I am on vacation and doing my best not to engage with The Horrors. anyway, here’s me with a cheese cart

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it should not be hard for the party of “maybe we *shouldn’t* give guns out like candy” to condemn a seeming political assassination while maintaining its principles

absolutely gorgeous grid today if I do say so myself Wordle 1,544 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wish the padded-out netflix doc AKA CHARLIE SHEEN were more interesting than its most salacious details. jon cryer mvp tho!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER TICKETS ON SALE GO GO GO

I like the new technical format on great british bake-off

a pair of german tourists just stopped me on the street in sf — a city in which I *do not live* — to ask if I knew where to eat nearby. I exude such powerful restaurant recommender energy it transcends geography

blogged about BEANS. I have so many BEANS aherman2006.substack.com/p/bean-abund...

the future sucks in many ways but I’m so happy I live in a time where my options for “easy weeknight dinner” include mapo tofu

the most revealing part of the torres-friedland interview is when friedland segues with something like "you've called yourself israel's fiercest champion in congress" and torres SWIFTLY goes "I've never said that"

with TASK, MARE OF EASTTOWN creator brad ingelsby returns to delco (accents and all) but switches formats from whodunnit to cat-and-mouse, a pivot that pays dividends. also, mark ruffalo! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

THE TERMINAL LIST prequel DARK WOLF is all about how the deep state (sorry, “bureaucrats”) keeps “defenders” from doing what needs to be done bc killing people legally takes too much paperwork variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

HBD (Happy Bean Day) to me

much like how I enjoy that MATERIALISTS is like a rom-com that got dropped on its head as a child, I sincerely dig that HONEY, DON'T is a private detective story in which the protagonist just sort of circles a mystery instead of working the case

spoke to raphael bob-waksberg about grief, memory, covid, religion and avoiding the elephant in the room when it comes to jewish identity in 2025: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

spoke to raphael bob-waksberg about grief, memory, covid, religion and avoiding the elephant in the room when it comes to jewish identity in 2025: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

in breaking news, water is wet and the new raphael bob-waksberg show is an expert blend of silly puns and emotional intelligence that’ll make you cry your eyes out: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

in breaking news, water is wet and the new raphael bob-waksberg show is an expert blend of silly puns and emotional intelligence that’ll make you cry your eyes out: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

grace van patten is a good amanda knox, but I wish the hulu series dug more into the story's nuance instead of jazzing up an overexposed tabloid yarn with jarring bits of surrealism: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

grace van patten is a good amanda knox, but I wish the hulu series dug more into the story's nuance instead of jazzing up an overexposed tabloid yarn with jarring bits of surrealism: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

I fear I have bean clubbed to close to the sun. bean clubbers, what are your favored uses for bean club beans

can someone please investigate wtf is going on with the first ~third of highest 2 lowest. thank you in advance

THE RAINMAKER is meant to kickstart a revival of usa originals in the vein of the network's blue-skies heyday. having seen half the season...I have doubts!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

AND JUST LIKE THAT ended the way it began: as a completely bizarre fever dream variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

AND JUST LIKE THAT ended the way it began: as a completely bizarre fever dream variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

wild how many dems are unable to recognize that gaza is the new iraq war. pols will be rewarded for having the courage and clarity to state the obvious and punished for sheepishly following consensus. the 2008 primary was not that long ago!!

ahead of tonight's finale, a farewell to AND JUST LIKE THAT — a show perpetually on the edge of maybe, possibly, finally getting good, perhaps due to stockholm syndrome: variety.com/2025/tv/colu...

with the exception of lie-down seats on international flights all air travel "upgrades" are lipstick on a pig. you're getting crammed like sardines into a tin can full of recycled air — mediocre free food isn't gonna change that!!

ALIEN: EARTH feels more like a blade runner tv show than an alien one. I'm not mad about it!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

wrote about kamala on colbert, a depressing summit of two descendant figureheads whose institutions are crumbling behind them: variety.com/2025/tv/opin...

we'll always have che :( variety.com/2025/tv/news...

I reviewed LEANNE! they're making multi-cam comedies with 16-episode seasons built around a stand-up comedian's persona again!! REAL TELEVISION is BACK!!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

I reviewed LEANNE! they're making multi-cam comedies with 16-episode seasons built around a stand-up comedian's persona again!! REAL TELEVISION is BACK!!! variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

kenji’s pressure cooker chile verde: classic for a reason!

BERTHANATORS STAY WINNING variety.com/2025/tv/news...

there’s been a lot of tragedy around KING OF THE HILL in recent years, but I mostly enjoyed the revival — in part because animation feels easier to jump back into than a show where the actors have visibly aged: variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

they played the avatar trailer *after* the nicole kidman ad and my amc audience did NOT know what hit them!!

lost in all the discourse around eddington is that aster made a movie about screens that's visually compelling, a feat almost no one else has ever managed

THE HUNTING WIVES has *everything*: dermot mulroney having threesomes in a cowboy hat! malin akerman as a gay MAGA socialite! murder and also pegging! the latest netflix series that'll have you saying "idk if it's good but I finished it in one sitting" variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

eddington.......the curse.......emma stone doing incredible things on return trips to her native american southwest.......

THE HUNTING WIVES has *everything*: dermot mulroney having threesomes in a cowboy hat! malin akerman as a gay MAGA socialite! murder and also pegging! the latest netflix series that'll have you saying "idk if it's good but I finished it in one sitting" variety.com/2025/tv/revi...

I see ari aster is also a fan of the motion picture FALLING DOWN

scrapping the late show — an invaluable bully pulpit and promotion engine — altogether in favor of a decentralized slew of internet game shows paramount *does not control* feels like the definition of penny wise, pound foolish.

from a global food supply perspective there are simply not enough chickens on the planet for sean evans and amelia dimoldenberg to fully replace the likes of colbert

very little shocks me anymore, and yet variety.com/2025/tv/news...

superman is not about isr**l lmao what are you people smoking

positively, absolutely, without a doubt the biggest emmy outrage this year

most pleasant surprises this emmy nomination morning: -common side effects getting an animated series nod -the righteous gemstones cleaning up in craft categories -jeff hiller getting his due for somebody somewhere!!!

in sorry, baby louis cancelmi finally plays a cancelled man. triumphant w for nominative determinism