Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha develop a swoony, sexy chemistry in Bridgerton season four. Our review:

wrote about why A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS—with its central bromance, smaller scale, surprising levity/visual gags—is the palate cleanser that the GAME OF THRONES universe desperately needed:

CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted. A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

excuse me while i go yell at every academy voter for snubbing NO OTHER CHOICE!!!!

Ziff Davis is not in financial distress. IGN wasn't in financial distress. They are, in fact, doing GREAT. This corporation continues to destroy people's livelihoods so it can buy more companies and destroy their laborer's livelihoods too. It has to end. Solidarity with my former union siblings.

I did some cultural criticism and wrote about Connor Storrie and Club Chalamet. It feels like because of social media and online stan culture, people get way too famous, way too fast. Waiting to devour them are creators like Club Chalamet, who buy in like stocks: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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listen i'm excited to see FOR ALL MANKIND season 5 but they've gotta free joel kinnaman from these old man prosthetics...let grandpa ed baldwin go already!!! www.avclub.com/for-all-mank...

i will NOT be baited into feeling any nostalgia about 2016, also known as the year our world started to completely fucking crumble.

Another year, another round of layoffs at Vox Media. In solidarity with our laid-off colleagues, here is our full statement:

Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.

well yes!

Noah Wyle wins the Golden Globe for Best Actor, TV Drama for The Pitt. Check out our interview with him about season 2 of the series.

My first time recapping for AVC, and the show is a doozy. Yep, I am covering Industry! www.avclub.com/industry-sea...

I've been planning to write for a long time about how ICE and their allies sure are a bunch of whiny bitches, for all they talk about how tough they are. I'm sad that this is the occasion. But by god, these "tough" guys are pathetic cowards. www.salon.com/2026/01/09/i...

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

So in other words, the same administration that's been making the Epstein Files look like blackout poetry are now blocking other officials from being part of the investigation into one of their own masked agents shooting a woman in broad daylight

thrilling news!!

the right answer is THE AMERICANS.

I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

I wrote about Pluribus and the dangers of writing exclusively for the fans. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

We wrote up the best film scenes of the year, which include everything from a snowman ménage à trois to a trip to Subway www.avclub.com/best-film-sc...

we published our annual best-of lists at @avclub.com this week! thrilled i got to write about some of my favorite tv shows of the year, including SEVERANCE, DARK WINDS, & DYING FOR SEX, among others:

Seth Meyers set aside comedy for an extended, seven-minute tribute to Rob Reiner in an advance clip from Monday night’s 'Late Night.'

New: WaPo staff are fuming about the new AI personalized pods, noting they have errors like misattributing/inventing quotes, inserting commentary. WaPo's standards editor privately called the mistakes "frustrating," another editor said "if we were serious we would pull this tool immediately."

must everything be such a dumpster fire

Yesterday my final piece as an AV Club staff writer went up. I’ve been musing over post-pandemic tv since the beginning of the year and personally found it under discussed at the COVID 5-year mark. Really proud of how it turned out❤️ www.avclub.com/2025-tv-covi...

Judy Berman is a great TV critic and it is an offense that the publication that employs her slaps this crap over the actual opening paragraphs of her work WTF

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Emma is such an incredible writer with elite taste & I am so bummed we are not coworkers anymore!!! a huge loss for us at AVC!

The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Fleshed out this argument—about arrested development culture and Christmas—in a new essay, which you can read here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I’m so very sad that I don’t get to work with MK & I encourage everyone to read her beautiful writing!!! It’s a stark reminder of what The A.V. Club is losing out on:

INDUSTRY S4 and THE PITT S2 airing in january 2026...there is some hope in this dystopia after all..

The first installment (issue?) of my comic book newsletter is live! Read it or subscribe here. untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com/p/the-untitl... Also, if this post inspires any editors out there, I want to add that I'm available for any freelance work that anyone out there might have. I'll do anything!

How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.

Has anyone had a better year than EJAE? I profiled the singer-songwriter behind the KPOP DEMON HUNTERS mega-hit "Golden" for this year's Inverse Awards! Keep an eye on this space for more great end-of-year pieces. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

Every American newspaper's op-ed page should be focused on Jamal Khashoggi's life, work, and legacy for the rest of the week.

it's actually crazy how everything is just bad all the time now!!!

So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?

I love mess but man this whole thing underlines how much it sucks that all the worst journalists somehow end up with flashy high-paying media jobs

wrote about THE MORNING SHOW & how—in its trademark ludicrous way, of course—season 4 delves into the pitfalls of AI in the newsroom: