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Feb
05
Kendall Roy, tiny, in a flight suit, stands in front of enormous screens showing his face and the logo for Living+.

This Succession episode from 2023 perfectly captures the first few weeks of 2025

We're all afraid of death, but nobody wants to talk about it.
8 min read
Jan
24
A fish patterned on Martin Scorsese from the CGI animated film Shark Tank. He has big bushy eyebrows and is yellow for some r

January mailbag

9 min read
Dec
03
Anthony Andrews (all in white, holding a bear) and Jeremy Irons star in the BBC miniseries version of Brideshead Revisited.

LGBTQ+ people are not going back

This post is (somehow) about Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
7 min read
Nov
15
The cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, probably in the first season.

November mailbag!

10 min read
Oct
11
Bandleader Lawrence Welk spreads his arms out wide to celebrate the end of another number.

Liked Saturday Night? Here are more backstage TV stories that should be movies.

9 min read
Oct
09
Laura Palmer's dead body, blue lips, wrapped in plastic, lays on a beach. We can only see her face.

Twin Peaks asks us to look at horrors. And then we forget.

Do you know who killed Laura Palmer? No. Really. Do you?
8 min read
Oct
04
Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Syd (Ayo Edibiri) on The Bear get things out of their lockers. He's looking back at her.

Why The Bear is a comedy

8 min read
Sep
20
The many actors and people involved in Shogun stand on the purple-hued Emmy stage in their finery.

September mailbag

11 min read
Sep
15
Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force talks on the phone.

20 episodes that should have made Rolling Stone's best episodes list (part 2)

8 min read
Sep
13
Fonz from Happy Days stretches his arms out side as he cruises along the water's surface on waterskis.

20 episodes that should have made Rolling Stone's best episodes list (part 1)

10 min read