Something new always comes along. We had the same fears when the AMC shows ended, or when Community's traffic started to trend down, or when Lost ended. Game of Thrones won't be the last watercooler show. People have been worrying about that since the end of Seinfeld, and something new always comes along.

I kind of do! Vox Culture runs with a LOT of autonomy (though I'm not the editor any more). And our focus has been on fewer pieces, which have higher potential to break out on the various social media platforms that send us so much of our traffic.

So far as I know, AVC doesn't pay by the word but, instead, by the piece (though maybe the policy has changed!). But it also looks like they've cut their freelance budget by a fair amount and are relying on staffers more.

I can't wait to see my old reviews in piping hot Kinja.

I hear that two of you are getting married because of this space, and I am honestly thrilled to know that's true. I'm glad you were able to overcome the hurdles of my overwrought prose to find love, and I look forward to crashing your wedding.

I came here to see if my brain was playing tricks on me.

A couple of months ago, they basically fired everybody but Sepinwall and a couple of click drones, so I guess this was inevitable.

This, for me, is when the fight really begins. I'm not ready to give up on any of that stuff, and I think we're going to keep it. Maybe even Obamacare. (Suddenly uninsuring 22 million people isn't going to happen without a fight.) Shit is going to suck, but we're going to make it better. We won the popular vote. There…

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Nah, they just have a crummy search function. I've tried to find stuff there before, and it's better to just google it.

Technically, all shows that end are canceled. But there are different kinds of cancellations, and this is a planned one, sounds like.

I'm really worried the new actress, who seems fun, will just make it garden-variety bad, instead of a catastrophe.

I've heard from so many people that the ads are bad, but I haven't seen them.

Oh, I was there big time when I kept getting shut out of screenings (and nearly broke my foot getting into the screening I did see). But it still kinda blew me away. Just don't go in expecting, like Lawrence of Arabia. It's a very, very small film.

Haha Certain Women was originally going to drive the conclusion of this piece (complete with Wendy and Lucy comparisons) until I saw Moonlight. (I figured two movies about rural white people didn't exactly capture the full scope of American poverty — though both are absolutely worth seeing.)

That said, I should also say that AH does some pretty radically different things with the "poor rural Americans indie film" template that were greatly exciting to me and seemed much more honest about how poverty decimates rural communities. But I didn't want to turn the whole piece into a review of AH, or want to…

Film certainly does better at this than TV, and I definitely should have clarified that what I meant were the sorts of mainstream/awardsbait films that tend to drive polite conversation around this time of year, rather than extreme Amerindies and/or foreign stuff. Genevieve (who edited this) and I had a conversation…

The funny thing about Natasha, Pierre is that Pierre actually IS the protagonist of the full novel (or the closest thing to it), so it's kind of a weird commentary on how the world of the show is much larger than the show.

Thank you!

I actually have worked most of it back in of late. I just wanted to go roughly a year without it to see if I could do it, and I could! In my last year at AVC, I really felt like it had become a crutch, and I thought it was holding me back.