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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I feel like I should have something smart to say about this, but I’m just too forlorn at the moment.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This music video- watching Vh1 before school when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade.

Screenshot from the music video “Don’t Come Around Here No More” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers where the band is eating Alice from Alice and Wonderland after she has turned into a life sized cake.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It was a film I thought about a lot afterward, despite some flaws.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also appreciated the film’s background commentary on the post-9/11 militarization of the cops and the way it connected sexual violence and state violence.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw Primetime last night, and it was useful the way it showed how a lot of men react to sexual violence with revenge fantasies and not, like, treating women and kids with actual respect or breaking down the systems that encourage and protect the violence in the first place.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Other profs are using AI to make their class materials while I accidentally spent 30 minutes looking up native plant climate zone info for a series of quiz questions about providing evidence in an informational speech. (unclear whether this was the best use of my time, but I used my brain!)

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The man next to me at this coffee shop is on his third zoom meeting and he sounds just like that TikTok guy who pretends to be a business guy doing a zoom meeting.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

LWT is usually good, but this episode is a standout and worth watching if you don’t already know about the chaotic, and therefore cruel way states administer lethal injection. its only role is to sanitize state-sponsored killings for *us.* so *we* don’t fully register the horror.

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Lethal Injections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ok, two takes: Dexter was a bad show with two pretty good seasons.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My one take about the NYT TV list so far is that I literally forgot about The Queens Gambit five minutes after I finished it and on the other hand the town I used to live in is “turning into” Stars Hollow this weekend.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Liane Moriarty’s author’s note before Big Little Truths (sequel to Big Little Lies) talks about the TV’s shows affect on her thinking about the sequel and would be a *great* example for a class discussion of adaption and paratexts (noting for myself for next semester).

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join @scmspedagogy.bsky.social on September 18 @ 1pm ET for our "Pedagogies of Care" virtual roundtable! Sign up via original post. ❤️

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I fell into a doomsday prepper rabbit hole a few years ago on TikTok and panicked about living in an apartment and not a rural, self sustaining homestead…..so this hits real close to home

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

gonna make a poster of this for my office

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have an extremely rough and 4,000 words too long draft of an article I’ve been working on forever, that has felt so much harder to write than usual. But at least I’m starting to believe in a reality in which I finish it.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There’s even a perfect bottle ep this season that is also a wonderful nod to classic sitcom plotlines: characters talking past each other/misunderstanding each other and going in and out of rooms as the tension keeps heightening.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It took me a bit to warm up to Adults its first season, but I’m loving the second, and trying to space the episodes out. I agree with Vulture that I’m begging networks to bring back longer seasons for sitcoms. We need more time to hang out!

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Adults Has Outgrown Its Awkward Phase

In its assured second season, the FX comedy graduates from imitating a great hangout sitcom to actually being one.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ugh, there’s a typo! first tip: proofread

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m helping @scmspedagogy.bsky.social crowd source some tips for grad students (and beyond) who struggle start writing a teaching statement. I’d love anyone’s thoughts, especially about biggest mistakes you see.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dolly's gender performativity: "And her flamboyant style has turned all the devalued symbols of womanliness to her own ends."

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The @scmspedagogy.bsky.social is excited to bring back our virtual roundtable in conjunction with the JCMS Teaching Media dossiers! Our first one of the fall will be feature contributors to the recent issue on "Pedagogies of Care" on September 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT. Sign up below!

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"Pedagogies of Care" Virtual Roundtable Registration

Please join the SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG for a virtual roundtable on "Pedagogies of Care" on September 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT. This event brings together contributors to the JCMS Teaching Med...

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Also funny to think of Ms Rachel as a creator, though she is creating content outside of traditional channels. I more think of her as my nephew’s celebrity idol.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m an elder millennial AND I have at least a passing familiarity with most of these folks. And I’m a big fan of a few (Anania, in particular, is great). Funny that a list full of lots of young(ish) people and people of color inspires such vitriol in the replies!

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

You also get to pick a cute little avatar that bops around the map! And it works with Apple Car Play!

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every podcast ad I’ve heard this week is for AI and/or weight loss. Every search I’ve tried to do for images or video is full of AI nonsense. I guess this era’s upside is that it’s going to quickly wean me off the internet.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fat jokes about bad people just further associate body size with morality, which hurts all fat people! Who are not more likely to be evil than thin people! And in fact, are more likely to be marginalized in other ways! Why is it so hard to just make jokes about the bad things bad people do?

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was thinking the same thing! Maintenance Phase did an ep a while back arguing pretty much the same thing (the average person doesn’t need to obsess about water intake).

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Great encapsulation of POV + storytelling perspective 🎦

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just did a talk on feminist comedy research at the Lady Laughs Comedy Festival. I think all comedy festivals should start booking academic lectures / we should all start pitching ourselves to them more. Film fests are already good at this.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love shows like Severance and Widow’s Bay and I Love LA…but I also miss shows where the only hook is “some decent people who like each deal with fairly normal problems”

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Watching Lanterns and I was just so sad we won’t have anything like Friday Night Lights ever again.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We need to bring back low concept TV. Low stakes family drama, friends on couches in apartments, workplace banter. I can’t subsist on crimes, superheroes, first responders, and increasingly esoteric spin-offs of The Big Bang Theory.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You would think Amazon would want to take advantage of those of us who just saw The Rivals of Amziah King and wanted to check out Patterson’s first film The Vast of Night, but they took it down and it doesn’t seem to have ever been released on DVD. I really hate the streaming era.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If ya need a slice of something nice today, highly recommend this week’s Hyperfixed. It’s a reminder of the unique role serialized audio plays in people’s lives. Also a good entry point to get into the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/1sZZ...

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ReTell All

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Judging by how many times I’ve seen it shared, I think we all did

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am so very much a secondary source person (I spent last night reading reddit takes about Dropout TV to observe patterns) and I’ve never seen it articulated this way. Great article! defector.com/humanists-ha...

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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yikes, I totally missed this—what did he write?

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We're in the 2nd year of a horrible crime and yet no one will stop "Project Runway" for putting the eliminations at the beginning of an episode. People need to pay.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Not many—usually 2 or 3 at most.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Also a film review by a classics professor crashing the LRB website is cool. It was even covered in the media industry newsletter I subscribe to.

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Mean film reviews are fun when most of the rest of the reviews are glowing! Gives us some fun discourse. With the collapse of film criticism and the rise of access entertainment journalism where everyone is nice all the time—I say we need *more* overtly critical reviews to keep us on our toes.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 27/07/2026

Omg. Omg omg omg. Emily Wilson (as in, the famed translator of Homer) just published her take on Nolan's Odyssey in @lrb.co.uk... and it is SWEET, JUICY HATERADE: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey into iambic pentameter. In at least one interview, he cited my version of the first line of the poem: ‘Tell me about a complicated man.’ But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Oh bummer! I didn’t even know there was a 2013 proshot —i’ll have to do some sleuthing

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