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Writings on culture, identity, and a bunch of other things from @emilystjams.bsky.social and friends. Premium subscribers get newsletters every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Subscribe today at episodes.ghost.io!
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24.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's Monday Rundown: summer blockbusters, feel-bad Bible cinema, and a cake.
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17.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's Monday Rundown: a better-late-than-never binge watch, Emily's favorite romance author, and two plays of wildly varying quality.
17.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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14.11.2025 16:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's premium newsletter, @lilywrites.bsky.social on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, Gothic melodramas, and showing vs. telling
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10.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's Monday Rundown: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read
10.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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08.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's premium Friday newsletter, @lilywrites.bsky.social on how power and violence work in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos
08.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
A quick announcement for November!
tl;dr — Emily is taking November mostly off to write a book! This means free Wednesday newsletters are on hold all month. But Monday Rundowns, the monthly mailbag, and essays by @lilywrites.bsky.social will still run for paid subscribers!
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03.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's Monday Rundown: KPop Demon Hunters, del Toro's Frankenstein, and two different Paranormal Activities
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31.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's premium Friday newsletter: the feedback loop of horror cinema, YouTube, and our declining social contract
31.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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29.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's free Wednesday newsletter: need a quick scare before Halloween? Episodes' staff has you covered with 14 picks ranging from 19th century short stories to games to play with your friends over candlelight!
29.10.2025 15:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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27.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's Monday Rundown: The Wicker Man, the new Last Dinner Party album,, and so much found-footage horror!
27.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 3
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24.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week’s Friday newsletter: Many of Taylor Swift’s fans feel betrayed by The Life of a Showgirl, her most recent album. @emilystjams.bsky.social considers why that is, and what her own feelings on the record, and Taylor, say about parasociality, self-identity, and hiding by telling the truth.
24.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 3
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20.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this week's Monday Rundown: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, some horror classics, and Rilo Kiley in concert.
20.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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17.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week's premium subscriber newsletter is the long-awaited October mailbag! Inside: which Golden Age directors could pull off found footage, unexpected comfort watches, TV reboots, and more from @emilystjams.bsky.social (and a little from @lilywrites.bsky.social)
17.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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