Inventory
Beyond Bedford Falls: 15 other fictional small towns we'd love to live in
Including towns full of cartoon ducks, free health care, and monstrous vampires who provide low, low housing costs
Lily Osler
Writer, Trekkie, incompetent knitter. Managing Editor at Episodes.
Resident Evil
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil made the game's fans mad. Good.
Widow's Bay is a comedy?! (Yes.) Pan's Labyrinth is good?! (Yes.) Plus: Meet Derek!
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September mailbag! (preview)
A little preview of this month's mailbag!
Mailbag
September mailbag!
This month: the Criterion Closet, a live-action Infinite Jest adaptation, and what we'd do if *we* ran the Emmys.
Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Eight
Is Infinite Jest why we got prestige TV? Honestly, maybe!
Ponies
Peacock's Ponies and when streaming enters crunch time
Plus: Damien McCarthy's horror movies, Some Like It Hot, and true fashion.
Whalefall
Angel Down, Whalefall, and the phantasmagoria of manhood
Why do people love Daniel Kraus' novels? Maybe it's because he's not afraid of a big metaphor.
Episodes Book Club
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Seven
This week: the enthralling and the exhausting kind of become one singular thing.
Monday Digest
Is Coyote vs. ACME the perfect movie for the moment?
Also: Paranormal Activity on stage, the Furious finale, and a good comic about a cat.
Episodes Book Club
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Six
We're talking irony, sincerity, and, of course, Randy Lenz.
Monday Digest
Dolly Parton never met a song she couldn't make her own
Also: A trip to the Minnesota State Fair, The End of Oak Street, and America's reigning Garfield princess
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry's major scenes in Rocky Horror, ranked by their potential to awaken something deep inside of you
Or in me, specifically.