I really enjoyed the first ALIEN: EARTH season and hope there's a second. But a nagging feeling of dissatisfaction with the finale led me to notice that the show kind of spun its wheels in its final three episodes. I wrestle with this in my Vulture review: www.vulture.com/article/alie...

This episode was so good! Give it a listen and give it a vote.

The one thing about using an electronic zone is I think people should revisit Theo Anthony's SUBJECT TO REVIEW: tv.apple.com/us/episode/s...

Before reviving my New Cult Canon column for The Reveal, I ended it fittingly at The A.V. Club with THE RAPTURE. (That my career/column/life continued anyway suggests that perhaps we'll be fine today.) www.avclub.com/new-cult-can...

Excellent.

Good skies

Go Mo!

There's A New World Coming (1973) (get ready)

pediatricians are dunking babies headfirst into the river styx and all it does is set up their tragic downfall to hubris

When one of my dogs wants to be let in and the other dog wants to be let out.

First Slice Of Orange Suggests Eating Rest Of Orange Gonna Be Real Fucking Slog

I'm taking care of business by taking my business elsewhere.

No morning walk today.

Sunday Dinner: Mississippi Chicken Chili, Dad’s Famous Salad™️, cheese toast

Mets fans literally consoling themselves BY QUOTING CARL JUNG

NFL coaches whose teams are down by 2 or fewer points in the final two minutes of games seem to think that it's against the rules to score touchdowns.

Both broadcast reactions to the best replay angle of Jacob Young's kick catch

The Dodgers now lead the Giants head-to-head all-time in the regular season, 1,288 wins to 1,287 wins (with 19 ties, h/t @EliasSports) This is the first time the Dodgers lead the Giants all-time head-to-head since after a game on August 8, 1896, when they led 49-48 BASE BALL

[clock goes under 2 minutes in any football game] a dad, to no one: can’t turn the ball over here

Artist Marshall Rogers. #BatmanDay

This is such a gorgeous piece of writing. By @elongreen.bsky.social slate.com/culture/2025...

Yes — they think the audience is whoever screamed loud enough to get their attention. Deeply distorted and blinkered way to imagine an audience. Your audience is the people who were there before the strangers started telling you what they want you to do

*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.

"Hey, I'm about to do a national television hit ... time to go hop in my car!"

They aired a Steve Harvey hosted Family Feud rerun instead. So far the Kirk special has under 2500 views on YouTube (views as a metric on YT are worth about 2% of a broadcast viewer). So someone flinched here and I am *very* curious to find out who and why.

I do not see many discussing the television series 'Chief of War' but I watched the season one conclusion last night and that was probably the most creatively violent hour of television I have ever seen. If you want to see Jason Momoa rip a tongue out of a guy's skull, this is your chance.

Masterly analysis by @jasonzinoman.bsky.social — stick around for the subtle but savage filleting of “Kremlin star” Jimmy Fallon [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/a...

"To be clear, we’re not anti-soap. But given the skyrocketing rate of chronic illness in this country, isn’t it worth investigating if soap plays a role?"

Time to watch next week's Alien: Earth season finale. 🐑 👁️ 🐙 👽 🤖

next BLS report:

I'm starting to catch up on movies from earlier in the year, and I'm also working through my DVR backlog, so by sheer coincidence today I watched APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (on Netflix) and the 30 FOR 30 episode BERLUSCONI: CONDEMNED TO WIN, and let me tell you that double-feature was *chilling*.

dunno how many weekly website roundups include pieces on: - Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song - Rilo Kiley - Vile: Exhumed - Guerilla Toss - suing anti-vax parents

Agreed. Joe knows his stuff and knows who to talk to, and I found this piece enlightening.

i read this @noelmu.bsky.social paragraph a few days ago and now i see that effect everywhere

People praise Mr. Show sketches for having modern-day relevance all the time, like when the "blow up the moon" bit went viral a few weeks ago. To me, THIS remains the show's endlessly resonant, weirdly poignant masterpiece. That closing line is me, every time I piss away an hour getting mad online.

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

Michael Chabon has made a career of balancing literature and pulp across a surprising number of venues. Our latest Primer ventures through his oeuvre.

If you wrote this line verbatim as a joke in a Saturday Night Live cold open, Brendan Carr would have the show cancelled by Sunday afternoon

This news shocked me because I didn't know he'd broken up with Helena Bonham Carter.

Everybody in NYC go see PREDATORS this weekend at Film Forum, easily one of the best movies of the year

February 1962.

All the current (and justified) concerns about broadcast TV censorship has reminded me of a "Very Special Episode" column I wrote 15 years ago about M*A*S*H, and how the left-leaning irreverence of 1970s TV set the stage for the ensuing decades of backlash. www.avclub.com/m-a-s-h-the-...

Sitting for his first solo interview about his new movie ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, director Paul Thomas Anderson chats with Glenn Whipp about fathers, daughters and fascism. A deep read on what is unquestionably the American film of the year. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

this is the correct framing ... they are not skeptics and the quotes are accurate. A skeptic insists on seeing evidence before accepting/believing. Someone who sees the evidence and rejects it is not a skeptic; they are a denier.

this is the funniest graphic you could have made for this

I returned to wired earbuds last year because I was tired of not knowing every morning whether my expensive wireless buds were going to work that day.

Subscriber counts on a newsletter are misleading: many don't open emails, some have unsubscribed, etc. But it still feels good to know 10,000 people showed an interest in the work we do at Episodic Medium. No better time to join us than our subscription drive: www.episodicmedium.tv/month-to-mon...

The money quote: