Hedwig’s been there.

If you MUST slideshow, AV Club, could you not, at the very least, anchor the frame so the page doesn’t reload to the top of the screen each time? It would make the (much abused) use of the slideshow marginally better.

Yeesh, if you’re not interested in the Tonys or live theater, just give us the list of winners without all the editorializing in the intro and congratulate yourself on being too cool for your job.

That moment of pure validation and excitement in Eli’s face when Glendon tells Eli at Fancy Nancy’s he should go big - John Goodman is just the greatest, even via digital de-aging. Eli is the perfect intersection of ego and showmanship from his past (Glendon) with wanting to be a good person and religious leader…

If I’ve learned anything, it’s that you should never, ever trust Kacey Rohl.

And his almost too-deft ability to manipulate. The kids come in to tank the deal, and he plays it as betrayal - “you should have trusted me”, that they came for him without cause, when he’d cut them all out of the deal entirely when he sent Roman away. He positioned himself as the attacked who only lashed out in…

I guess I should have said “can’t last”, since they are still united by the of the episode. I say can’t last only because that’s the nature of the show. There’s no way these damaged characters aren’t manipulated against each other next season.

I love the sibling camaraderie, even though I knew it couldn’t last. The slaves put on their insignia, realized how many of them there were, and did their damnedest to take out the emperor. Too bad the emperor was ready for them.

Even though the rehearsal of “Honesty” guaranteed it wouldn’t actually happen, I’ve never been so relieved not to have to suffer through what would have been the cringe to end all cringe. Same, PR lady whose name I can’t remember, same.

The “kids chorus covers a dark or subversive song” feels incredibly played out, but I’m somehow drawing a blank on other examples.

They could’ve easily thrown in Watcher in the Woods, too.

It would have to be “I’d fuck moi” though.

Oooh I love an MLM/fraud docuseries. I can’t wait to watch this stretchy trainwreck.

If you end up with a negative dollar amount, he’ll flip ya.

As far as I can tell, Faerie Tale Theatre isn’t available on any streaming platform in the US, which is absolutely criminal. My personal favorite was The Dancing Princesses with Leslie Ann Warren.

This is an exceptional example of how to do musical theater for TV - obviously, it works live as a stage production, but NPH adds a ton of nuance in his inflections and expressions that emphasizes the performance on screens. The camera work doesn’t capture everything, but focuses when it needs to focus and moves…

Fuck that guy, and also the number nearly grinds to a halt for a few beats with his intense awkwardness.

This show was so frustrating. The only consistent, and consistently good, thing about it was the killer aesthetics. No consistent internal logic around magic, how it’s practiced, what the source is, what its limits are, what the cost is. Early on, they toyed with the whole “can you be a good person and still be a…

I like this episode a lot more as a standalone rather than as part of the Eldritch Terrors hot mess. As part of the larger picture, it makes no sense (not that much in this show does) - Sabrina Morningstar is sent to this parallel universe to stop the Cosmic from advancing, but the parallel universe seems to…

Based on the cast list, it looks like they’ve cut out all the original subplots, which means all the original red herrings. Dropping Richetti is no great loss, in my opinion, but I’m disappointed to lose the Tim Allerton subplot, as I always liked that one in the book and the Suchet adaptation (which skewed it in a…