A detailed discussion of the DC Comics relaunch, highfalutin talk about the Toronto International Film Festival… this may be our wussiest Reasonable Discussions yet. But our enthusiasm for Coach Taylor's Kyle Chandler's Emmy win for Friday Night Lights, so the football association counts for something, right? Though the stuff we talk about in Extracurricular Activities—like, say, a Weird Al tribute album—probably negates that too.
:00 – Intro
:34 – Keith Phipps, Erik Adams, and Noel Murray talk Emmy surprises, and the show's high and low points
13:20 – Scott Tobias and Noel Murray on the Toronto International Film Festival's good, bad, and disappointing films
27:58 – Keith and A.V. Club contributor Oliver Sava assess the reboot of DC Comics
39:47 – Extracurricular Activities with Keith, Tasha Robinson, and Nathan Rabin
49:06 – Outro
Related articles:
The A.V. Club at TIFF
The New DC (week one, two, and three)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline [Amazon]
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past by Simon Reynolds [Amazon]
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary Of A Professional Lady by Anita Loos [Amazon]
Twenty-Six And A Half: A Tribute To "Weird Al" Yankovic
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