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The Story of American TV Shows, From ‘I Love Lucy’ to ‘Stranger Things’ We picked one show that defined each decade, and which spoke volumes about the country as well.

For the Wall Street Journal, I picked one show per decade from the 50s to now that were the most influential and/or help tell the story of television's evolution:

Danny McBride Writing Masculinity-Themed Book ‘Thrilling Tales of Modern Men’ (Exclusive) Says the 'Righteous Gemstones' star of the short story collection: "These stories aren’t here to fix men. They’re here to watch them spiral out of control, eat shit, get back up, and occasionally do s...

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Welcome to 2026! Here's some of what to look forward to as the calendar turns, plus a tribute to Isiah Whitlock Jr., and a look at memorable episodes set around New Year's

In today's free What's Alan Watching? newsletter, previewing my 2026 TV coverage, plus Isiah Whitlock Jr., and memorable New Year's episodes. Read! Subscribe! Share! Do a dance routine with your sibling!

Over 19,276 exercises, and you only need 28. You don’t need 19,000 exercises to get jacked. You need consistency, correct form, and about 28 damn good movements. Here’s the only list you’ll ever need to build muscle for life—no fluff, just real results.

What are the basic exercises, you may wonder.

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Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, Trump and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.

The Chair Company recap, Episode 4: 'Bahld Harmon birthplace (disputed)' The mystery of Ron's jeep tour company past is revealed, while the conspiracy wages a prank war against him in the present

My review of this week's The Chair Company, where we finally learned about Ron's mysterious jeep tours company, and the ripple effects it still has within his family, while the conspiracy began a prank war against him:

Starter pack with University Press organizations to follow.

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*uses starter pack to follow good and interesting people*

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Alrighty lol

I only proceeded to the next unit & chapter if I passed the review questions with an 85% or higher. 65% is passing, but I wanted a deep understanding and grasp of the subjects first. Next, I'll include non-study materials that have helped greatly!!

Tips:

- I used Notebook LM to study for the chapter tests only. I'd extract the chapters from the PDFs using PDF gear and create a notebook with them in NLM.
- if I couldn't get through the unit (not chapter!) or struggled to understand, id reread and then look up YT videos on the specific topic.

Howard Anton - Elementary Linear Algebra, 12th edition.

The latest one I just completed is Elementary Linear Algebra. This one was highly recommended online for beginners and I didn't have much difficulty working through it.

Daniel J. Velleman - How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 3rd edition.

Wait I went through this before I did Calculus. This teaches you how to write proofs.

Ron Larson & Bruce Edwards - Calculus, 12th edition.

Then of course, Calculus.

You can find most of not all of these on libgen or zlibrary by the way. I used them digitally.

James Stewart - Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 8th Edition

Then I went into precalculus. This actually contains more advanced algebra and trigonometry altogether.

Marvin Bittinger - Developmental Mathematics: College Mathematics and Introductory Algebra, 10th Edition

If you want a complete refresher, there isn't anything better than this. It starts with basic math and ends with intermediate algebra (algebra 2). Everything is well explained with lots of examples and every section has a 65 question review at the end.

Antonki Classroom Timers

Then, optionally, you wanna get a timer of some sort. I personally use my computer but if that's too much of a distraction get this cheap one.

Start with 15 or 30 minute study increments, work your way up to an uninterrupted hour of studying.

Amazon Basics Multipurpose Copy Printer Paper

Uni Jetstream Ballpoint Pen

Tombow Mono Graph Shaker Mechanical Pencil

I taught myself math from scratch and in case anyone else needs that help I'll make a thread for it.

Before we really get started these are what you need to go get. I personally prefer pen over pencil though.

The Fall TV season is heating up 🔥 What will YOU be watching this week?

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Print seems to be dying but I wouldn't mind if more critics pivoted to video content. There's a way for the work to live on in a more popular medium.

I think Sepinwall would be a great fit at The Ringer, just saying...

My favorite Redford films do not contain many deep cuts, but good god this is a body of work:

Three Days of the Condor
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
All the President’s Men
Quiz Show
Sneakers
The Sting

Definitely aided in me finding my love of television as a teenager. Just subscribed. 🔥

Don't stop believing Some news, as they say

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

Blocking me, most likely for sharing an article when you don't even interact with my account is crazy dawg 😂

Sepinwall was one of the critics whose work I read to learn how to write TV criticism. This is unconscionable.

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - The Grayzone A month before Charlie Kirk's killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he and others "hammered" Kirk for the conservative ...

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Arts criticism is going down the drain...

More tomorrow, but now might be a very good time to consider subscribing to What’s Alan Watching? alansepinwall.ghost.io

The Pitt is fantastic & deserved the win on quality alone—but that 15 ep order is a ray of hope for me as well. Thought experiment I always ask people to do; what if there had only been 8 episodes in S1? Or 10? Doesn’t bear thinking about. The season was a terrific rich meal & I’m so happy for them.