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memles.bsky.social
Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium
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#PopCultureJeopardy thinks knowing the lyrics to “Tubthumping” is worth 2000 points and I just…you KNOW the average age of your contestants, right?

submitted 58 minutes ago • 2 comments

The first of the (vast) coverage of new CBS soap, Beyond the Gates, that actually engages with the industry logics that CBS and P&G are employing. No surprise that they include value of soap streaming audience AND brand integrations, just like a proper 1930s radio serial. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

I anticipated this once I realized the release date meant that they’d miss the Emmy deadline unless they did batch releases, but it’s still…a lot.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Marcus got more to do in this #SAGAwards intro than in most episodes of #Hacks Season 3, tbh.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Probst just wants me to start being annoyed with philistine viewers instead of him, galaxy brain move. #Survivor

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

For @vulture.com, I wrote about the troubling aftermath of that rape scene in Severance—and genre TV’s tendency to avoid acknowledging sexual assault: www.vulture.com/article/seve...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I am becoming numb to higher education’s claims about AI making teaching more efficient at the same time it’s threatening our sanity, but I have to admit I was shocked when the idea of mental health support was raised with a straight face. But how can I be? There is no bottom to the grift.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Do we think the creator behind a nostalgic meme account had to spend a lot of time agonizing over how to respond to this comment tonally, or have they subsumed any sense of identity to the brand and it just flows naturally [unfortunately :/]?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

#Yellowjackets flew too close to the sun with that needle drop this week, y’all.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Finished Indiana Jones and the Great Circle this week - a fun time, with an enjoyable facsimile of an Indiana Jones story and an enjoyable gameplay loop. A good enough time that I didn’t feel too angry it was latest game to never force me to parry until a final boss fight forced me to parry.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Too soon for Columbo to be on my feed after being used for evil on #TheTraitors.

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"My occupation is claw machines" is a real #TheFloor banger.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Making “Knowing JC Chasez was a member of *NSync” worth 600 points and “Name the individual members of Hanson” worth 400 points? #PopCultureJeopardy, I just want to talk.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

It was over two years ago that @brosenstock.bsky.social's coverage of #TheWhiteLotus S2 helped launch Episodic Medium's first fall schedule. He's back on the beat for another season—your paid subscription helps support his work and lets you join the discussion.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I want the full oral history on them convincing “Should be in the 5 Timers Club but literally refused every offer to host because she doesn’t want to” Meryl to do that sketch. #SNL50

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I know it’s just because I survived the lip-synched press tour for “DJ Play A Christmas Song,” but hearing how good Cher sounded singing live on #SNL50 really hit hard.

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