I had a serious (no really) conversation with the internet's best friend, Meg Stalter. www.marieclaire.com/culture/tv-s...

A new season of White Lotus all about the characters we've only ever heard on the other end of phone calls. (Paging Ke Huy Quan). deadline.com/2026/04/laur...

Making TV and movies is really hard. Watching TV and movies is really easy. Somewhere in between is writing about TV and movies.

I'm a journalist who covers TV and people often ask me what they should watch. Let's start with this: www.youtube.com/shorts/79fdj...

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet:

How very THIS TIMELINE to have it be bright and sunny out but there's also sounds of thunder.

Dear snack makers: not everything needs to be pickle flavored

Cat Fancy

Cue Coldplay pagesix.com/2026/04/07/c...

So, like, should I start on those two other stories that are due this week? And, if so, how?

Me trying to secure LA28 tickets during my allotted time slot. And also, life.

How to annoy journalists in one easy step.

"Who Cast Taylor?" is the "Who Shot JR?" of our generation.

6yo wants to throw a party and serve nothing but Lays BBQ chips, pizza, orange juice and water. Throw in vodka and she’s defined “college.”

It's not a super awful song, but the Alan Jackson song "Chattahoochee" is one of those tunes from my childhood that gets stuck in my brain like TripleDent Gum.

This St. Patrick's Day, don't forget St. Gertrude -- who is unofficially the patron saint of cats but was definitely so dedicated to her job that she worked herself to death by 33. www.history.com/articles/mar...

I wrote this roundup of the Oscars' best moments, but fell asleep before my editor could publish it. So ... here it is now. Good morning! editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/best...

I have been in the #Oscars press room twice. Both times, Brad Pitt won. I am not there tonight. That’s how I know F1 will lose.

If there's a potential school shooting at your neighborhood school and there's no journalists to report on it ... guess what. There's still a freakin' potential school shooting. You just might not have all the facts about it.

I just really need to hear some good news.

Judy Blume is so progressive that she let a guy write her biography. I talked to author Mark Oppenheimer about this www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Judy Blume is so progressive that she let a guy write her biography. I talked to author Mark Oppenheimer about this www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

But what if I want tacos on Thursdays?

I hate working out. I love having worked out.

If I understood what actually happens on Industry, I would wonder if this was the plot of the latest season of Industry.

Beau Willimon making a GOT movie is peak WB trying to make it 2013 again with science and/or magic. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

A prestige TV character named Whitney who doesn’t suck challenge. #industry

A prestige TV character named Whitney who doesn’t suck challenge. #industry

If Traitors were Disney characters ...

If Traitors were Disney characters ...

Freelance pitching is just an endless game of Schrödinger's cat, isn't it?

I wrote about the Scrubs revival for Emmy magazine www.televisionacademy.com/features/emm...

The state of the bunion is bony.

The amount of DNC-related spam texts I have gotten tonight…

I wrote about the Scrubs revival for Emmy magazine www.televisionacademy.com/features/emm...

Well played, ABC.

Technically, olives are a fruit. And, truthfully, they are the devil's food.

When your Jewish mother leaves a voicemail like this, you know someone died.

The sweet, satisfying sound of my six-year-old yelling for her father to help her ...

The only ones who truly die in “Wuthering Heights” are the copy editors battling over how to style a title that includes quote marks.

Help wanted, journalism division

Love Walgreens AI's false hope of saying there are only two calls ahead of me and then disconnecting my call when I decide my kid's SEIZURE MEDICINE is worth sticking around to wait it out for 30 minutes.

Wrote about James Van Der Beek and the art of leaning into stunt casting. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

My Boomer father telling me to tape a PBS special about Jews …

How quickly the mighty fall from coveted item to cat toy …

I hate irony

I know there's been lots of talk about how hard it is to be a human. But have we ever stopped and thought about the plight of the house cat?

The gender and class structures of Regency Era England were stringent and should not only be seen through a 21st century gaze. In this essay … www.instyle.com/bridgerton-s...

The gender and class structures of Regency Era England were stringent and should not only be seen through a 21st century gaze. In this essay … www.instyle.com/bridgerton-s...

At Cedars today. (We are fine. But someone tell Seth Rogen the room has a screen AND an Alexa).