Week-to-Week

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

Week-to-Week: Did this single bake doom the Great British Bake-Off to its current quagmire?

A theory on the issues harshing the vibes on TV's quintessential comfort show

Week-to-Week: An Elegy for TV Twitter

As the platform burns, a reflection on how it shaped over a decade of critical discourse