Worst Films
AV Club’s worst movies of 2011.
AV Club Best Music
AV Club’s best music of 2011. (And several AVC writer Spotify lists.)
The Onion (and AV Club) are launching in Toronto.
Somehow I’ve been unsubscribed from AV Club for I don’t know how long. Which means I’ve been missing this series — Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? — since October. Shame.
AV Club has a great piece on 1980’s sitcoms.
Where the sitcoms of the ’70s had reacted against the plastic, single-camera worlds of the worst ’60s sitcoms, the very idea of setup-punchline humor punctuated by audience laughter was beginning to feel more and more reductive to many TV writers. Wasn’t there another way to do this? Sure, Cheers was great, and everybody wanted to get a job in that writers’ room, but wouldn’t it be possible to do away with the audience laughter or the laugh track altogether? Couldn’t something more like a film comedy emerge?
