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Current: TV and film critic free agent. Former: Vulture, WashPost. Prev bylines: NYT, Vanity Fair, others. Literally wrote the book on Clueless.
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I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

My review of the final season of SQUID GAME, a show that is nothing like real life because who would consistently vote in favor of having their fellow citizens potentially killed? www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Oh no, I think Lorde says something in one of her new songs about spitting in someone else's mouth, there are going to be 83 more trend pieces about this now.

"This dramedy — yes, it's both a drama and a comedy, and I will not be taking further questions on this matter — always does its best work when it's actively on deadline." My take on S4 of THE BEAR, which moved me a great deal and, yes, also made me laugh. www.tvguide.com/news/the-bea...

At this time, I would like to share something very important that I wrote while taking notes during THE BEAR S4. I CANNOT WITH JEREMY ALLEN WHITE HOLDING A BABY Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Man, some of you are out here posting GIFs from episode seven of THE BEAR S4 and it's making me cry again, and I can't be doing that when I'm trying to finish writing something about THE BEAR. Wait, actually ... maybe I can.

I just said "Would you please draft Derik Queen" to the TV, and then Atlanta did! In many ways, this is really my victory.

Can someone give Stephen A. Smith a sedative of some kind?

Why must everything be SO exhausting?

I find it odd that so many media outlets are jumping on THE SIMPSONS season finale/Marge news when that episode aired more than a month ago.

A "The Bear" style reboot of "Cheers" titled "The Beer," in which Sam Malone tries obsessively to perfect a smoke-infused martini while flashing back to being verbally abused by his old pitching coach

I agree with Jonathan Bailey: we're all gonna die, so just start kissing people. Also, if I was friends with Jonathan Bailey and he was cool with it, I would kiss him every freaking day, just saying. ew.com/jonathan-bai...

Hey, New York? Great job.

My husband: It's going to be 108 degrees tomorrow. Me, without even waiting a second: Oh no, that's what the numbers added up to on LOST.

THE BEAR returns tomorrow and I can't say anything about that yet, but I can resurface my extremely important analysis of Carmy's non-negotiables from last season. (Is it bad that I re-read this and was laughing at shit that I wrote? Oh well!) www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The way she says "80 with a B, yeah..."

I've been listening to "Help Me Rhonda" quite a bit since Brian Wilson's death and it's a great song. But also it's kind of weird that this guy just expects Rhonda to volunteer to be his rebound from the woman he really loves. No, Rhonda doesn't "gotta help" you. Rhonda doesn't gotta do shit.

A forever ceasefire is something I would have declared when I was seven and my Barbies were fighting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

It is so challenging to simply be alive right now.

In the coming weeks, if this explodes, there will be (even more) public discrimination against and malign treatment of Arab and Muslim Americans, especially Iranian Americans. Let's make sure we stand with and protect them as much as we can.

I just turned to my dog and said, "Watch the leather, man" like Matthew McConaughey in DAZED AND CONFUSED. I'm totally fine.

In honor of JAWS, one of the few, rare, "perfect movies," here is a reminder that America decided to elect its own Mayor Larry Vaughn.

I would love to understand why my print edition of The Washington Post is coming to my house in a plastic bag that says, "Thanks for subscribing to the New York Times."

Thunderstorms finally stop and dogs finally quit barking. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS VOICE: ONE HOUR LATER Fireworks start and, well, you can guess where this goes from here

Kinda odd growing up in the wake of the Challenger explosion and now every few months SpaceX is like yeah shit happens

Back to see one of the world’s greatest artists (Kendrick Lamar) at the worst venue on Earth (Northwest Stadium).

This is so ignorant and hateful and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

I have chosen to believe that whoever made the decision to play "Fortunate Son" knew exactly what they were doing.