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Episodes Monday Rundown September 15 - 22 2025
This week: The Long Walk, The Craft, and an alien with a mechanical penis.
TV
This HBO documentary is one of the best true-crime series ever made
The Yogurt Shop Murders focuses less on the case and more on the people involved, writes Emily St. James.
state fair
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.
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown September 8 - 14 2025
This week: Two classic visions of the Midwest, a true-crime doc, and the Strange New Worlds finale.
Mailbag
September mailbag
This month: Why doesn't Emily have Netflix? And what IS psychological horror anyway?
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown September 1 - 7 2025
This week: Akira Kurosawa, John Wayne, and Sabrina Carpenter. Legends all!
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sabrina carpenter
In Sabrina Carpenter’s world, camp is the opposite of heteropessimism
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like Sabrina Carpenter's discography.
theaters
Why is Hamilton mostly remembered for the things it's not?
The musical, now 10 years old, seems forever defined by the political moment in which it debuted.
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown August 25 - 31 2025
This week: Sabrina Carpenter, '90s Trek, and two great video essays.
ai
Maybe AI could make something interesting. It couldn't make "art."
Death to art that only wants to serve us up what we already know we want.