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West coast editor for New York Mag's Vulture. (Middle-aged) child of television. Allen Ludden superfan. YouTube archaeologist.
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I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.

I was a child of divorce with parents in different states, so I got to roam free through the streets of 70s and 80s Las Vegas *and*, a few times, the San Fernando Valley. And I didn’t know anyone in the Valley, so I spent a couple summers walking around by myself in a strange neighborhood!

When 15 million Americans lose their health care and plunge into personal crisis, none of them are going to give a shit about a made-for-clicks twitter fight between two billionaires arguing about who gets the bigger share of the corruption spoils.

Billy Wilder's ACE IN THE HOLE (1951) is streaming on Pluto TV (free with ads) and Kanopy (free w/ a library card). It predicted the mess we're in today better than almost any other film. #FilmSky #Streaming

Find joy where you can, and if that's in watching Musk vs. Trump soap, go for it. Seriously--no judgment. But for me, the only emotions I feel are anger and sadness: anger at the voters who chose this & the media which enables it, and sadness over all the destuction these morons are causing....

I am actually not opposed to holiday creep as much as some folks, but COME ON, Target. It’s not even Flag Day yet! They must be getting super desperate to pump up the Q2 numbers. If I were them, I’d lean into the “buy now before Trump tariffs kick in!” messaging—even if it did annoy Dear Leader.

I don't claim to know whether what's going on with Trump and Musk is real or kayfabe; either is logical with those two morons. BUT: I lean toward the latter becasue the truth is, Musk's objections are that the bill doesn't cut deeply enough and hurt the middle class MORE. Mike Johnson likes this!

Count me as one of the 11.1 million that watch YouTube during prime time. I hardly watch linear cable or broadcast TV these days. In fact, if I am WFH I have on either YouTube or Twitch on in the background to listen to ML7/Emongg's Overwatch streams and then The 8-Bit Drummer in the late afternoon

Harris announced her long-term care plan on The View. Guess what the media focused on: Her refusal to break with Joe Biden. Should she have had a better answer? Sure. It was also a dumb thing to focus on w/ the first Black, female VP replacing an 80-year-old white man www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z471...

The ones she hammered home in most speeches, but got little coverage from media: Expanding medicare to include home health care (huge), down payment grants ($25K, I think?) so people could buy houses coupled with plan to build X million new units, expanding small business start-up credit.

the last time a travel ban happened at the start of a trump admin bsky.app/profile/rmac...

Amen to all of this. I get the anger at many of the WaPo decisions, and Bezos has done so much harm there in the past 9 months. Don’t subscribe if the paper doesn’t suit your needs/isn’t in your budget. Support indie journalism, too. But we should want it to survive and hopefully thrive again.

youtu.be/UTO0G23FEEE?...

HBO June* is gonna be🔥

Forget the Dancing Itos. Bring back the Ed Asner Dancers.

Your host…Bert Convy: “Mine doesn’t get any picture on it. I don’t know what it is.”

Tonight on CROSSFIRE—Home computers: Good or evil? On the right, Pat Sajak: “They frighten me! I’m of the generation that’s scared of machines.” On the left, Shelley Smith: “I just got one and they’re really fun. They’re not as hard as you think, Pat, and they’re so easy to organize your life.”

I have always been fascinated by how YouTube is so often treated as a mere curiosity by folks who report in tech AND report on entertainment. Like compare the reporting on YouTube to the reporting on TikTok. Glad Joe is digging into it!

YouTube, not Netflix or Apple, is winning the streaming wars. In Q1 2025, 11.1 million Americans were watching YouTube during primetime, virtually tying Netflix (11.4M) and more than the Disney and and Prime Video combined. @tvmojoe.bsky.social reports www.vulture.com/article/yout...

NEW: In Q1 2025, 11.1 million Americans were watching YouTube during primetime, virtually tying Netflix (11.4M) and more than the Disney streamers (5.9M) and Prime Video (4.8M) combined. My report on why YouTube is Netflix's biggest threat--and how it got here. www.vulture.com/article/yout...

Good for Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders. My point of reference is from following @cnn.com, and if what he’s done there is any way representative of his talents, I would say that my Corgis could do a better job. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The flip side of this is an actual power-company employee could visit someone’s house to, say, check on a gas leak, and the frightened people inside won’t answer the doorbell.

If you haven't aleady, make sure to check out my colleague @lanebrown.bsky.social's excellent look at how tax credits have zapped so much life out of Hollywood, making it incredibly difficult to make TV shows and movies in the City of Dreams. www.vulture.com/article/holl...

More here on @vulture: www.vulture.com/article/jeop...

Jeopardy was the one thing other than the MLB playoffs that I couldn’t get without cable. Now…

And in more good news: The deal DOES include library episodes of past seasons. Whether that means 80s and early 90s eps? Don't know yet.

BOOM! Starting in September you'll be able to watch new episodes of @kenjennings.bsky.social's JEOPARDY! and Ryan Seacrest's WHEEL OF FORTUNE on Peacock, Hulu or Hulu on Disney+ hours after they air on local TV stations. The cord: It has been cut!

The BELOW DECK mothership returned tonight. But if you Google when spin-off BELOW DECK MED will return, Google AI will pop up and insist that, no, MED returns tonight. Just another day of flat-out AI lies.

CNN stood by and even promoted correspondent Alex Marquardt amid a high-profile defamation lawsuit the network was forced to settle. But on Friday he was suddenly told to clear out his office. Details of what led to his ouster in @status.news www.status.news/p/alex-marqu...