Johnny Loftus

You should know your Lewes FC updates led me into a deep dive on the (long!) history of the Dripping Pan ground.

Thanks for reading ‘em!

I guess I was right about it flipping to Gen Alpha.

A galactic criminal is tapped by a shadowy Rebel Alliance recruiter for a crew attacking an Imperial outpost. The rebellion itself isn’t a thing yet. But momentum builds as Andor is radicalized. Like all of us, you will also become fascinated w/ Dedra Meero of the Empire’s Imperial Security Bureau.

‘Alien: Earth’ Episode 1 Recap: Cool If We Crash Here? The first few scenes are committed to bringing its franchise’s past into its present.

I’m recapping ‘Alien: Earth’ for @deciderdotcom.bsky.social, which is awesome because this show is scary and stylish and weird and a great place to escape to, even if its future is still full of rich dipshits. Also: Sabbath and Tool and other exquisitely curated jams.

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While I detest in all its forms the in-game interview w/ coaches/players, I’d pay extra for a feature that opened a (listen-only) mic whenever players were talking at first base.

Alternate idea: just combine. After Weezer, Olivia could’ve brought out the Korn dudes for a cover of “Got the Life.”

I feel like for FOUNDATION S3 — what year is it in this show? Wellllll… — basically everybody, even Asimov heads, must be watching only for its flowing river of impenetrability. My sense of what’s happening? Vague. But! Space drugs, mind-control pirates, and “something casting shadows in the math.”

Was able to dart in and grab an extra ice cube from the tray while my freezer's door was closing, extricate my arm without disturbing its motion. 🏆 (Feel like I deserve to take the rest of the day off)

No way never! The van’s powers would override my stupidity.

a man wearing a hat and a red jacket is singing into a microphone .. Alt: The playa haters ball

Live shot of Jake being forced to listen to Disturbed covers

TS at the Empty Bottle when

Stream It Or Skip It: 'Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)' on Hulu, a thoughtful Questlove-directed doc about the leader of Sly and The Family Stone Questlove directs Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a doc about Sly Stone that finds wider import in what it meant when he became a kind of Black Elvis.

Sly was so cool, and his music will forever be powerfully danceable. Questlove's recent Sly doc is also totally brilliant.

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Like 20 years ago, I rested a coffee on the roof of a car before climbing in. Drove away and it went flying. “Never again!” I swore about roof-resting things. Anyway, I just rested my computer on a car’s roof and drove away 💀

‘Duster’ Episode 3 recap: Slippin’ into darkness “Follow the numbers.”

Nothing but anecdotal data on this, but TV used to have more bar fights. Nice to see a few pool cues meet cheekbones in the latest ep of DUSTER. Took a drag on a recap: decider.com/2025/05/30/d...

‘Duster’ Episode 2 recap: Too late to turn back now Duster continues to have a whole lot of fun with its take on the 1970s.

DUSTER is cruising away from all noise and bullshit at 275hp. I mean, in the second episode, 70s Josh Holloway is out here robbing Elvis. ‘Capped it for @deciderdotcom.bsky.social:

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‘Duster’ Episode 1 recap: You don’t mess around with Jim This thing feels as much like a riff on real life as it does a tribute to how the ’70s used to look on TV.

DUSTER is one of my fave pilots in some time. Thrilled to have the former Metro Wheelman himself, @johnnyloftus.bsky.social, recapping the exploits of Josh Holloway's wheelman over at @deciderdotcom.bsky.social. Fire up your 8 tracks and punch your gas pedals, hombres! decider.com/2025/05/16/d...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘100 Foot Wave’ Season 3 on HBO, where Garret McNamara and his fellow big wave surfers keep chasing the dream What about a 500-foot wave? A thousand? If it’s out there, the athletes profiled in 100 Foot Wave will surf it.

'100 Foot Wave' makes being an infinitesimal speck of dust -- one human against a zillion tons of surging water -- look both insane and totally cool. And as a proud Midwestern flatlander, surfing to me just seems beautiful and impossible. Maybe like life? Wrote about it: decider.com/2025/05/01/1...

Cheyenne shouts at her former shipmates who tried to have her arrested

Haven’t seen much of Etoile, but the show’s first episode does feature a fantastic intro of Lou de Laage as Cheyenne, rogue prima ballerina.

And hey, solidarity w/ Cheyenne, too. In real life, lots of the forces and people harming our society deserve to get zinged w/ a solid line like this.

An all-time ripper [that whenever I hear also instantly projects me backwards in time to 1998 and playing the CD over and over and over again in my shitbox Ann Arbor garden apartment, believing I could hear a glorious future]

‘The Pitt’ Season Finale recap: Goodbyes are the Pitt’s “To the Pitt crew.”

One burning question I have after the PITT season finale: do they keep that cooler for the post-shift park beers in the trauma unit somewhere?

Anyways, time keeps on ticking into this incredible show's future, which I can't wait to watch. decider.com/2025/04/10/t...

Do you ever buy a couple random records, bring ‘em home, and when you slot them in, you look at the artist they’re next to alphabetically, the little genre dynamic that represents, or the interesting typefaces aligned, and say out loud to no one, “Oh shit, that’s a good one”? It’s a nice quiet win.

The rock show this weekend was packed. A six-piece band blowing up the spot. Which is why it was hard for everyone to hear me while I shouted in their ears about the brilliance of THE PITT and Dr. Robby reaching his breaking point.

What a great line -- "but they were morons, and the heroes were never scared." Isaacs!

I keep writing in my coverage notes, “Will miss them”

‘The Pitt’ Episode 13 recap: “7:00-8:00 P.M.” No clowning around.

As Dr Abbott, Shawn Hatosy is rocketing to the top of my Pitt staff power rankings. But after this latest episode, I’m mostly just sobbing along w/ Robby. This show is putting us through it! Wrote a recap:

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Mechagodzilla

I heard this is Reacher’s next opponent

'The Pitt' Episode 12 recap: Really real-time There is blood everywhere in the Pitt, and tension bunched in everyone’s features.

The level The Pitt is working at...it's like if I was any other medical drama on TV, I'd probably say "It's over. Pack it up. We're gonna re-tool our format. Maybe 'scandals and animals.' There's no way we can compete with what The Pitt is doing."

Wrote about it:
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‘The Pitt’ Episode 11 recap: Shit’s gonna explode Still overworked, but now understaffed, The Pitt’s trauma team carries on.

Our world is crazy. So maybe escaping into The Pitt, where their emergency department regularly shatters, is a kind of self-treatment. All I know is that it's so crazy gripping, I feel like I work there now.
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Pop needs freaks. Thankfully, Lady Gaga is back The sometimes-transgressive pop star has a new album, Mayhem, that seems poised to recapture the confrontational darkness of her early work. There's more than one reason to hope it's true.

This piece is about Gaga, but it's really about resistance, outrage and hanging on to yourself when others call you a monster www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...