Zack Handlen = Neil Degrasse Tyson. He’s not necessarily wrong, but he’s spoiling the fun.
 

I feel like there should be an editorial disclosure / humble brag that Brian Huskey was an Onion News Network regular (and consistently the best part of all his sketches).

What you might be picking up on is that he doesn’t get be as cool as the other kid actors. He’s always the one getting rescued, and not the one doing the rescuing. He’s also awkward and nerdy (to some extent all the boys are, but Will definitely has the dorkiest haircut). All of that adds up to a character who isn’t…

The scary thing is that these bitter nutters with too much free time on their hands are a problem even with historically low rates of unemployment. It can get worse.

Are you saying that employees who work on Microsoft Word aren’t allowed to possess things? That’s harsh.

I don’t understand what we’re doing giving a platform to Haitian residents to tell us the truth about who they are, what their life is like, and what they think. What everyone really wants to know is, how do Trump supporters in Coal Country feel about his calling Haiti a “shithole”, and do these Trump supports still…

To get this joke, you need to know that The Bye Bye Man is not a particularly good movie.

This sort of moral relativism can only really serve to make someone look less reprehensible by comparison. “Yeah, but he’s not Hitler”. The only person who benefits from the exercise is the slightly less reprehensible person. I don’t see any incentive for us to engage in the exercise from the outside looking in. They…

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).