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Seen/Read/Heard
Modeled after Steven Soderbergh's annual "Seen/Read" diaries, this is an attempt to catalogue the whole of my media consumption, day to day. Why? I dunno. Curiosity and record-keeping, I guess, plus accountability—a little space to keep myself honest about what I've been paying attention to. The only rule is nothing half-consumed, nothing skimmed—only that which I've sat with in full.
Key
Article
Book
Film
Podcast
Sports Event
TV Show
YouTube video
2025
September
16
Garbage Day, Utah Gov. Cox, please read Garbage Day
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects, 65–88
Only Murders in the Building, 4x09
Alien: Earth, 1x07
15
Techdirt, Stop Begging. Start Building
American Crisis, What gets you fired — or celebrated — on cable news?
The New Yorker, The Many Lives of Danny Rensch
Blank Check, Cast Away with Nia DaCosta
The Long Walk
The Paper, 1x03
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 327–330
14
Wall Street Journal, Confusion, Anger, Relief: Korean Engineer Tells of Week in U.S. ICE Detention
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 256–327
Wind River
Matt Pearce, Notes from the underculture
13
Noahpinion, The Bluesky-ization of the American left
Blank Check, Contact with Jamie Bell
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 199–256
The Paper, 1x02
Kansas City
12
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 170–199
Blank Check, Lost Highway with David Lowery
Malcolm X
RogerEbert.com, Malcolm X
11
Alien: Earth, 1x06
The Paper, 1x01
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 135–170
10
Blank Check, The Man Who Wasn’t There with Jordan Hoffman
Platonic, 2x07
Banned in Your State, Charlie Kirk Is Dead
9
Cannonball with Wesley Morris, Is the New Spike Lee Joint Serving Pound Cake?
Blank Check, Loser with Chandler Levack
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects, 33–65
Platonic, 2x06
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 126–135
8
The Big Picture, ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Is an N.Y. Movie State of Mind, With Spike Lee!
Blank Check, Clueless with Heidi Gardner
Task, ep. 1
7
Blank Check, Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Lola Kirke
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 116–126
Highest 2 Lowest
Long Story Short, 1x10
New York Times, Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
6
The Familiar: One Rainy Day in May, 1–116
Alien: Earth, 1x05
Long Story Short, 1x09
5
All of Us Strangers
Lincoln in the Bardo, 250–343 (finished)
4
Sunshine
Blank Check, Schindler’s List with David Ehrlich
Caught Stealing
Long Story Short, 1x08
Lincoln in the Bardo, 232–250
3
Lions for Lambs
Boston Globe, Political drama feels more like a lecture
RogerEbert.com, Talking in circles
Cannonball with Wesley Morris, The Summer Movies That Made Us
Long Story Short, 1x07
Lincoln in the Bardo, 196–232
2
Blank Check, O Brother, Where Art Thou? with Emily St. James
Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects, 1–33
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 13, ‘Get Out’
1
Lincoln in the Bardo, 183–196
Long Story Short, 1x06
August
31
Lincoln in the Bardo, 142–183
Raising Cain
30
Lincoln in the Bardo, 98–142
Boogie Nights
The Beach
29
Block Club Chicago, Troops Could Hurt Recovery Downtown — While Ignoring South, West Sides, Chicagoans Say
Blank Check, Always with Richard Lawson
Thursday Murder Club
Oblivion
28
Lincoln in the Bardo, 76–98
Long Story Short, 1x04
Long Story Short, 1x05
Alien: Earth, 1x04
27
Lincoln in the Bardo, 48–76
Platonic, 2x05
The Elephant Graveyard, How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult
The Elephant Graveyard, How Comedy Became a Dystopian Imperial Hell World
26
Lincoln in the Bardo, 48–76
New York Times, A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
Long Story Short, 1x03
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
25
The New Yorker, Patricia Lockwood Goes Viral
Doomsday Scenario, America Tips Into Fascism
Blank Check, The Big Lebowski with Seth Rogen
Long Story Short, 1x01
Long Story Short, 1x02
24
The New Yorker, The Creator of “Subway Takes” One Hundred Per Cent Disagrees
Lincoln in the Bardo, 27–48
The Existential Republic, It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blank Check, Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman
23
No One Is Talking About This, 174–208 (finished)
Practical Magic
Lincoln in the Bardo, 1–27
22
The Argument, The case for staying on Twitter
Blank Check, What Lies Beneath with Starlee Kine
Working Girl
21
Kimi
What Lies Beneath
20
Art Cullen’s Notebook, Brains drain along our roiling rivers
Alien: Earth, 1x03
Detroiters, 1x03
No One Is Talking About This, 162–174
17
No One Is Talking About this, 94–134
Strange Days
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Limey
RogerEbert.com, Strange Days
RogerEbert.com, The Limey
16
Blank Check, The Hudsucker Proxy with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger
Washington Post, WWII’s most iconic kiss wasn’t romantic — it was terrifying
No One Is Talking About this, 1–94
Broadcast News
RogerEbert.com, Broadcast News
15
Boyhood
The Master
14
Snake Eyes
True Grit
13
New York Times, A Hollywood Start-Up Targets the Micro Drama Craze
Blank Check, Raising Arizona with John Hodgman
Platonic, 2x02
Alien: Earth, 1x02
12
Dazed and Confused
King of the Hill, 14x08
King of the Hill, 14x09
King of the Hill, 14x10
Alien: Earth, 1x01
11
Blank Check, Blood Simple with Ray Tintori & Jordan Fish
King of the Hill, 14x01
King of the Hill, 14x02
King of the Hill, 14x03
King of the Hill, 14x04
King of the Hill, 14x05
King of the Hill, 14x06
King of the Hill, 14x07
10
Blank Check, Barton Fink with Chris Weitz
Rebecca (1940)
Matt Pearce, How to be a stranger in a strange land
The Gilded Age, 3x08
8
Rebecca, 353–366
Weapons
6
The Naked Gun
The Mule
5
K-19: The Widowmaker
Too Much, 1x01
Rebecca, 315–336
Blank Check, Miller’s Crossing with Ari Aster
Billions, 5x11
RogerEbert.com, K-19: The Widowmaker
4
Matt Pearce, The catastrophe of knowledge work waits to be beautiful again, and interesting, and modern
WTF with Marc Maron, Episode 1664 - Ari Aster
Born Yesterday
RogerEbert.com, Born Yesterday
Rebecca, 300–315
3
Planet Money, Would you trust an economist with your economy?
Rebecca, 271–300
A Stranger Among Us
RogerEbert.com, A Stranger Among Us
The Gilded Age, 3x07
2
Total Recall
Rebecca, 238–271
1
Cannonball with Wesley Morris, Has Dining Gotten Too Fine on ‘The Bear’?
Happy Gilmore 2
Cannonball with Wesley Morris, The Diddy Trial Is Over.
Cannonball with Wesley Morris, The Closet in Pee-wee’s Playhouse
Rebecca, 226–238
30
The Atlantic, The Discourse Is Broken
Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place, Why I’m Having a Hard Time Getting Off Twitter Entirely Despite Its Spectacular Suckage/I’m on Bluesky Baby!
Blank Check, Jurassic Park with Sean Fennessey
Bandits
Shrinking, 2x11
Rebecca, 192–204
27
The Rewatchables, ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan
Rebecca, 154–174
The Twenty-Seventh City, 215–231 (DNF)
Gone Girl
Zodiac
25
The Dark Half
RogerEbert.com, The Dark Half
Cannonball with Wesley Morris, We Love ‘Parasite.’ But Where the Hell Is Steven Spielberg?
Blank Check, The Postman with Emily St. James
I Love You Forever
22
The Big Picture, The Chicago Movie Draft LIVE in Chicago!
Midnight Run
The Rewatchables, ‘Midnight Run’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan
RogerEbert.com, Midnight Run
Rebecca, 122–125
21
Drop
20
The New Yorker, “Eddington” Is a Lethally Self-Satisfied COVID Satire
Rebecca, 112–122
The Hunt for Red October
Red Rocket
Panic
19
Defector, William F. Buckley’s Bill Never Came Due
The New Yorker, Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
The New Yorker, How Donald Trump Got NATO to Pay Up
Rebecca, 108–112
Eddington
The New Republic, The World Has Gone Haywire in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
The Big Picture, Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Is a Mirror. Like What You See?
18
Last Embrace
Six Feet Under, 2x10
Cutter’s Way
17
Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary
Shrinking, 2x09
16
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 15 – ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
The Big Picture, The Superman Movie Rankings
Night Game
Shrinking, 2x08
Rebecca, 98–108
15
The Rewatchables, ‘After Hours’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey
Rebecca, 87–98
Between the Lines
14
Rebecca, 77–87
The Twenty-Seventh City, 203–215
The Big Picture, ‘Superman’ Is Here to Save the Day. Are We Saved?
The Rewatchables, ‘A Star Is Born’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Sean Fennessey
After Hours
RogerEbert.com, After Hours
13
The Getaway (1994)
Rebecca, 60–77
Breakfast of Champions
The Gilded Age, 3x04
The New Yorker, The Manic Brilliance of “Breakfast of Champions”
Feast on Your Life, What are we doing?
12
Rebecca, 38–60
The Twenty-Seventh City, 190–203
Superman (2025)
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 16, ‘Oppenheimer’
11
Opus
10
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
9
The Rewatchables, ‘Jaws 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
Shrinking, 2x07
Rebecca, 30–38
6
Rebecca, 1–30
The Twenty-Seventh City, 165–178
The Rewatchables, ‘No Way Out’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
The Gilded Age, 3x03
5
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 16, ‘Oppenheimer’
The French Connection
The Twenty-Seventh City, 152–165
M3gan 2.0
The House on Carroll Street
4
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Barry Lyndon
Blue Steel
3
Community, 1x23
Community, 2x06
Community, 3x17
2
How Things Work, Welcome to the Age of Disappearance
Jude Doyle’s Newsletter, This Is How You Lose the Sex Wars
Jurassic World: Rebirth
The Bear, 4x10
June
30
Panic World, We are living in a casino
RogerEbert.com, Predator 2
The New Yorker, What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The Twenty-Seventh City, 139–152
Predators
The Bear, 4x09
29
MLB regular-season game, White Sox vs. Giants (live)
New York Magazine, Playing Secretary
The New Yorker, What Happened to the Women of #MeToo?
Predator 2
The Gilded Age, 3x02
The Bear, 4x08
28
The Bear, 4x07
27
Jaws
Predator: Killer of Killers
The Bear, 4x05
The Bear, 4x06
The Laundromat
26
I Care a Lot
The Prestige TV Podcast, ‘I Care A Lot’ Exit Survey
Stick, 1x06
The Bear, 4x03
The Bear, 4x04
25
The Twenty-Seventh City, 134–139
The Bear, 4x01
The Bear, 4x02
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
RogerEbert.com, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
24
Cleaner
Detroiters, 1x02
To Live and Die in L.A.
23
To Live and Die in L.A.
RogerEbert.com, To Live And Die In L.A.
Born on the Fourth of July
Detroiters, 1x01
RogerEbert.com, Born on the Fourth of July
22
The Twenty-Seventh City, 118–134
Stick, 1x03
Stick, 1x04
Stick, 1x05
The Gilded Age, 3x01
21
Tone, 96–134 (finished)
28 Years Later
The Big Picture, ‘28 Years Later’: Death, Zombies, and One of the Year’s Best Movies
20
The Big Picture, ‘Materialists’ and the Top Five Movie Love Triangles. Plus: ‘The Life of Chuck,’ With Mike Flanagan.
New York Times, Debate Is Their Love Language
Washington Post, Letterboxd feels like vintage internet. Can it stay that way?
Dying for Sex, 1x05
No Way Out
19
Tone, 79–96
Materialists
Dying for Sex, 1x05
Stick, 1x01
Stick, 1x02
18
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 18, ‘Before Sunset’
Adults, 1x08
Flight Risk
17
The Rewatchables, ‘Hereditary’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
The Twenty-Seventh City, 109–118
Adults, 1x07
14
28 Weeks Later
The Phoenician Scheme
The Big Picture, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Is Here, With Wes Anderson!
Tone, 73–79
13
Tone, 64–73
11
Vanity Fair, Shattered Glass
The Big Picture, ‘Saltburn’: Iconic or Disastrous? Plus: Alexander Payne!
Tone, 55–64
The Life of Chuck
The Goldfinch
10
The Twenty-Seventh City, 104–109
Adults, 1x03
Shattered Glass
How Things Work, You’re a Bunch of Cowards!
9
The Alto Knights
The Big Picture, The Top 10 Garbage Scorsese Movies and ‘The Alto Knights’
Logan Lucky
8
Tone, 50–55
The Twenty-Seventh City, 97–104
7
Tone, 45–50
6
Tone, 40–45
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
The Twenty-Seventh City, 88–97
3
The Twenty-Seventh City, 70–88
Adults, 1x01
Adults, 1x02
Adults, 1x01
1
The New Yorker, The Radical Development of an Entirely New Painkiller
7500
The Four Seasons, 1x06
The Four Seasons, 1x07
The Four Seasons, 1x08
Exterritorial
The New Yorker, Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?
May
31
The Big Picture, The Aggressive Majesty of ‘May December’ and Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’
The Big Picture, The ‘Shrek’ Pod
Mountainhead
The Idea of You
30
Shiva Baby
The Four Seasons, 1x04
The Four Seasons, 1x05
29
The Big Picture, Five Ways We’ll Watch Movies in the Future and ‘The Idea of You’
Bring Her Back
The Four Seasons, 1x02
The Four Seasons, 1x03
The Twenty-Seventh City, 67–68
28
The Twenty-Seventh City, 64–67
The Big Picture, ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ ‘Friendship,’ and the Top Five Movie Friends
Fear Street: Prom Queen
27
The Rewatchables, ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey
The Twenty-Seventh City, 47–64
The Rewatchables, ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ With Bill Simmons and Joanna Robinson
The Four Seasons, 1x01
dansinker.com, The Who Cares Era
26
Wolfs
The Big Picture, ‘Wolfs’ Is a Clooney and Pitt Reunion. Is It Anything Else? Plus: Five Movies You Need to See This Month.
The Twenty-Seventh City, 37–47
Holland
Fountain of Youth
25
Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning
The Big Picture, The 2021 Movie Draft
The Last of Us, 2x07
The Twenty-Seventh City, 28–37
24
The Twenty-Seventh City, 7–28
RogerEbert.com, A Thousand Acres
The Big Picture, The 1999 Movie Draft
Invictus
23
Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation
Hacks, 4x08
Hacks, 4x09
A Thousand Acres, 185–198 (DNF)
The Twenty-Seventh City, 1–7
22
Takes by Jamelle Bouie, Nerd Stuff—“The Party Switch”
A Thousand Acres, 154–185
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning
21
Seven Days in May
Columbia Journalism Review, Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery
The Studio, 1x09
Fly Me to the Moon
20
mid90s
The Rewatchables, Star Wars: A New Hope
The Big Picture, The ‘Final Destination’ Kill Rankings and ‘Bloodlines’
A Thousand Acres, 147–154
The Studio, 1x07
The Studio, 1x08
19
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 20, ‘Melancholia’
The Brood
Final Destination Bloodlines
The Last of Us, 2x06
RogerEbert.com, Deaths, but not much suspense
18
The Big Picture, The Tom Cruise Movie Draft
The Last of Us, 2x05
Mission: Impossible—Fallout
The Pentagon Wars
15
Against the Wall
The Enemy Within
Hacks, 4x07
A Thousand Acres, 144–147
14
Brute Force
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
13
A Thousand Acres, 132–144
Brooklyn’s Finest
Andor, 2x10
Andor, 2x11
Andor, 2x12
12
Chicago Tribune, Democratic digital creator likely facing field of local politicians to succeed US Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Chicago Magazine, The TikTok Candidate
The Big Picture, The Paul Newman Hall of Fame
Mission: Impossible III
11
Godzilla Minus One
Hacks, 4x06
9
Panic World, The effects of true crime brain rot
The Amateur (2025)
Poker Face, 2x02
A Thousand Acres, 120–132
8
Panic World, How long will Trump’s base support him?
Poker Face, 2x01
The Paperboy
RogerEbert.com, A humid wallow in sexy swamp raunch
7
The Big Picture, ‘Thunderbolts*’ Is Marvel’s Return to Form. Is It Too Late?
The Big Picture, The 2025 Movie Star Rankings: 35 Over 35. Plus, Nicolas Cage!
Mission: Impossible II
6
Andor, 2x07
Andor, 2x08
The Studio, 1x06
Andor, 2x09
A Thousand Acres, 118–120
4
Crash (1996)
Mission: Impossible
3
A Thousand Acres, 96–118
The Accountant 2
The Big Picture, Four Ways of Looking at an Action Movie: ‘The Accountant 2,’ ‘Havoc,’ ‘A Working Man,’ and ‘The Amateur’
The Studio, 1x05
King of New York
2
A Thousand Acres, 72–96
Shutter Island
April
30
Oklahoma News 4, ‘We’re citizens!’: Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects
Talking Points Memo, Trump’s Already Lost
The Big Picture, ‘Twisters’ Rocks! Plus, the Top Five Natural Disaster Movies
The Studio, 1x03
Subservience
Andor, 2x04
RogerEbert.com, Casualties of War
29
Casualties of War
The Fifth Element
The Studio, 1x02
The Prestige TV Podcast, ‘The Studio’ Series Premiere: What Seth Rogen’s Hollywood Satire Gets Right (and Wrong)
27
Search Engine, Why the national debt might finally matter
A Thousand Acres, 38–47
Hacks, 4x04
The Last of Us, 2x03
Panic World, My friend’s dad is a Holocaust denier now
Semafor, The group chats that changed America
26
A Thousand Acres, 18–38
Destroyer
25
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 22, ‘Children of Men’
A Thousand Acres, 9–18
The Studio, 1x01
Arbitrage
24
The Dinner Party, 226–243 (finished)
Dying for Sex, 1x04
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
A Thousand Acres, 1–9
23
The Dinner Party, 179–226
The New Yorker, Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
Andor, 2x01
Dying for Sex, 1x03
Andor, 2x02
Andor, 2x03
22
The Dinner Party, 147–179
Dying for Sex, 1x02
Always
21
The Dinner Party, 122–147
The Last of Us, 2x02
20
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The Dinner Party, 76–122
Y2K
Hacks, 4x03
The Big Picture, ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ and the Indy Movie Rankings
19
The Dinner Party, 71–76
Companion
Michael Clayton
17
The Dinner Party, 51–71
The Dark Money Game: Ohio Confidential
The Dark Money Game: Wealth of the Wicked
Abbott Elementary, 4x22
16
Panic World, Netflix’s “Adolescence” and the masculinity crisis
A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read, ep. 2
The Big Picture, The 1990 Movie Draft
15
Panic World, Has China already won the internet?
New York Times, The Vibe Shifts Against the Right
The Dinner Party, 31–51
A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen Read, ep. 1
Warfare
Abbott Elementary, 4x21
The Last of Us, 2x01
14
The Ezra Klein Show, Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes Next
Biography of X, 324–394 (finished)
Black Mirror, 7x03
Dying for Sex, 1x01
Black Mirror, 7x04
Black Mirror, 7x05
Black Mirror, 4x05
The Dinner Party, 1–31
13
Search Engine, What’s actually on teenagers’ phones?
The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 25, ‘Michael Clayton’
Biography of X, 320–324
Black Mirror, 7x02
12
The Straight Story
RogerEbert.com, The Straight Story
Biography of X, 304–320
The Electric State
Black Mirror, 7x06
Black Mirror, 7x01
11
99 Houses
Hacks, 4x02
Apartment Women, 163–194 (finished)
10
Apartment Women, 148–163
Draft Day
Hacks, 4x01
The Pitt, 1x15
9
Apartment Women, 106–148
The Believers
Abbott Elementary, 4x20
Cop
8
Tedium, Where The Lede Gets Buried
Apartment Women, 104–106
The Mean Season
The Handmaid’s Tale, 4x10
Abbott Elementary, 4x19
7
Wired, Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
March Madness 2025, Championship Game
Rejection, 194–258 (finished)
Biography of X, 293–304
6
Rejection, 130–194
The White Lotus, 3x08
5
Rejection, 31–130
4
Rejection, 1–30
2
The Reveal, We live in the world of ‘Burn After Reading’
Schindler’s List
The Big Picture, The 1982 Movie Draft
1
How Things Work, Divergence From the Interests of Capital
The Big Picture, The Gen Z Movie Focus Group
The Boys from Brazil
Abbott Elementary, 4x18
The Final Countdown
Biography of X, 285–293
March
31
The Andromeda Strain
Abbott Elementary, 4x17
Biography of X, 274–285
westenberg., This is Peak Featurecide
30
March Madness 2025, Elite 8
Search Engine, Planet Money: The Memecoin Casino
Biography of X, 230–274
Reacher, 2x07
Reacher, 2x08
The White Lotus, 3x07
29
March Madness 2025, Elite 8
Biography of X, 218–230
28
March Madness 2025, Sweet 16
Mickey 17
The New Yorker, How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
27
March Madness 2025, Sweet 16
Panic World, Who turned Gen Z fascist? (With Felix Biederman)
Reacher, 2x03
Reacher, 2x04
Biography of X, 216–218
Reacher, 2x05
The Pitt, 1x13
26
Reacher, 2x01
Reacher, 2x02
Abbott Elementary, 4x16
Biography of X, 204–216
25
Reacher, 1x07
Reacher, 1x08
Shrinking, 2x05
Biography of X, 198–204
23
March Madness 2025, Round of 32
Biography of X, 164–194
Reacher, 1x05
Reacher, 1x06
The White Lotus, 3x06
22
March Madness 2025, Round of 32
The New Yorker, The Battle for the Bros
Shrinking, 2x04
The New Yorker, The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus
The Pitt, 1x12
21
March Madness 2025, Round of 64
Abbott Elementary, 4x15
The Running Man
20
March Madness 2025, Round of 64
The Overthinking It Podcast, Episode 592: We Have to Do the Thing that We Have to Do in the Movie
Severance, 2x10
17
The Prestige TV Podcast, Breaking Down ‘Severance’ Episode 7 With Superfan Damon Lindelof
Novocaine
Owning Mahowny
16
The Ezra Klein Show, Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?
Apartment Women, 94–104
The New Yorker, The End of Children
Matt Pearce, How to make journalists disappear
Assassin’s Creed
The White Lotus, 3x05
westenberg., On Ideological Purity
Biography of X, 153–164
15
The Ezra Klein Show, Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Work
99% Invisible, The Brutalists
Search Engine, The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber
Apartment Women, 70–94
The Card Counter
The Wrong Man
The New Yorker, The Flirt Behind “Chicken Shop Date”
13
Rest of World, Elon Musk said he’d eliminate bots from X. Instead, election influence campaigns are running wild
Kyla’s Newsletter, The Parallel Economy and the New Rules of American Power
Severance, 2x09
11
Kyla’s Newsletter, Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress
New York Times, Democracy Dies in Dumbness
Shrinking, 2x03
Third Frontier
9
The Ezra Klein Show, There Is a Liberal Answer to the Trump-Musk Wrecking Ball
The Hollywood Reporter, License to Shill: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover
Apartment Women, 1–25
The White Lotus, 3x04
Under Suspicion
8
Search Engine, DOGE and the Mystery of the State Department Teslas
Panic World, You’re panicking wrong about AI (with Casey Newton)
London Has Fallen
Runaway Jury
7
Severance, 2x08
The Pitt, 1x10
6
The Present Age, Fine, Let’s Talk About Trans Athletes
Shrinking, 2x01
Shrinking, 2x02
Howtown, The truth about Hot Ones sauces
5
Panic World, Is dating worse than ever? (With Magdalene Taylor)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Matt Pearce, Notes on the next republic
Subject to Review
Biography of X, 146–153
4
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
3
Abbott Elementary, 4x12
Abbott Elementary, 4x13
2
The New Yorker, Trump’s Disgrace
Chilly Scenes of Winter
The 97th Academy Awards
The White Lotus, 3x03
The Big Picture, The 2025 Oscars: ‘Anora’ Has the Greatest Day
1
Falling in Love
Block Club Chicago, Harry Potter Shop Opening In April On Mag Mile
Biography of X, 109–146
Party Girl
Abbott Elementary, 4x11
27
Washington Post, She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this
The Apprentice
Yellowjackets, 3x03
Yellowjackets, 3x04
26
Biography of X, 77–87
A Different Man
The Big Picture, A ‘Heretic’ Interview With Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
24
Reacher, 1x04
The Monkey
23
Reacher, 1x02
Reacher, 1x03
The White Lotus, 3x02
Last Week Tonight, 12x02
Biography of X, 63–70
22
Saideman’s Semi-Spew, Why Civ-Mil People Are Freaking Out?
Biography of X, 38–63
The Pitt, 1x08
Print Run Podcast, The Subgenre is YOU
Reacher, 1x01
Shrinking, 1x09
Shrinking, 1x10
21
Road & Track, Severance Resurrects a Bygone Generation of Cars
Talking Points Memo, INFLECTION: The Backlash Begins As Elon Goes Wild
The Gorge
Severance, 2x06
New York Times, Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
Road & Track, Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why
Biography of X, 31–38
20
Aresluna.org, The hardest working font in Manhattan
American Murder: Gabby Petito, ep. 1
American Murder: Gabby Petito, ep. 2
American Murder: Gabby Petito, ep. 3
Shrinking, 1x08
19
Search Engine, Playboi Farti and his AI Homework Machine
Cooper Lund, The Incuriosity Engine
Shrinking, 1x07
September 5
Iowa Starting Line, State agencies block Auditor Sand during review of private school voucher program
Biography of X, 25–31
18
Ethan Marcotte, Moving on from 18F.
The Ezra Klein Show, A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently
Cuckoo
TechPolicy.press, DOGE Understands Something the US Policy Establishment Does Not: Technology is the Spinal Cord of Government
Biography of X, 19–25
17
ER, 2x20
Captain America: Brave New World
Yellowjackets, 3x01
Yellowjackets, 3x02
Biography of X, 15–19
16
ER, 2x18
ER, 2x19
The White Lotus, 3x01
The New Yorker, Mike White’s Mischievous Vision for ‘The White Lotus’
Biography of X, 1–15
15
Kansas Reflector, With Trump and Musk driving U.S. policy, Kansas farmers have been played for suckers
Financial Times, Is corporate America already souring on Trump?
Shrinking, 1x06
Woodcutters, 144–181 (finished)
ER, 2x17
Untitled Thought Project, Please don’t watch stupid bullshit
14
ER, 2x11
Liberal Currents, How to Win a Rigged Game
ER, 2x12
ER, 2x13
Severance, 2x05
Shrinking, 1x04
Shrinking, 1x05
ER, 2x14
ER, 2x15
ER, 2x16
13
ER, 2x08
The Pitt, 1x07
ER, 2x09
Shrinking, 1x03
ER, 2x10
New York Times, Putin Scores a Big Victory, and Not on the Battlefield
12
ER, 2x02
ER, 2x03
The New Atlantis, We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
ER, 2x04
ER, 2x05
Woodcutters, 111–144
ER, 2x06
ER, 2x07
11
ER, 1x23
ER, 1x24
ER, 1x25
ER, 2x01
10
Washington Post, Sportsbooks say you can win big. Then they try to limit winners.
ER, 1x19
ER, 1x20
ER, 1x21
ER, 1x22
Woodcutters, 101–111
9
Super Bowl LIX
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x10
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x11
The New Yorker, The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis
ER, 1x18
7
New York Times, As Trump Attacks D.E.I., Some on the Left Approve
ER, 1x05
ER, 1x06
ER, 1x07
ER, 1x08
Severance, 2x04
westenberg., The Cruelty Market
ER, 1x09
New York Times, There Is No Going Back
ER, 1x10
6
The New Yorker, Do Democrats Have a Plan?
ER, 1x01
ER, 1x02
ER, 1x03
The Big Picture, The 10 Best Movies at Sundance, and the Astonishing ‘Nickel Boys’
The Pitt, 1x06
The New Yorker, Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire
ER, 1x04
5
Tedium, The New DVD Bargain Bin
Tedium, When Movies Get Canned
404 Media, You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
How Things Work, The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid
Systematic Hatreds, You Can Defend Foreign Aid, Democrats
Kyla’s Newsletter, FAFOnomics: How Chaos Became America’s Economic Strategy
Jason Pargin’s Newsletter, In Which I Declare War On Beloved Entertainer Bo Burnham
New York Times, Stop Worshiping the American Tech Giants
The Pitt, 1x01
The Pitt, 1x02
The Pitt, 1x03
The Pitt, 1x04
The Pitt, 1x05
3
Inside/Outside, Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
The Handbasket, Did you hear about the Friday coup?
Garbage Day, Musk’s superteam of former iPad babies
Matt Pearce, I’ve got a new job
American Crisis, The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare
New York Times, Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government
Unclear and Present Danger, Contact (1997)
Abbott Elementary, 4x10
2
Systematic Hatreds, The Shadow of Violence
Woodcutters, 81–101
The Ezra Klein Show, Don’t Believe Him
January
31
Woodcutters, 55–81
Reuters, Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Severance, 2x03
26
Woodcutters, 47–49
Systematic Hatreds, The Green Dawn Scenario
How Things Work, On Having a Maximum Wealth
In These Times, You Are Invited to the Predators’ Ball, as Food
Augment, Bridges & The Last Network Effect
25
Woodcutters, 45–47
Severance, 2x02
24
Platformer, OpenAI launches its agent
Garbage Day, Full stack Trumpism
Kyla’s Newsletter, Trumpcoin and TikTok
Woodcutters, 39–45
23
Woodcutters, 35–39
22
Australian Open, Women’s Singles Quarterfinal, Keys vs. Svitolina (live)
Australian Open, Men’s Singles Quarterfinal, Shelton vs. Sonego (live)
Australian Open, Men’s Singles Quarterfinal, Sinner vs. de Minaur (live)
Abortion, Every Day, Instagram Is Censoring Abortion Pill Info
21
Woodcutters, 33–35
Severance, 2x01
19
Woodcutters, 25–30
18
We Live in Time
Woodcutters, 3–24
17
Pride & Prejudice, 280–324 (finished)
Inland Empire
16
Sam Harris, The Trouble with Elon
The Atlantic, Beyond Doomscrolling
Feast on Your Life, The Pleasure of the Doing
Pride & Prejudice, 240–280
Mulholland Drive
15
The Childhood of a Leader
The New Yorker, What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok
New York Times, She Is in Love With ChatGPT
14
Wicked Tongue, It’s Rude to Read
Kyla’s Newsletter, The TikTok Ban Shows America Is At War With Itself
Garbage Day, TikTok doesn’t need America
The Equalizer 2
13
New York Magazine, There Is No Safe Word
Folding Ideas, Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils
Nickel Boys
The Good Shepherd
12
It’s What’s Inside
Pride & Prejudice, 214–240
11
The Brutalist
The New Yorker, ‘The Brutalist’ ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream
The Big Picture, The Triumph of ‘The Brutalist,’ With Adrien Brody and Brady Corbet
10
Programmable Mutter, We’re getting the social media crisis wrong
9
Block Club Chicago, One Alderwoman’s Crusade To Ban Legal Weed Dispensaries In Her Southwest Side Ward
Brats
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x08
8
Matt Pearce, Fires and the facts
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
Abbott Elementary, 4x09
The Big Picture, Top Five World War II Movies, and ‘Blitz’
6
Tell the Bees, The Year Losers Won
How Things Work, It’s Not Looking Great
Citation Needed, Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The Big Picture, ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ and the 21st Century Noir Movie Canon
Abigail
My Old Ass
Persona
5
Yellowstone, 1x04
The Order
4
The Big Picture, The Robert Zemeckis Hall of Fame, and ‘Here’
Pride & Prejudice, 196–214
Hundreds of Beavers
3
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x06
What We Do in the Shadows, 6x07
Here
2
Love Lies Bleeding
Ferrari
1
Pride & Prejudice, 169–196
The Beekeeper