Johnny Russell
@johnnyrussell2.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, sunglasses wearer.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com
https://letterboxd.com/jihnnt/
Spooky Season 2025 movie syllabus on @letterboxd.social:
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#Filmsky
17 days ago
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50501: The Peopleās Movement āš
28 days ago
The Disney & ABC boycott is WORKING š„ Letās keep going! We the PEOPLE have the power. Sinclair, the broadcasting company that owns hundreds of ABC affiliate stations, has BACKED OUT of airing a remembrance of Charlie Kirk, posting a YouTube link instead.
#BoycottDisneyABC
#Sinclair
#JimmyKimmel
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āIn the days since publishing my recap Iād rewatched the episode and some episodes of
#SexandtheCity
, and Iād read all the reviews and listened to all the podcasts about
#AndJustLikeThat
that Iād avoided while covering the show myself, and I found myself⦠becoming irrationally angry.ā
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: An Irrationally Angry Epilogue
"Maybe that was bullshit?"
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-an-irrationally
about 2 months ago
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Can anyone point me toward some really smart writing about
#AlienEarth
by trans critics?
2 months ago
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Here it is: the final
#AndJustLikeThat
recap. Prepare yourselves for some real tonal whiplash at the end!
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: StrawCarrie Shortcake Meets the Nonbinarykins at the End of All Things
Nothing lasts forever, most especially not a misbegotten television series.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-strawcarrie-shortcake
2 months ago
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The gentleman wondered what he had gotten himself into⦠(It was Carrie. He had gotten himself into Carrie.)
#AndJustLikeThat
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Curb Your Duncthusiasm
The gentleman wondered what he had gotten himself into⦠(It was Carrie. He had gotten himself into Carrie.)
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-curb-your-duncthusiasm
2 months ago
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You know whatās terrible for depression? THIS SHOW!
#AndJustLikeThat
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Carrie Gazes into the Abyss and the Abyss Gazes Back
You know whatās terrible for depression? THIS SHOW!
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-carrie-gazes-into
3 months ago
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The way everyone is like āStevie and Lindsey are making nice!ā When actually theyāre just promoting a rei$$ue.
#BuckinghamNicks
(Sheās v cynical today, folks, sors.)
3 months ago
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Oh hey btw Johnny Writes⦠is on
@serializdapp.bsky.social
now.
srlzd.com/u/JohnnyWrites
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3 months ago
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Unpopular opinion, obv, but, like, this is basically the Carrie-and-Aidan-sending-each-other-blank-postcards of classic rock, right?
#FleetwoodMac
#StevieNicks
#LindseyBuckingham
3 months ago
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I⦠swear I watched a new episode of
#AndJustLikeThat
last night, but⦠all I seem to recall now are random darkened images, as if glimpsed through a scrim or by candlelight, of people coming in and out of rooms and saying things. Was it a dream?
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Go Off, Show! Give Us Nothing!
Also, stop trying to make "flirking" happen.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-go-off-show-give
3 months ago
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Not Hissonor Julian Fellowes about to try to convince us that THIS is a āØhealthy relationshipāØš
#DowntonAbbey
3 months ago
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RIP
#ConnieFrancis
3 months ago
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One of the things thatās so frustrating about
#TheGildedAge
is itās ostensibly about old v new money AND has
#CarrieCoon
and
#ChristineBaranski
on either side of that divide yet they have BARELY been in the same show this whole time!
3 months ago
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Last weekās
#AndJustLikeThat
: Pretty much fine? Mostly fun? Read, subscribe, share please!
johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-l...
3 months ago
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I am once again asking the universe for Season 4 of
#AndJustLikeThat
to center on Berger publishing a novel based on his experience dating Carrie and thus forcing her to reckon with the fact that she has spent her whole career exploiting her friendsā personal lives for profit.
3 months ago
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SURPRISE! This one was kinda ok! Am I wrong??? Maybe! Either way the recap is still savage!
#AndJustLikeThat
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Pretty Much Fine! Basically Fun!
I am very curious what *checks notes* 2025 Booker Prize judge Sarah Jessica Parker really thinks of Carrieās novel...
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnywrites/p/and-just-like-that-pretty-much-fine?r=1freh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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Summertime sadness, poolside.
#JoanDidion
#BookSky
3 months ago
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I honestly never thought I would be so insulted on behalf of suburban women who love their
#MichaelKors
purses.
#AndJustLikeThat
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Post-Pride Weeping in Walgreens [Relatable]
This episode was disrespectful to Nicole Ari Parker, Billy Dee Williams, Jenifer Lewis, and suburban women who love their Michael Kors purses.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-post-pride-weeping
3 months ago
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Craig Calcaterra
3 months ago
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
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Good credit is, like, a total scam, right? I mean, someone explain to me what credit is good for besides putting you in debt?
4 months ago
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Highlights from the recap of the most recent TRAUMA filled episode of
#AndJustLikeThat
. Read it here and subscribe to get this weekās in your inbox on Friday!
johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-l...
4 months ago
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Keith Edwards
4 months ago
Republicans donāt even know what theyāre voting on
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Howās everyoneās post
#Pride
weeping-in-bed going?
4 months ago
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Mark Joseph Stern
4 months ago
If youāre feeling bruised today, buy Uncle Bobbyās Wedding and Pride Puppy (please not on Amazon) and give them to a child in your life. It will make Sam Alito furious.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Why arenāt we all talking more about how depressing the
#Pride
Collections on streaming services are every year?
#FilmSky
4 months ago
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Carrie is alarmed to discover a Britishmun living in her basement in this weekās
#AndJustLikeThat
recap. Subscribe for free and tell all your friends!
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Duncan Checks In
Oh my god, this episode was so stressful for me on several personal levels!
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-duncan-checks
4 months ago
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Imagine being 70-something, 80-something, with millions and millions of dollars, and not just wanting to retire. Just something I think about a lot for no reason.
4 months ago
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How the sausage gets made. Subscribe for free to get this weekās And Just Like That recap in your inbox tomorrow:
johnnywrites.substack.com
4 months ago
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As someone who has frequent recurring stress dreams starring
#AnnaWintour
, Iām a little afraid to go to sleep tonightā¦
4 months ago
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I have the kind of low key anxiety that makes me feel like I am 1) singlehandedly overloading the electric grid and 2) bankrupting myself due to running my air conditioner nonstop on a 99-degree day.
4 months ago
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The day after NYC
#Pride
a couple years ago, while everyone else was coming down/hungover:
#BrokebackMountain
4 months ago
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Never once have I ever remembered a single thing this wanly handsome goober in the bowler hat has done.
4 months ago
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If Sarah Jessica Parker doesnāt show up in a cameo on
#TheGildedAge
as āthe womanā in her dove grey button boots this season, Iām quitting!
4 months ago
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Sometimes I moonlight as a consultant on my 7-year-old nephewās school projects.
4 months ago
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Julianne McShane
4 months ago
Spotted by the Barclays Center. Very curious whoās paying for this š
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So he was considering in his own mind (as well as he could, for the hot day made him feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the algorithmic benefits of posting photos of himself go-go dancing in the mid-2010s would be worth the trouble of potential career repercussions...
4 months ago
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Am I going shopping today or am I writing a random essay about all the things I stopped myself from buying?
4 months ago
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Wrote about my inexplicably detailed fantasy wedding for LGBTQ Nationās June issue marking 10 years of marriage equality in the U.S. Includes a random appearance by Courtney Love.
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I used to say I'm not the marrying kind. Then conservatives set their sights on marriage rights. - LGBTQ Nation
I used to think that marriage was so... basic. That belief feels like a luxury now.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/i-used-to-say-im-not-the-marrying-kind-then-conservatives-set-their-sights-on-marriage-rights/
4 months ago
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Donāt rank Cuomo. šš½
4 months ago
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Buckle the eff up, friends. This weekās
#AndJustLikeThat
recap is EXTRA weird!
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Thunderdome! Erotic Witchery!
The Internet is destroyed so this is all just what I assume happened this week.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-thunderdome-erotic
4 months ago
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Jake
4 months ago
if you know and love this album I trust your music taste immediately
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DamnĆØd Screamvens
4 months ago
Queer singing troupe at the Manhattan
#NoKings
protest, doing parody versions of show tunes including this rousing version of "Goodbye, Donny" to the tune of "Hello, Dolly."
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Indivisible Brooklyn
4 months ago
We ā¤ļø NYC! Turned up and turned out for blocks and blocks. The power of the people donāt stop!
#NoKings
#NoKingsNYC
@indivisible.org
@riseandresist.bsky.social
@50501newyork.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social
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kyle tear down that highway lucas š³ļøāš
4 months ago
Letās not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.
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Latest
#AndJustLikeThat
recap is ready for you:
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: Carrie Bradshaw Is a Drug Mule Now
Plus: Harry Goldenblatt golden blatts his big boy jeans.
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-carrie-bradshaw-29d
4 months ago
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Me thinking about my Substackās reach, subscriber base, engagement, etc:
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Grow Grow Grow
YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic
https://youtu.be/UwbwKM051wU?si=h_LdMJuU6r0v6km1
4 months ago
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As promised (threatened?!), this weekās
#AndJustLikeThat
recap is mostly about this look.
#Margiela
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AND JUST LIKE THAT: This One's Mostly About That Margiela Skirt š„“
Plus some other stuff that happened in 'Mountainhead for Girls and Gays.'
https://johnnywrites.substack.com/p/and-just-like-that-this-ones-mostly
4 months ago
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This could be us but you wonāt sign up for my Substack. (Subscribe for free:
johnnywrites.substack.com
)
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4 months ago
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There is a non-zero chance tomorrowās
#AndJustLikeThat
recap is going to be mostly 100% entirely focused on this outfit and how I kinda tried to semi-recreate it last summer. So you probably donāt want to miss that. Sign uuuuuuup for free!
johnnywrites.substack.com
5 months ago
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