Scott Meslow

In a better world Midnight Mass would’ve bought him the rope to do basically anything he wanted after

Rolling straight from a First Reformed rewatch into a Midnight Mass rewatch and these really are two of the most striking performances of the past decade

YouTube video by The Daily Show Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show

I feel very lucky that I got to talk about my Homeland-Security-mass-detention-Asian-American book on The Daily Show

‘Ghost of Yōtei’ Reviewed: Bloody Revenge and Strange Comfort in a Sprawling Open World Sony's latest action-adventure blockbuster dials up the samurai-movie escapism just when we need it most.

@scottmeslow.bsky.social made an observation I can’t stop thinking about in his Ghost of Yōtei review, how the game won’t let you run into trees. I asked him about it and he said something about how the game is “nature without its wildness” and that’s basically it, to me

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This is a First Trap 😍 (and it worked on me, I’m gonna watch it again now)

I’m pretty deep into the skill tree (on standard difficulty) and progression has felt pretty much perfectly balanced throughout — enough flexibility to go deep early on the skills you care about, but enough depth that you’re still getting useful new abilities 20+ hours in

‘Ghost of Yōtei’ Reviewed: Bloody Revenge and Strange Comfort in a Sprawling Open World Sony's latest action-adventure blockbuster dials up the samurai-movie escapism just when we need it most.

Playing Ghost of Yōtei (or fiddling while Rome is burning):

My digital illustration inspired by Mulholland Drive.

My digital illustration inspired by Twin Peaks.

My digital illustration inspired by The Elephant Man.

My digital illustration inspired by Dune.

OK IT'S HAPPENING! Announcing my 2026 wall calendar, featuring new original illustrations celebrating the works of David Lynch, much missed and forever an inspiration. PRE-ORDERS start today as the art is still in-progress, I expect to print and ship in November!

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For sure! Drop me a line anytime

Very excited to formally reveal the cover of my new book — A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks.

The book will be published on February 24, 2026, but you can preorder NOW (and I’d be very grateful if you do!):

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Thanks for sharing! More to come soon…

More resonant than I’d like it to be!

Thinking about this bit from Wolf Hall a lot lately

Ooooooooo Devereauuuuuuuuux

(I’m aware, obviously, of the other, darker reasons these people are gobbling up journalism outlets, letting them boil in stomach acid for a while, then puking whatever’s left back out)

The Things I Thought and Did Not Say While Writing For a Content-Mill In 1996, Jerry Maguire was laughed out of his office for publishing a company-wide memo encouraging his industry to take a more human approach.

I’m so tired of the sheer contempt of the management class. You can only run a publication like this if you have no respect whatsoever for both your writers and your readers. And at that point, why bother with journalism at all? You can almost definitely squeeze more money out of some other widget

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1—4 - American Cinematheque

Well, Los Angeles, it's your turn....
(Link is for day one. There are two more days in this event.)
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I put this in my NYT best movies of the 21st century and I was not kidding

Great day to buy Plays the Music of Twin Peaks on vinyl

A Dialogue with Joshua Rivera - Unwinnable "I don't bill myself as a games critic. It's not good for my career prospects."

"We had the chance to be truly expansive, and we couldn’t get over the fact that we loved games too much."

This month in Dialogue, @jmrivera.bsky.social on why the games industry shouldn't exist and how games media fails itself.

‘Death Stranding 2’ Wants You to Be a Better Person The latest from video-game auteur Hideo Kojima is a post-apocalyptic adventure about not letting an age of alienation win.

I goof on “strand type games” a lot, but Death Stranding really is doing something special

‘Death Stranding 2’ Wants You to Be a Better Person The latest from video-game auteur Hideo Kojima is a post-apocalyptic adventure about not letting an age of alienation win.

always love reading @scottmeslow.bsky.social’s deeply humane takes on just about anything

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Josh doesn’t miss

Completely forgot I did this, thanks AI

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Taking a Stand Against 'My Way' An ode to self-satisfaction that deserves its cult of haters.

Oh are we doing My Way discourse again