What His Dark Materials gave me that Harry Potter never could
Kids deserve books that feel like getting away with something.
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Pluribus: Episode 3, "Grenade"
Grocery shopping as a way to stubbornly ignore your feelings about your lover's death? That's the Carol Sturka special!
Episodes Monday Rundown March 16–22 2026
This week: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Hoppers, and a eulogy for a wonderful cat.
March mailbag!
In this month's mailbag: sitcom remakes, ranked-choice voting takes, and a whole lotta Oscars!
Pluribus: Episode 2, "Pirate Lady"
Carol attempts to make friends, to mixed results.
Journalism is failing at its chief duty. Why do we keep asking art to take its place?
There's a place for endless nuance and character development. It's not in articles about the president.
Episodes Monday Rundown March 9–15 2026
This week: the Oscars, The Phoenecian Scheme, and some fascinating life circumstances.
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It's that time again!
This year's Best Picture nominees, ranked
Emily and Lily go through the hits and skips (well, mostly hits) of this year's race for the top Oscar.
Alias made no sense. Good.
Even Columbo couldn't figure out what was going on on Alias. Should that matter?
Pluribus: Episode 1, "We Is Us"
Our new recap series begins with a book tour, a tragic night out, and some very nice pod people who just wanna help.
Episodes Monday Rundown March 2–8 2026
This week: The new Scrubs revival, a fantastic sapphic romance novel, and some ToB reads.
Scream 7
Scream 7 is franchise horror for the slop era
There's such a thing as "too boring to be offensive," turns out.
oscars
If we ran the Oscars: 9 movies from 2025 that deserved nominations
The Academy may not have appreciated them, but YOU can!
Heated Rivalry
In Heated Rivalry, "the sex scenes work like songs in a musical"
We talk with Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk on adapting romance novels for TV and the future of queer romance in an uncertain time
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown February 23–March 1 2026
This week: Sirāt, Wuthering Heights (not that one), and Lily's Pokemon team.
star trek
Starfleet Academy is the messy teen sibling modern Star Trek was missing
In a franchise that's increasingly calcified, Trek's new teen drama tries something new and exciting.
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Did Everybody Loves Raymond find the meaning of life in 2002?
No, but it did sort of try.
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown February 16–22 2026
This week: Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, Hemlocke Springs, and some really cool blue whales.
Mailbag
February mailbag!
In this month's mailbag: the Winter Olympics, museum recommendations, and an all-Heated Rivalry fancast of Jesus Christ Superstar??
i saw the tv glow
In defense of the feel-bad comfort watch
Sometimes you watch a movie to feel better. And sometimes you watch a movie to feel human.
Heated Rivalry
Heated Rivalry: Episode 6, "The Cottage"
We're going to the cottage.
Rundown
Episodes Monday Rundown February 9–15 2026
This week: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, 2046, and Charli xcx's shockingly good Wuthering Heights album.
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It's that time again!