This was about “Starships,” FYI.

Given my evening freed up based on the collapse of contemporary technology, moving through #Mixtape proved to be a fitting way to spend the time instead. Do I have questions about how a 7-year-old knew what a music supervisor was in the mid-80s? Yes. Was I charmed anyway? Also yes.

Didn't know what to do with the surprise interregnum episode of #TheBear, so everyone gets some thoughts on its release and subscribers get to discuss the episode itself (and whether it was worth all the hullabaloo).

Dear Apple, I know I'm late getting to my #ForAllMankind screener, but there's still 7 and a half hours until the episode releases, so could I perhaps suggest other songs at roughly 125 beats per minute that had been released by 2013 that could replace the one you chose? kthx

Didn't know what to do with the surprise interregnum episode of #TheBear, so everyone gets some thoughts on its release and subscribers get to discuss the episode itself (and whether it was worth all the hullabaloo).

CBS gives same-day screeners to (select) journalists for #Survivor, and if you thought this might mess with the people following prediction markets based on the show? Yes.

The TV academy has spent the better part of 15 years grappling with the messiness of its genre-based categories, but the real problem is Gold Derby headlines like this one that make it seem like the system is being abused when it's not. Truly why in the world would this not be a Comedy?!

Ultimately, what I took away from Devil Wears Prada 2 is that a 20 years later sequel is always going to be better served when its writer went and made a TV show in between. There's a grounding quality to its serialization that you wouldn't get without it.

I've spent this Spring realizing that running Episodic Medium is four jobs—reviewing, editing, editorializing, and promoting—and I can only do two of them at a time right now, but let me take a brief moment away from prioritizing the first two to point out this milestone.

I knew Devil Wears Prada 2 was going to be nostalgic for the first film, but the commitment to terrible driving plates really brought a tear to my eye.

Love to see people holding Apple to account for drafting off the Schmigadoon Tony nominations after canceling the show.

#SheepDetectives may have been a Screen Unseen movie at AMC this weekend, but you be SEEN me failing to collect myself emotionally when the credits rolled.

Last night was my first time seeing the (touring) Lion King Broadway adaptation, and it's amazing how much more effective an I.P. musical feels when some of the most established songs end up seeming like afterthoughts compared to new material.

Lots of great details in @franklinavenue.bsky.social's report on the #Hacks Amazing Race crossover, except that it confirms Elise Doganieri was on set and yet STILL the show butchered how Roadblocks work? Et tu, Elise?

The description of this as a BookTok success story when it was published in 2020 strikes me as ahistorical, but curious to know what Carfax they'd point to in support of it. I admittedly DNF'd Husband Material without malice (I just got distracted), but I'll watch a series.

We can all agree that TV award categorization is incredibly muddy, but we can normally chalk it up to the wisdom of the crowd: if enough people think a Drama is a Comedy, so be it! But when there's a jury of five people, I want to see some Carfax, y'know?

Rolled credits on a library rental of #Pokopia, which is a really lovely experience that nails the “structured gameplay experience as entry into neverending cozy sim,” which makes it a bit awkward to be taking it back to the library. Farewell, my Pokéfriends. Goodbye forever.

At this point I’m not sure what the ceiling is for promotional tie-ins for season two?

Scenes from a Local Affiliate/Casino #Survivor casting call. The middle front has been here since last night. Parvati is here. Jeff Probst cut-out has not been height checked for accuracy. They’re adding more chairs so more people can see the morning show taping. What a time to be alive.

Can confirm. Tags were being updated as I got to the game aisle at 9.

It has been a pleasure digging into every episode of The Pitt this season over at Episodic Medium, and the conversation in the comments often makes me reconsider my interpretation. Thanks, @memles.bsky.social for creating a safe and lively space to chat TV www.episodicmedium.tv/review-the-p...

#AbbottElementary saw this and said “What if we make the next episode even worse, with some of the most aggressive ‘Why would a camera crew be filming all this’ in the series’ run?”

I'm glad #Scrubs is back. I'm happy to revisit a show I enjoy. I also don't think there's enough upside in the compromised format for it to ever achieve anything close to the original creatively, given how this season shook out. My review of the finale is up at Episodic Medium.

Look, I'm obviously sick of AI in all contexts, but if there's a particular scourge I'm bothered by at the moment it's the "AI Poster" aesthetics that people have somehow decided are better than WordArt realness. Why would I trust someone who thinks this is okay?

CBS just abandoning its Monday comedy block and forcing Ghosts to midseason to split its slot with their sole new comedy is...a sign of the times, I guess. (Props to them for letting Ghosts still do hour-long seasonal Halloween/Christmas episodes in true broadcast fashion, at least.)

Did YOU know that Goodwill has an online auction site for items they think have actual value? It would have honestly probably been better if I didn’t.

I never quite got a handle on why this show with a fundamentally contemporary premise felt so old-fashioned to me (I mean, probably the DEK of it all), but it's a fundamentally solid and good version of what it is, and agreed on the performances.

Survey Participants Needed! Fanfiction Writers, Fanfiction Readers, Fans, Fandom enthusiasts ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (@fanstudies.bsky.social @scmsfaas.bsky.social can i get a boost for this student's research solicitation?)

I appreciate Netflix spending tens of millions of dollars to make #Thrash, a perfectly watchable movie that mostly exists to prove how tight and effective the wildly similar #Crawl is by comparison.

I get we hold Pixar to a higher standard, but the "I can't believe Disney canceled a movie for being too female-coded, look at KPop Demon Hunters!" discourse is pretending that A) Sony didn't ditch that movie for similar reasons B) The industry is capable of unlearning gender essentialism

I am officially writing an article about Alamo Drafthouse (anti-)fandom and their buyout and anti-labor policies in the broader context of media consolidation. If you are a fan of the drafthouse, current or present employee, etc and you would be interested in speaking about this, please reach out!

Not only would you NEVER take I-95 to get to the Outer Banks from Philadelphia, but is this TV show pretending you can FLY into the Outer Banks?! Janine, you'd have to drive two hours from Norfolk either way! Be real with me right now, television show! #AbbottElementary

Every now and then, a TV show creates a story specifically to attack me, and this #AbbottElementary Outer Banks vacation story is IT, let me tell you.

When I speculated about #HeatedRivalry's award options, the Peabody was questionable less because I didn't think it could be nominated, and more because I questioned whether the rushed nature of HBO Max's pickup of the series would have led to its submission by the December 18 deadline. Guess so!

I asked this of my subscribers, but for everyone else: last night's #Survivor was heavily focused on the idea that there are two factions emerging, but was I the only one confused about who precisely is in those factions vs. being in the middle?

I think I'm just going to use subheads for yelling at Coach now, sorry subscribers. #Survivor www.episodicmedium.tv/review-survi...

@mousterpiece.bsky.social FYI.

Maybe it's that I'm about to go talk to my students about game journalism, but I am never not struck by the Critics Choice Awards milking the FYC/Promotion side of Hollywood with "Diversity Celebrations" with no seeming criteria on competition or eligibility.

Weird day for me to be reminded of the "What if someone blogged their way through the San Francisco Plague of 1900-1904?" project I designed for my History of Medicine class 18 years ago.

Update: @sepinwall.bsky.social has since pointed out a third [Redacted].

Heads up to the Olympic curling viewers: ESPN+ is carrying the pro curling “Rock League” this week. My immediate reaction is that the audio/video situation is VERY work-in-progress. #RockLeague

Having now caught up on The Bone Temple, the fate of the third 28 Years Later film is a compelling bellwether for the state of mid-budget franchise filmmaking.

Having now caught up on The Bone Temple, the fate of the third 28 Years Later film is a compelling bellwether for the state of mid-budget franchise filmmaking.

I watched The Studio's Golden Globes episode months early and spotted SEVERAL inaccuracies and never emailed Apple about it, and I've lived with that regret EVER SINCE. Which is why, HBO Max, I proudly write to you today regarding [Redacted] and [Redacted] in the fifth season of #Hacks.

I watched The Studio's Golden Globes episode months early and spotted SEVERAL inaccuracies and never emailed Apple about it, and I've lived with that regret EVER SINCE. Which is why, HBO Max, I proudly write to you today regarding [Redacted] and [Redacted] in the fifth season of #Hacks.

I want to know the costs and labor associated with Taylor Swift’s Elizabeth Taylor fan vid. open.spotify.com/track/1QDlKo...

You know a movie is connecting with people when they start pretending reports of an assembly cut are actually a director’s cut that would ever be just a whole bunch of finished deleted scenes.

The fact I’m forced to skip Harry Potter trailers while revisiting the Cary’s Roommate arc in Season 1 of The Other Two (because the actor is on Scrubs now) is annoying but also honestly kind of absurd in a funny way.

Loved the meta-conversation about the psychology of seeing one's own #Survivor edit tonight, although it was missing the strong likelihood that the edit the players were most concerned with probably didn't exist when the conversation was happening (and was likely shaped by THIS conversation).