James Poniewozik

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So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

My body: *listens happily to the English Beat cover of The Tears of a Clown* My brain: “Fun fact! This cover is more than twice as old as the original was when you listened to it in high school! In fact it’s almost four times as old now as the original was when it came out!” My body: *becomes dust*

My one contribution to the Current National Debate is to point out that the brokered-convention episode of The West Wing took place AFTER Aaron Sorkin left the show

Tastes great, less fulfilling. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/a...

‘The Bear’ Season 3: Tastes Great, Less Fulfillingwww.nytimes.com It’s still TV’s best and most beautiful series about work and creation. But the new season is a tease.

"Our lives had not prepared us for extremity, to mobilize or to be as focussed and energized as I can see, in retrospect, we would have needed to be. We were not prepared to drop everything in defense of a system that was, to us, like oxygen: used constantly, never noted." tinyurl.com/y867ctkr

“Love Letter”tinyurl.com Fiction by George Saunders: “What would you have done? I know what you will say: you would have fought. But how? How would you have fought?”

Fortunately, presidential crimes are still subject to the ultimate punishment: anonymous statements in the press from senators who are “uncomfortable” about the actions they just acquitted you for

IYKYK, but the final scene of the series finale is... quite something right now.

I can't emphasize how little I want this to occur, BUT... in the horrifying and disheartening event that Trump is reelected, the Kings have to make four more seasons of "The Good Fight." I don't make the rules.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kingswww.youtube.com YouTube video by tennesseejed93

I've shared this story before, but one of my formative TV memories was how my older sister used to tape episodes of Fernwood 2 Night for me--taped ON AUDIOCASSETTE because this was pre-VCR--because I wasn't old enough to stay up for it. RIP to a master. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/a...

Martin Mull, Comic Actor Who Rose to Fame on ‘Mary Hartman,’ Dies at 80www.nytimes.com Mr. Mull, who was also an artist and a musician, had a long list of credits that included the sitcoms “Roseanne” and “Veep.”

Starting to think that my most contrarian TV-critic opinion is being fine with The Bear dropping its seasons all at once

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“Superhero stories often cater to the same fantasies that authoritarian movements do: a strong hand to protect you from predators; swift, extrajudicial street justice; powerful leaders who can act unilaterally; the simple thrill of watching an enemy be obliterated.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/a...

How Does Democracy Die? Maybe by Laser Vision.www.nytimes.com “The Boys” and other TV series imagine fascism coming to America, whether wrapped in the flag or in a superhero’s tights.

Hardly the most important part of this story, but the man pushing for a “post-Constitutionalist” American government literally shares the name of the corporation from THE BOYS

I try not to let my dread of a Trump presidency verge into hysteria. But reading about this MAGA Christian nationalist true believer—D.C. lifer, ex-OMB director, 2024 GOP platform policy director, possible White House chief of staff—makes it hard to keep calm. Gift link. wapo.st/3yXcDpW

Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-Constitutional’ vision for second termwapo.st Russ Vought, the former president’s budget director, is laying the groundwork for a broad expansion of presidential powers.

It's Fantasmas-tastic! www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/a...

Review: ‘Fantasmas’ Journeys to the Center of Julio Torres’s Mindwww.nytimes.com In the comic fabulist’s dazzling new HBO series, sketch comedy meets sketch fantasy.

“Double Hater” would be the best band name abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Majority of independents and 'double haters' think Trump should end 2024 campaign: POLLabcnews.go.com Over half (52%) of Independents believe Trump should end his campaign and within the even more specified group– “double-haters,”-- two-thirds (67%) think so.

Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/a...

On Live TV, a Historic Verdict Felt Both Enormous and Smallwww.nytimes.com Donald Trump’s convictions made for a stunning moment of history, followed by hours of politics talk.

It’s like a football scoreboard where “GUILTY” missed an extra point

Visited NYC's most notorious new reality show... the Portal www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/a...

Where New Yorkers Start Being Polite and Stop Getting Realwww.nytimes.com The Portal, a video art installation connecting the city with Dublin, is open again, now with safeguards. But does changing the rules change the artwork?

If you offer me an "advanced screener" of something I assume I am going to experience it through a biometric helmet like in 3 Body Broblem

post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains. [How is my entire feed not this image?]

post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.

tfw you reread and old review and realize that you unconsciously paraphrased Camper Van Beethoven's "Tania"

AI companies: don’t be hysterical, we are not going to create a “Her”-like dystopia Also AI companies: She said no? Fine, we’ll just make our own version of her

NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn obtained this statement from Scarlett Johansson regarding OpenAI's ChatGPT voice that sounds like her role from the 2013 movie "Her"

We need to ban “So what else are you working on?” as a small-talk line. Man, it was a miracle I had ONE interesting thing to tell you about, do not push it

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My long game plan of talking positively about YOUNG SHELDON off-and-on for seven years in hopes of getting to write about the finale for The New York Times worked perfectly. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/a...

‘Young Sheldon’ Is One of TV’s Most Popular Shows. So Why Did It Just End?www.nytimes.com The “Big Bang Theory” spinoff aired its last episodes Thursday night, but the franchise will continue on CBS this fall.

When TV shows “have a shared universe” they follow a common set of physical laws; on both JAG and NCIS, eg, particles cease motion at 0 degrees Kelvin. Spinoffs are different; on Cheers the universe will eventually contract into a singularity but on Frasier it will expand until it reaches heat death

I just saw somebody pumping his own gas at a New Jersey gas station, is this how Civil War starts

Maybe all the possible praise has already been lavished on the John Mulaney talk show but damn that credits sequence goes HARD

Busy Phillips is hosting a talk show on QVC+, which is very promising so far because Busy Phillips is good at hosting talk shows but also 100% sounds like a thing that would have happened on Girls5Eva plus.qvc.com/series/busy-...

Busy This Weekplus.qvc.com Busy Philipps is back in the late-night host seat in Busy This Week, only on QVC+ and HSN+. New episodes Wednesdays at 10pm ET. Shop her curated finds on QVC.com.

Let. Good. Things. End. deadline.com/2024/05/hiro...

‘Shōgun’ Star Hiroyuki Sanada Inks Deal To Return For Season 2 As FX Limited Series Mulls Emmy Switch To Drama Amid Renewal Buzzdeadline.com Hiroyuki Sanada, star and producer of FX's limited series Shōgun, has closed a deal to return as Lord Yoshii Toranaga, sources tell Deadline.

Can't wait to see what their team of volunteer producers, cast and crew come up with!

You should be watching The Sympathizer! Wrote a little about its banger recent episode and how it functions as a response to American Vietnam War movies. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/a...

‘The Sympathizer’ Opens a Counteroffensive on Vietnam War Movieswww.nytimes.com HBO’s series is not just a good story. It’s a sharp piece of film criticism.