The AV Club tends to revel in a weighted nostalgia blanket of the past littered with links that users never asked for. While the fan service may delight a few diehard Gawker fans, others find this approach nearly as tedious as the full-size videos that block the page.

Grade: C- 

One thing I find really annoying about The AV Club and its sister sites is how they’re clearly being called upon to self-reference as much prior content as they possibly can, like how this article links back to four of the previous articles written about Cowboy Bebop and seven articles about Seinfeld. Naturally, that…

He basically wants them to be John Oliver, as though what he’s doing fundamentally changes a goddamn thing.

I really don’t understand where people ever got the idea that SNL has or ever had an “outlaw rebel comedy image.” Maybe in the very early years when everyone was like 20 years old and coked up all the time?

“A few decent Update zingers are fine, but a mounting a concerted affront to the heavily armed and seditious powers that are setting themselves up (through thuggish violence and widespread voting fuckery) would go a long way toward earning the outlaw rebel comedy image Saturday Night Live has always cultivated for…

Best Joke of the night was Che’s “new titties” joke about the Queen, but it didn’t even get a mention here, presumably because it couldn’t lead to another tedious political rant.

Dennis’s reviews are always as if Debbie Downer was a real person. He really can’t go more than 3 paragraphs without injecting his personal world view stamp on anything and everything. I like to read them because they are way more funny than what he actually finds funny. It’ll never not be amusing to read a person’s…

this is, no doubt, because of Gregg Turkington’s groundbreaking turn as Muncher. I hope Ivan Reitman and the Academy remember this when it’s time to award Oscer Gold!!

I’m not sure what’s more ridiculous: That you expect us to believe that this is your first comment on the topic or that you expect us to have been breathlessly following your posting activity....

For the love of white shooters, will you give it a rest? 

Psst - you know the new rules around here. We lost coverage of The Simpsons and can only afford to cover SNL and it’s various advertisements now if they even catch you mentioning how bad the quality of the staff writing goes they might take away more...

commercials are news now?

It only took one episode with Ken following weeks of Mayim Bialik to make me feel like Ken should be the permanent host. Both Ken and the game moved much more smoothly than she did. Ken sounds more natural and is better at interacting with the contestants, while Bialik seemed very stiff reading from the cue cards and…

I think Gal Gadot might be bad at this whole acting thing. 

“a trio of bankable stars” - er... Gadot hasn’t been in the lead role of any hit movie that wasn’t about the world’s most famous superheroine. Her non-WW bankability seems to be untested.

I’d like to see some actual reporting on this. Marvel (and other filmmakers) obviously have some kind of relationship with the military, but the nature of that relationship is kind of opaque and open to a lot of speculation.

“When a film uses military assets for free those specific scripts have to get military approval to make sure the military isn’t disparaged,” he continued in follow-up posts. “This is very few films—and, from what I know, the military is pretty loose about it.”

I’m shocked by how she treated Palestinian civilians!

I’m shocked she made it this far. She went to the Zoolander school of acting....she has one facial expression in all her movies.

You'll take your endless SNL coverage and like it.