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Episodes Monday Rundown May 4–10 2026
This week: The Devil Wears Prada 2, For All Mankind, and a haunting religious vision.
Lily Osler
Writer, Trekkie, incompetent knitter. Managing Editor at Episodes.
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Pluribus: Episode 9, "La Chica o El Mundo"
Save the world, or get the girl? Maybe it's not that simple.
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown April 27–May 3 2026
This week: Charlie Kaufman, Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze, and a gorgeously melancholic kids' show.
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Check out what premium Episodes subscribers were reading in April!
Hello, beloved free subscribers! Today, we close the book on April, and with it a very busy month of publishing for Episodes. We published 17 pieces this month, with new writing from us every single Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday on Deadwood, Project Hail Mary, Something Very Bad Is Going
The Drama
The Drama can't decide what it's about
A movie this well-crafted ought to have more going for it than shock value.
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Pluribus: Episode 8, "Charm Offensive"
Everything costs something.
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Episodes Monday Rundown April 20–26 2026
This week: The Drama, Project Hail Mary, and some true classics of literature.
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Project Hail Mary isn't competence porn. It's a love story.
The film's relationships matter more than its equations. You wouldn't know it from the discourse.
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Pluribus: Episode 7, "The Gap"
Whether existential malaise or terrifying spiky palm trees, we all have things to overcome.
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Episodes Monday Rundown April 13–19 2026
This week: Faces of Death, Exit 8, and the new Olivia Rodrigo!
Mailbag
April mailbag!
This month: books that need reissues, songs that belong to one director, and the Buffy Big Bad ranking you've been waiting for.
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Pluribus: Episodes 6, "HDP"
Wait, WHAT are the Joined doing? Let's let John Cena explain.