(i'd contend Broad city's Apartment hunters and Nathan for You's gas station episode should also be in that conversation)

Not just the two (ok two of the three, s/o to broad city) best new comedies, but maybe the two best single episodes of comedy tv this year

I'm just mad in general that literally no one seemed to recognize the fact that The Electric Lady was like one of the best pop albums of the past 20 years; even blew The ArchAndroid out of the water. Like, I really did dig Beyonce's s/t album, but while everyone was praising it without qualifier (and while its a great…

Agreed wholeheartedly; it gets frustrating when the grade scale is so inflated that it becomes really difficult to distinguish between B+ and A-. Sonia's one of my favorite writers here for many reasons but the fact that she'll actually grade using the full scale is definitely one of them. (still eternally lobbying…

wish i read this comment before i belatedly wrote this same sentiment, only way less fleshed out (i hate how disqus only shows one comment in the thread when you click the notification link)

https://www.youtube.com/wat…

reflecting on it, it is visually sort of par for the course, but the theme song is so goddamn perfect that it makes it seem way better than it is

Or, further still, the Venture Bros. (Season 2 onwards)

I'm honestly baffled that no one mentioned 30 Rock.

I feel like Rick and Morty is one of those shows that is so good that the standard for "A" is set astoundingly high—- which makes it crazy when this show can hit that level multiple times in its first season. In the past few months alone we've had two comedies arrive with immaculate, fully-formed first seasons (Broad…

Is Borges' Uqbar cheating re: the whole earth thing? Yes? Ok.

To listen: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Yo La Tengo, "Tom Courtenay"

Best fake world will always, always be Tlön:
http://art.yale.edu/file_co…

I keep telling myself that this is the weekend I'll finally play Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, but tbh I'm probably just going to end up playing more Monaco or Civ. This week I finally hit what may or may not be the end of Starseed Pilgrim, which has stumbled into being one of my favorite games in recent memory.

This might be stretching the rules of when *I* was personally scandalized, or of the idea that this was based on a previously seen censored version, but back when I was like ten or eleven, my parents decided it was time to let me see my first mom-and-pop sanctioned R-rated movie. Now, I'd seen a few on my own by this…

1: Enlightened
2: Bob's Burgers
3(tie): The Eric Andre Show
3(tie): Nathan For You
5(tie): Orange is the New Black
5:(tie): Breaking Bad
6: AD Season 4
7: Veep
8: Venture Brothers
9: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
10: Parks and Rec
11(tie): Boardwalk Empire
11(tie): Key and Peele
13: Rectify
14: Mad Men
15: CBBTV

I know I already made one "oh man these games are so overlooked" post here but I am obliged to make another because I myself failed to mention what's possibly my GOTY, and I've heard absolutely no one bring it up.

Monaco was also really really good & among my favorites on the year, but you're probably right, even though they're totally different styles of puzzle stealth (Gunpoint is VERY precise and calculated, Monaco is seat-of-your-pants, ohgodeverythinghasgonetoshitwiththisplan hijinks).

Having recently moved back (possibly temporary, possibly forever, who knows!) to the DC area after spending the past few years in NYC, I've gotta say Atlas Arcade is infinitely more enjoyable than Barcade in Williamsburg, and finally sold me on the idea that the arcade/bar can be done right