I like that John Kennedy has decided to model his entire vibe and life philosophy on the Sheriff of Nottingham from fox Robin Hood.
10.03.2026 17:17
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I like that John Kennedy has decided to model his entire vibe and life philosophy on the Sheriff of Nottingham from fox Robin Hood.
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
Perhaps you've noticed that people are lying to you about which shows are funny. You are watching these shows, and you are hearing the jokes, and they're told, by the actors, in the cadence of a joke, but you're having a hard time lol'ing.
You should watch HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST.
Any comment from the Close Reading Brain Trust (@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @johannawinant.bsky.social) on this pervy smoothie of a New Critical passage exam?
"We took idiosyncratic passages out of context from longer, often challenging works, and asked a supercomputer to render them more palatable in isolation. Which version do you find more palatable in isolation?"
I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.
I steal from ALDI all the time. Or at least it feels like stealing, as a result of its incredible prices!
Help folks: there was some coverage from a couple of weeks ago where David Ellison was talking about wanting to make entertainment for middle America. Did I imagine this?
This is why you pay Q Dot $30 million dollars a year for four years.
Doc Rivers would beat the Cavs with this team. To be clear, he would not beat the Cavs in a playoff series with the current full-health Sixers starters. But he could coach up Cam Payne and Dom Barlow to blow out the Cavs tonight. 100%.
There's a terrific and eye-opening chapter in Stephanie Coontz's THE WAY WE NEVER WERE that's specifically about the ways that Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet were positioned as "representative" of American middle-class life even as they were defiantly, provably, not.
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If Steve Carrell does not appear on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast during the press tour for his new show, I think we will officially have grounds to suspect that there is beef between them. He's the most obvious guest, and if the premiere of Rooster doesn't do it, there's trouble, I think.
The voice and method and feeling and ambition and love of contemporary television criticism would be practically unimaginable without Matt Zoller Seitz.
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I'm never going to do this, but, I like to be clear that, if I did, it would be the Jesus Christ Superstar concept album (1970).
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
the “better fash than cringe” reaction has been one of the more significant and widespread poisons of the last decade
"Thankfully, I have learned nothing from this and will keep making that mistake over and over."
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Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
These people will make a hat for anything. This is the party of Frank Rossitano.
"We're here with the creators of Vladimir, Rooster, and Margo's Got Money Troubles. Thanks so much for joining us. First question: what do you think a dean is?"
have been watching vladimir and rooster, and i would like to wish sincere congrats to all the tv writers with degrees from small liberal arts schools that got writing gigs on tv shows out this week
The org chart of Ludlow College feels like it was hallucinated.
In fairness, people were really confused about fictional characters in early novels! It does seem like there’s a parallel there.
Between the Iran sizzle reel and this, it's been a banner week for Breaking Bad fans who didn't understand what the show was about. JD Vance is going to do a two-hour podcast episode about the birth rate crisis and just rant about Skyler the whole time.
I hope the guy who wrote the "Well, ACKtually, the Mellon Foundation is Doing a Woke Conspiracy" article in the Atlantic feels terrific reading this today.
I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.
The voice and method and feeling and ambition and love of contemporary television criticism would be practically unimaginable without Matt Zoller Seitz.
Buy some books from his wonderful store!