ (flawed) ecosystems and perfectly fine to put up with if…

The hardest hit was to music.  I feel like I haven’t gotten a balanced diet of genres in at least five years.  The CardiBcation of music has gotten old.

Truly, it’s the end of an era...

My concerns are already bearing out in the paucity of daily content, and that much of what is posted feels a hell of a lot like clickbaity nonsense. It tells me that either senior management has decided that’s the was it wants these sites (not just AVC - look what’s happening at sister sites as well; two main writers…

Civil War is just so incredibly boring. 

you did great work. i appreciate it.

Right, exactly!! I just mean that I appreciate the principle of not doomsaying, because there has been a lot of “the A.V. Club is DONE, this is IT” during my eight-and-a-half-year/about-to-close tenure as a freelancer that I had to roll my eyes at, and I don’t mean to dismiss any future AVC writers sight unread, as it…

Because of Dowd, Vishnevetsky, and sometimes jesse, film coverage–specifically reviews–were pretty much the only thing that kept alive the old open-minded-but-critical spirit of AV Club. Depressing to see it go away entirely.

I will say, while I appreciate any lack of histrionics over the Future of the A.V. Club As We Know It!! (and imagine it has served the old-new guard well, ha), I would point out that past incidences of major exodus were either because a bunch of writers left together to start The Dissolve, or a few instances where…

It took my wife and I three nights to finish Civil War, and on the final night she said, “Why don’t we finish that punch-kicker movie?” And damned if the last act wasn’t three characters punching and kicking each other for half an hour. At that point I realized I was watching a three hour movie about my least favorite…

Just finished reading this and ...

at least in the days before Kinja decimated the site’s robust commenting culture

AV Club has gone from #1 to #5 or so in terms of websites I click on to procrastinate at work.  I don’t peruse it nearly as much as I used to and I don’t spend very much time on comments.  If there’s something on the front page that grabs me, I’ll click on it.  Otherwise it’s on to the next website nowadays.

A+ A+ Dowd. You’ll be missed.