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Lily Osler

Lily Osler

Minneapolis
Writer, Trekkie, incompetent knitter. Managing Editor at Episodes.
Sep
26
A tiny being holding a small sword stands amid a beautiful green clearing.

Silksong hates you because it wants to teach you to dance

6 min read
Sep
17
The midway at the Minnesota State Fair is full of rides and games, all glowing neon-bright in the night.

Need for seed: a quest for the real Minnesota at the state fair

The pop-culture depiction of the state is only sort of right, writes Lily Osler.
8 min read
Sep
15
A white woman in a police uniform pulls a gun. Everything is snowy, and she is dressed very warmly.

Episodes Monday Rundown September 8 - 14 2025

12 min read
Sep
08
Two people crouch in the wilderness, one old, one young. They stare at the sky in horror.

Episodes Monday Rundown September 1 - 7 2025

13 min read
Sep
05
Dressed in a blue-white checkered top, Sabrina Carpenter hangs out of a car, cigarette in her mouth.

In Sabrina Carpenter’s world, camp is the opposite of heteropessimism

7 min read
Sep
01
The cover of Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend features her leaning by a man's crotch as he holds her blonde hair like a leash.

Episodes Monday Rundown August 25 - 31 2025

11 min read
Aug
25
A white, blonde woman with blue eyes, clad all in white, wearing a crown of sticks, leans toward camera in close-up.

Episodes Monday Rundown August 18 - 24 2025

10 min read
Aug
18
Joaquin Phoenix, in a white cowboy hat and white sheriff's shirt, holds a radio and points at someone off-camera.

Episodes Monday Rundown August 11 - 17 2025

12 min read
Aug
11
A girl in wolf fur and a shell necklace rides atop the back of an enormous white wolf in a forest setting.

Episodes Monday Rundown August 4 - 10 2025

13 min read
Aug
04
Paul Walter Hauser and Liam Neeson star in The Naked Gun. They're in a non-descript room of brick. Hauser clutches coffee.

Episodes Monday Rundown July 28 - August 3 2025

14 min read