Sitting down with John Early for this was a highlight of my freaking year. John is such a smart guy and I think Maddie’s Secret is brilliant. A great reminder that you can embrace cultural traditions and still make something personal and new, that you can be funny and serious at the same time.

really loveddd WIDOW'S BAY s1 *and* getting to unpack its excellent finale (and S2 hopes) with the best of the best, @erikadams.bsky.social!!

brat summer has paved the way Lestat summer, or at least that's what i'm telling myself after witnessing a phenomenal Sam Reid rock out at AMC's one-night only The Vampire Lestat concert. there was no other way to kick off #InterviewWithTheVampire S3! wrote all about it:

it’s already that time of the year huh? wrote about THE BEAR:

Hellooooo bluesky I’ve been super thrilled to cover this Broadway season - you can find some highlights in this thread 😃

loved watching Schmigadoon! on Broadway & loved reading @drewupdates.bsky.social on why it works as well as it does:

I wrote about the show Neighbors on HBO!!!

Every time I shuffle my liked songs now it plays the same songs in the same order for up to a week at a time :)

if you live in nyc you should come to this next week!!!

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Happy to present my debut for @thebaffler.com... an interview with Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the man who threw both shoes at George W. Bush thebaffler.com/latest/a-hum...

When Brat Summer took off, Charli xcx didn't sell out and go broad. What her new movie imagines is...what if she did?

Presenting a reading series musing on a timeless staple of digital media: The viral, narcissistic or delusional confessional essay...

Returning to my War on Christmas to humbly offer my own failures and to take inspiration from “Lil Timmy Tim” Chalamet: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Yesterday my final piece as an AV Club staff writer went up. I’ve been musing over post-pandemic tv since the beginning of the year and personally found it under discussed at the COVID 5-year mark. Really proud of how it turned out❤️ www.avclub.com/2025-tv-covi...

Emma is such an incredible writer with elite taste & I am so bummed we are not coworkers anymore!!! a huge loss for us at AVC!

Last month, I was laid off from The A.V. Club. Still trying to figure out what comes next after officially becoming a #MediaLayoffVictim, but in the meantime feeling very thankful to have spent 3 years writing for a publication I grew up reading and loving <3

Fleshed out this argument—about arrested development culture and Christmas—in a new essay, which you can read here: open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

I’m so very sad that I don’t get to work with MK & I encourage everyone to read her beautiful writing!!! It’s a stark reminder of what The A.V. Club is losing out on:

Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...

Just remembered that how you spend your days is how you spend your life

my phone broke over the weekend and I can't get into a single account on my laptop because everything now requires I verify with an SMS code... the apps have become too secure... the cure is worse than the disease...

rest in piss

The reason everything seems like a “recession indicator” is because we’re in a recession. If not depression. Btw

So good

Where’s a deus ex machina when you need one!!!

There's nothing chaotic about the race! The runaway winner of the Democratic primary has a comfortable ongoing lead in the polls! The only chaotic element is the mind-traffic of the small circle of self-appointed civic elites melting down over their refusal to accept a straightforward situation.

Here's the first round of what I've been working on for the past few months: A 32-combatant tournament bracket to determine the greatest action franchise ever made. There's also a reader poll if you want to correct our choices www.avclub.com/best-action-...

I’m in Cabo

Get ready for a weeklong slugfest at The A.V. Club: Starting Monday, September 1, the biggest action film franchises will be battling it out in our bracket. You can have your say in the reader poll.

I think planned obsolescence is really wack!!!

The New York Times recently reported that the primary audience of The Summer I Turned Pretty is 25- to 54-year-old women… three of us weighed in on what makes the YA love triangle so irresistible! Cc: @emmakeates.bsky.social & @salonig.bsky.social www.avclub.com/the-summer-i...

We love jb pritzker

Vitamin water needs to step into its queendom and meet the zero sugar electrolyte moment

this AJLT series finale roundtable with @salonig.bsky.social @drewupdates.bsky.social and other AV Club staff really got me #thinking

A horrible show that I would have gladly watched 12 seasons of <3

and just like that, @danettechavez.bsky.social, @salonig.bsky.social, @drewupdates.bsky.social, and I chat about this bad bad show

I would never attend something call a “poop cruise.”

I had such a wonderful conversation with @amylittlefield.bsky.social about my new book Coercion, out today in @thenation.com!

are there barbz on this app

Neeeed to figure out how to return to the discipline and/or self-hatred that allowed me to be pure vegan for two years

The knockoff MGMT in the Netflix American apparel doc is sending me thru the roof

This is how I view rfk jr

We’re not coworkers anymore so it’s appropriate to joke around like this

What if hbo max learned that when I click on an episode of something I’ve watched before it’s not because I want to watch the end credits 💔

It was so wonderful talking to @jamesfolta.com for @literaryhub.bsky.social about books, my forthcoming book (out Sunday), and writing in general :)

It’s so funny that he doesn’t seem to understand that he lost by, like, a lot

When I’m in a bad boyfriend competition and a Michael zegen character shows up

If you are a g/orphan in ny check in with me babes…