Episodic Medium is a newsletter dedicated to week-to-week, episodic television criticism edited by me, Myles McNutt, building on my experience as a contributor for The A.V. Club and the author of my own blog, Cultural Learnings. It is designed as a space for close analysis of television, as well as engaged dialogue and conversation about that television among subscribers. It offers paid subscribers full access to weekly reviews of their favorite shows by myself and a staff of contributors, many of whom were colleagues at The A.V. Club in the 2010s.

Episodic Medium has moved platforms to Ghost as of August 2025—this page now collects the archived reviews and their comments from before then. For more information on what we’re currently covering, see our About page on Ghost.

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Television critic and media scholar.
I write about the Walt Disney Company, for publications like Slate, The Washington Post, and Slashfilm. And now, I'm writing about Disney here.
Theologian, professor, knitter, mom, critic. Ex-AV Club. Dissolve-adjacent.
Ex-A.V. Club Editor, current sleepy jerboa. Horror movies, TV, music: This is how we do it.
Freelancer entertainment writer, with bylines at places like The AV Club (before the unpleasantness), Entertainment Weekly, Ultimate Classic Rock, Primetimer, Paste, and others.
Former contributor to The A.V. Club's TV Club, co-founder of This Was Television. Dungeon Master, nebelung cat owner, bourbon barrel-aged. https://www.avclub.com/author/leschappell https://letterboxd.com/LesIsMore909/
Author of Dad Shows. Writer for TV Guide, Gold Derby, TheWrap, Netflix, Parade, Paste, others.
something about myself.
Film & TV critic | Role Calling podcast co-host | Expert grocery shopper | She/her
Family cook, baseball fanatic, pop obsessive, veteran critic (AV Club, Dissolve, NY Times, LA Times), friendly fellow
Lisa Weidenfeld is a writer and editor based in Cambridge. You may previously have seen her contributing to The AV Club's TV Club on shows including Orphan Black, The Magicians, and Killing Eve, or as an essayist at Boston magazine.
TV & Film critic, costume design aficionado, and Columbo lover.
Writer (GQ, TheWrap, Men's Health, Complex, InsideHook, SPY) // Comedically tall
Erik Adams is a writer and editor living in Chicago with his wife, daughter, and too many VHS tapes of Mystery Science Theater 3000.