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Dec 4, 2025
How important is plot to a TV show? I thought about this recently while looking at The Ringer’s updated list of the 100 best episodes of the century. Before, I probably...
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Nov 5, 2025
You’ve probably noticed that many people are saying we’re in an AI bubble. “OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming,” CNBC reports. “Fears of...
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Oct 13, 2025
At some point after I heard the news, I went outside and thought about her. It was a bright, crisp fall day, Diane Keaton weather: big, happy patches of sun on the sidewalk, red...
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Sep 18, 2025
It’s about decency, isn’t it? For all the privilege Robert Redford enjoyed in his life—and between the California good looks, the patrician bearing, the fame, the...
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Jul 8, 2025
Recently I’ve become fascinated by a TV phenomenon that I’ve started calling ghost shows—series that dominate the online conversation one year before all but...
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May 14, 2025
“The pope is American!” I cried, a few minutes after the telltale plume of white smoke billowed out from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. The College of Cardinals had...
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Mar 12, 2025
It was one of those dunks that briefly knocks the world off its hinges. Shaedon Sharpe stole the outlet pass just outside the 3-point line. He took one casual dribble toward the...
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Mar 3, 2025
Hollywood is full of little guys who act big; Gene Hackman was a big guy who knew how to be small. When the moment called for it, when he was playing a bullying cop or a football...
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Feb 11, 2025
I try to be a positive person, which is difficult, because everything is terrible.
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Jan 23, 2025
Did you notice that TikTok stopped working on Saturday night? Did you notice that it started working again less than 24 hours later? Have you been hearing about “the TikTok...
Dec 4, 2025How important is plot to a TV show? I thought about this recently while looking at The Ringer’s updated list of the 100 best episodes of the century. Before, I probably...
Nov 5, 2025You’ve probably noticed that many people are saying we’re in an AI bubble. “OpenAI’s Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming,” CNBC reports. “Fears of...
Oct 13, 2025At some point after I heard the news, I went outside and thought about her. It was a bright, crisp fall day, Diane Keaton weather: big, happy patches of sun on the sidewalk, red...
Sep 18, 2025It’s about decency, isn’t it? For all the privilege Robert Redford enjoyed in his life—and between the California good looks, the patrician bearing, the fame, the...
Jul 8, 2025Recently I’ve become fascinated by a TV phenomenon that I’ve started calling ghost shows—series that dominate the online conversation one year before all but...
May 14, 2025“The pope is American!” I cried, a few minutes after the telltale plume of white smoke billowed out from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. The College of Cardinals had...
Mar 12, 2025It was one of those dunks that briefly knocks the world off its hinges. Shaedon Sharpe stole the outlet pass just outside the 3-point line. He took one casual dribble toward the...
Mar 3, 2025Hollywood is full of little guys who act big; Gene Hackman was a big guy who knew how to be small. When the moment called for it, when he was playing a bullying cop or a football...
Feb 11, 2025I try to be a positive person, which is difficult, because everything is terrible.
Jan 23, 2025Did you notice that TikTok stopped working on Saturday night? Did you notice that it started working again less than 24 hours later? Have you been hearing about “the TikTok...