I always complain that movie & TV sets these days are too aspirational lifestyle e.g. RED DRAGON (2002) vs. MANHUNTER (1986) — Ed Norton & William Petersen as same dude w/ same job in same story; compare their houses (MH left, RD right) — but I rewatched & it's more than that

OK but what if you were on a girls' soccer team in the 90s and your plane crashed in the wilderness and things got really really bleak

I am one such worker who’s been unemployed over a year. So while just last year I was an animation showrunner and my show premiered with a good audience response in May, the industry is in such a holding pattern that I actually just trained to become a doula as a side business.

New from me: Furiosa is a.) a good movie b.) an attempt to process the dark, weird experience of living in the 2020s c.) an epic in the Beowulf or Gilgamesh mode, d.) all of the above. The answer, of course, is D. This movie captures RIGHT NOW perfectly. episodes.ghost.io/furiosa-review…

I fucking adore writing for TV. It's my dream job. But I have also sold multiple books at this point, which should _also_ count toward my union membership and benefits. I understand the inherent problems with unionizing novelists. I think it's still worth trying!

Goodbye Baku; hello Bunny! As an elder millennial bildungsroman it tracks that Mobility got work done to the face. Please preorder the paperback, which is out on 9/24, here: bookshop.org/p/books/mobili…

“You know Isabel and Tara? The Pink Opaque who have an ancient psychic connection and help each other fight monsters from across the county? Well Mr. Melancholy heard they were meeting up at their old sleepaway camp, so he set up a trap for them. This whole reality is a trap.”

You can be born a girl, grow up being told by your sexist father that you can't do stuff because you're a girl, experience misogyny your entire life, and then be told by the "Gender Critical" movement that you're a man and should be banned from women's spaces #ImaneKhelif

I already know one argument I'm going to try to make in this episode and one argument I'm going to lose.

Watched Trap, decided to rank Shyamalan's filmography in two parts. So here's part 1! With part 2 to follow on Friday for paid subscribers! episodes.ghost.io/m-night-shyama…

I wrote about Chappell Roan and parasocial relationships and the sickness of modern fandom: defector.com/chapell-roan-f…

I got a Community notification for THIS??

A joy as always, and this ended up being by far my most on-message podcast appearance to promote my NEW BOOK ON LOST, WHICH YOU CAN PREORDER HERE: store.abramsbooks.com/products/lost-…

Pre-Order LOST: BACK TO THE ISLAND like I did from Emily St. James and Noel Murray Right here! store.abramsbooks.com/products/lost-…

Chappell Roan has asked her fans to give her some goddamn space. Some of them have reacted poorly to that. But if you are even a little bit well-known for literally any reason (like I am), life can get so shitty, so quickly. New newsletter: episodes.ghost.io/chappell-roan-…

"Lost is still the answer I give to the question 'What’s the best pilot ever made?'" Read Noel Murray and Emily St. James discuss the pilot in an exclusive The A.V. Club excerpt from their upcoming book LOST: BACK TO THE ISLAND. Out 9/17 from ABRAMS Books! avclub.com/lost-back-to-t…

It's time for one of my favorite pastimes: figuring out which TV show exemplifies how it felt to live in America during a presidential administration. Here's a runner-up for my pick for Joe Biden's single term in office. You have to pay to read MY CHOICE. episodes.ghost.io/biden-era-tv-s…