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Jeremy Strong Succession

On the SUVs, yachts, and helicopters of Succession.

writes in praise of Succession's transport sequences. 

Moving money

Chicken chat shows

Winner winner (celebrity) chicken dinner.

on Hot Ones and Chicken Shop Date, two crispy kinds of internet talk shows.

A-list mukbang

Caroline Polachek's Desire, I Want To Turn Into You"

Caroline Polachek as Fembot. 

on the ways in which pop star Caroline Polachek uses cyborgian aesthetics to further explore her own humanity. 

Tangled in cables

Nymphet Alumni

Close-reading trends without losing your mind. 

interviews the trio behind Nymphet Alumni, a fashion and culture podcast.

Nymphet 2

Nicole Kidman AMC ad

Reviewing NYC's most uncomfortable movie theater seats.

goes bumming around the arthouse circuit. 

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Stiff as a board

Girls HBO

Everyone loves it (now). 

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The Girls rewatch

Coach Ted Lasso

A new kind of bullshit job.

on the coaching industrial complex, The Idol drama, and Lydia Tár's Twitter. 

Coach, put me in

Forspoken-magic

On particle effects in video games.

on particle effects, video games’ increasingly screen-filling eye candy.

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All that glitters

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