Looking Back on the Micro Moments That Really Mattered
Week 1
- My Eroding Generation Gap: On Eminem’s Bizarre College Football Cameo, by Chuck Klosterman
- My Cheetah of the Year: On Cameron Diaz’s Performance in The Counselor, by Alex Pappademas
- My Grand Proclamation About the ‘Death’ of the Blockbuster: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas Predict the End, by Bryan Curtis
- My Anti-est Antihero of the Year: Nashville‘s Juliette Barnes, by Steven Hyden
- My Octogenarian Getting the Role of a Lifetime: June Squibb in Nebraska, by Amos Barshad
Week 2
- My Navy SEAL of the Year: Max Martini in Captain Phillips, by Chris Ryan
- My Bro King of the Year: Jake Johnson’s Quarter-Life Heroes, by Robert Mays
- My Bodies of the Year: Kim Kardashian’s Instagram Moment and 12 Unsexy Months, by Wesley Morris
- My Brainwash Romance of the Year: Upstream Color, by Emily Yoshida
- My Unquenched Thirst of the Year: Claire Forlani’s Mind-Melting Dewar’s Commercials, by Mark Lisanti
- My Basic Cable Exploding Shark Attack of the Year: The Sharknado Finale, by Holly Anderson
Week 3
- My City of the Year: GTA V‘s Los Santos, by Dan Fierman
- My Transcendent Podcast Guest: Jim Breuer Redeems Himself on Marc Maron’s WTF, by Brian Koppelman
- My 14-Minute Take That Captures the Entire History of a Relationship: Before Midnight, by Brian Phillips
- My Sidekicks of the Year: A Top 10 List, by Molly Lambert
- My Eyeball Performance of the Year: Orange Is the New Black‘s Crazy Eyes, by Tess Lynch
- My Couple I Wish Were a Real Item Because They’re So Beautiful Together and Make Me Believe in Love: Miguel and Janelle Monae on ‘PrimeTime,’ by Rembert Browne
- My Feature-Length TV Show of the Year: Frances Ha, by Andy Greenwald
- My Social Media Victory of the Year: Hip-Hop Hashtags, by David Jacoby
- My Comic Book Blockbuster of the Year: Saga, by netw3rk
- My Freestyle Parody of the Year: Tyler, the Creator Goes Off on Sway in the Morning, by Shea Serrano
Week 4
- My World-Conquering Book You’ve Never Even Heard Of: Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes, by Juliet Litman
- My Argument in Favour of CanCon Funding: Orphan Black, by Tara Ariano
- My Not Really Bon Iver Song of the Year: Volcano Choir’s “Alaskans”, by Zach Dionne
- My Terrifyingly Honest Rendition of Something Completely Inane: Michael Shannon Reads a Sorority Letter, by Dan Silver
- My End of Villainy: Sharlto Copley in Oldboy and Elysium, by Sean Fennessey
- My Cross-Dressing Descent Into the Heart of Darkness: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing, by John Lopez