Myles McNutt

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LOST stuff! With the series returning to Netflix today, @memles.bsky.social is resuming his old TV Club Classic reviews over at Episodic Medium, picking up with S4. I'm joining him for the occasional crosstalk review, starting with today's: episodicmedium.substack.com/p/episodic-c...

Episodic Classics: Lost, "The Beginning of the End" & "Confirmed Dead" | Season 4, Episodes 1-2episodicmedium.substack.com An endgame promises resolution, and the producers deliver *checks notes*...a whole bunch of a new characters and mysteries

This week’s newsletter breaks down why, despite its past interjections on the subject of genre (which were not really about genre), the Emmys do not care if you think The Bear isn’t a Comedy. episodicmedium.substack.com/p/week-to-we...

Week-to-Week: Why the Emmys Don't Care If You Think The Bear Isn't a Comedyepisodicmedium.substack.com A brief history of the TV Academy's "genre panic" in response to the latest scuttlebutt

I am thrilled to inform you that for the first time my Principled Stand on Award Categorization has overlapped with Awards I Can Actually Vote For. My hot takes on this year’s TCA Awards nominations: episodicmedium.substack.com/p/category-b...

Category-by-Category: Announcing the 2024 TCA Awards Nomineesepisodicmedium.substack.com I only have four days to vote so make your voice heard ASAP

In February, I was on a set visit and saw an interaction between Scott and another critic where he was self-reflective about his evolution as a critic amidst a changing industry (and culture), and it said so much about his respect for the job and his peers. A true loss.

Scott was one of my immediate predecessors as TCA President and it's hard to put into words how much I learned from him and how much I enjoyed working with him on various TCA boards and sitting a row or two away from him at countless TCA events.

Scott D. Pierce, longtime TV critic at Tribune and D-News, dieswww.sltrib.com Scott D. Pierce wrote about television, and other topics, over 34 years — first with the Deseret News and since 2010 for The Salt Lake Tribune. He died Friday, May 24; he was 64.

After @sepinwall.bsky.social wrote about the Netflix Effect ahead of its move to Netflix, a consideration of what it says that Girls5Eva seems destined to remain a cult show even with a much larger potential audience. episodicmedium.substack.com/p/week-to-we...

Thanks to @lindaholmes.bsky.social for the lovely shoutout in the PCHH newsletter and also a reminder of another spot on the old blog where I should be linking to the newsletter instead. www.npr.org/2024/03/02/1...

Confessions of a continuity copwww.npr.org You know that scene in Pretty Woman when Julia Roberts is eating a croissant that is suddenly a pancake? Continuity issues like that crop up all the time. Whether you let it distract you is your call.

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The CW used to have an outsize place in TV discourse relative to the actual number of people watching because it targeted a smaller audience (young adults) and did it really well. Now? What @memles.bsky.social says here is dead on.

Not every Press Tour question gets the answer you want; sometimes they don’t get an answer at all. My latest TCA missive: episodicmedium.substack.com/p/panel-to-p...

Panel-to-Panel: Three Questions, Two Answersepisodicmedium.substack.com On expectations vs. reality when speaking to panelists at TCA Press Tour

I still don’t know what BlueSky will be for, but I know it’s not my running thoughts while in Pasadena for the TCA Press Tour, so you can find those in periodical newsletters over the next two weeks. episodicmedium.substack.com/p/panel-to-p...

Having also seen Temple Grandin in an airport, it’s maybe the celebrity sighting that comes with the most certainty at first glance. Like, who ELSE would this be?

Whoever wrote that “Ted Lasso celebrated LGBTQ characters this season” copy is out to get me.

Why did they write Taraji and Joan a Costume Design intro without even a cursory segue into Limited Series? (Also this Obi-Wan Kenobi nomination is really the dumbest).

The DJ who cued up the X-Files theme as incidental walk on music on a night of cast reunions that does not include the X-Files? Jail.

The way the narrator says “Dahmer -Monster” is making me think I’m insane?

It’s a pity that the world continues to be fucked up enough that a RuPaul’s Drag Race win in Reality Competition Series feels like a moral victory instead of the latest bout of mindless complacency in this category from the TV Academy.

If I was in the audience for the Emmys, I’d be absolutely petrified at the idea of losing all perception of who qualifies for a standing ovation by night’s end. I’d just be standing for everyone just in case. Might even stay standing.

I don’t know if there’s been bad takes on The Marvels’ box office failure HERE, but the Old Place was full of ‘em, and so @kristenwarner.bsky.social joined me to explore why “box office bomb” isn’t a value judgment, whether we like the industry logic behind it or not.

Week-to-Week: Saying The Marvels bombed isn't a value judgment—it's a factepisodicmedium.substack.com Kristen Warner joins me to break down the industry and trade press logic that has angered advocates for diversity in the film industry

Hey, Bluesky: no better way to break the seal on posting than with Episodic Medium’s Year-in-Review, where I’ve asked our contributors to select their favorite writing and removed the paywall. Help me share their amazing work: episodicmedium.substack.com/p/year-to-ye...

Year-to-Year: Episodic Medium's 2023 Highlightsepisodicmedium.substack.com Our contributors' favorite reviews of the year are our gift to free subscribers

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