Sterlin Harjo’s new series, “The Lowdown,” starring Ethan Hawke as a citizen journalist determined to expose the crimes of the élite, is at once rollicking and timely, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.

The Trump Administration’s attack on late-night TV is part of a much broader agenda, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

Many in Hollywood have concluded that they have to win back audiences by producing more content that represents red-state values. “There’s an experimental energy in the crop of shows catering to this newly prized demographic,” @inkookang.bsky.social‬ writes.

Is “And Just Like That” bad enough to retroactively diminish its predecessor? “I’d argue yes,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social‬ writes.

With its quicksilver shifts and sneaking sweetness, the experience of watching “Too Much” feels a lot like falling in love, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

more than 8,000 journalists have been laid off since 2022. That's 9% of the industry.

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater. (It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)

Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

Recent shows about the ethically challenged rich have emphasized their characters’ personality disorders along with the trappings of the high life. ” ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’ flips the formula, to unsatisfying effect,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

A sitting cabinet member being unable to define the bedrock principle of Anglo-American law for nearly a millennium will get .00001% of the coverage devoted to Hillary Clinton’s email server or Joe Biden’s mental capacity

that one scene in SINNERS is one of the most breathtaking feats of cinema i've seen in years. coogler is cooking.

Sharp @inkookang.bsky.social column about Hacks and The Studio: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

The Pulitzer I’m most excited about was for audio reporting, “In the Dark,” which didn’t get nearly the attention it should have. www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...

Hollywood has long loved to tell stories about itself—but, in 2025, the self-satirizing has an air of crisis management. @inkookang.bsky.social writes about the new season of “Hacks” and Seth Rogen’s new series, “The Studio.”

This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.

Gotta love these AI simps constantly misrepresenting why people hate this technology It’s not just because it currently sucks It’s because it’s very existence is based on a crime

I finally subscribed to WIRED a few months back and...I love it? Its tech lens on culture and politics means it's writing some of today's best journalism. You can see that scope just in today's most popular pieces.

There are not many jobs like this in journalism, so when somebody quits one for this reason, it is worth listening to.

Though Season 2 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” gives its characters’ individual dynamics more room to breathe, it ends up feeling smaller than its predecessor over all, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. Read her review.

The new miniseries “Dying for Sex” has a morbid, somewhat off-putting hook: a woman with terminal cancer looks to get laid while she still can. But the show is “also something of a Trojan horse,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

“The Pitt” is built on nostalgia and predictability. “It’s structured such that you know you’ll have your heart broken and mended several times per episode—it’s just a matter of how,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

“The Pitt,” an “E.R.” meets “24” medical drama, harkens back to a different era of television. It’s “a counterintuitive comfort watch,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

The second season of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS/BBC adaptation of the novelist Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of the same name, arrives a decade after the first season but it is “arguably greater than its acclaimed predecessor,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

The current season of HBO’s “The White Lotus” isn’t as fizzy or as incisive as the two before, @inkookang.bsky.social writes. In our Goings On newsletter, she recommends three other shows to check out instead.

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What makes “The Pitt” bingeable, even beguiling, is “its portrayal of E.R. doctors as not only dedicated medical professionals but also unofficial social workers,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

The new Netflix drama “Adolescence” is an expression of parental panic, an effort to grapple with the crisis of boys and masculinity today. Unfortunately, the show’s “flashy, fragmentary approach undermines its attempts to illuminate,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

In the third season of “The White Lotus,” a now familiar formula yields diminishing returns, @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

RFK Jr is blaming a dead child for not exercising more

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I don't think media is overall meeting this moment (and in some ways it's actively acting in support of facism) but at the same time a lot of what you know is because of hard working reporters and I want you to hold those two ideas in tension with each other.

I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs

Ten years ago, not a single ship that sank in the Middle Passage had ever been identified; the watery cradle of the African diaspora was an archeological void. A global network of maritime archeologists is working to change that.

The third season of “The White Lotus,” like the previous two, is formatted as a murder mystery in reverse. “It also introduces fresh questions about what each guest is hiding or seeking. Not all of their motives are persuasive,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Very excited for this event @moiradonegan.bsky.social is moderating for Clayman: BODY TALK -- FATPHOBIA IN THE AGE OF OZEMPIC. Tuesday, Feb 18th at 4:00pm in Levinthal Hall. Register here: gender.stanford.edu/events/claym...

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

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now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

A cautionary tale for any federal worker considering taking a “deferred resignation” deal. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

I spent over two hours watching 'Emilia Pérez,' time I will never get back, so I wrote down all my thoughts about the film. Thank you as always for your support! From penis to vagina! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/all-my-tho...

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around. THE NEWS:

BlueSky will truly be the superior social media site when everyone feels free to post without a dozen clauses and footnotes written to preempt responses in bad faith.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.