Yeah, but the kid only exists to need and want food and care and sports practices and recitals because of a choice the parents made. I don’t think it makes sense that if you call someone into existence you get to demand gratitude of them.

Totally apart from whether QT’s mom earned his ire for this and other misdeeds, I don’t buy the general rule that successful kids (or unsuccessful kids for that matter) owe their parents much of anything, let alone extravagant gifts. I think obligation in the parent child relationship is pretty much a one way street.…

Fun, tense episode. It says something (I’m not sure what) that as awful as these characters are, I’m kind of rooting for them. Except for Shane of course. And Olivia.

I’m mostly neutral on this, but I don’t love that the credits are just old Doogie redux. Even with the recycled premise you’d think they would want to differentiate the new character more early on. But it’s all good as long as they manage to score a NPH cameo sometime during the first season.

This is the second review in a row that has implied that Quinn might be secretly gay. I guess it’s possible he is, but I don’t think so. For one, his dad flat out asked him last episode if he was and he said no. Of course he could be lying or confused, but guilelessness seems to be one of Quinn’s defining…

I’m enjoying this a lot. I usually don’t go in for the idea of a character “you love to hate”, but Jake Lacy’s Shane is so GD punchable.

It’s not a deeply held principle or anything, and I’ll run in to grab a couple things if I’m right next door, but in general I avoid Publix. It’s too expensive and the cashiers tend to be chatty.

I don’t care about the Airheads bun, but why ruin a perfectly good chicken sandwich with fucking slaw?

Hmmm. Most of the conversation surrounding this film is about whether the relationship between Luca and Alberto can/should be read as romantic. Should I ask the actors who play these characters about that? Nah, I’ll ask about ice cream.

1. Don’t agree, but I can see this. The love triangle/will-they-won’t-they/on-again-off-again stuff didn’t help.

It’s a particular problem in shows with kid heavy casts who age visibly between seasons.

This is really sad. I guess there is some small solace in that it wasn’t a sordid former child star style death, but not much.

The price of brisket went up from $3.50/lb to $4.75/lb. That’s a 36% increase, substantial, I’d agree. But a $25 sandwich after a 36% increase was $18 before the increase. That’s already more than I’m willing to pay for a sandwich.

That doesn’t read like a C+ review, but I agree that it was a C+ show. If you ignore his whole deal and just judge Musk next to other weird, not-an-entertainer SNL hosts he was fine, a little better than average in fact. And the hit-to-miss ratio wasn’t bad: Covid Conversation, Murder Durdur, and Wario were all great,…

I guess I’m number five.

Oh, look who’s been wearing pants during lockdown. Nice humblebrag, AV Club.

He’d probably do a fine job, but “I don’t believe there is anyone out there who is better suited for this job than me” is an awfully bold statement to make.

He’d probably do a fine job, but “I don’t believe there is anyone out there who is better suited for this job than me” is an awfully bold statement to make.

So in this world people don’t start puberty until their early 20s?

Is this the same thing as ScarJo playing an Asian character, or Jenny Slate voicing a biracial girl? I don’t know, but I do think that there is something disrespectful about assuming that the experience of being a 14 year old boy is something that a nearly 40 year old woman can identify with and convey authentically.…