I think there was a time in the middle of the show's run where she seemed less insufferable than she was in the first season or two. I also haven't rewatched a lot of episodes recently, but I have seen some of those earlier ones a few times, and it always rankled me how she would just insult one of her best friends to…

Did we get any info last time about how far along she was when she found out? I guess it doesn't make a huge difference if she was four weeks along or five.

Has it been a week, though? Hannah's baby isn't far along, but I missed whether we found out last week how far along she was. The show jumps in time nonchalantly sometimes, so I wouldn't be shocked to find out this was a couple of weeks later. I guess the business with Hermie (specifically Shosh's condolences) made it…

AGREED. I've always found Jessa more intolerable than Marnie (though they've certainly deepened and complicated Jessa's character over the course of the series). Marnie often behaves badly, but that often seems to be the result of flailing and trying to act aloof or how she thinks she should act. Jessa seems more…

I love the show but I think they made a strategic error by not having Shosh's Japan experience its own "Panic in Central Park"-style episode. The episode "Japan" has great stuff in it, and the non-Japan storyline in it is fine, but I think it would have been more effective and immersive for Shosh to get her own solo…

This site's coverage of pop culture was meant to be QUALITATIVE and discerning. NOT comprehensive and pandering.

Oh, I'm all for as much film-related stuff as possible, believe me. ;)

It's cos we're such a posh lot, innit??

As a fellow old person, I sympathize with your concerns, but as a sometime film reviewer, I'll say, there is strong film content in the weekly reviews. Even if I didn't sometimes get to write for that section, I'd still read it for Dowd, Ignatiy, Rife, and D'Angelo.

Also sad so see this one go. Seven years and 175 columns is a hell of a run but I would have been excited for another seven 'n 175, no question. Thanks, Mike!

He's great in it, but it's very hard for me to picture that happening.

You're right — Mad Max: Fury Road was in no way an anomaly based on it being one of the most wildly beloved movies of the year. Big-budget sci-fi/fantasy sequels are nominated constantly.

Inception was nominated.

I also liked this movie a lot but there's no goddamn way it's getting a Best Picture nomination. Will it be better than at least three of next year's nominees? Absolutely (probably more). Is it in any way up the Academy's alley? It is not. I think people forget that the actual artsy aspects of this movie — "intimate…

I'm not sure if the dude above is being sarcastic but it really is a delight.

Yes, some of them snarling in murderous fury, and others anonymously raining gunfire down on the Americans.

My question is more whether an implied nostalgia is automatically regressive. I've heard that complaint about the movie — that it's nostalgic for a time when things weren't so great for a lot of people, which is a valid assertion. But I'm also not so sure the movie *is* nostalgic for that time period. Mia doesn't…

Though it's easy to imagine that Mia's show isn't very good, we also see almost none of it in the movie, so it's a little frustrating to read repeatedly that she made this terrible show. The movie avoids showing it, presumably because it IS so often embarrassing when a movie has to show an original piece of art that's…

Agreed, and while Broderick is probably better-known than most of the cast due to his long career, I'm not sure he can count as a distraction in a movie with Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams, who are both pretty familiar to movie audiences, albeit without a Ferris-style signature role.

Also: Bender crack corn and he is great! Take that you stupid corn!