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Lily Osler

Lily Osler

Minneapolis
Writer, Trekkie, incompetent knitter. Managing Editor at Episodes.
Oct
17
A vintage Halloween card features a black cat pulling a jack-o-lantern in a straw hat in a cart. The words read "For a Merry Halloween."

October mailbag!

11 min read
Oct
15
A girl crawls out of a television, long dark hair draped down so you cannot see her face.

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.
9 min read
Oct
13
Two people sit on an enormous, seemingly endless staircase, buttressed by giant statues, in an extreme wide shot.

Episodes Monday Rundown October 6 - 12 2025

6 min read
Oct
06
Taylor Swift, lit with a green light, wears an enormous feathered contraption and grips her face. She's got a dark brunette wig on.

Episodes Monday Rundown September 29 - October 5 2025

8 min read
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