Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Streamers will never back UBI because it'll turn the tide back to physical media! 120
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Oh, wow, I lived nearby from 2014-2021. Closer to 231st, but I did catch the 1 train at that station occasionally, and I went to that ER (Allen/Presbyterian) right across the bridge in Inwood, on foot, a few times. Get these gestapo goons off my streets. 010
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm doing this with my book, although you'll never have to read about it. 010
Reposted by Stephen Bowiecaemeron @caemeroncc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026increasingly I think the point is not in being anti-AI but in holding steadfastly to standards that AI cannot meet, with no forgiveness 07822
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026As a card-carrying commie pinko, I too am baffled at how the online left has fixated upon Sorkin and The West Wing for perennial scorn. It's ... just a show, gang. 030
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026From that episode I've interviewed the producer, one of the writers, Lonny Chapman, Gerald O'Loughlin, the story editor, the associate producer, the film editor, the casting director, the art director, the "manager of production operations," and the 1st AD. Mad I never got Shatner or Jessica Walter. 010
Reposted by Stephen BowieSean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting: 2373527910
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“You always think you have more time…until you don’t.” That's not somebody talking about their recently deceased grandpa. It's a Roku customer. #NeverStream 000
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I've been checking the internet for this off and on for the last decade or so. When I was a little kid, this is what told me a movie was about to happen. youtube.com/watch?v=ZEK4TvY9l0Iyoutube.comLitchfield Theatres Policy TrailerYouTube video by brainwrapper 000
Reposted by Stephen BowieLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17990418
Reposted by Stephen BowieEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Democrats caved and/or facilitated this monopolization of practically every major media property in the US into the hands of a MAGA fascist psychopath. If the US had an opposition party, each of its presidential contenders would would vow to dissolve this monopoly by any means necessary. 321227399
Reposted by Stephen BowieChase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Like displaying heads on pikes 471417322
Reposted by Stephen BowieLuke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this 374474585
Reposted by Stephen BowieSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right” 6695011808
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's definitely how I scanned him in 2016 when people first started calling it dementia. Now I'll cheerfully agree it's both (but still not as bad as Biden's, yet). 010
Reposted by Stephen BowieCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14137891250
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good grief, the byline (Zoom masturbator) is the punchline 140
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Batt is a New Orleaner, right? Did you snap that on his lawn? 110
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just the people I followed there to pursue my vendetta 011
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think Benton's Oscar winners are overrated (especially KRAMER), but BAD COMPANY is the best revisionist western not directed by Sam Peckinpah. 010
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I hope he could sing better than he could act. 010
Reposted by Stephen BowieLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists. 91953533
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Miniseries seemed to be eligible for the NY Times poll (the few I checked came up in their ballot for randos) but they were mostly ignored in the final list. Seasonal anthologies (like the Ryan Murphy AMERICAN shows) also seemed underrepresented. 000
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And of course the '70s were the nadir of American TV, enlivened only by a small and mostly overpraised roster of sitcoms and crime shows. That is: If you limit the canon to weekly series! Because in the '70s the top talent moved into one-off movies of the week. Which tend to get lost to history. 100
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I would only keep one of Emily's top 10 (you know which one). 100
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ha. Libby's example that you linked to is one of the few things I didn't find specious! 000
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Given how much of it was recycled into both STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE and TNG, STAR TREK: PHASE II was more influential than most TV shows that actually existed. 020
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I've only seen the first one, which lifts too much aesthetically from the (great) David Jacobson film, but yeah ... the writing is solid and Evan Peters and Richard Jenkins are doing career-best work. Plus, the Michael Learnedaissance! 010
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Rehearsal, The Handmaid's Tale, The Bear, Somebody Somewhere, Modern Family, Better Things, Justified, Dexter, Eastbound & Down, The Night Of, Station Eleven, House, and Scandal. They are bad. If you haven't seen them, congratulations! 010
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Of the shows on the list I've seen (including some I bailed on quickly because they stank), I would remove these entirely: Breaking Bad, Fleabag, Game of Thrones, Veep, Girls, Friday Night Lights, Survivor, Watchmen, Hacks, House of Cards, Stranger Things, Nathan For You, PEN15, Mare of Easttown, 110
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I mostly omitted limited-run shows; if I threw in miniseries like FOSSE/VERDON and THE DROPOUT, I could chip it up to 50 or 60. 010
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You could almost make a better list just out of the omissions. 101
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every time I see a video list what I think is: Would've been a lock for one of J. Hoberman's annual Village Voice top 10 lists in the 2000s. 000
Reposted by Stephen BowieJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others. 212264183
Reposted by Stephen BowieJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026- Social media brain rot where we've failed to see that we are human beings connected to other unique human beings and therefore, just because something doesn't reflect my experience, it doesn't mean it's wrong or "bad" or something you can't still read/watch/play, etc. 21781115
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oof, yeah, my dad's been doing this too. Had to take their phone away. 010
Reposted by Stephen BowiePrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat? 301965574
Stephen Bowie @smilingcobra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I saw Rasche at a party about 10 years ago but he slipped away before I could do the catchphrase. Still mad! 010
