Truly didn't think the nostalgia would hit so hard 30 seconds in

First post on my Substack is my review of Supergirl: open.substack.com/pub/areelofo...

RIP Ann Blyth. She was great as Veda in Mildred Pierce, the ultimate spoiled child, capable of every wickedness to fulfill her desires. As for good girl roles, I loved her in Brute force. One of our few links to classic Hollywood. She will be missed.

do it in 250- in America you cannot even rake leaves in your front yard without your neighbours showing up en masse to tell you how to do it better, you can fool the suburbans about healthcare and civil rights and foreign policy but never for a second on pool maintenance

It doesn't even require a specialized intelligence operation. Normal American women have outed dozens of ICE agents by flirting with them on dating apps and getting them to spill.

The anticipation...😍

Me reading Dune Messiah

I was not a fan of The Death of Robin Hood, which fails to truly engage violence and its legacy. My review: www.areelofonesown.com/home/2026/6/...

I'm so glad I was introduced to Jessie Buckley via the poetic monstrosity that is Beast

Mitch McConnell will receive a level of medical care he has spent his entire career preventing other Americans from having

Whoa no one told me Dune Messiah gets this creepy about Alia.

It's a double feature kind of day

Meanwhile, on this day in 1993...

They don't make banter like this anymore

Sometimes you just strike gold

Weekenders just went there

This James Marsters tribute to Anthony Head on Insta is so perfectly, weirdly sweet and heartfelt. RIP. 💔

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

There's a reason One Battle After Another didn't end up on my top 10 list last year

I really hate that Euphoria brought Natasha Lyonne into this ngl

Like everybody else, every academic in America has spent the past two years finding increasingly absurd ways to say that their job is about AI so that they can keep it.

A 90s anime about two kickass female bounty hunters who are also Chicagoans? How was I today years old when I learned about this?

GRIZZ NO.

I am always glad I had Xena as a teenager whenever I do the nostalgic rewatch

Wow, for a 90s sitcom Step By Step does go to a few surprising places

The Weekenders is the kind of witty nostalgic wholesomeness I didn't know I needed

Hottest line of all time

My nostalgia escape is watching Lucy (F)Lawless bossing around Sam Raimi's friends

Yeah I know Lexi is obviously the audience surrogate in Euphoria but she really is us all now

Dear assignment editors: You can send me to the Caribbean. I'm quite resourceful. My Spanish, independence, common sense and geniality are good enough that I can get along quite well on my own reporting from there. I have a current passport. I can swim. I learned about heat stroke the hard way.

@propublica.org built a one-of-a-kind tool so you can check where your own generic medications come from! I’ve looked up a few of my own and let’s just say the results were…illuminating. Before ProPublica did this work, it was impossible to do that. projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/

E ancor non torna (And Still He Has Not Returned) — Alfonso Simonetti, 1892

So that Outlander ending felt like it ended right at the beginning of another major character arc and a whole lot of still very unfinished business and loose ends. I guess nothing ever really ends now, but still. It's kind of the end of an era of television I'll miss along with the show.

Me again, this time writing about how cinema's first reluctant vampire was a queer woman who made her big screen debut in 1936 for @inverse.com: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

The fate of democracy should not ever depend on the decisions of people 19 to 20 years old. But still, the tradwives have decided to react to what is happening, and not only do they not fight, they literally take it lying down.

Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in Technicolor

it’s pretty wild how american evangelical christianity has abandoned even the pretense of the christianity part

YES THIS

Artwork by Tony Stella

The boy's trying so hard

Wuthering Heights is on HBO Max so embracing my hater status on this one to once again post my very negative review: www.areelofonesown.com/home/2026/2/...

I ranged from apathetic to hater of all things The Devil Wears Prada until the sequel came out, and now I am officially converted: www.areelofonesown.com/home/2026/4/...

Much as I despised Wuthering Heights, even I have to give it props for the corset grab. Jacob Elordi is now toxic boyfriend to us all.

Everyone needs a timeline cleanse so here's Oscar Isaac in the Criterion Closet and you're welcome

One of the most hilarious aspects of modern life is that we're expected to be machines while being slowly replaced by actual machines.

Sooo Mark Zuckerberg is really serious about that underground bunker even for a billionaire. And that really says a lot about what we've come to.

Wow. I actually loved The Devil Wears Prada 2. I say that as someone who watched the first movie and hated it. Like the book, it's basically a cautionary and morality tale of a woman being punished for basically having ambition, which is one of my most hated tropes.