I feel like half the people posting about politics use "centrist" to refer to actual ideology and half to refer to, like, mild-mannered politeness and this has made it harder to understand what anyone means about anything

Me blocking someone

Love 2 see it; the (relatively) new Brooklyn Bridge bike lane is great but entering from the Manhattan side requires passing through this netherworld of sidewalks/pedestrian paths where it feels like there is no legal way to actually get on the bridge

Article about the world's smallest problem, which I share: How can you possibly keep up with all that TV! IMHO it's healthy to treat TV today more like books: you would never say "keeping up with books" means reading all of every book published this year www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

For All Mankind is back, and Mars is getting crowded! I wrote about the show as the anti-Black Mirror, imagining an optimistic hardware future rather than a software hell. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/a...

Hello, this is the Department of Television, so sorry to announce that we have invoked the “Hallelujah rule”and will no longer be issuing permits for the soundtrack use of “Dreams” by the Cranberries. Last sanctioned use was Derry Girls, please make alternative arrangements

Yeah, unpopular take but the fact that different people take different meaning from art is not its failing but its purpose. Part of what makes art art is that the audience completes the work in their mind. If you deny them the option, however holy your intent, you've made something other than art.

Droppin that Bombadil

You: People who write about TV need to leave the politics out of it. It’s just an escape from the real world! Me: The president’s aides are producing him a daily TV show of the war www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

They need to have Keri and Matthew guest in a nationality-swapped version of the Young-hee and Don storyline

Between Taylor Frankie Paul and Markwayne Mullin, been a big week for Baby of the Year names

Lotta people sleeping on this beautiful weirdo, which I only dig more upon having seen the remaining episodes since writing this review: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a...

I can't recall a time when more talented reporters and writers on movies and culture who have real skill and knowledge are struggling to find a foothold. We live in an "Everyone's an expert" era. But everyone isn't. Editors: Please take a chance on folks you haven't tried before. Read their clips!

Valerie Cherish making the definitive statement on A.I. and labor in 2026? You need to SEE that! [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/a...

Imagine a Buffalo Wild Wings but sadder

Today in menacing PR pitches: "Would you like to interview my client or should I send you a few bullets?"

Ratings clearly down from the lack of politics in the speeches, ABC needs to get back in touch with the values of heartland America and make the Oscars more woke Also too many commercially successful nominees, real people want to see more obscure arthouse darlings nominated

That moment when you open Bluesky and from the first two tweets you can see that someone somewhere said something really dumb and you realize that you still have the power to choose never to learn what it was

I saw someone make the argument that it might have gone differently had PTA won for There Will Be Blood instead of the "overdue" Coens and now I'm wondering how far back the chain goes and if there is one seminal Best Pic award decades ago that could have reset the whole timeline

I know my own timeline is representive of nothing but my own timeline. But it seemed like, for this very small, self-selected slice, the views on Sinners and OBAA shifted from last year to Oscar night.

Did they have a different Conan end sketch prepared for all ten Best Picture nominees

Great to see Landry from FNL cheering Vince Howard

That was the most aggressive playoff music I’ve ever heard

Congratulations to F1, a movie that has been on my Apple TV homescreen for ten months

Nobody can sit in an Oscars audience like Leo

Flashing red light just went off in Brendan Carr’s office

I know Blue Moon is solidly in “it’s an honor to be nominated” territory but that was one astounding fucking movie

Sterling K Brown needs to do more comedy!

At this point I kinda wanna see Timothee win just so he can spend his entire speech doubling down on his point about ballet and opera

There should be a Best Picture needle that updates after every award (cursed tweet)

I cannot hear him preannounce a Burger King ad without imagining it as Lazlo. “WHO IS this ‘Burger…King?!’”

We don’t deserve Conan

Going to be weird to hear Matt Berry not cursing for 3 1/2 hours

Sorry but I need to see If I Had Legs I Would Kick 2

I was on deadline for this and my deadline was like 5 minutes after they opened the envelope and I gave my dear editor a heart attack waiting for me to rewrite the top

Taylor Sheridan has one boring idea about who does and does not qualify as real & authentic and he's just going to keep repeating it until the TV industry runs out of money to pay him

get their ass Mo

I wrote about the White House’s nihilistic war-meme videos [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/a...

Hahaha what the fuck

I guess I can now reveal that I was subtweeting Rooster, one of the least HBO-feeling HBO comedies I have ever watched

I did not have “The new Squeeze album is actually good” on my 2026 bingo card but there have been worse surprises this year! Its a real curiosity—it distinctly sounds like an album written in the 1970s and arranged/produced in the 2020s (which it is) [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Maybe not the definitive answer but the Live Aid version of “TVC 15” absolutely killed

Yup. I grew up in a Michigan small town that swung hard from Obama to Trump and man, the number of people who in 2016 suddenly became experts on the place where I spent the first two decades of my life! It’s a national pastime!

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

Your timeline told me it wanted some pictures from the delightful Wes Anderson show at the Design Museum In London

Forgot to post before leaving on vacation! Steven Conrad's "DTF St. Louis" packs a lot of weirdness into the overfamiliar limited-murder-series genre. I'm hoping the weirdness wins out. [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/a...

By far the best moment of this Traitors season was Alan pointing and screaming at Yam Yam that he’d been murdered—“YOUUUU, Yam Yam!” I would have actually died

Bari Weiss has fired the Animaniacs due to a lack of political balance