British TV hit the ground running in 2025 with Missing You, the latest instalment of Netflix’s now-traditional New Year’s Day Harlan Coben thrillers. That’s followed by crime dramas Patience and Prime Target, historical action series A Thousand Blows, 1980s reboot Bergerac, and many, many more still waiting for an air date to be announced. Browse … Read more
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew may have just given us another terrifying space creature to haunt our nightmares, but there’s more than meets the eye to the giant crab monster that Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers) and KB (Kyriana Kratter) run into on the outskirts of Lanupa in episode 6 “Zero Friends Again.” It turns out that this … Read more
New British TV shows are all very well, but there’s the whole ‘getting to know you’ rigmarole to get through. With a returning British TV show, the introductions have already been made, the intimacies have already been shared, and everybody’s comfortable enough in each other’s company to relax, breathe out, and, figuratively speaking, pee with … Read more
Happy New Year! Yep, it is again that time when the culture wakes back to life, groggily wiping away the mist left by another long (and hopefully restful) holiday season. Yet if you’re in the awards season game, either as a voter, prognosticator, or (Thalberg help you) a hopeful for nomination, it’s been anything but … Read more
Every year since 2016 we’ve closed Buffer for a week at the end of the year. It’s like a reset, except across the whole company. The creator economy is “beautiful,” Bluesky says — and they’re going to be a part of it. This according to the decentralized social platform’s Chief Operating Officer, Rose Wang, who shared … Read more
Bluesky COO Rose Wang shares details about the platform’s plans to create a way for creators to monetize, along with a subscription model, in the coming months. The creator economy is “beautiful,” Bluesky says — and they’re going to be a part of it. This according to the decentralized social platform’s Chief Operating Officer, Rose Wang, … Read more
Remember the Retail Apocalypse around 2017? In a media interview this week, I brought up that it was actually Retail’s Big Split, not an apocalypse, and it’s ongoing. The reporter asked me to explain, so here’s my update for today’s retail landscape. “Everything gigantic in American life is about to get smaller or die.” … Read more
This article contains massive Nosferatu spoilers. Judging by his filmography, it’s probably safe to say Robert Eggers is not strictly a religious man. His first film did, after all, end with a Puritan girl finding liberation from her Calvinist upbringing by selling her soul to the Devil and floating above a fire fed by the … Read more
Galaxy Quest is a perfect motion picture. Argue with a wall … preferably one of the many chrome walls aboard the NSEA Protector. Released on Christmas Day 1999, well in advance of geek culture going fully mainstream, the Dean Parisot-directed film feels like it had early access to decades of modern internet debates, takes, and … Read more
This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2. There’s a fascinating meta-narrative threaded throughout the second season of Netflix’s megahit Squid Game. It’s about how little creator Hwang Dong-hyuk actually wants to make a second season of Netflix’s megahit Squid Game. Hwang, bless him, has been remarkably candid in discussing how he had no … Read more