Week-to-Week: Daisy Jones & The Six has the plot, but not the perspective Initial impressions of Amazon's slow-starting adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestseller
Week-to-Week: Is HBO's The Last Of Us not a Game, not yet a TV Show? All we need is time to consider emerging discourse on the series' connection to the media forms it's tied to
Half-to-Half: Rihanna's Halftime Show embodies her ambivalence toward her music career Hits are hits, but there wasn't much being said on music's biggest stage
Week-to-Week: The 4-Month Late Take on Bad Sisters You Didn’t Know To Ask For Is a take ever late in an age of Peak TV? A fair question for a jet-lagged flight watcher
Week-to-Week: The Way of Water and the Ways to Restart a Franchise Or start, really, if we're being honest about the cultural status of Avatar before its release
Week-to-Week: The precious moments of Christmas Eve on Sesame Street A special holiday edition of the newsletter reflects on the 1978 special in the wake of the passing of star Bob McGrath
Week-to-Week: How a Holiday Special clarified my relationship to the MCU Musings on the overlapping rituals of Marvel's 2022 output