Episodes
Writings on culture, identity, and a bunch of other things from Emily St. James.

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Feb
11

Submit your February mailbag questions!

1 min read
Feb
10
Kendrick Lamar performs at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.

Episodes Monday Rundown Feb. 3 - 9 2025

4 min read
Feb
07
This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the emergency broadcasting system. This is only a test.

It's all happening so fast

4 min read
Feb
05
Kendall Roy, tiny, in a flight suit, stands in front of enormous screens showing his face and the logo for Living+.

This Succession episode from 2023 perfectly captures the first few weeks of 2025

We're all afraid of death, but nobody wants to talk about it.
8 min read
Feb
03
Ralph Fiennes, seen from the side, dresses in full Catholic Cardinal regalia. His eyes are closed in prayer. Or annoyance.

Episodes Monday Rundown Jan. 27-Feb. 2 2025

6 min read
Jan
31
Elisabeth Sparkle, played by Demi Moore, stares into a snow globe with a ballerina dancer in it.

Nobody has seen the movies

6 min read
Jan
27
Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) stands in a dark room at night. The shadow of a long-fingered hand, claws for nails, creeps up her fa

Episodes Monday Rundown: January 21-26 2025

5 min read
Jan
24
A fish patterned on Martin Scorsese from the CGI animated film Shark Tank. He has big bushy eyebrows and is yellow for some r

January mailbag

9 min read
Jan
22
The searing orange and black surface of a still molten lava lake.

How you are going to make it

And you are.
8 min read
Jan
21
A group of women sit in a movie theater, spellbound by what's on screen. We see the projector's light in the background.

Episodes Tuesday Rundown Jan. 13-20 2025

6 min read