Episodes Monday Rundown September 29 - October 5 2025
This week: Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan in concert, and one of the year's best films.
In this week's Monday Rundown: Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan in concert, and one of the year's best films.
06.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
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03.10.2025 16:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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02.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You don't miss your childhood. You miss not being angry.
Emily St. James on AI nostalgia, fascism, and our longing for less technology.
In this week's free newsletter, @emilystjams.bsky.social argues that the appeal reactionaries find in AI slop nostalgia isn't about what's present in these videos, but what's missing from them
02.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Episodes Monday Rundown September 22 - 28 2025
This week: Freaky Tales doesn't entirely work, but it's fun, and a lot of Nazis die in it. So that's something!
In this week's Monday Rundown: Freaky Tales doesn't entirely work, but it's fun, and a lot of Nazis die in it. So that's something!
29.09.2025 15:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: a new staffer at Episodes, and an invitation to help us write the next chapter of the newsletter!
24.09.2025 15:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Episodes Monday Rundown September 15 - 22 2025
This week: The Long Walk, The Craft, and an alien with a mechanical penis.
In this week's Monday Rundown: The Long Walk, The Craft, and an alien with a mechanical penis.
22.09.2025 15:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Episodes Monday Rundown September 8 - 14 2025
This week: Two classic visions of the Midwest, a true-crime doc, and the Strange New Worlds finale.
In this week's Monday Rundown: two classic visions of the Midwest, a true-crime doc, and the Strange New Worlds finale.
15.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
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08.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Episodes Monday Rundown September 1 - 7 2025
This week: Akira Kurosawa, John Wayne, and Sabrina Carpenter. Legends all!
In this week's Monday Rundown: Akira Kurosawa, John Wayne, and Sabrina Carpenter. Legends all!
08.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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05.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Sabrina Carpenter’s world, camp is the opposite of heteropessimism
Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like Sabrina Carpenter's discography.
In this week's Friday newsletter: @lilywrites.bsky.social 's argument for why Sabrina Carpenter might kinda think guys are stupid, but that doesn't make her a heteropessimist.
05.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
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03.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Why is Hamilton mostly remembered for the things it's not?
The musical, now 10 years old, seems forever defined by the political moment in which it debuted.
In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: art, politics, character study, and the way Hamilton's muted tenth anniversary misremembers what the musical actually is. episodes.ghost.io/hamilton-10t...
03.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 4
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01.09.2025 15:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe AI could make something interesting. It couldn't make "art."
Death to art that only wants to serve us up what we already know we want.
In this week's Friday newsletter: why AI "art" can never fulfill the communal goals of actual human creative expression.
29.08.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
