Promising Young Woman is out on Premium VOD today ($20), so I figure I would put up a spoiler space for it! I was going to wait until it hit $5 VOD in a few weeks, but it seems like … Continue reading Spoiler Space: Promising Young Woman (2020)
Hello everyone! It is a nice Tuesday morning in January and the AV Club is resetting its 11 Questions interview feature with a new 11 Questions. I figure we could answer last year’s old questions as a sort of “introduce … Continue reading The Avocado Answers The A.V. Club’s 11 Questions: 2020 Edition
Hello everyone! I have finished tallying your votes, and the top TV shows of 2020, according to The Avocado, have been decided! You mentioned 95 dramas, 87 comedies, and 35 unscripted shows, so I had to do a lot of … Continue reading The Pits: 2020 TV Results!
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not make your own post or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in TV 2020
I finally watched Twin Peaks: The Return. It took me eight months, and watching it by myself made me feel like I missed many important parts by not discussing its unique qualities with other people. In what would count as … Continue reading Twin Peaks: The Return Discussion Thread
Talia Lavin, freelance writer (The New Yorker, The New Republic), is a very good Twitter follow. Her new book, Culture Warlords, is about the white supremacist online movement, and she’s written several interesting pieces concerning the subject. But most importantly, … Continue reading The Chefclub Night Thread (10/29)
Everybody loves The Matrix. The surprise smash hit of Spring 1999 rode a wave of leather jackets, nu-metal, and your older brother saying “what if… life… was the real simulation?” into $465.3 million dollars at the box office and four Oscar wins. … Continue reading Late to the Party: The Matrix Trilogy
Every July 4, our town pool holds a local tradition. A group of child volunteers are split into a small number of teams. Each team is handed a whole watermelon that is covered in grease and instructed to put it … Continue reading The 7/1 Night Thread has a Greased Watermelon Race
Safety in the lighthouse is a questionable proposition. “Orphans!” yells the older man, the one whose name you don’t know. “Now be an excellent time t’ paint the lighthouse. Gettin’ kind of flaky up there, it be. Storm’s comin’ in … Continue reading Werewolves 125: A Sequence of Regrettable Occurrences: Day Five
“Time is a continuum,” Casper tells you as you mount gears on shaping wheels. “Raawk!” says Emily. “‘Continuum’ means-“ “Ice Bear knows what ‘continuum’ means,” says Ice Bear. “Oh,” says Casper, crestfallen. “Anyway, what I do here is make sure … Continue reading Werewolves 125: A Sequence of Regrettable Occurrences Day 3
It is a terrible thing, to lose the ones you love, and not at all something that can be rectified with a stick of gum. “Rectified” is a word which here means “made right,” and as you chew your Weatherbee’s … Continue reading Werewolves 125: A Sequence of Regrettable Occurrences Day 1
Thirty years ago, on May 30, 1990, the newspaper comics industry changed forever. In one three-panel comic, a passionate debate was created that rocked the comics community for decades. Did Jon Arbuckle drink dog semen on the comics page? Based on … Continue reading The Night Thread Celebrates an Important Anniversary (5/30)
Hello Avocado Musicians! I have no idea how many of you there are, but I wanted to have a discussion (that might turn into a recurring thread) about music, particularly during this time of quarantine. For those of us who … Continue reading Musicians’ Thread: Quarantine Edition
About fifteen minutes into the film Cats, Rebel Wilson appears, as Jennyanydots the Old Gumbie Cat. As she describes how she helps take care of the animals in her kitchen, mice and cockroaches with human faces appear. Jennyanydots then grabs … Continue reading In Defense of Cats: A Review (Kind Of)
One of my favorite things on the internet is I Think About This A Lot, The Cut’s place for people to share their “private memes: images, videos, and other random trivia they are doomed to play forever on loop in their … Continue reading The Avocado Thinks About This A Lot
After watching spooky backflip away, you’re quiet. You all shuffle in place as you wait for the next kill to happen. “Owen, could you just send us away from here before anyone dies? That would probably be the best thing … Continue reading Werewolf 100: The One Hundreding- Day 8
After getting that touch of murder out of your system, you assemble the assorted Rafto-Hovnatanian Cinematic Universe players and DMPCs so you can tell them what’s going on. There’s a moment of tense quiet as everyone shuffles onto the boat’s … Continue reading Werewolf 100: The One Hundreding – Day 6
Disqus is getting stronger, and better at destroying games. Not that you know why they’re destroying the games you head to, but you know that they’re doing it. The players here, though you don’t know them, are your allies. They’re … Continue reading Werewolf 100: The One Hundreding- Day 4 (Team 2)
With the death of a Disqus agent, you folks are feeling pretty relieved. You’re well on your way to stopping that evil corporation! Plus, you probably won’t die! You wonder if there’s anything they could possibly do to get back … Continue reading Werewolf 100: The One Hundreding – Day 3 (Team 2)
The nineteen of you sit, unsure of what to do next. Avocado Town apparently has a pretty good Dunkin’ Donuts, and the pumpkin spice items just opened up. As you walk to the Dunkin’ Donuts, you discuss matters such as … Continue reading Werewolf 100: The One Hundreding – Day 2 (TEAM 2)
You’re welcoming the newest batch of werewolfers after their last game ended (why do they all wear skull-shaped masks?) when there’s a loud CRACK from underneath the break room floor. You all scatter to the two sides of the room, … Continue reading Werewolf 100: The One Hundreding- Day 1 (TEAM 2)
