i know about computers because my mom is a tech billionaire who uses my dead brother's bday as the password for everything

We've gotta get over the presumption of good faith. Reading the Bad Faith Times should help you do that

look man, Iceman is Val Kilmer in Top Gun and T-Mac is Tracy McGrady these kids need to learn some history

Going to try to be more active on Bluesky! This will include reposting articles about TV from other outlets, be they news, interviews, analysis, etc. If you've written something about TV you're proud of, feel free to @ us and we may reskeet 📺

I had one of those experiences this week where the conversation with Ryan led me to thoughts I hadn't had before. Tingles on the back of the head kind of thing. Good times. Give a listen if you watch #Paradise 📺

I notice once again that many have not sufficiently studied Kant's third critique

Back with another #XFiles piece at @tvobsessive.com! This one feels particularly prescient, about the conflict between technology and business, as well as the dangers of AI: tvobsessive.com/2026/03/13/t...

Podcast on this week's episode of Paradise 📺 #Paradise

listen if you hold Trump to the standard of truth you'll be confused, but if you realize his standard is "saying whatever bullshit will make things go the way I want at the moment" everything makes perfect sense

the page doesn't start out empty---it begins full of cliche

My latest #XFiles piece is up on @tvobsessive.com, looking at the show's first deep dive into Mulder's character! tvobsessive.com/2026/02/23/t...

I support trans rights completely. No caveat. What bothers me more though is the idea of invalidating a license FOR ANY REASON before it has expired or whatever. I thought this was America and you can't do that!

On this week's podcast, we talk about the Ryan Coogler X-Files reboot and then dig into Hijack S2E7 and the Season 2 premiere of Paradise 📺 #Hijack #Paradise

it's only 'mansplaining' when you're talking to a woman who has more expertise than you do, he tells Rebecca Solnit

OK time to cleanse my palate by watching the Rotoworld Football Show

the response to the #SotU should always be given by a person of color with fire in their belly

what the fuck

Trump asks Congress to pass the Voting is a Privilege Act of 2026 #SotU

Trump really had to hold back from singing "hey there Delilah"

State of the Union Fact Check: Nope, none so far

This goes back to George W. Bush, but I've always felt like something about the phrase "the state of our union is strong" is off in terms of how words work, though I can't put my finger on what the problem is #SotU

I don't care who the President is, chanting USA during the #SotU is gauche

turning on the State of the Union because I hate myself, apparently

Andrew Cook is back with a look at The X-Files S1E4, "Conduit" 📺 #TheXFiles @ssfproductions.bsky.social

Kind of surprised by how much I've been enjoying this show. It's really charming!

Albert: Get the picture? Coop: I even got the frame. Is such a badass bit of dialogue

Here's Ryan on tonight's episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 📺 #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms

Tina Kakadelis talks with cinematographer Ashley Barron about her work on How to Get to Heaven from Belfast 📺 #HowToGetToHeavenFromBelfast @tinakakadelis.bsky.social

I have a new piece up at @tvobsessive.com, examining how the third episode, Squeeze, completes the viewer's introduction to The X-Files! Big thanks to @caemeroncc.bsky.social for the opportunity! tvobsessive.com/2026/02/11/t...

Probably Inland Empire, since it didn't get a wide release. I worked at a movie theater in 1999 and watched Office Space on the clock as an usher on a weeknight. Is BASEketball a flex? It bombed but I love it

Andrew Cook is back to look at the third episode of The X-Files, "Squeeze" 📺 #TheXFiles @ssfproductions.bsky.social

I wrote about the right-wing Super Bowl halftime show as part of a larger project to create and maintain an unreality in which the American right is culturally and politically dominant. The worst part: It works. badfaithtimes.com/nothing-real...

just a reminder, if you have friends or family or whatever who make negative comments about Bad Bunny tomorrow, you should mock/laugh at them. lots of ways to do this! you do you

Years ago, I had a roommate named Eric. When he came home, he'd burst open the door and yell, "Hey-O!" Sometimes he'd sit in his room and bump house beats too loud bc he fashioned himself a DJ. Sometimes we'd play chess. He owned a copy of Camus's L'Étranger in French. Seahawks fan, Eric. Congrats

absolutely no argument for kicking the PAT there take Vrabel's award away

Super Bowl MVP Jason Myers

Bad Bunny's halftime show was regular, everyday people having a great time. English or not, the message feels loud and clear. Merely depicting people as having normal, relatable lives feels radical.

oh, are you triggered by the Bad Bunny? do you need your emotional support MyPillow? cry more

"The response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows just how racist our society is. Racists are angry about the halftime show? Good! Everything about our society should make racists feel alienated. How do we make racists feel even more alienated from even more of society??"

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

My new piece on The X-Files is up on @tvobsessive.com! This time I'm looking at the second season episode and how it speaks to some of the societal problems we have still today. tvobsessive.com/2026/01/26/d...

It's me. I understand the catch rule in the NFL

It seems to me that CBS has heard the complaints about virtual yardage lines on Bluesky, the official app of sports

Every game in a dome. With the same temperature. Same air pressure. Same field surface

Payton went for it on 4th down as a sign of disrespect

Establishing the run against authoritarian rule, as @edsbs.bsky.social says, requires the little things, the acts of resistance and kindness and community that eventually add up to something much larger and transformative. I wrote about it for BadFaithTimes.com. badfaithtimes.com/we-must-esta...

I read this and have concluded that invisible Smurfs are real www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I'm sure NBC loves Tirico telling people to find Three's Company, which is on Peacock, on YouTube

I think the Seattle Seahawks might be good this year