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Jay Faerber

@jayfaerber.bsky.social
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Writer of comics (Near Death, Copperhead) and TV (Creature Commandos S2, Supergirl). Lover of 70s & 80s TV. Pronounced “Fer-ber.”

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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m watching SOMETHING IS OUT THERE, an NBC sci-fi miniseries from the late 80s, and in one scene the aliens are watching NBC’s CRIME STORY. They reference it in dialogue and everything! Some wild synergy.
An “alien” (who looks very, very human) watches a TV airing Crime Story, with an image of Dennis Farina.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m rewatching X-FILES and there’s so much I’d forgotten. Like how often Mulder and Scully get disarmed and knocked around by just about every suspect they encounter. And how they refer to each other by name a dozen times in every conversation. And Mulder sometimes dresses like this.
Fox Mulder looking dorky as hell in a backwards Georgetown Hoyas baseball hat.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just a normal morning in Burbank, seeing the Adam West Batmobile driving down the street.
The rear of the Adam West Batmobile, driving down the street.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So Paramount+ is doing jack shit to promote it, but the second of AVERAGE JOE is available now. This is a terrific little show. A bit like Breaking Bad in how it relishes in the little details as the stakes escalate. It’s alternately thrilling, scary, and hilarious.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s an unwritten rule in genre TV that when your heroes have to grab a change of clothes on the run, said clothes are always, always locally-branded tourist merch. Reacher is a show that knows all the rules.
Reacher and Tamara in Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley sports merch.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a syndicate boss on STARSKY & HUTCH. His thugs are straight out of the Adam West BATMAN show.
A man in a suit sits at a desk talking on the phone. Four beefy men in really tight blue t-shirts sit around, waiting for orders.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here's Tim Curry in his role as eccentric (to put it mildly) music mogul Winston Newquay on WISEGUY. And yeah, the voice you hear is the late Paul Winfield.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve finished my TJ HOOKER binge and now I’ve moved onto STARSKY & HUTCH. The guest stars are amazing. Check out baby-face George Dzundza.
A very young George Dzundza with feathered blond hair.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Today’s TJ Hooker episode sounds like one of those fake 30 Rock shows.
Title card for an episode of TJ Hooker, called “Murder By Law.”
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
That moment in Thunderbolts when Bucky dramatically takes off his jacket and ends up looking like Ben Stiller as Tom Cruise’s stunt double from that MTV Movie Awards bit.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’ve seen this movie, and this is not how I remember it.
A screen shot from the movie WILD CARD with the description “Jaw-dropping fights with Jason Alexander.”
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A long time ago I had the pleasure of writing on a wacky little show called ZOO, where we did stuff like have an invisible snake eat one of our heroes, so she has to cut herself out of it. One of my favorite sequences I’ve ever written. And our cast and effects folks did such an amazing job!
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's good to have friends who really get you. Like @bhay.bsky.social, who saw this HUNTER DVD box set in a pile of free stuff on a random street corner, and thought "I know who'd appreciate this." And he was right!
A DVD box set of all 7 season of the TV show HUNTER.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Watching EVENT HORIZON for the first time, and this made me chuckle.
A screenshot from the movie Event Horizon, with the text:

2015
First permanent colony established on moon

2032
Commercial mining begins on Mars
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Happy #portfolioday! I write comics and TV. I was most recently a writer/producer on the second season of Creature Commandos for HBO Max. I love superheroes and detective stories and I could really use some work so let’s make something happen!
Creature Commandos animated series poster.Supergirl TV series poster.Near Death comic book cover.Noble Causes comic book cover.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was looking at the IMDb entry for a busted pilot from 1983 called SHOOTING STARS, with Billy Dee Williams and Parker Stevenson as actors-turned-detectives. There’s a reason it didn’t get ordered to series. But for some reason there’s a janky AI poster for it.
An AI-generated poster for a TV-movie called Shooting Stars, with Billy Dee Williams and Parker Stevenson, and the tag line: “Being a celebrity cop in Hollywood can be a real problem - especially if you’re wanted for murder!” The AI-generated Parker Stevenson is particularly terrible.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Today’s TJ HOOKER featured Sharon Stone as Danni Starr, in a backdoor pilot for HOLLYWOOD STAR. She’s a Hollywood Detective who frequently goes undercover as a hooker. And because MIAMI VICE was popular at the time, Danni has a pet turtle. I’d also love to know the story behind having two directors!
William Shatner and Sharon Stone, with Stone holding a pet turtle.Credits from TJ HOOKER reading: “Special Guest Star SHARON STONE as Dani Starr.”Credits from TJ HOOKER reading: Directed by Winrich Kolbe and William Shatner.Sharon Stone as Dani Starr, wearing a red feather jacket and holding a gun.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Oh shit, you know Joe Santos is playing a bad guy because of that sinister little mustache.
Joe Santos in an episode of TJ HOOKER, sporting a little mustache.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th of July! I hope two turkeys don’t ruin your solo surf-ski trip, forcing you to tread water for 24 hours.
Tom Selleck as MAGNUM, P.I., treading water.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Canada Day to my friends from the north.
Paul Gross in costume as Constable Benton Fraser of the RCMP, from the Canadian show DUE SOUTH.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’ve been on an underwater monster movie kick lately. I’ve seen THE ABYSS, of course. What else am I missing?
Movie poster for LEVIATHAN.Movie poster for DEEP STAR SIX.Movie poster for DEEP RISING.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you. I could do this all day!
TV Guide ad for GRAND SLAM starring John Schneider and Paul Rodriguez.TV Guide ad for MAX MONROE: LOOSE CANNON starring Shadoe Stevens.TV Guide ad for SUNSEAT BEAT starring George Clooney.TV Guide ad for LAWLESS starring Brian Bosworth and Glen Plummer.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Private eye Ben Reilly carrying a bunch of fake business cards he uses to impersonate people in SPIDER-NOIR. That’s a move right out of Jim Rockford’s playbook.
Close on two hands shuffling through a stack of business cards.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jesus Christ. This is AI, right?
An Emmy consideration ad for THE LOWDOWN with an apparently AI-generated Ethan Hawke smiling and making a finger gun for the camera.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I married a super hero. My wife just donated a kidney to help a college friend.
My wife, post-surgery, in a hospital bed, holding up her phone. The phone case had the Living Donor logo on it.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Obscure TV alert: EQUAL JUSTICE, a 2-season drama from 1990 about the Pittsburgh D.A.’s office, is now on @primevideo.bsky.social. Great cast including Sarah Jessica Parker, Deborah Farentino, Jane Kaczmarek, Joe Morton, and Jon Tenney.
TV Guide ad for Equal Justice, with the copy: “It’s about convictions. Having them. Getting them. Keeping them.”
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
From time to time our dog will regenerate into an entirely new body. Much like The Doctor.
An old-looking scruffy mutt with a forlorn expression.A young pup with short hair and a big tongue hanging out of his mouth.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Spy Game!
Robert Redford in a leather jacket, hunched down with Brad Pitt wearing a ball cap from the movie SPY GAME.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’ll take “What gets me through the day” for 100, Alex.
A sign in a strip mall that reads UM LIQUOR.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.
A white and grey cat sits perched on the edge of a recliner, with me grinning in the background.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
You want more TJ HOOKER? Fine. Check out the button on this scene.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
TJ HOOKER, ladies and gentlemen.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Classic Star Trek title screen that reads “The One With The Tribbles.”
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Homicide Life on the Street in the Saved by the Bell logo design.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is 54!
An old bald white man in an orange t-shirt that says “Meanwhile…”
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I don’t care about your beliefs or leanings or favorite films or music recs… I just want to know your top four picks for a DC Finest comics collection.
Poster for the Titans Hunt era of the New Titans comic series.DC house ad for the Mike Baron/Jackson Guice run of The Flash.House ad for the DC crossover “A Lonely Place of Dying” which introduces Tim Drake.The cover for Infinity Inc #4, part of Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway’s inaugural run of that title.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
These new official ballot envelopes with the green paper is a really cruel joke for WGA members.
Two official LA County election ballets, both of which have green on their envelope.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I’m just getting into season 2 of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS and the show’s basically this now? That’s not a complaint, by the way.
Godzilla holding up the Calico ship from the 1980s Godzilla cartoon.The Calico ship with Godzooky flying over it, from the 1980s Godzilla cartoon.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
38 years ago today, MAGNUM, PI aired its series finale as a 2-hour movie of the week. This highlight reel was part of the end credits. It’s a fun walk down memory lane if you’re a fan of the show.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Some top notch guest stars in today’s TJ HOOKER. We’ve got beloved character actor Sam Anderson as the owner of a male strip club, and Canada’s own Nicholas Campbell as a stripper-turned-cocaine dealer.
Sam Anderson wearing a powder blue suit and a dark blue shirt unbuttoned to an upsetting degree.A young Nicholas Campbell standing on a pier.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Starting the day off right with some TJ HOOKER.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Damn, Ray Wise is rocking a magnificent hairstyle in this episode of TJ HOOKER.
Closer up of Ray Wise, with long hair, smoking a pipe.Ray Wise, still with the long hair, opposite Heather Locklear.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Repost with your first crush. Brianne Leary as Officer Sindy Cahill of TV’s CHiPs.
A photo of Brianne Leary from the 1970s, in her California Highway Patrol uniform from the TV show CHiPs.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
TJ HOOKER. Nothing subtle about it.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Hooker chases a suspect into a construction site, and you can see the Smoke House sign in the background. It’s a famous restaurant in Burbank, across the street from the WB lot. George Clooney’s production company is called Smokehouse Pictures after this place.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Today’s TJ HOOKER, “Exercise in Murder,” has quite the 80s guest cast.
Judson ScottTracy ScogginsRobert Daviand Greg Morris as Dave Reemer
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Happy #SupermanDay!!
Me and my son pulling open our white dress shirts to reveal our Superman t/shirts. Me standing on the Supergirl fortress of solitude set. Me and director Jesse Warn comforting each other during a long shoot. Supergirl and Superman being lifted against a green screen.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Felt like Elvis Cole yesterday, watching this hawk ride a thermal in the canyon.
A hawk (or some kind of bird!) with its wings outstretched, gliding through the air above a brown and green canyon.
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Les than 8 minutes into the movie, and TOP GUN: MAVERICK hooked me with this exchange. God, I love this movie.
Maverick, in the cockpit, listens to his friend say “You know what happens to you if you go through with this.”Maverick’s reply: “I know what happens to everyone else if I don’t.”
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
BLUE THUNDER is on Netflix and Saturday morning is the perfect time for a Dad movie.
The words BLUE THUNDER against a whirling helicopter rotor.
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