In this week's Friday newsletter: Emily St. James (@emilystjams.bsky.social) on cycles of trauma and the necessity of abolishing ICE.

BIG NEWS from us about a host of improvements coming to Episodes in 2026! New site, new series, WAY more posts per week, better archive access, and more. Check it out here!

In this week's Monday Rundown: Hamnet, 2Topia, and more Little Women than you can even imagine episodes.ghost.io/episodes-mon...

Welcome in the new year with the latest adventures of Emily Rogers, @emilystjams.bsky.social's cisgender recipe blogger alter ego! As is traditional with EmRog posts, this one is free for everyone :)

In this week's Monday Rundown: Wicked's unsolvable second act, Train Dreams' hallucinatory magic, and a whole bunch of Christmas stuff

It's time for this month's mailbag! Inside: great Rob Reiner moments, new Oscar categories, Rankin-Bass pitches, and a very traumatic viewing of Love Actually.

The wait is over: free Wednesday newsletters have returned! This week, Lily and Emily run through 21 movies, episodes, songs, and novels that capture the spirit of winter without so much as mentioning Christmas

In this week's Monday Rundown: Pluribus and the trauma plot, Disney and the YA-ification of everything, and 1985's strangest Christmas movie

This week's Friday newsletter features the long-awaited return of @emilystjams.bsky.social with an essay on the fascinating way Wake Up Dead Man talks about Christian faith!

In this week's Monday Rundown: a somewhat lopsided Joachim Trier fan club meeting, a messy and interesting novel, and a nice helping of Christmas melancholy.

In this week's premium subscriber newsletter, @lilywrites.bsky.social on the new season of Stranger Things!

In this week's Monday Rundown: holiday classics, webs of lies, and a game designed to irritate your friends and loved ones.

Happy Thanksgiving from your pals at Episodes! We've got an open thread on your fave movie from your birth year going for paid subscribers; if you're already one, click below and jump on in! (And if you aren't a paid subscriber yet, you can become one today at episodes.ghost.io !)

In this week's Monday Rundown: summer blockbusters, feel-bad Bible cinema, and a cake.

It's time for this month's premium subscriber mailbag!

In this week's Monday Rundown: a better-late-than-never binge watch, Emily's favorite romance author, and two plays of wildly varying quality.

In this week's premium newsletter, @lilywrites.bsky.social on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Gothic melodramas, and showing vs. telling

In this week's Monday Rundown: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read

In this week's premium Friday newsletter, @lilywrites.bsky.social on how power and violence work in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos

A quick announcement for November! tl;dr — Emily is taking November mostly off to write a book! This means free Wednesday newsletters are on hold all month. But Monday Rundowns, the monthly mailbag, and essays by @lilywrites.bsky.social will still run for paid subscribers!

In this week's Monday Rundown: KPop Demon Hunters, del Toro's Frankenstein, and two different Paranormal Activities

In this week's premium Friday newsletter: the feedback loop of horror cinema, YouTube, and our declining social contract

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: need a quick scare before Halloween? Episodes' staff has you covered with 14 picks ranging from 19th century short stories to games to play with your friends over candlelight!

In this week's Monday Rundown: The Wicker Man, the new Last Dinner Party album,, and so much found-footage horror!

In this week’s Friday newsletter: Many of Taylor Swift’s fans feel betrayed by The Life of a Showgirl, her most recent album. @emilystjams.bsky.social considers why that is, and what her own feelings on the record, and Taylor, say about parasociality, self-identity, and hiding by telling the truth.

In this week's Monday Rundown: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, some horror classics, and Rilo Kiley in concert.

This week's premium subscriber newsletter is the long-awaited October mailbag! Inside: which Golden Age directors could pull off found footage, unexpected comfort watches, TV reboots, and more from @emilystjams.bsky.social (and a little from @lilywrites.bsky.social)

In this week's free newsletter: @lilywrites.bsky.social on Longlegs, J-horror, and what American horror film could gain from telling more stories about the past usurping the present

In this week's Monday Rundown: a bunch of movies from 1946, Paul Tremblay's best, and DID YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TAKES THE YEARLING TO SHOW UP IN THE YEARLING? A LONG TIME!!!

In this week's premium newsletter, @emilystjams.bsky.social examines what David Osit's new documentary Predators says about the complex legacy of "To Catch a Predator" and the comforting illusion of control.

In this week's Monday Rundown: Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan in concert, and one of the year's best films.

In this week's Friday newsletter: on One Battle After Another, Superman, and the possibility of change in a world where cycles feel eternal

In this week's free newsletter, @emilystjams.bsky.social argues that the appeal reactionaries find in AI slop nostalgia isn't about what's present in these videos, but what's missing from them

In this week's Monday Rundown: Freaky Tales doesn't entirely work, but it's fun, and a lot of Nazis die in it. So that's something!

In this week's Friday newsletter: @lilywrites.bsky.social on how Silksong's beauty and difficulty are inextricably connected. episodes.ghost.io/silksong-rev...

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: a new staffer at Episodes, and an invitation to help us write the next chapter of the newsletter!

In this week's Monday Rundown: The Long Walk, The Craft, and an alien with a mechanical penis.

In this week's Friday newsletter: on The Yogurt Shop Murders, true crime, and memory.

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: @lilywrites.bsky.social on seed art, Fargo, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and the state of Minnesota episodes.ghost.io/minnesota-st...

In this week's Monday Rundown: two classic visions of the Midwest, a true-crime doc, and the Strange New Worlds finale.

In this week's Friday newsletter: the September mailbag! episodes.ghost.io/september-ma...

In this week's Monday Rundown: Akira Kurosawa, John Wayne, and Sabrina Carpenter. Legends all!

In this week's Friday newsletter: @lilywrites.bsky.social 's argument for why Sabrina Carpenter might kinda think guys are stupid, but that doesn't make her a heteropessimist.

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: art, politics, character study, and the way Hamilton's muted tenth anniversary misremembers what the musical actually is. episodes.ghost.io/hamilton-10t...

In this week's Monday Rundown: Sabrina Carpenter, '90s Trek, and two great video essays. episodes.ghost.io/episodes-mon...

In this week's Friday newsletter: why AI "art" can never fulfill the communal goals of actual human creative expression.

In this week's Monday Rundown: folk horror, not-so-scary monsters, and giant moths. In three different projects!

It's mailbag time again in this week's Friday newsletter!

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: some tips on writing dialogue that sounds lived-in, looks intriguing on the page, and helps develop complex characters!

In this week's Monday rundown: Eddington, Alien: Earth, and Strange New Worlds fanservice