The whole point was that everyone *else* at the Bear put in the time and the work to figure their shit out, and Carmy played a significant role in putting them in the circumstances to do that, but he never did work on himself, not really — he *lost* himself in an immature relationship. It made him feel good and maybe…

I’m not a fan of her storyline with Carmy because I don’t give a shit about his love life BUT I was a little disappointed that they didn’t do more with this core difference between them. They both have high-pressure jobs that require a lot of managing human beings but Claire seems to have figured out how to manage her…

With dual strikes going on it is hard out there for an AV Club writer blogger employee.

I literally was sitting watching old slots of Ferguson on Youtube and being pissed about it. The dude was an absolute master of the interview and a shamelessly smooth flirt.

This the right take - who on earth is asking for this?

That is so interesting to me. When I played the game for the first time in 2013, both my kids were really young. In fact, my youngest had only been born a little over a year earlier.

Does Joel go overboard in reclaiming Ellie: Yes.

EXECUTIVE DECISION

It’s the latter. 

I agree with you about Man Men. To me, the quality never dipped. The character development and story is of the highest quality. I get something new every time I re-watch it. 

I love the late Mad Men seasons. Probably because my parents divorced and my dad remarried. I think we’re conditioned not to care about a middle aged guy’s second marriage to someone younger (and that’s where a typical story would end) but the show handled it wonderfully and it’s probably the most accurate depiction…

Perfect example. I remember a friend told me that Eric Kripke said in an interview he had a plan for five seasons (he said this while the show was still in its first season). But the show was successful enough by the end of season 5, that the CW wanted more. And clearly, the studio that produced Supernatural wanted to…

I’d really like to see TV seasons treated more like movies. You do one that tells a satisfying story with a beginning, middle, and end (no cliffhangers!), and if enough people watch it, you figure out how to make another one - as opposed to so many shows that have a beginning, a middle, and then leave like five…

Well yeah that’s the one thing the public really knows about them, they were Libertarians. 

Im sure there are a contingent of people that take issues with the diversity angle of Velma, but frankly the show is terribly written and frankly off putting in ways that have nothing to do with the cast’s diversity. If anything the cast’s diversity is a GREAT idea, it’s just wasted on this abjectly terrible show.
It’s…

It’s what I call “The Last Jedi Syndrome”.  Most of the people who hated the movie didn’t hate it because Rey was female.  Folk tried to prop up the rare sexist criticism to try to paint the majority of critics as operating in bad faith.

Yep - the most vociferous criticism I’ve seen has been from people like Scooby Doo and/or animation in general, saying “this just isn’t good.”

This one’s also getting way more attention because it got an unusually large marketing push for a new Scooby Doo project and it’s the first one aimed explicitly at adults. Even without the racism, people who don’t normally care are reacting because people who don’t normally care are the ones this is aimed at.

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