In this month's Mailbag: outdoor summer events, writing process deets, and the Great Phones-at-Concerts Discourse!

If I had a nickel for every time 90s genre television did lesbian selfcest, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

20 years ago we used to have Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs and now we have Johnny Diarrhea, Bob Diarrhea and Steve Diarrhea.

READ INFINITE JEST WITH ME THIS SUMMER!!!!!!

Introducing: the first-ever Episodes Book Club!!

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Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

RIP

In this week's Monday Rundown: Excalibur, Supergirl, and a David Lynch double feature

When I said cable TV (or a cable-like product) was likely to win the streaming wars in 2019, for all the reasons it has, I was mocked as a shill and a heretic, but this has been my truest prediction!! www.wsj.com/business/med...

#StarCity struggled to break into Apple TV's Top 10—despite For All Mankind sticking around after its finale—but it found its own identity over its run. If you kept up, come join the conversation at Episodic Medium in @lilywrites.bsky.social's reviews.

Read for my takes on TADC and (more importantly) why worldbuilding is important for writers/filmmakers/showrunners/etc. in ALL genres!!

@lilywrites.bsky.social on The Amazing Digital Circus, lore, and worldbuilding episodes.ghost.io/why-the-amaz...

gotta say... a lot of you are failing to live by the number one rule of dog park

had a good talk with mcconnell today. he told me: “This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full, and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within.” and i said totally man feel better soon and then he had to hang up.

this post is 100% accurate and also is why silksong is my favorite video game

asked my Appalachian/British wife about this and she was mostly amazed that the Brits are even aware of Appalachia

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

final review: terrible year for vegetarians who want to enjoy the state fair :( when will the union hmong kitchen grilled tofu return from the war???

I have heartfelt sympathy for people in Sullivan, Maine, confronting for the first time the notion that you don’t run for the Senate if someone you’ve dated will credibly allege you raped them. Perhaps because I’ve lived most of my life in more populous settlements, I’ve long taken this as a given.

most of these look pretty good but if I had to see the "dubai whoopie pie" that looks like a turd then you all have to, too

Me Too did not go far enough.

Proud to be part of the ruling class (women)

ok final final final platner post is that it's really funny that the main shithead bro narrative about him seems to be "but PEOPLE CAN CHANGE" and meanwhile i don't know if anyone on earth has ever demonstrated less evidence of changing and/or growing than him

LILY'S SUMMER IN/OUT LIST OUT: using "AFAB" imprecisely to refer to things guided by hormones rather than chromosomal genetics IN: putting cold slices of Honeycrisp apple in the middle of a warm grilled cheese

anton chigurh: heads or tails. you must chose. me: is that a Prince Valiant cut? anton: yeah it used to have more volume me: you want to use something light on it, no silicone-heavy washes and of course... both of us (laughing): blow dry from the roots! me: alright heads anton: it's tails

In this week's free Wednesday newsletter, the Episodes staff take on the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

mitch mcconnell is in recovery after undergoing the classic “3 in 1” emilia perez suite of simultaneous surgeries

every time i see the stupid "Just&T Married" sign i assume for like ten full seconds that his name is Justin Kelce

"oh this will discourage men from running for political office" hahahahahahaha GOOD I don't want to have to even CONSIDER voting for the kind of man who would be discouraged from running for office by the way platner was treated. oh boo hoo sorry that the electorate considers raping people "bad"

leftists won't be happy with this polling but this is what you have to say to win back working class voters

the most annoying guy in my graduating class in undergrad wrote an equally column for the school paper. he kept his drafts in a folder on his hard drive called "triggered". last i heard he was living with his mom in bethesda. glad to see his legacy is living on in klippy here

stars moving in sin city

Me thinking about General Hospital: this show must be about a hospital Every clip of General Hospital Man in military fatigues: I’m proud to announce we’ve captured the radioactive ape

Here's one reason that I think may have been THE special sauce behind this show. Subscribe to read the rest!!

To finish off our Knight of Seven Kingdoms coverage, @lilywrites.bsky.social goes over the reasons the show was such a great adaptation

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

I think I am going to be angry about the Platner thing for a very long time

was trying to think of tweet that was stuck in my head from hearing country roads a lot recently….

challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today

I am tapping the motherfucking sign

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

In this week's Monday Rundown: Interview with the Vampire, The Quarry Girls, and fireworks!

This is subtly one of the funniest suggested google searches I’ve ever seen.

the president should be a big brain that floats around and attack syou

I worry people aren't reading this past the headline, which is a shame. Her theory of the afterlife becomes even more fascinating in the article itself

congratulations to mr taylor swift