Okay, your Newswires + you love Helium? MARRY ME SEAN.

I must have that duvet.

You're right, she's not leered at by the camera. But her youth is romanticized in ways I find creepy, ways that I don't think—though it's hard to know for sure—have to do with Allen's subsequent biography. Even her relative poise and maturity contributes to the creepiness for me, because the middle-aged and miserable…

It's a beautiful movie in many ways, but the sentimental sexualization of Mariel Hemingway is revolting. Just cuz it's in gorgeous black and white doesn't mean it's not gross.

I saw this movie on a rainy Saturday with my mother when I was like fourteen, and remember it fondly as almost my archetypal "see a good random movie with my moms" memory. It gets dismissed as a trifle but that's what I love about it… I'll take this over the sickening "Manhattan" any day.

Budget and time limitations keep me from reading comics as widely as I'd like, and though I have a decent knowledge of indie comics my taste in and knowledge of mainstream comics is pretty much limited to the X-titles, so I'll accept that I'm missing out on a bunch of edgier shit, but even so…

Isn't the perception that Nightmare on Elm Street 2 is the least formulaic Freddy flick partly a retrospective thing? It's a bit unfair to fault Nightmare on Elm Street 3 for being formulaic when it essentially INVENTED the Nightmare formula… as well as the whole notion of Freddy as demonic prankster/joke-machine.…

If someone had told me ten years ago that one of my favorite living writers would be a TV recapper, I would've laughed in their face. But John, you are a god. One of the things I love most about your Six Feet Under recaps is the rigorous lack of meta-TV editorializing, comparisons between Six Feet Under and other…

Scary Movie 3 is a legitimately funny and high-spirited movie, one I'm not ashamed to admit I've seen multiple times. The first two Scary Movies were all about the timely recreations of recent popular movies (humor or satire of secondary importance, if that) and for that reason deserve to be blamed for spawning the…

Somebody did a nice rundown of the references: http://www.itemsofpotential…

Thank you. I feel less alone for not being the only one to catch all those references.

I think it's fair to assume that Mike White is highly critical of American corporations, and certainly his protagonist Amy is. As a (vaguely) New Age lefty I adored the show and took Amy's mission (if not her methods) as fundamentally righteous, but I do believe the show can also be viewed and appreciated as a story…

I certainly can imagine a version of the finale where Amy failed in her efforts to take Abaddon down, and where the silver-lining for her and the audience was some smaller-scale breakthrough in her personal life.

Thanks for the very satisfying walkthrough, Todd.

So you're saying Mike White says "like" a lot.

I have little to say that I haven't already said on a million "Enlightened"-themed comment threads. I've praised this show everywhere, to anyone who would listen, in real life and on the internet. But I'd also like to praise Mike White's creator interviews, here and especially his one for Vulture, because he's saying…

I really liked fat Polish dude's ass. Good bubbly shape for a chubby guy.

Trivia: Demme also used that song not-quite-so-memorably in Married to the Mob. More trivial trivia: I love that song and listen to it a lot, and only half of the time with my peener tucked between my legs.

I've been hectoring critics and bloggers who gave lukewarm-to-frosty coverage of the show since the pilot. It was gratifying to see the groundswell of critical support for the show towards the end of Season 2 but damn it was slow to build. It WAS a difficult show but the kind of difficult that sustained,…

Or Patty. Though actually Bess Armstrong's performance was so strong, you'd never even need voiceover to know EXACTLY what she was thinking.