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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I respect the Anaconda franchise but I have such a snake phobia

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Have you seen the made-for-TV sequels? Should I?

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The twist? I loved it. (I am seeing You Can See Everything tonight, though.)

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

For a few post-MeToo years women predominated in these roles. Now, the situation has almost reversed.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Interesting that the 2 women (Cindy Holland, Bela Bajaria) who built Netflix's original programming into an uncatchable monolith are both out of a job, replaced (presumably in the former case, confirmed in the latter) by white guys. You don't have to love every choice they made to see the backlash.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The world if technological progress had stopped the instant that the internet made it possible to immediately listen to any song that could conceivably get stuck in your head

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Jemaine, hmm. A first cousin, I'd say.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I have just screened the 1999 action-horror masterpiece Lake Placid, and now I must respectfully demand that What We Do in the Shadows be revived so *that movie's version* of Oliver Platt can appear as Laszlo's dad.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

May not get a chance to write about The Lowdown S2 for a while, and I'm only 2 episodes into the screeners, but for now can I just mention my delight at the opening Paris, Texas homage?

Harry Dean Stanton in the film 'Paris, Texas'

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Are "glossy" and "high-gloss" TV publicists' new euphemism for "superficial shows made for silly women"?

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The most annoying of the Girls, age 40, will be Jessa and it won’t be close. She’s an anti-vaxx MAHA mom who claims to be apolitical, with 32k Instagram followers

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In the mid-90s I owned an electronic board game called Mall Madness that, I swear to god, would play audio randomly in the middle of the night even when the batteries were removed. It was a horror movie. I didn’t sleep. I had to get it out of my bedroom. This sounds like that time a trillion

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I believe Lena Dunham has both the courage and the vision to add Che Diaz to the Girls reboot

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is thrilling, but I'm guessing it means Lena Dunham is not working on my dream project: a Gus Van Sant-style shot-for-shot remake of THE BIG CHILL starring the GIRLS cast. For the record, here's the casting: LENA DUNHAM / MARY KAY PLACE 1/x

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A lost cause I will never stop fighting for

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can't leave $$$ on the table!

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When I tell you that I opened the press release about this and heard a disembodied voice whisper "We have to go back to the island"...

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Girls | Limited Run Announcement | HBO Max

YouTube video by HBO Max

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It WISHES it were Surf Dracula

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In a way, it's a cautionary tale for society: Someone whose innate personality tends towards extreme selfishness is going to cause infinitely more destruction if you try to constrict their freedom and agency

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Exactly! I've seen a lot of criticisms that this is a girlboss redemption arc, and I just don't buy it. No one is pretending she's a good person or saying her choices are righteous. Kazan is just connecting reasons to them and asking how life might've differed for Cathy under better circumstances.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Crystal Lake is absolutely pointless, even by Friday the 13th standards. Especially embarrassing to release this show in the same year as Camp Miasma, which actually understands what makes a summer-camp slasher tick.

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'Friday the 13th' Series 'Crystal Lake' Is Everything Wrong With Film-to-TV Adaptations

Peacock reboots the Jason Voorhees franchise, and the result is the one thing this horror classic should never be: boring

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Starting to think Shane Gillis is a decade long psyop trying increasingly desperate tactics to bring down the Lorne regime from the inside

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hard not to sense an element of fear, like if you're open to seeing the world through a woman's eyes, what might you discover about men in general or yourself in particular?

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Me too unfortunately. At least we can blame society

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is not the fault of individual men who don't read any more than being materialistic is the fault of women who are socialized to believe that shopping is the ultimate catharsis for everything in life that stresses us out. But the sooner we figure out how to reduce gendered training, the better

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think men would read more, in aggregate, if they were socialized to care and be curious about experiences different from their own

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is the exact amount of additional Carrie discourse I feel I can contribute without having the absolute worst weekend lol

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Weird to be someone with moderate feelings on Mike Flanagan. Guy's gotta stop doing interviews, though.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have read 90342 articles with titles like "Do cats actually love us?" and the answer is always "Yes, but with caveats" and still I will keep clicking on them until I die

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wish i heard more people talking about this show, because it is so good

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Saw them last year for the first time in a decade or so and they’re still an excellent live act too

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also great. + All My Friends Are Funeral SIngers

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Times are gone For honest men Sometimes, far too long for snakes what did chris cornell know, and when did he know it

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Annual PSA that the single best autumn album ever made is still Califone's Roots & Crowns

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Roots & Crowns, by Califone

13 track album

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes! It should be so obvious to white male writers that everyone is fundamentally an individual human being, yet it’s maddeningly rare to see evidence that they get it

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Poppy is an all-time great character, too

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Low bar but this is the most profound point ever made on Bill Maher’s show.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

While we're asking Taylor Sheridan king questions, does Mayor of Kingstown imply the existence of a King of Mayorstown?

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sliding in just before the weekend, I wrote about why Zoe Kazan and Florence Pugh's reinterpretation of Cathy from East of Eden is so brilliant—and so much better than the typical 'subversive' feminist rewrite.

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Netflix's 'East of Eden' Brilliantly Reinterprets 'Evil' Cathy—Without Betraying Steinbeck

Zoe Kazan's series grounds its feminist perspective on one of literature's most maligned characters in a shrewd reading of the novel

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah. And I mean, when it comes to shows about social issues whose dialogue lacks subtlety, I'll take this over the Ryan Murphy approach every time.

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Tip Toe' can be a real tough watch, and everyone talks like they've been dosed with truth serum, but Alan Cumming is absolutely magnificent and there's something unexpectedly validating about a show that clearly states how bad things really are. In probing the insanity, it makes you feel sane.

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'Tip Toe' Is a Harrowing Melodrama of Queerness and Masculinity in a World Gone Mad

Alan Cumming stars in this blunt yet insightful British miniseries from Russell T Davies

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Welp, that's me edging slowly towards the door...

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can tell you right now I am going to fail at this one bc all I can see is M(u)dhoney

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Total high-water mark in terms of how much criticism was generated vs. how little criticism was needed

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Judy Berman @judyberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got weirdly into Anthony Burgess in high school. Even read some of his writing on linguistics, none of which I really understood. Anyway, total mystery how I ended up doing what I do for a living...

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