I loved the show and thought this was a solid way to end it. But it would have been nice if there were fewer illogical and/or super-contrived moments. There was no good reason why Marie Schrader would have been let into that meeting between the United States government and Saul, other than for the manufactured drama.…

New AV Club! “Where a recap is literally just a recap”

I didn’t like it. It didn’t make sense.

Something about the way this season is ending feels a bit unsatisfying. Can’t put my finger on it as the writers really have checked a lot of the boxes of what I wanted to see or expected to happen, but it’s kind of like the sum of the parts aren’t quite adding up.

While the acting and writing continues to be sublime, am I the only one who finds this back half disjointed and not exactly... satisfying?  Like, it doesn’t feel like a conclusion to the show we spent the last 5.5 seasons with, but a completely different one that almost has completely different characters in it?

Apply to a.v. club my dude. This comment could be a featured article and is way better than anything they have up right now.

I thought the Florida stuff was a little heavy-handed, but I guess the show has gone broad before. I also wanted to see a little bit more Kim in Florida Kim. Rhea did great by playing it as barely fitting in rather than obviously miserable, but she also wasn’t recognizable as Kim, at all. I don’t know that Kim needed…

Something I just realized after finishing this episode: Jimmy is always at his most vengeful when people attempt to hold themselves accountable. Note how his true rage at Howard started when Howard confessed that he felt responsible for Chuck’s death. When Kim comes in to sign the divorce settlement, his performance…

Oh you again. I Know you from the 30+ other comments you’ve been policing in the replies. I didread the entire article. I stand by my original comment. We can and should discuss relevant social issues, one simply doesn’t need to be a dick in the headlines about it. I don’t see anyone asking nintendo about their CEO in…

Okay? Having diverse teams is important, but complaining every time someone who doesn’t fit that mold gets a job is petty and idiotic.

It’s been really sad to watch Kotaku gradually become what its critics have long said it is. I have been reading Kotaku since around 2010-2011, I’m guessing, and it was once by far my favorite site for coverage of games and the culture around games. Over the last year or two, though, and especially over the last few…

The title makes me smh. Some articles should point out race, but this one is not needed. You could just say:

Well, if one thing’s for sure, dunking on Cyberpunk is a great way to get video game blogs to basically just reprint your press release while heaping loads of additional praise on the developer.

She’s owed what she’s owed. What does Disney need with that money?

They would still have to honor the contract signed by the company they acquired. That’s part of what they bought in the deal.

I don’t really get the issue here. Yes it makes it hard to break into the mainstream as an indie developer. But this is kinda just how marketing works. If you want people to see your game front and center, be prepared to pay for that.

What’s sad to me isn’t that AV club has gone this way in isolation. It seems to be that thoughtful, reasoned commentary on pop-culture is going away. I won’t read the conservative rags, but all the progressive ones I used to like (this place, slashfilm, pop culture happy hour) have become predominantly built around…

Interestingly, AV Club gave this episode of Bob and David an “A”.

This is a satire issue (and the limits thereto), not a straight-up blackface issue. The fact that this author fails to account for this is totally emblematic of the decline in the quality of the writing on this site.

Remember when The AV Club would report the news, rather than tell you the specific, exact response you should have to it?