Substacks recommended by Episodic Medium

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Blank Check has started a newsletter! The podcast covering directors filmographies hosted by your favorite connoisseurs of context are gonna go on even more tangents and share opinions on even more pieces of entertainment industry news because, why not!

A great pod even without a critical mass of People I Know involved (but, like, seriously, so many People I Know).

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Dad Shows

By Liam Mathews

TV for the dad-minded

Shows for—about? by?—dads, by someone who is not a dad, but who understands dads.

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Girl Culture

By Caroline Siede

Caroline Siede's newsletter on pop culture, feminism, and all things girly

A perfect union of writer and subject.

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TV Plus

By Cory Barker

A newsletter about television.

Cory is an award-winning scholar of the media industries who interrogates TV's "pluses" as an object of study.

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Haynerland

By Chris Hayner

Greetings! I'm Chris Hayner, an entertainment journalist and editor with over a decade of experience. This, though is where the writing I care about that doesn't fit on my day job goes. Theme parks, personal essays, podcasts, and more! Come play!

Media insights from journalism's biggest Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular expert.

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Eric Goldman's Cultured Pop

Exploring what's exciting, intriguing (and occasionally infuriating) about movies, TV shows, theme parks, toys, and other entertainment.

Pop culture geekery worth reading even if he didn’t once secure YOU a Shockmaster action figure.

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What's Alan Watching?

By Alan Sepinwall

TV criticism, news, links, and other thoughts from Alan Sepinwall

The man who made episodic reviews a key part of being a TV critic, and who let an annoying commenter be a part of the community (it was me).

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Decoding Everything

By David Chen

A newsletter by David Chen about movies, TV, tech, the media, and being an online creator.

Insights from prolific online creator (and oldest internet friend) David Chen.

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Serially Engaged: A Blog About Television

By John Aspler

John Aspler is an academic with a focus on media representation, stigma, and disability studies - and an occasional TV Critic! This Substack aims to have broad conversations on TV as a medium, reviewing specific shows as examples. Antifascist. He/him.

Reviews and criticism from a member of the Episodic Medium community.

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Tim Goodman / Bastard Machine

It's TV+Culture from the former Chief TV Critic of The Hollywood Reporter and The San Francisco Chronicle. Film, books, music, etc. Writing multiple projects.

One of the O.G. voices from the golden age of TV criticism is back, in Substack form.

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The Reveal

By Scott Tobias

Deeper into movies (and a little TV). Essays, reviews, conversation. Past and present. From the editors of The Dissolve.

Shared lineage and shared philosophy make Scott and Keith the perfect cinematic companion to our engagement with TV.

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Textual Variations

By Mikhail Skoptsov

Subscribe to learn why so many movies exist in multiple versions, and what this means for film history and culture. Also, some quality criticism.

Thoughtful commentary from a member of the Episodic Medium community.

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That Thing They Did

By Will Harris

Everybody's got a past. The people who can look back on it with an eye toward the experiences they've accrued and the lessons they've learned... Theirs are the stories that I want to hear.

Interviewer and critic Will Harris brings his genuine enthusiasm to all sorts of media-related content.

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Too Much TV Newsletter

By Rick Ellis

Your Daily TV Talking Points. A free daily rundown of all the television and streaming news you need to know today.

Daily TV news aggregation for an age of Too...well, it's in the title.

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