Release the balloons!
With his mention on a TV show that the TV Club reviews and that’s a pop culture hit, the AV Club finally gets its long-awaited opportunity to comment on Trump.

Songs with staying power tend to have that quality: something different and “off” about them that’s instinctively upsetting the first time you hear it, but that has a way of sticking with you, and - once you’ve heard it enough times - starts to grow on you.

LWYMMD is an example of that. I fucking like that song, now.

I…

I think people’s problems with Mayim’s op-ed come from a good place, but there’s something wrong here when the revelation of endemic sexual harassment leaves us demanding swift apologies from - of all people - the women who speak out about it a way that’s honest to their experience. Meanwhile people who let this…

Subscriptions are what ultimately matter, I agree, but there is an extricable link between viewership and subscriptions: the sole point of subscribing is to be able to view stuff. If people are even remotely rational (I realize I’m making a dangerous assumption, here) then they subscribe to view stuff, and then…

Netflix’s customers don’t have any entitlement to know viewership statistics (nor are they even granted the privilege anymore of a comprehensible ratings system), but what I’m curious to know is why Netflix’s shareholders/investors put up with it. They’re pouring billions of dollars into content, based on incisive…

Holy shit, >500 upvotes [”stars”] for a casually sarcastic remark in a relatively pedestrian Newswire article. Is this a sign of the Kinjapocalypse beginning to subside?

Since when did punks become hipsters. Do we really need to be smug about what it means to be a “real” fan?

He’s publicly humiliating himself by making the statement. Unless he’s a masochist, that’s “something”.

Whenever HBO inevitably makes a movie about this, I guarantee that this line finds its way into the script. It is a remarkably efficient encapsulation of what a terrible, casually self-entitled creep he is.

A star trek writer had a tweet indicating that they’d a made a “two dick” joke, so that’s definitely right, but that’s a good pull to the Worf episode. And I’d bet the writers were aware of that when you scripted the joke. It’s interesting that the show is insanely committed to the cannon with individual details, but…

People talk about political incorrectness and insensitivity like they’re fucking virtues. If it is “politically incorrect” and “insensitive” to cavalierly crack jokes about powerful people committing rape and getting away with it - in a community where powerful people regularly do commit rape and regularly do get away…

You keep referring to the fictional show universe like that helps. Mamoa wasn’t in character. He was describing what he (the actor) enjoyed about working in sci-fi and fantasy. His “joke” was that it was awesome cause you get to rape hot chicks without consequences. What a fantasy land! hahaha. You must be able to see…

Yes. Hollywood doesn’t have a culture where stars commit murder and it gets swept under the rug - if it did (and to be fair, I wouldn’t know if it did), then flipplant jokes about committing murder would be equally problematic.

It has nothing to do with anyone being “triggered”. It reflects an attitude of being flippant about rape, and recent events have highlighted the dangerousness of that attitude. There was an environment where people in power in Hollywood could treat vulnerable women like sexual objects and get away with it, because…

Yeah, I was pretty drunk. I may have been thinking of Journey Home, which wasn’t an especially good movie in any event. So not prime support for my point.

Oof. B- is generous, and I think the text of the review bears that out. I’m not a hater of the new series - I loved the first three episodes, and I think the people who are looking for things to be mad about are being foolish - but this episode was just bad. The pacing was awful, the climax didn’t work on any level.…

I found installments 5-7 to be pretty fun, but 8 was strangely dull. To describe the plot, the movie was action packed and had exciting action set pieces, but it was boring to watch. It’d be interesting to hear someone who knows they’re talking about dissect the incongruity. Among the many possibilities are: (1) the…

It’s almost as if I deliberately stretched the proposition to its absurd extreme, in order to more clearly explain my point. There’s a name for that in Latin, so clearly I’m very clever.

They also said you had to watch the first episodes. If they said “the fifth episode is when it really gets good”, or “the first episode drags, but it picks up from there”, then sure. That’s a good reason. But if you’re watching a piece of entertainment and you find it wholly unentertaining, then it evidently isn’t…

I don’t want to be that other guy, but if you don’t watch all of the first six seasons of The Big Bang Theory, you’re really not giving it a fair shake.

I’m entirely aware that’s an unfair analogy, but my point is that you shouldn’t have to pay a substantial penance before entertainment actually becomes entertaining.…