Did you know that MythBusters is still going, without any of its original cast? Because I sure as shit didn’t. I was at my sister’s house over the holidays (she has the Discovery channel; I do not), and caught an episode. I assumed the two clowns I was watching were new supporting cast members from Adam and Jamie’s…

Neither of these twists would have ever occured to me if I didn’t see them in the comments at the AV Club, first. And to a small extent it kind of ruined the “Oh shit!” joy of a good twist, which I regret. It’s something I’ve experienced repeatedly (Dexter, West World, Game of Thrones) that an online community of…

When you think back on Key & Peele, what made a lot of skits great was the writing, direction and costume/makeup design, more so than the acting. They’re capable comedians and actors, but if you put them in someone else’s production, history shows that the results are mostly forgetable. And of the two, Key is probably…

For all the garbage clickbait that floods the AV Club, I want to express appreciation for articles like this that are based on actual journalistic effort, and relay insights from a properly good movie critic. It’s frankly tragic that something like this counts for just as many “clicks” (if not fewer), then some…

I’m sorry, you want me to buy Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti as a couple? No offence to Paul Giametti, he’s a great actor, but Kathryn Hahn is a smoke show, and Giametti looks like the Ghost of Christmas Future. Actually, that’s definitely offensive to Giametti, but I’ll just assume he isn’t reading.

Nah, the AV Club didn’t nominate itself. But it will post an article excerpting your comment, and make a vaguely snarky remark about it.

JCVJ was definitely weird, but in a totally delightful way, and the production value was outstanding. I actually felt pretty similarly about The Tick, so it’s kind of weird that one gets renewed before its first season is even finished, and the other gets shit-canned less than a month out of the gate.

I like it in concept, but it imposes some difficult limitations from a writing perspective - to show them dealing with Trump (in all the ways described in the book), you’d have to recite through exposition all of the things that Trump was telling them to do. Two other possibilities:

The sushi not being treated for parasites is pretty gross, but the rest is pretty unremarkable. If it was describing a restaurant I frequented, it wouldn’t trouble me much at all.

A “channel for guys” is one of the less ludicrous basic cable channel themes, if we’re being honest.

But Voq seems pretty subserviant to La’Rell (nowithstanding that she was his subordinate when he was Klingon), and La’Rell’s arc seems to be to have become more human-friendly. It could have just been a ruse to get captured and put her back in contact with Tyler/Voq to activate him, but her disdain for other Klingons…

I loved The Grinder. Nathan for You is brilliant. That Andy Daily show I didn’t watch, but seems quite beloved by some. The first couple seasons of Modern Family were genuinely hilarious (as easy as that is to forget, watching it now).

A critically praised performance portraying a real-life personality, which which was only moderately commercially succesful? How about Adaptation (2002, portraying Charlie Kaufman), vs Ali’s 2001. I have no recollection of it, to be honest, but it scored 91% on the Tomatometer (significantly better than Ali, actually).…

I initially thought this was a silly parallel, but did my homework on it, and it’s not too far off.

It sort of makes sense. He is a Willenial, after all.

Ivanka would need to have decision making authority to be able to have a conflict of interest. The issue is slightly different - it’s profiting for personal gain off of her public status, or her ability to provide “access”. While that is icky, it’s not a conflict of interest. Trump is the only one who has real…

I’m guilty of clicking on this, but let me quietly scamper back to my high horse so I can ask: why do we give a fuck what Alex Jones had to say?

I’m mostly with you, but in the limited sense that it doesn’t feel like Zack wants to enjoy this show. Every compliment towards the show seems begrudging, and is shaded with a “but”. I thought this episode was a blast, and the fact that it drew on some existing cannon and didn’t wrap itself up in one episode didn’t…

I can’t remember any other shows where it’s happened where gay characters have been killed (is it a slasher pic trope?), so I won’t speak for those, but I think in this case it is actually the opposite of homophobic. I think the narrative reason for killing Culber was because they thought it was a sympathetic…

[Spoiler for the Amazon Original, Jean Claude Van Johnson, which you should totally watch, because it’s a ton of fun]. Maybe Culber just has a sprained neck.