Totally agree. Chicken sandwiches are my preferred fast food choice, and I’ve never had anything nearly as disgusting as BK’s chicken patties. I don’t recall if I’ve tried the tenders, but the fingers and patties taste like chicken slurry ground up into a fine paste. That kind of thing sometimes tastes better than it…

McMansion Hell is an “AV Club favorite” for reasons that are totally lost on me, but I will say, that horse painting is genuinely fucking hilarious.

Did anyone else here listen to the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend episodes with Jeff Goldblum and Timothy Olyphant? If so, was I alone in think they were *awful*?

I found the panel. 

Those are glasses, not sunglasses. His trademark sunglasses were Jackie O-style thick oval frames. I’ll concede that prescription wraparounds were never cool.

I haven’t read the comics, but my understanding is that the reveal of the cat (who was named something other than “Goose”, I can’t recall what) as actually being a “flerken” coincided with the cat meeting Rocket, and Rocket flipping out.

The benchmark for cool men’s fashion in the 90s is Brad Pitt. Have a search to see what he wore to the 1998 Emmys.

Wayfarers have come *back* into style. They were not cool in the 90s.

Wraparound sunglasses were *cool* in the 90s. I remember that vividly. But not practical - they had a propensity for fogging up.

I generally have a lot of faith in AV Club film reviews, and so went into the theater tonight with lowered expectations. But I didn’t need to be primed for disappointment. It was really good.

[Will Smith, scrubbing furiously]

Arnold is the true star of T2, but you’re right that James Cameron has a good track record with female leads in his action movies, and they’re also the type of big budget blockbuster that I was talking about. Though I maintain that Cameron is pretty unique in that respect.

This is the first MCU movie with a female star. That’s not a theory, it’s a fact. And modern MCU really defines the genre. Although there have been prior superhero movies with eponymous female leads, they are movies like Catwoman and Elektra, which were colossally bad. The only major superhero movie to break this…

Just to be clear, I don’t disagree. My point is more that it’s easier to get away with a lazily written male lead, because we’ve seen the same archetypes so many times that we can fill in the blanks on our own. Even if the character has a new name, we recognize them immediately from other movies, and don’t need the…

I wonder if it’s easier to write f0r male-leads in these action blockbusters, because there’s a such a well developed repository of short-hand for establishing male action hero characters. For example, we just need to see one hint of a strained relationship with a girlfriend, and it calls to mind dozens of action…

I watched this show over the weekend. I’m assuming there are some people, like me, who will dribble back into this review as they catch up with watching it.

“The” critique that she is is lazily written—unbelievably incompetent
just for the sake of being vulnerable and therefore sympathetic (which I disagree with, in any event)—is not Zack’s critique. He likens her to Wesley Crusher, who was never likable at any point in time.

I don’t need to be paraphrased. I said exactly what I meant.

If you watch enough TV, the signs of a backdoor pilot will eventually become really familiar. An unusually large and elaborate set, similar to the main set of the show, but brighter and more high tech (see e.g., the backdoor pilots for every CSI and NCIS spin-off), populated with an unusually large and impressive roste…

Bad news my friend, “Disco” is definitely a thing. They sell official T-shirts. They’ve worn them on the show.