What's the best pop culture thing from 2020?
Interpret that question as broadly as you want! I made my list of 11 things I adored from this year a few weeks ago, and I’d love to hear what struck your fancy.
What shows should I cover?
Hey, all: No new Babylon Berlin recap this week, because I am beat off my feet. Hopefully, we’ll have two recaps next week, which will bring us very nearly to the end of season three. In the meantime, I’ve been thinking about how to cover TV in this
How are we holding up?
Here in LA, my wife and I are coming up on eight weeks of quarantine. I’m sure many of you are in the same space. So tell me how things are going for you? Are you feeling okay? Are you ready to leave your house forever? Are you unsure?
What TV show will have the BEST quarantine episode?
I asked a couple of weeks ago which TV shows would have the worst quarantine episodes, but with a handful of series going back into production to try to get new episodes up while also maintaining social distancing, I’m wondering which shows you think will have the best episodes.
Which TV show is going to have the worst quarantine episode?
This question is just what it sounds like on the tin. Predict for me a show that is going to go all in on doing something meaningful about This Time in Our Lives and badly botch the execution — vaguely similar to the infamous “Isaac and Ishmael” episode of West Wing.
Name a TV character. How are they handling quarantine?
Name literally any TV character and tell me how quarantine is going for them. (You could also do characters from other media, but TV feels like a rich medium for quarantine-related storytelling.) I’ll start: Don Draper decides that he can end the quarantine and escape a small space where
How are we all doing?
Hey, Episodes subscribers: Just checking in to make sure we’re all hanging in there. I am not handling isolation particularly well, as my wife can attest, but I baked my first-ever loaf of bread last night, so I’m learning things all the same. Tell me how you’re
What would you like this newsletter to cover?
I am aware that one’s personal newsletter is not the place to go for massive traffic hits, but my readership has been trending downward (with the exception of a couple of blips here and there) of late. As I only live to serve, consider this your free space to
Let's make tiny New Year's resolutions together
A few years ago, I made the New Year’s resolution to learn how to use chopsticks — and I succeeded at this incredibly minor task. The year after that, I set a resolution to learn how to shuffle cards, and… I haven’t quite mastered that, but I’m much
Give us your pop culture prediction for the 2020s
What do you think will happen to pop culture in the 2020s? You can take this question as seriously or lightheartedly as you like, but let’s presume that pop culture will continue to exist in the 2020s. Which is to say — “Climate change will become a central concern of
What was your favorite pop culture moment of the 2010s?
This should not be more than just a few split seconds — no more than a minute or two — of a larger work. Whether it’s Furiosa wailing and kneeling in the sand in Mad Max: Fury Road or the way Elizabeth Jennings gasps when she realizes something big in The
What was the best TV show of the decade?
I just published my list of the decade’s defining shows, so now I want to know what your favorite show of the decade was. You can name anything that aired in the 2010s — but only the episodes that actually aired in the 2010s are eligible.