My sister is fundraising for Holy Cross’s charity dance marathon benefitting Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, if anyone has any $ to spare ❤️ join.pedaids.org/fundraisers/...

The Copilot AI product placement in the High Potential finale …

So excited to report that I got to visit the New Mexico set of DARK WINDS (one of my favorite shows!) last summer. It was a lot of fun to talk to and an eye-opening experience to watch the cast & crew bring this special, sensational AMC drama to life:

Whidbey by T Kira Madden and Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin were two of my favorite releases this month. Wrote about them and more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

WHO’S getting excited for the Paradise season finale tomorrow!!!

Matrix Revolutions is major Snyder Cut vibes

My writing group is arguing over whether lightning has a sound… I’m like yeah it’s called thunder… and they’re like no thunder is a separate thing

Paradise continues to be my favorite show on the air, and after binge-reading some Octavia Butler this year I feel even more jazzed on its delicious sci-fi structure. Wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Paradise continues to be my favorite show on the air, and after binge-reading some Octavia Butler this year I feel even more jazzed on its delicious sci-fi structure. Wrote about it here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I come to bury Timmy, not to praise him. The online mob hath told you Timmy was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Timmy answer’d it. open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I come to bury Timmy, not to praise him. The online mob hath told you Timmy was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Timmy answer’d it. open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

[points at shirt, gestures at screen]

This made me so mad I had to write a pre-Oscars screed about F1, a toxic American fantasy funded by a collaboration of technocracy and autocracy: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

F1 the most poisonous propagandist enterprise I’ve seen in a minute… artistically bankrupt paid advertisement that doesn’t even function well as a paid advertisement

It upsets me badly when people debate who the “real father” in Mamma Mia is… the whole point of the story is that it doesn’t matter. You care about the wrong things and it reveals a sickness in your soul.

i need to know who is holding Nicole Kidman hostage and making her do these dreadful tv shows. prime video's SCARPETTA is a real low point imo:

I have seen the pilot 7 or 8 times over the last 10 years and it only just now clicked that Keith Mars’ classic “who’s your daddy” line is foreshadowing😭😭 that’s crazy. I love good stories

I guess the version of the Veronica Mars pilot I’m most familiar with is the extended one but the version on Netflix feels like it starts so abruptly

went slightly long on Shah Rukh Khan in what is one of my favorite pieces i've gotten to write 🥰

I always think the Bridgeton costumes are cheap and tacky… and yet Jonathan Bailey is still styled better in his 15 min cameo this season than he was as Fiyero😭

Threw my hat into the ring of Wuthering Heights opinion and managed to also make it about Moonlighting (among other things) open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

It's as good a time as any to sign up for my newsletter! Always free, never chasing trends or SEO-friendly topics. Just me, writing about a comic book (and comic book-adjacent things, like my current Arrow rewatch). #TeamOlicity untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com/p/the-untitl...

My best friend Liv Harvey, an amazing artist and artisan, is selling these anti-ICE stickers with a portion of the profits going to LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts — you can get them on her website: www.ohpleeze.com/listing/4456...

A Wuthering Heights where Thrushcross Grange is way creepier more haunted and more central to the story

Everything described here is so terrifying… I hope the various ongoing litigation described continues to expose these tactics so we can have a conversation about ending them for good. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Will hockey’s Heated Rivalry/olympics boost benefit the February release of SHORESY on Hulu

On Substack, wrote about some recent haunted houses: Best Picture nominee Sentimental Value, Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby, and Larissa Pham’s new novel Discipline. open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

The End Of Romance (out today) really struck a chord for me: Meyer tests philosophical and feminist ideas against a narrative that is thoughtful and engaging. Had me turning over similar ideas as Bess Wohl’s Liberation.

Incredibly insightful & incisive writing from rayne fisher-quann on the free press ghouls: open.substack.com/pub/internet...

For my January reading wrap-up I came up with some adaptation ideas for books like Larissa Pham’s Discipline, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs, and the new Jennette McCurdy novel: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Grey’s Anatomy with a real “return to form” episode this week… love that Webber gets to be the one to have a mystical memory palace experience this time

The Pitt and Grey’s Anatomy are airing the same night and this week featured identical exchanges of someone saying “I don’t know how to thank you” and a doctor responding “I think you just did”

Afternoon on the couch accidentally double featuring movies about offputting guys whose mothers implanted ideas in their heads that ultimately lead to complete mental deterioration

I’m confused why Highest 2 Lowest Sounds Like That but I am happy for Dennis Duffy

Having a new Saoirse/Timothée collaboration to look forward to would make things just a little bit better

Philly mention in Stranger Things finale we stay winning

The conditions are finally correct; Gibson Girl Winter 2026 incoming. Happy New Year!

To close out the year, I wrote a small reflection on the prevailing theme of 2025—grace—with help from the work of @realgdt.bsky.social , Florence + The Machine, and Rian Johnson. You can check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Stranger Things’ addiction to showing flashbacks to something you watched maybe45 mins ago

To close out the year, I wrote a small reflection on the prevailing theme of 2025—grace—with help from the work of @realgdt.bsky.social , Florence + The Machine, and Rian Johnson. You can check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Make SHOP AROUND THE CORNER your Xmas Eve watch!!!!!!!

Maybe it’s because the film isn’t out yet, but it doesn’t seem to be registering in the Timmy Chalamet discourse that he’s still kind of playing Marty. Which isn’t to say he’s being disingenuous, just that the promotional strategy is obviously calibrated to the character.

Returning to my War on Christmas to humbly offer my own failures and to take inspiration from “Lil Timmy Tim” Chalamet: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I was kinda giving this movie the benefit of the doubt bc I like Michael Showalter but then there was pro-Amazon delivery driver propaganda in the middle lmao whoa

I think Oh. What. Fun. could’ve been saved if it dialed up the camp factor like 50x… need a comic actress wayyyy more insane than Michelle Pfeiffer to pull it off

Once again crazy how I have access to 8 different streamers and none of them have A Few Good Men. Same happened when I was trying to watch big-name classics from Robert Redford or Diane Keaton. It makes me mad

Nothing is better than this youtu.be/ovkiChacfc8?...

Yesterday my final piece as an AV Club staff writer went up. I’ve been musing over post-pandemic tv since the beginning of the year and personally found it under discussed at the COVID 5-year mark. Really proud of how it turned out❤️ www.avclub.com/2025-tv-covi...

Really devastated to learn of the passing of Sophie Kinsella. I really fell in love with her non-Shopaholic books in the past few years. I think of the dancing scene in “I Owe You One” a lot and really appreciated the overall theme of “The Burnout.” www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...

Yesterday my final piece as an AV Club staff writer went up. I’ve been musing over post-pandemic tv since the beginning of the year and personally found it under discussed at the COVID 5-year mark. Really proud of how it turned out❤️ www.avclub.com/2025-tv-covi...