I teared up a little while editing this piece, and that was BEFORE I saw the ending in question. After seeing OBAA, I love it even more. (Also, apologies to Roxana for cutting her Andor references <3)

I love bobby I LOVE BOBBY (from me, about how much I love bobby)

One of the first shows I ever recapped (back in, erm, 2007) came out of retirement, so I did too.

A request for help: my godfather has always loved jokes—telling them and hearing them—and as I’m going to visit him in hospice for maybe the last time, I want to bring him some good ones. His short term memory is shot, so looking for things that get to the punchline in 30 seconds or less. Thanks 💔

Emmys, you're two years late and a half-dozen additional nominations short, but I'll take it.

about forty minutes before the emmy nominations presentation this morning, my entire workplace lost their minds www.vulture.com/article/43-s...

I spent a lot of time, and had a lot of fun, putting together this elaborate / sprawling / galaxy-brained list of movies you should watch after this season of POKER FACE, inspired by cameos, references, and, of course, MICHAEL CLAYTON. at @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/poke...

We don’t yet know whether ‘The Bear’ will continue, and it certainly could, but to echo Computer: Why keep going? Especially when season four’s ‘Goodbye’ makes for such a perfect series finale.

SQUID GAME is over, what was SQUID GAME? with very light S3 spoilers, I wrote about the show's contempt for us, its existential dilemma with itself, and why it probably should have only been a season long. @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/squi...

What's the phrase I'm looking for... hmm... oh, right: HO YEAH!!

many reasons to recommend SIRENS -- only five episodes, glenn howerton playing dennis reynolds as a 1 percenter, an aviary full of owls -- but it's meghann fahy and milly alcock as brutally bickering sisters who bring it to life. I enjoyed! @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/sire...

I could read literally one million words of Tony Gilroy being grouchy-proud about ANDOR.

Also good: Hershal listening while SWS fanboys out over his favorite show.

I rewatched the Gemstones finale last night after editing Roxana's excellent piece, and enjoyed it so much more this time around.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Edi Patterson is a mad scientist and Judy Gemstone is her greatest creation wrote about it www.vulture.com/article/righ...

Some professional news.

[removes “The Pitt is my entire personality now” hat, replaces with “Andor is my entire personality now” hat]

talked to Scott Gemmill about the end of The Pitt’s first season, and what’s coming up next

the world is trash, watch the pleasant TV show www.vulture.com/article/nort...

really good things happen when @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social spends an afternoon with Noah Wyle www.vulture.com/article/noah...

Goggins is good.

The Pitt good, Roxana good, Santos... well, it's complicated.

I had some fun writing this, and gazing into B. Coop's eyes as he played the role he's always best at: a real dick

My screener-privilege guilt in re: The Pitt has been weighing on me since binging them in December, so I wrote (!?) about it (!!).

Hey, friends. My former AVC colleague and pal Marah Eakin, her delightful husband Andrew, and their kids need a little help after the fire tore through their neighborhood in Altadena. A great family that could use some support if you can spare a little: www.gofundme.com/f/help-marah...

Give me 100 episodes of THE PITT, stat!

On October 13, 2023, @brianjmoylan.bsky.social emailed me “hey, would it be fun to rank everyone who’s ever been on every Below Deck” and I said “why yes, that does sound fun,” and Poseidon laughed and laughed at our hubris. www.vulture.com/article/belo...

Now that it’s been gifted I can show off my latest knit, which took about 4x longer than any other hat I’ve made. Husband deemed it the best hat he’s ever worn, which is good I guess, but some social-media likes sure would make that time feel EXTRA worthwhile. (Bonus Jojo because it’s Christmas.)

This week: NICKEL BOYS' use of footage from Stanley Kramer's 1958 race-relations thriller THE DEFIANT ONES made us curious, so we checked it out to see how the two connect. Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis are tremendous in this message movie about convicts on the run: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

Important data points I neglected to mention: We recapped 133 shows total this year, which adds up to 1140 individual recaps, many of them written by people who don't appear on this list (and edited by the not-on-Bluesky-yet Nic Juarez), so 💐 💐 💐 to all of them as well!

My favorite @vulture.com end-of-year tradition is our roundup of the year's most popular recaps. It's always fascinating to see the shows readers flocked to, and always gratifying to see some the best recappers in the biz get their flowers: www.vulture.com/article/most...

Do I have some complaints about this season of Shrinking? Oh boy, do I. But not a single one of them involves Derek. Derek innocent, Derek perfect.

I’m so glad you asked! Bluesky, please meet the “recordex”:

Woke up to two inches of snow the day after Thanksgiving, came downstairs to find that my husband had already done what needed to be done.

If anyone needs JoJo, he’ll be in front of the heat register for the next 3 months.

Still thinking about the Disney World bartender 2 weeks ago who yelled “someone’s smuggling a basketball!” and forcibly flipped the menu in my hand to the non alcoholic cocktails, not because she assumed the thing you are never supposed to assume, but because she did it in such a weird-ass way.

i've been working for a few months on a profile of comedian anthony jeselnik, whose work i've been fascinated by for YEARS, and who has the rare quality in 2024 of telling a journalist what he really thinks www.vulture.com/article/anth...

How I feel every time I post on Bluesky

My ticket to Anora had the wrong theater number on it so I accidentally saw the first 30 seconds of Venom. While watching Heretic at the drive-in, another screen playing Venom was visible in the rearview. It’s like that movie has formed some sort of… bond with every other movie I see.

btw: I’m recapping season 2 of Bad Sisters for Vulture, a thing I did not think had to exist, but in Sharon Horgan we trust: www.vulture.com/article/bad-...

Sidling back over to Bluesky to share this Good Episode and also find out who else can't stop singing the title of this movie in the style of The White Stripes' "Conquest".

So pleased with this episode that I am making it my FIRST. BLUESKY. POST.