I’m 3 episodes in, and I think your review is spot on so far—very high-end production values, but some clunky dialogue and kinda ham-fisted exploration of what should be pretty interesting philosophical and/or socio-political ideas. However, I think it’s interesting enough that I wouldn’t mind having…

You need better friends. Either they are too stupid to follow it, or they lied to you.

They are nuts. This show is fantastic.

I don’t understand, you guys are lamenting how AC has suffered b/c of the media cycle, but no one is covering it and you “might try to take another dive,” if you get around to it. If you think it’s worth discussing, why don’t you cover it? By “you cover it” I mean AV Club collectively, not you personally.

I wish this site covered Altered Carbon

I think you misunderstand. Some of the reactions are ignorant, but if you actually read the article, it says those very things. The “new” piece of news, here, is that dark skin seems to have been in existence in Europe significantly later than originally thought. That’s the story, not that Europeans had dark skin. As…

Exactly, race is a social construct and we have no way to know how Cheddar Man would have identified or how others would have identified his group. It’s hard to imagine that it would have been on racial lines though rather than geographic, tribal, or linguistic ones.

The irony of the picture below tore a hole in reality.

She read as mixed-race Asian to me, but I didn’t hunt down her background because to me it read a little beside the point to me at the time (and, unless you can verify the subject’s race, it’s also the easiest way to make an unnecessary mistake). Her rant was clearly anti-black, and anti-blackness runs rampant in all…

No and honestly he doesn’t even owe anyone an apology either. All Im saying is if he were so sorry he wouldnt have took the job. What he learned was he wasn’t gonna get away with working with Allen. For whatever rwason actors think its a gold star on their resume to work with him. You cant have it both ways.…

I know this wasn’t the whole point of your post, but I would also like a lot more focus placed on the producers, funders and big corporations that are making Woody Allen films happen than on the actors that are hired. The actors themselves have a lot more to lose by speaking out than we do by speaking anonymously on…

Totally. This kid has neither the bank account, nor the established career (though he probably will) as any of the above. And yet.

Preach. I really feel like this will be the creep’s last film.

Selena Gomez isn’t really a musician. She’s a Disney star packaged as a pop star to move merchandise. Not that she isn’t a real human being, but “musician” is a stretch.
There are so many musicians with so much to say, and you’re right - that is their (our) role...remind us of folly, inspire us, and move us…

Either she just doesn’t give a crap where her money comes from or who it supports or she does - she doesn’t need to make a political statement or lead the charge, I’m just asking for these younger cats to grow up and quit being fence walkers

Selena Gomez needs to pick a lane. She’s getting too old for the “gee gosh, I’m not sure I know what’s going on there” routine.

Sounds like a nice enough place if you don’t mind the cold (and being racially isolated.) But like everywhere else where the predominant culture is white, Norway also has its own right wing extremists (and will likely sprout more if the non-white population there starts to grow.) The reality is that black and brown…

I’m not for this “Scandinavia is a racial Shangri-La” stuff. That is a sentiment that is readily debunked. Nowhere in the world is free of anti-blackness, if the population is pressed hard enough (i.e. the minority population rises from being “interesting and insignificant” to “wait, y’all are here for real?”). See:…

Are white people there? Yes