If you're waiting impatiently to watch Vince Gilligan's *excellent* new show Pluribus because its premiere crashed Apple TV, may I suggest reading some of the very smart things he said to me about it (and his past work, and America's political hellscape, etc.)?

talked to sterlin harjo about THE LOWDOWN, ethan hawke and what america has to learn from tulsa. good show!! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Bad week for pandering girlboss-feminism TV shows with "all" in their titles...

There is so much going on in those scripts. Betty Jo is the name of the woman in Walter Tevis' The Man Who Fell to Earth (which Lee is reading in the finale and Dale says he's also read) whose love more or less dooms the alien to alcoholism and other earthy pleasures/miseries.

Reality soaps are free-for-alls of bad behavior—as long as you don't come for one of your castmates' brands.

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

All’s Fair is a 2010s Shonda Rhimes procedural on steroid shots and Goop supplements, if everyone in the writers’ room had been freshly lobotomized. It... might be art?

Weird to give a victory speech when you lost imo

In case you managed to watch The Lowdown finale tonight, I have some thoughts on its excellent final twists. One of the best shows of the year, easy. Sterlin Harjo forever.

NBC anchor just described Kornacki as “workin’ that board” and “getting excited.” I am calling HR on his behalf

I finally figured out how to watch Steve Kornacki post-Comcast Shitco spinoff and I swear my blood pressure just dropped 20 points

I know there are many actually important news stories competing for our attention today, but I need people to be aware that, a single episode in, All's Fair is easily among the top 10 most ridiculous TV shows of all time

Pre-election LES scene report: young woman silently trying to hand out Cuomo flyers—rarely succeeding—as 60ish-yr-old woman with grocery cart repeatedly yells “He’s a rapist!” Cop on the scene tells latter lady she’s being annoying. She is unmoved

Ok the SNL mayoral debate cold open was not great, but the Hudson Yards “take the easy way out” joke? 💀

Turns out you’re never too old to make a terrible Halloween mistake involving glitter

Going out for Halloween at age 41 sounded so much more fun before I got 3 hours of sleep last night for no reason

Catching up on The Lowdown, and it really strikes me how smart it was casting eerily serene Kyle MacLachlan as a nemesis for chaotic good Ethan Hawke

Well, this is discouraging.

After much contemplation, my favorite trope of the reality soap genre is how surprised these women act, season after season, whenever a girls' trip or dinner party devolves into screaming, crying, hair-pulling chaos

Horror TV was a bust this October, but we got enough Tim Robinson, Emma Thompson, Steve Coogan, and MARTY to make up for it.

Rachel Sennott's HBO influencer comedy I Love LA is, like its characters, a fun hang but a little bit dead inside

50-60 degrees Fahrenheit easily the hardest temp to dress appropriately for

Andrew Cuomo, who has repeatedly criticized his rival in the race for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, for living in a rent-stabilized apartment, occupied a rent-stabilized unit himself when he was a young professional living in Queens in the 1980s.

I hope New York Jews understand that the dual loyalty trope is used against them, too. If Cuomo feels comfortable attacking Mamdani in this way, what’s to stop him from turning on NY’s Jewish pop when it stops being politically advantageous for him to support?

Trust me, you need some Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson digging into government conspiracies in your life. And if you're also a fan of Slow Horses (based on a book by the same author), so much the better.

How did I get on the "photos of Justin and Hailey Bieber at the World Series" press list, I barely know what any of those proper nouns mean

Sweet dreams are made of cheese / Who am I to diss a Brie?

By far the meanest thing Vince Gilligan said when I interviewed him was about AI: time.com/7328396/vinc...

I know I'm not the first to say it, but the level of creep in terms of what is considered a spoiler is absolutely through the roof.

Gee, I wonder why this 2-year-old Architectural Digest video is on my YouTube front page today...

Extremely excited to share a project I've been wanting to do for years: an in-depth profile of Vince Gilligan, in advance of his epic new show, Pluribus. Fascinating guy, and as far as I can tell as much of a mensch as everyone always says.

Was about to say The Mastermind is top-tier Kelly Reichardt but in all honesty 90+% of Kelly Reichardt movies are top-tier Kelly Reichardt. She just doesn't miss. Greatest American indie filmmaker of the 21st century?

Have reached the point in October where I've watched so many bad and meh horror movies that I start to suspect David Cronenberg is the only good horror director. I know this isn't *actually* true, but it feels true.

OK, this rules.

In which I try to decide whether Nobody Wants This is a good show with some problems or a stupid show that's easy to watch

The sign language interpreter looks so much like Jenny Slate I can’t handle it

“Saying BDS” yes that is how a global-scale economic activism campaign is done

Incredible lightning round. The boys are having a blast. You love to see it

Sliwa has an offspring for every issue. Impressive.

Oh god my cat just endorsed Curtis

Woke up with the absolute most horrific Halloween costume idea marinating in my brain: Jojo Sliwa. The beret would have a ponytail hole in it.

Insane that writing the same number of words can take me 10 hours one day and 6 the next. Impossible to live this way.

Some thoughts on the Task finale, which I liked very much.

Experienced the failure of 3 different forms of public transportation in the same trip home from upstate… feel like there should be a prize for the trifecta

Some quick responses to the 20% of Bsky that responds to all posts w/sanctimony! 1. "Politics aside" 2. It's a joke 3. I know plenty about Sliwa 4. Not every politician you dislike is exactly like Trump 5. If New York were in danger of a Sliwa mayoralty, we would be having a different conversation

“Calling the meeting to order”. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.