I am all for physical media, but double-sided discs can do one because what do you mean the episode of ER I want to watch is on the side of the disc that won't play?

Industry and The Pitt coming out in the same week

Exactly the Pluribus piece I want to read! @fawnianewyork.bsky.social spoke to costume designer Jennifer L.Bryan and Rhea Seehorn about the first season looks heywhatevernevermind.substack.com/p/rhea-seeho...

Catching up with Fallout and seeing Michael Cristofer makes me want to rewatch Rubicon. Truxton Spangler, a character name for the ages.

This season being a little hornier is a highlight (ditto how confident it is about its characters and setting).

As "Adolescence" continues to sweep every Limited Series award out there, a moment of silence for "Dying for Sex," which told such complex stories so well that it blew me away on approx. a thousand different levels

A good way to start award season

I know I just heard @frazbelina.bsky.social yell "FUCK YEAH!" on behalf of Rhea Seehorn all the way here from Brooklyn. #CriticsChoiceAwards

So confusing how he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded annually to the worst fucking guy who does the stupidest most destructive shit

Rewatching S1 of The Night Manager and didn’t realise (or had forgotten) who was playing Hugh Laurie’s son. Noah Jupe’s credits in the decade between seasons is a testament to his talents and team for picking such a range of projects.

Part two of my conversation with Rhea Seehorn about Pluribus goes into some of those big big moments in the S1 finale (spoilers!) www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/plu...

Had the pleasure of doing the @lwlies.com Top 10 TV shows of 2025 list! lwlies.com/top-ranking/...

Fuck yeah (perfect use of New Order too) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCxr...

2025 is just wile e. coyote does a fascism and it would almost be funny if it wasn't fucking obliterating everything

A highlight of this week was definitely talking to Rhea Seehorn about the last two episode of Pluribus (look out for part two next week). We talked about Carol writing again and that other big moment.

Ariana Grande Wore a Vintage Carol Burnett Gown From Bob Mackie for New #SNL Promo

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Rhea Seehorn (!) about the penultimate episode of Pluribus www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/plu...

The captain on my flight just requested a sarcastic round of applause for their second-in-command, and we need a new season of The Rehearsal studying whether that kind of teasing is good or bad for flight safety.

A highlight of 2025 is getting a DM from Myles asking if I would jump aboard the Episodic Medium ship to write about The Pitt. It was an easy yes. Thrilled to be in such incredible company and excired for what is to come in the new year!

Another stunner!

Very happy to be living in Josh O'Connor's world.

Steven Spielberg spending the past twenty years in cinematic psychoanalysis with Tony Kushner, making some of the best and deepest movies of his career, and then coming back to make his fourth — probably last? — movie about aliens is more than I could have hoped for. I can't wait.

SCREAM www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8x...

Matthew Rhys looking a mix of perturbed/stressed/sad? I don't even need to read the plot to know that I am all the way in for Widow's Bay when it hits Apple TV next April (knowing Kate Dippold created it and Hiro Murai is directing is also a huge yes)

Rob Reiner’s death made for an unusually personal night in late night. Bill Carter on how four different hosts met the moment.

If some enterprising producer doesn't put these two in a taut sexy spy thriller already ... and get Soderbergh to direct it. Money on money on money for anyone who makes it.

Wrote about the It: Welcome to Derry finale. A show that has been all over the place, but had some great moments (and the casting has been a big part of the successful arcs) www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

Can't stop thinking about this moment. Such great reaction timing www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Js...

Rob Reiner pretty much invented the genre of "they don't make 'em like that anymore," and that's on top of essentially inventing the mockumentary, perfecting the rom-com, making the best American coming-of-age film, one of the best courtroom dramas, and gifting everyone the "bucket list"

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

I loved the way Rob Reiner humbly carried on the tradition of combining humor and activism—two modes of truth telling that are always more potent together—that defined his father and Norman Lear's cohort of entertainers. All 3 gone within 5 years. Feels like we're losing two generations at once

This entire weekend

The new Knives Out movie is a great Josh O'Connor showcase and a reminder why we should have Somebody Somewhere S4.

just checked the timeline on this: prince andrew was permitted to visit the HP set *the same week* that natalie dormer, horrified by the epstein emails, donated her entire salary from playing prince andrew's ex-wife fergie. like, this was a peak period for the scandal.

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

I miss the era of multiple print covers for a show like The Pitt but will very much lap up the digital offerings while I lament that bygone era ew.com/the-pitt-sta...

Did not expect It: Welcome to Derry to make me cry but here we are www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/it-...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

A great list with an incredible #1

We're doing an Advent calendar of iconic Christmas movie dresses and we're kicking things off with Donna Reed's dutiful wife frock in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and how it highlighted the film's themes, time and place: tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

Fantastic renewal news! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

I hate that our collective response to the news of a cultural destruction in the form of Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. is, "well, at least it wasn't the other evil conglomerate."

This interview that @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social did with the great Tommy Schlamme is one I think of often www.vulture.com/2015/02/amer...

Wrote about this week's episode of Pluribus! www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...