The eternal, beautiful stasis of the twentysomething hangout sitcom
Plus: The Love Hypothesis, Never After Dark, and dunking on Peppermint Patty.
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How to make a movie with John Wilson
Carolyn Wang — making their Episodes debut! — on what makes John Wilson's films humane in an age of artificiality.
Meet the next TV series we're recapping: A French Village
The series follows a small French town during and after the Nazi occupation of France.
What really came to an end in The Americans' finale
Was "START" where the so-called "golden age of TV" finally closed up shop?
What really came to an end in The Americans' finale (preview)
A short preview of the latest 26 Episodes installment.
If I liked Digger, am I even myself anymore?
Plus: Silksong revisited, the 2024 Salem's Lot movie, and New York's abandoned honeymoon hotel.
Check out what premium Episodes subscribers were reading in September!
A little taste of what Episodes published last month!
On Exit Party and being a time traveler
Emily St. John Mandel's new novel asks us how we can hold onto our pasts without falling into poisonous nostalgia.
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week 10
We come to the end and grapple with Infinite Jest as a whole and what to make of the book's legacy
On Twin Peaks, the world ended long ago. Now we live in the ashes. (Preview)
A small preview of the latest installment in Emily St. James's 26 Episodes series.
On Twin Peaks, the world ended long ago. Now, we live in the ashes.
This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full and descend.
The New York Times top 100 TV shows and the always slippery TV canon
In: Exit Party, Forgotten Island. Out: the idea that it should be easy to build a TV canon!!
Resident Evil
Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you
The best cosmic horror in years? In a video game movie directed by Zach Cregger? It's more likely than you think
Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Nine
Lily and Emily consider the impossible: might Infinite Jest be... self-involved?
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
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!
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!
it's a wonderful life
What It's A Wonderful Life's George and Mary Bailey can say to us here in 2026
The fun things Emily and Lauren Theisen learned when working on their new It's a Wonderful Life book
Ponies
Peacock's Ponies and when streaming enters crunch time
Plus: Damien McCarthy's horror movies, Some Like It Hot, and true fashion.
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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.
Beth March Returns from the Dead
Preorder Emily's next novel! Save big money! Now!
Plus: The e-book of Woodworking is on sale too? Remember Woodworking?