@memles.bsky.social
Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium
@memles.bsky.socialI appreciate their commitment to casting one actual person from Newfoundland and Labrador in the core cast for authenticity’s sake but they did sacrifice this particular dimension.
@memles.bsky.socialJames Spader reinforces the NYCC story I want to read: how much is Raising Cane’s paying for that spot and what is the actual promotional value of being in the background of every Wikipedia image of a celebrity in front of it?
@memles.bsky.socialI know we think the MCU is a bit washed, but my TikTok algorithm has already given me two Tommy edits—one set to a Taylor Swift song about his scam accomplice and one about his father set to Next to Normal—and #VisionQuest just came out, so there remains something to be activated here.
@memles.bsky.socialYeah there is a section on Twitter in my online new media class and I always ask them how out of date it feels and this semester a student was like “Everything about Twitter is so far from reality right now” and they’re not wrong! (Of course, the fact they noticed means they learned, gotcha!)
@memles.bsky.socialSometimes I think people don't realize how much I envy their ability to watch TV like a normal person. You think I WANT to be losing my mind at the temporality of every season of #SlowHorses to the point a rising sun sends me into hysterics? You think I'd CHOOSE to be this way?
@carolinesiede.bsky.socialReposted by @memles.bsky.socialI'm recapping VisionQuest for Episodic Medium! Come read my thoughts on a premiere that gets off to an impressively jampacked start
@memles.bsky.socialI recently learned I could have seen this in true IMAX instead of LIEMAX and it’s haunted me.
@memles.bsky.socialI understand that their target audience is children but whoever let Blippi do #IsItCake fully in character?
The Hague.
@memles.bsky.socialThe only #Carrie discourse I’m interested in is Mike Flanagan’s reckless intertextual abandon in the penultimate episode.
@memles.bsky.socialI was like “I know this man.” Feels like that was forever ago.
@mousterpiece.bsky.socialReposted by @memles.bsky.socialToday at Episodic Medium, I'm back with weekly reviews of two -- count 'em, two -- shows from Robert and Michelle King, for the price of one. Elsbeth's 4th season kicks off with a fun, frothy installment, and is joined by the intriguing and fast-paced Cupertino: www.episodicmedium.tv/review-elsbe...
@memles.bsky.socialMy Facebook feed is increasingly algorithmic as my generation stops posting on Facebook, and it’s officially been trained to know there is no genre I love more right now than “Small Business AI FAFO.”
@memles.bsky.socialOh no. This is like when I didn’t have internet at my house when I moved to Norfolk so I went to Naro Video to rent Blu-Rays and discovered you had to be online to play them.
@memles.bsky.socialAnd elsewhere at Episodic Medium, #SlowHorses continues to attack me personally with the wonkiest temporality possible.
@memles.bsky.social@memles.bsky.socialOh, so they didn't give us screeners for the #TedLasso finale because they wanted to delay my rage, got it.
@memles.bsky.socialGonna need a production designer who has lived in the Midwest, tho.
@memles.bsky.socialI visited two of them—three of them, it was maybe three—last summer! I do wonder about its ability to stand in for South Dakota, however.
@memles.bsky.socialHere's the real problem, Emily—what state in which Culver's operates has the film incentives required to support the production?
