mailbag
November mailbag!
This month: Food! So many questions about food! Also, the Criterion Closet, stage plays, and Pluribus.
Lily Osler
Writer, Trekkie, incompetent knitter. Managing Editor at Episodes.
rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown November 10–16 2025
This week: a better-late-than-never binge watch, Emily's favorite romance author, and two plays of wildly varying quality.
frankenstein
On Gothic sincerity and del Toro's Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein wears its themes on its sleeve. Lily Osler writes on how that works – and how it doesn't.
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Episodes Monday Rundown November 3–9 2025
This week: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read.
Yorgos Lanthimos
In Bugonia, power always says "please"
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest movie is a psychedelic nightmare about the ways the powerful use social niceties to pacify their own consciences, writes Lily Osler.
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Episodes Monday Rundown October 27–November 2 2025
This week: KPop Demon Hunters, del Toro's Frankenstein, and two different Paranormal Activities
halloween
14 under-the-radar tales to freak you out this Halloween
Including movies, books, podcasts, and asking your friends to tell you a scary story.
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Episodes Monday Rundown October 20-26 2025
This week: The Wicker Man, the new Last Dinner Party album, and so much found-footage horror
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Episodes Monday Rundown October 13 - 19 2025
This week: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, some horror classics, and Rilo Kiley in concert.
mailbag
October mailbag!
This month: Which classic Hollywood director could have crushed a found-footage movie? Also: It's spooky season!
movies
American film could use a little more J-horror in it
American horror looking to break clichés should borrow some ideas from Japanese horror films, writes Lily Osler.
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Episodes Monday Rundown October 6 - 12 2025
This week: A bunch of movies from 1946, Paul Tremblay's best, and DID YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TAKES THE YEARLING TO SHOW UP IN THE YEARLING? A LONG TIME!!!