I have neither read nor seen Chloe Zhao's Buffy revival, but I have to admit to some confusion as to why we're convinced it was some kind of corporate screwup that led to its cancellation as opposed to the possibility that it just wasn't very good?

This answer about cutting off speeches is EXTREMELY funny to me, as though this is an entirely new problem that they have never tried to solve before.

Conan O’Brien is a great #Oscars host not because he’s going to do something new and exciting, but because it’s a sweaty job and you look at him and think “this man has been sweating his whole life.”

I’m sorry, but presenting Best Actor before Best Actress in this situation is BIZARRE. #Oscars

Don’t these #Oscars winners trying to thank their loved ones know America needs to see a Mormon lady look for love before Primetime ends?! So disrespectful.

I think back to when Disney tried to force a Popular Film award so the #Oscars could promote their wildly successful movies, and wonder why they didn’t land on “sponcon presentations” before dealing with that whole mess.

Oh so NOW Barbra’s fine with a black microphone? Time really changes you. #Oscars

Are we pretending that Sean Penn would somehow be shamed by Culkin stating the truth? #Oscars

Do we think Robert Downey Jr. ACTUALLY knows Ryan Coogler as much as he acts like he does giving him that award? #Oscars

It’s funny, Gold Derby, I CTRL+F’d this story for @louispeitzman.bsky.social and nothing came up! #Oscars

Conan O’Brien is a great #Oscars host not because he’s going to do something new and exciting, but because it’s a sweaty job and you look at him and think “this man has been sweating his whole life.”

There’s just no universe where you lift up before handing over a full cup of coffee, Olympia. #EmptyCupAwards

@kevinlferguson.bsky.social @melisser3.bsky.social Watch last night’s episode of Elsbeth.

This is precisely what creates the short-lived “half-hour comedy, hour-long drama, appeal system” reality after Orange is the New Black did the same thing, so…

My latest Remastered newsletter is live! I used Highguard's delisting and server shut down today as an opportunity to look at the history of live service games and how each failure has only gotten more brutal over time: www.remastered.blog/highguard-is...

I don't know that I've skeeted yet about my biggest student writing pet peeve: when they know they're supposed to transition between points in an essay, but someone taught them they should do this at the end of a paragraph as opposed to the beginning of the next one. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS?!

“For experts, this is a chance to build that same ubiquitous bond with users, much like Grammarly has.” One cannot blow a raspberry big enough, my dude.

I love how Chalamet looked at how everyone was honestly kind of over Adrien Brody by the time he won his Oscar, but he won it anyway, and said "I have a vision." (Also: he is not wrong about not being wrong.)

There's a lot to unpack in Williams and Arnaud's choice to equate parasocial behavior—which I'm not necessarily here to defend, to be clear—with everything else they've listed.

I personally tend to go with "burn it down" as opposed to pushing it off a cliff, but I suppose that works too.

There's a lot to unpack in Williams and Arnaud's choice to equate parasocial behavior—which I'm not necessarily here to defend, to be clear—with everything else they've listed.

I know that it’s likely far from unprecedented, but TikTok has given me three different #HeatedRivalry edits set to three different songs from the new Harry Styles album today, as though the fans were just waiting for new inspiration to feed their creative hunger. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP84tpN9A/

I would simply not go on #DragRace with this little respect for lip synching as an art form, y’know?

Framing someone's ex as a monster? Did Lynn Johnston write on this show? (cc: @emilystjams.bsky.social)

My subheads really are a window into my current headspace.

My subheads really are a window into my current headspace.

I suspect it's a standardized testing problem (like so many I encounter), but it's EXTREMELY hard to convince students to stop writing assignments that read like they're writing school assignments. No human being actually wants to read you cannibalizing the prompt language for no reason.

Orlando Bloom is presenting this award…why? #ActorAwards

Supporting Actor is such a weird one this year. You'd have made Penn the frontrunner in the abstract, but then Del Toro was the sentimental favorite in OBAA, and then you presumed they'd split the vote, and it turns out...no, it was just Penn all along considering BAFTA and SAG? Curious stuff.

Me watching the parade of Kristen Bell co-stars in her backstage #ActorAwards segments:

Netflix: bad for the theatrical experience, good for actual footage from media during award shows. #ActorAwards

A question for you, BlueSky: what is the COVID-era film that you’d be most curious to know its performance in a non-COVID box office?

As I noted here, TV-wise, the closest comp (and it isnt close) is perhaps Rege-Jean Page post-Bridgerton S1. (But all-time, it's 7YO Drew Barrymore.) latenighter.com/features/con...

As we prep for Connor Storrie on #SNL, I'm trying to think of other instances of the show using its host slot to validate a new young star. Best analogues I can find are typically tied to Oscars (Elliot Page, Gabourey Sidibe), which feel distinct.

A question for you, BlueSky: what is the COVID-era film that you’d be most curious to know its performance in a non-COVID box office?

Looking forward to seeing how #SNL negotiates this tonight.

The new #Scrubs is objectively a revival, but what my review of the two-episode premiere argues is that there's a necessary amount of rebooting required when the show you're reviving had no reason to return beyond generic affection.

The year is 2007. After starting a blog in January, I spend the Spring gravitating toward reviewing TV as it airs. In March, I write a "catchup post" covering shows I'm watching like #Survivor and #Scrubs.

So many exclamation marks and you can’t even get the most !mportant one right? SMH.

Does anyone remember what ABC did with Roseanne's tenth season before, y'know, it wasn't important anymore? Because this Scrubs (2001) situation is A Choice.

Does anyone know a normie who discovered and started binging #Scrubs and sat through the behind-the-scenes footage at the end of Season 8 only to have Season 9 auto-play five seconds later?

Happy Dan Romer A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Soundtrack Release Day to those who celebrate. (Kind of striking there's only 38 minutes of score in the entire season).

This week marks Episodic Medium's fourth anniversary. I'll have a full reflection on that later, but in the meantime here's my take on a #KnightOfTheSevenKingdoms finale that reasserted the show's stylistic deviation from the Westerosi mean.

I highly recommend being drafted as a last minute sub at a tennis tournament as the Olympics wind down so you too can address your #HardwareEnvy.

TFW a show follows up a “Zendaya is Meechee” joke by pronouncing it “JIF.”

This is far from a new problem (it started when news push alerts became the norm), but it does feel like the wide availability of streaming has effectively destroyed any notion of spoilers in the context of #Olympics coverage, for better or worse.

#Olympics PSA: You have to switch to the venue feed to get the medal ceremony on Peacock.

"THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" directly to the camera is iconic. #Olympics

Gold Zone? More like Prop Zone. #Olympics