Except The Night Of was created and written by Richard Price, who was also a writer for... wait for it... The Wire. And they both had hefty parts for Michael K. Williams. So I would argue that the two shows have lots of connections.

ETA: I realize that it sounds like I could have meant David Simon (creator/showrunner…

I was entirely expecting to not like this episode. “Mourning” episodes of TV shows tend to usually just be boring and full of manufactured drama. But this really captures in an understated way exactly how grief is weird, difficult, and lonely no matter how many people you’re surrounded by, and how absolutely lost it…

Yeah, that was my thought while watching this episode—everyone’s getting Flanderized already, especially Jason, and it’s only the second season.

This is pretty neat, but I feel like 3M poster tabs would be cheaper (48 for $6 on Amazon), easier to find, create a cleaner look, and would hold heavier posters.

Hot take: The Wire is extremely cliched and boring. I’ve never understood people shitting their pants over it. Every character is a lazy cookie cutter version of a better character from a better show or movie (the same goes for The Night Of, which is from the same guy). Only watch it if you enjoy watching discount…

I feel like the “Skip Intro” button is fine, as long it doesn’t become compulsory default. I agree that the quick jump to the next episode is no good, especial for shows like BoJack Horseman; I was always have to jump to grab the remote to stop the next episode because first, BoJack usually ends on something that…

I really liked all six episodes, but I felt like #5 here was the episode where the whole thing really clicked together as “The Tick.” Maybe it was the absurd banality of Overkill and Dangerboat bickering like an old married couple that did it for me. “Well, I did’t see you on Yahoo! or whatever, did I?”

He’s not speaking German or Russian or Romanian, he’s speaking “Urmanian,” and Arthur’s suit is from “Urmania.” There’s a whole sequence in a later episode about characters struggling to translate Urmanian.

I would say watch it. It’s a different show than the cartoon or the other live-action, and it’s not the comics. It’s a totally different version of its own for sure, but as someone who also was draw in by the cartoon and then proceeded to hunt down all the comics (during the infancy of the internet, when I had to print…

In the cartoon, Arthur’s suit was made by J. J. Vatos. Which is how Carmelita (Vatos’ daughter) was introduced, because she has the sister moth suit, so she looks (sort of) just like Arthur. Which is why the Aztecs kidnapped Arthur. Which is why we got Speak.

You look awful.

That would be genius. And totally in The Tick’s wheelhouse of ouroboros meta insanity.

I kind of wonder if they’re setting up some sort of reveal that Arthur can will people into being... or something like that, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe something to do with Arthur’s dreams, since we’re seeing so much of that? The Tick seems to exist as an extension of Arthur—The Tick is eerily adept…

The Tick, in all its forms, has always been a comment on superherodom of the time. 80s/90s comics were darkish and maybe a bit nonsensical. The 90s cartoon matched the new slate of contemporaneous Xmen, Spider-Man, Batman cartoons (and movies). 2001 live-action show was dropped into a little bit of a dead zone for…

So, two things:

I know this post will never see the light of day, but fuck Jezebel and fuck the tone of this article.

What’s extra sad is that there are a few (like two or three) fairly solid jokes buried in all his weird, aggressive, conspiracy theory nonsense ranting.

Actual comedians work really hard, and try again and again and again, until they whittle down and refine their material to the stuff that works, regardless of how…

The correction is still beyond badly written, though. “...as our last version incorrectly claimed The Legend of Zelda as Nintendo’s best selling video game franchise (it’s one of the highest) and Nintendo to be almost 100 years younger than it actually is” is some seriously garbled syntax.

No, unless you use Chrome and install the Kinjamprove extension, which AV Club promoted in their “Welcome to Kinja” story. When you have to rely on a third-party solution to make your comments section slightly less than absolutely terrible, you know you’re winning.

Oh, boo. I thought it would be something more direct that didn’t require an endorsement of the comment/commenter. Like, maybe I don’t like your weird comment, but I don’t think it should be hidden in a stupid-shit “greys” system, either.