with the debut of IT: WELCOME TO DERRY around the corner (oct 26!!), i spoke to Andy Muschietti about what to expect from the horror series in terms of graphic thrills, new storylines, and, ofc, Bill Skargård! www.avclub.com/it-welcome-t...

But as with THE PITT, I really do think THE DIPLOMAT is a show that should be making 13-ish eps every year and airing new eps every Thursday or Sunday. I think the buzz would be much bigger and maybe even the awards haul.

from me -- a profile of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker whose work has perfectly met our age of surveillance and interrogation and asks the imperative question of: Who are we, and what comes next? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT = masterpiece, imo.

NEW inside CBS— Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off. “If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl is a just-okay album that doesn’t live up to the promise her immense talent demands. My review for @avclub.com : www.avclub.com/taylor-swift...

The breakout horror star of the season is director Ben Leonberg's own dog. We spoke to the Good Boy filmmaker about making his pup an actor: www.avclub.com/good-boy-ben...

excellent sharpie work everyone keep it up nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/

NEW: JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE is not dead. Up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

Dutch late night TV has its take

TCA condemns ABC and Disney’s capitulation to the government’s demands of censorship.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

My appreciation of Robert Redford, the star of THE CANDIDATE, who knew the power of the camera and tried to turn it in the right direction. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

emmy winner cristin milioti!!!!

i think INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S2 should win all the Emmy awards tonight...oh wait...

as we head into Emmys weekend, I made some predictions about who will win. also shared some thoughts on who should win (a.k.a. give martin short the comedy actor trophy he deserves, you cowards!!!)

Severance or The Pitt? Martin Short or Jeremy Allen White? The A.V. Club's Saloni Gajjar breaks down who will and should win the top 15 categories at the Emmys on Sunday. www.avclub.com/emmys-2025-p...

Five years of Defector: defector.com/five-years-o...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

season 5 of ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING is more of the same. luckily for the show, "same" is still quite charming, thanks to its leading trio. full review:

had so much fun talking to Greg Daniels about THE PAPER, THE OFFICE, & his career evolution over the years:

The A.V. Club started this week with 32 action franchises, ranging from blockbusters (Mission: Impossible, James Bond) to DTV (Undisputed, Universal Soldier). Thousands of words have been written to find the best of the bunch over the course of our bracket www.avclub.com/best-action-...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

sooo, THE PAPER is pretty great once it overcomes some early growing pains. it's no THE OFFICE...but that's a good thing. my review:

Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.

The New York Times recently reported that the primary audience of The Summer I Turned Pretty is 25- to 54-year-old women… three of us weighed in on what makes the YA love triangle so irresistible! Cc: @emmakeates.bsky.social & @salonig.bsky.social www.avclub.com/the-summer-i...

Our September TV preview has the skinny on The Paper, Task, Sterlin Harjo's new FX show, the upcoming season of Only Murders In The Building, and a whole lot more. www.avclub.com/september-20...

the criminally underrated INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE was snubbed at the Emmys for the most part, but i wrote about why the show's excellent makeup team deserves to win the category this year:

@salonig.bsky.social did a great job on this interview, talking to Cristin Milioti about being easily the best part of The Penguin

today a UN body announced famine is in Gaza. this oped from New Disabled South connects US funding of Israel's starvation campaign to Trump's BBB cutting SNAP as fundamentally American. "The U.S. allegedly has no money to feed its children or the world’s children, but has plenty of money for war."

“Criticism, like all good things, is about the discovery of the self inspired by our interaction with an art form that tells us about our world. It too is an ‘empathy machine.’” In my Locarno wrap up for @ebertvoices.bsky.social I wonder about what the future holds.

loved talking to Jenny Slate about her affecting, hilarious performance in FX's DYING FOR SEX and why she hopes this show/the Emmy nomination leads her to similar, creatively challenging projects:

this AJLT series finale roundtable with @salonig.bsky.social @drewupdates.bsky.social and other AV Club staff really got me #thinking

and just like that, @danettechavez.bsky.social, @salonig.bsky.social, @drewupdates.bsky.social, and I chat about this bad bad show

over at @avclub.com, some of us parsed through our feelings about AJLT's disastrous series finale and overall fever dream of a run:

AND JUST LIKE THAT… said “oh you think the show is shitty??? well, here’s a series finale with some literal shit you're going to have to sit through” 😭😭

wrote about one of my favorite & deeply underrated tv performances in recent years: Alan Tudyk in RESIDENT ALIEN. bummed the show ends this week, but what an asburd and delightful treat it has been for 4 seasons!

But if you hear of any good jobs while I'm hooting and hollering on Batman: The Ride, email [email protected]. And for a full archive of quality pop-culture writing from the past 17 years, visit erikmadams.com.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

wrote this last week before the news of AJLT's cancelation broke, but i stand by it. the show was finally kind of, sort of getting good for Carrie in a post-Aidan world before they decided to end it all.

Not exactly the same thing but “Normal people don’t care about this” was Jim Spanfeller’s constant refrain whenever we wrote about layoffs, labor issues, executives and so on. He tried to dress up his desire that we cover games as toys divorced from material conditions as “serving our readers.”

I wrote about the Sydney Sweeney jeans discourse and broken informations systems that make talking to each other impossible (in fact it's not even the goal). Context collapse is just how people (and brands!) communicate now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

In our 11 Questions interview, the It's Always Sunny actor also discusses being starstruck by Kings of Leon and why he'd take a time machine to work on his basketball fundamentals.

had a lotttt of fun talking to Glenn Howerton for @avclub.com's 11 QUESTIONS interview:

Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

"Pregnancy has increasingly become a weapon to be wielded against domestic violence victims—and those who help them." Read an excerpt from journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social's new book on reproductive coercion:

THE HUNTING WIVES is not good tv per se, but it is good bad tv, if you know what i mean.

last call g/orphans if ur around in NY this weekend slide into the DMs (is that how it works on bluesky idek)