Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026every two years right before Halloween I return to the sunken place (listening to political podcasts) and I can see the leaves starting to turn :( 4410
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026[a five minute chunk of my day] - read news story that federal government now has its own AI chatbot - open government AI chatbot - type "what are the effects of climate change" - read that CO2 helps plants grow and there will be less economic damage that we thought! - close chatbot fin 2488
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the most relatable buy nothing page fb post i have ever seen 1770
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026watched a screener and now I’m running around my house with my hands in the air 6350
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026after reading and thinking about the nhj times piece, and listening to the TAL episode this weekend, i can't stop thinking about the decision to leave covid out of the story. i can imagine many reasons why; even touching it makes the whole thing 10x messier. but leaving it out also feels incomplete 2360
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026catching up on my favorite tv show, Merritt Wever Has Been Contractually Obligated to Do a Press Tour cc @jdmchenry.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=3o1J...youtube.comMerritt Wever’s Late Night Debut & “Primetime” | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 4721
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026and I don’t want to hear any guff about rhys only being in one season so he should get to keep his margo martindale was only in one season of justified; doesn’t mean she got to go sneak into miniseries! she had to duke it out in drama like every other continuing show 1310
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026while we are all in TV hot take mode i'm afraid i am here to demand that matthew rhys return one of his now-fraudulent emmys www.vulture.com/article/beas...vulture.comDoes the Sanctity of a Limited Series Emmy Mean Nothing?For too long, we’ve watched and done nothing as a small group of TV shows have committed unrepentant category fraud. Enough. 71379
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026obviously if the nyt did this list next year after my book comes out, there would be hundreds more nominations for bluey (i am sincerely convinced that pervasive, inescapable bluey marketing has hurt its general standing as prestige / quality tv) 3501
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in the last several weeks i've become an obsessive browser of this giant auction site, where you can imagine owning an original bansky mural for a million dollars and also $25 worth of large antique keys and anyhow, i think it's totally reasonable to buy dorothy sayers' motorcycle right 111057
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i believe every journalist who's ever tried to have a long interview with merritt wever should be joined together in fond fraternity the We Interviewed Merritt Wever And She Hated Every Minute But We Somehow We Still Love Her So Much club 1697
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026pretty clear about where i fall on some of these issues 0291
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries 17810239
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonkAlan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In the episode, I promised to tell @kvanaren.bsky.social the convoluted, ridiculous explanation for why Neagley has a phobia about being touched. This was her response: 1241
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonkAlan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New Jersey! I'll be at Words in Maplewood on October 14 to talk about Serling with [checks notes] @kvanaren.bsky.social? Hopefully we figure out how to talk to each other. wordsbookstore.com/events/62454... 4395
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonkJackson McHenry @jdmchenry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026next up: Laura Linney comes onstage with a message from The Guardians 0396
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026widows bay is incredible and the directing is a huge part of why but this emmy is actually for station eleven, fyi 721012
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026i wish this were the only the first time i said "WHAT IS HAPPENING" out loud during this awards ceremony but we all know it's not 2560
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026they need time for the celebration of 50 years of charlies angels, of course! 0350
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026one person in dentists office: rhys rhys rhys everyone in dentists office: RHYS RHYS RHYS 19211
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026worth it for the shocked noah wyle reaction shot 2370
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026thank you to john mulaney who did a joke for me, personally 1720
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026who made the choice for mariska's emmys bit to be "i may not have one of these awards but i am scrooge mcducking it every morning, losers" 1271
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026surely i'm not the only person who sometimes scrolls through their camera roll and thinks, why did i take this photo 3691
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 12/09/2026grateful to open the instagram comments on GWB’s 9/11 paintings and see that the top comment is from a housewives podcaster, and that it reads “am I on an entire sheet of acid” 114423
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 11/09/20269yo’s parent letter at back to school night obviously involved a suggestion to write about whatever the student was anxious about, prompting 9yo to write “I’m worried about absolutely nothing.” 1630
Reposted by Kathryn VanArendonkEmily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If I were in that room, I would pitch that the premise should be: It's time to play the music; it's time to light the lights. Indeed, it's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight. 261198153
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026would be pretty funny if after decades of treating the matrix like a metaphor it turned out to be more of a literal situation 0220
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026presenting: several hundred words on the three minutes or so of real housewives of new york in which martha stewart explains that she had dinner with jfk jr "the monday before the friday when they died" www.vulture.com/article/mart...vulture.comRHONY Lets Martha Stewart CookWatching her appear in front of Bravo cameras is like watching a prima ballerina lead an elementary-school dance class. 3273
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 08/09/2026in which @sepinwall.bsky.social and I have exact opposite reactions to martin starr deciding to point out that dragons are not hard sci-fi 1141
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 08/09/2026today one of my children came up to ask me if I was busy while I was actively sawing a branch off a tree 52387
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026nathan fielder vs elizabeth holmes is like what if wario had his own wario 81056136
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026did everyone else already know that locusts are just grasshoppers who bumped into too many other grasshoppers and then TRANSFORMED INTO EVIL SEX MONSTER CANNIBAL GRASSHOPPERS 4605
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026spoiler for my best show of next year choice, sorry, they named a rob delaney character "jonas faukman" on a dan brown adaptation starring morgan spector and rebecca hall, it's all over for me 3310
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026i regret to announce that i screwed this up, AGAIN, while on the radio (i called it 'every summer will be different') I AM SORRY CARLEY FORTUNE 2140
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026paul gross on heated rivalry s2 ... fine, you have my attention 61114
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 02/09/2026my giant computer screen carley fortune post-it note is not working and i keep screwing it up anyhow? every year after, based on carley fortune's every summer after, prime video this summer will be different, based on carley fortune's this summer will be different, netflix 050
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 01/09/2026this morning my lovely venn diagram marriage resulted in a conversation where I explained the concept of burning man to our 12yo, and then my husband said, what’s really fascinating about burning man is how they build the airport, which I learned about after reading some of the manual 0561
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“the AI slop ice cream on the flier for the annual ice cream social can’t hurt me” the ice cream: 9483
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 31/08/2026it's important to teach your kids vital survival skills, like watching you struggle to open a bottle of trader joe's hand soap, then watching you google trader joe's hand soap can't open, and then watching you find a reddit thread about how those damn hand soaps are tricky and here's the fix 5762
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 31/08/20261) have you seen Adults it's so good 2) I messed up Ben's name the last time I tried this post, it's Ben Kronengold (and co-creator Rebecca Shaw) 3) they are both so smart and thoughtful about what makes sitcoms work, our conversation with them for the podcast was a joy 2371
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026yes thank you I *will* read the meticulously researched book on the century-long history of this adirondacks lodge that was left on the bedside table, please, tell me more about which highland lakes were fashionable in the 1870s and why 52706
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 28/08/2026once again have to accept that nothing brings me joy quite like the insane elaborate victorian mystery storytelling game sherlock holmes: consulting detective 1630
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 27/08/2026all I have ever wanted is a good tv adaptation of the wimsey/vane novels and I just feel like, what is TAKING so LONG 7740
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026my thoughts on the sean duffy road trip series basically boil down to: you'd assume a guy who came up doing reality tv would be better at reality tv www.vulture.com/article/sean...vulture.comSean Duffy’s Great American Road Trip Took the Cowardly RouteThe Transportation secretary’s new reality series has all the makings of a hate-watch but immediately runs out of gas. 1355
Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026shoutout to all the other parents today who are waiting until their kids are trapped in some form of transportation and then saying “hey have you ever heard of dolly parton” 2773
