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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember thinking "This is A DRESS!" when I watched this movie for the first time.

Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been meaning to ingest all of the Theranos-related media for years, but the upcoming A24 doc has me finally doing it. I've watched the Gibney doc and now I'm onto The Dropout (2022).

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You'll zip right through it, so that makes sense.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had no interest in President Snow's origins, but Haymitch is a different story.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bought Sunrise on the Reaping as a present for myself a few days ago at a newish bookstore in the South End. Started it on the plane and am already almost 200 pages in.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just remembered that there are popsicles in my freezer. I'm going to call this fact "planning ahead" as opposed to "total coincidence."

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Excited to get off this plane. Not excited to immediately encounter a wall of hot ass air.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looked at the weather forecast for the next week in Los Angeles... I'm taking a pre-airport walk around the South End to appreciate the 61 degrees it currently is before returning to 100+.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just did a public service by introducing the friend I'm staying with to BoJack Horseman.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also these are fast, and I'm due at MFA Boston in 90 minutes.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first restaurant I passed had nice bar fare, which all looked fine, but none of it spoke to me.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's been a long day, and I really just wanted something indulgent.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That whole Girl Dinner thing from last year was ridiculous, but I just laughed at myself in this restaurant after ordering a half dozen oysters and the beef tartare because my first thought was "I guess this is French Girl Dinner."

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being exposed to the Boston-area ones has led to moments like me exclaiming "John Sununu is back?!?!?" to the friend I'm staying.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's been nice to have a break from seeing the same five midterm ads on my television in Los Angeles.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How are you Phillies fans right now?

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I didn't! I'll do it when I get back to Los Angeles.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, I LOVE seeing all of the dugout-clearing fights again.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This history montage before the Red Sox vs. Yankees game. Yes, I am aware that we fucking HATE each other. I was born and raised here afterall.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Did that store say that it sells antique maps?!?!?!?" -Me while on this bus winding its way through Cambridge

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chosen Plane Entertainment: Ocean's 11, Clueless, 1.5 episodes of Rooster. We got to the gate halfway through that second episode.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was worried when looking at the news about the storm, but that one fact made me laugh. Everyone else stay safe.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The two Sheeren concerts at Foxboro that led to the recent scandal have been canceled because of an unprecedented for this time of year Nor'easter. That feels like cosmic justice.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to stand in front of some Renoirs and feel my feelings.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm going to be dealing with a lot of family stuff when I'm back in Boston next week, but I'm hoping to carve out an hour or two to go to the Museum of Fine Arts, which is one of my favorite places in the city.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Perhaps easier to quantify if continued cultural impact as opposed to "best." Television has changed so much in this century. Would we have so many shows about superheroes without the major success of that first season of Heroes?

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Band of Brothers came out 25 years ago, but I only just watched it this year during a WWII rabbit hole. I loved it, but I'm sure that's not everyone's thing and wouldn't make their list. I'm just a history nerd.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Would I put New Girl on the list? Yes. And not just for Nick Miller. Is that first season of Veronica Mars perfect? Yes. But again, subjective.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching The Sopranos was like the first time I watched Casablanca, which was thankfully in a theater for an Edith Head retrospective.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It started at the tail end of the 20th century so isn't on the list, but when I started watching The Sopranos a few years ago I was like "Ah, got it."

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do need to finally watch The Wire though.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again, lists like this are always subjective as opposed to definitive. They're not really worth getting upset about.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do I think Scandal made the list for one amazing season? Yes. Will I rewatch that second season whenever I have the chance? Also yes.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And when Character Actress Margo Martindale showed up in S2...

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I watched the first episode with him in that hat and was like "I guess this is my life now." bsky.app/profile/most...

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's one I've never seen, but only because I'm a scaredy cat. I still haven't finished S2 of Interview with the Vampire because the first few episodes were so bloody.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sometimes my tablet slipped out of my hands and landed on my face. This was also how I watched some Succession.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I first watched Justified after I blew out my back while exercising too hard during the beginning of lockdown. I had to sleep on my floor because my mattress was too soft. I watched it on my tablet, which I held directly above my face.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My main issue with the NYT list of best television series of the 21st century is that I've apparently watched a shit ton of television. Lol.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Her (2013) is also a great story about the "loneliness epidemic" years before we were constantly discussing it.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm sure there's a piece to be written about the way that sci-fi media, be it literature, radio, movies, or television, have predicted harmful things that came later.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every news story I've read in the past few days about AI breaking through the constraints that were made to box it in makes me think again about Her (2013). That was legitimately the climax of the film, but AI wasn't trying to hack companies in that movie.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every time I've made the mistake of reading something he had written I've felt like my brains are leaking out of my ears and my ancestors are rolling over in their graves.

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't like to call someone a race traitor but...

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What a fucking [searches for not bad word] nincompoop.

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