Let’s just get this out of the way now. You’re all wrong and the order that I ranked them is correct.
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Gwen Ihnat
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Gwen Ihnat has been an A.V. Club member since 2013. Also member of the Television Critics Association. Current recapper of Bachelorette and Nine Perfect Strangers, epic chronicler of Gilmore Girls.
English is 3 languages in a trench coat masquerading as 1 like Vincent Adultman
I feel like Hader must be the nicest guy in the world (besides Tom Hanks). It would devastate me if I met him and he was an asshole. Read more
Time to play “What’s That Name?”
It’s so weird to look at Henry Winkler now and think, “That guy used to be the coolest guy on TV.” He’s still cool, but in a different way. No Fonzie-cool. No one has ever been Fonzie-cool since.
The ski suit with hat and matching backpack say “ready for Alpine adventure!” while the color scheme screams, “Who wants McDonald’s?”
This isn’t my peanut butter. I’m sorry Glen!
I use this line whenever possible. It’s never come up yet, but I have it locked and loaded.
My favorite little bit in this episode is the silly, exaggerated way he climbs the ladder as he’s trying to run away at the end.
I don’t know if I have ever watched a full episode of the Bachelor/Bachelorette, but I love the hell out of Bachelor in Paradise. Maybe I am hamstrung by not knowing the baggage they bring in, but whatever, let’s see some hot people humping and dumping. And Spade was easily the best for all the reasons you stated… Read more
Well, Shatner can never be president, so there’s that.
For a guy who’s got a reputation as being a real ass, this was a delightful read.
You might be, but I say it kindly. I think after the events of that day, the amount of adrenaline in your body - thinking you were going to die - would wear a lot of people out, especially a recently sober addict whose body is still recovering. Frankly, I think it was only a sudden burst of creativity that kept… Read more
That’s really weird that she would do that. I read the book, and the mean-spirited stuff about the critic stuck out like a sore thumb (even more so now it seems she had someone specific in mind). Same with JK Rowling’s brutal treatment of aspiring writers in one of her detective novels. It’s like, you’re wildly… Read more
Another star vehicle of poor writing and way too many weeks of filler and misdirects, all made tolerable by top tier casting and acting.
I think you’re right, but given that they never resolved the missing cars in the garage before they all got trapped in the steam room I think that could have been made more clear.
Gwen, you must attend this and ask her this very question (tomorrow at 7 pm): Read more
Surely a writer with the last name Moriarty would be sensitive to how one’s name appearing in fiction can have an emotional and psychological impact.
First of all: Gwen is a lovely name. Second of all, the whole situation is super weird. I really cringe when creative types do this kind of thing. Critics love art. Why else would they do the job they do? No one is going to agree 100% with all critical takes (I certainly don’t!), but being weird and petty about… Read more
I genuinely have no idea what to make of any of that, but for what it’s worth, you are one of the more even handed reviewers on this site or any other. Maybe that’s why it stung her so much? But regardless, if you truly are living rent free in this woman’s head, kudos.