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5 Favorite Episodes: 2022

It’s time for my longest-standing End of Year tradition: highlighting my favorite episodes of the year.Film is an in-and-out trip, while TV stays in our lives for day-long bingethons, weeks, and years as seasons stretch on. Episodes are the smallest unit of TV, and at their best they tell stories that are both indivi...

2022: One Show For Every Kind of TV Viewer

I’m not a big fan of Top 10 Lists. Even when there’s this much TV, you end up with a lot of lists that look the same, and they all kind of assume a specific viewer. But there’s a fundamental problem with that task—not everybody watches TV for the same reasons.Some people watch TV to be transported, some want co...

2022 Year End Extravaganza!

Hey, hi, hello!Every year I like to take the last week before New Years looking back at the year in TV, and all this week I’m going to have End of The Year content for you beautiful people here.Tues 12/27: One Show for Every TV ViewerWed 12/28: 5 Favorite Episodes of the YearThurs 12/29: One Manic Minute on Every Sho...

What is The White Lotus a satire of, exactly?

Set on a luxurious Hawaiian resort, the first season of The White Lotus took aim at imperialism and colonialism. The second traveled to Sicily, and its attention to sexual relationships. At first glance these feel like totally separate conversations, but I don't think they are.What is it that ties the colonial them...

December 2022 Patreon Update/Newsletter

Hey Skip Introthusiasts!If you’re reading this, that’s because you are a patron! This channel would not be possible without your amazing support, and it certainly wouldn’t be as well-researched and in-depth. Thank you for doing that, it’s really nice! And kind! And nice!Every month I try to put out a newsletter...

THERE'S TOO MUCH TV - Roundup November 2022

“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.I don’t have time to do full conversations on everything I’m watching but here are some stray thoughts on everything I’ve watched in the last month. I’ve also been requested to include content warn...

The Politics of Nostalgia | TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Top Gun: Maverick's nostalgia isn't just a sweet treat for fans of the franchise. The nostalgia is the whole point, one that has something powerful to say.This video will be going out to the public today, I'm sorry I didn't get it to you guys that early, but I do have an interview with an expert about t...

November Mailbag/Q&A

Hey everybody!Hit me with your questions! Ask me about anything: Copaganda, Mike Flanagan, House of The D, Rings of Power, Top Gun, the existential pain of being alive. Ask me things, that's what this is all about. If you don't ask me any good questions, I'll just spend the whole time thinking of questions ...

November 2022 Patreon Update/Newsletter

Hey Skip Introverts!If you’re reading this, that’s because you are a patron! This channel would not be possible without your amazing support, and it certainly wouldn’t be as well-researched and in-depth. Thank you for doing that, it’s really nice!Every month I try to put out a newsletter like this one, updating...

THERE'S TOO MUCH TV - Roundup October 2022

“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.I don’t have time to do full conversations on everything I’m watching but here are some stray thoughts on everything I’ve watched in the last month. I’ve also been requested to include content warn...

The Editing Philosophy of Mike Flanagan's Horror

A breakdown of the editing and philosophy of The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Midnight Club, and Midnight Massaka Flanganabonanza

October Livestream AMA

Hey everybody!Hit me with your questions! Ask me about anything: The PAW Patrol video, The Rehearsal, my research process, or any of those shows in the Roundup. Ask me things, that's what this is all about. If you don't ask me any good questions, I'll just spend the whole time thinking of questions to ask y...

October 2022 Patreon Update/Newsletter

Hey Skip Introverts!If you’re reading this, that’s because you are a patron! This channel would not be possible without your amazing support, and it certainly wouldn’t be as well-researched and in-depth. Thank you for doing that, it’s really nice!Every month (other than last month, shh) I put out a newsletter l...

A Portrait of Anxiety — The Rehearsal

Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal on HBO is one of the greatest pieces of art I've seen on TV, because of the way it paints a portrait of social anxiety on multiple levels.

THERE'S TOO MUCH TV - Roundup September 2022

“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.I don’t have time to do full conversations on everything I’m watching but here are some stray thoughts on everything I’ve watched in the last month. I’ve also been requested to include content warn...

Patron Check-in

Hey everybody! Lots of new faces here from the PAW Patrol video, so first of all thank you!I want to provide more perks to you all here on Patreon since there's no way I would have been able to do some of the huge projects I've taken on in the last year without you (Jon Stewart 1, Jon Stewart 2, and PAW Patrol)...

September Livestream AMA

Hey everybody!Hit me with your questions! Ask me about anything: The PAW Patrol video, my research process, or any of those shows in the Roundup. Hell, ask me about something else, make up your own mind. What, do you want me to ask and answer all the questions? Pull your own weight!I'll post the link here as always...

THERE'S TOO MUCH TV - Roundup August 2022

“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.I don’t have time to do full conversations on everything I’m watching but here are some stray thoughts on everything I’ve watched in the last month. I’ve also been requested to include content warn...

The Paw Patrol Video | Copaganda 10

It's the PAW Patrol video. It's long.YouTube checks haven't finished yet and there might be some tinkering left to do but thank you all for your tremendous patience. Enjoy.

August 2022 Update/Newsletter

Hey everybody!Bit of a different update/newsletter this month. Because I took a short vacation at the beginning of the month and because I'm 100% locked into the PAW Patrol video, we haven't done the Q&A yet. In order to get back to the beginning of the month, I'm going to skip August and try to get the PAW...

THERE'S TOO MUCH TV - Roundup July 2022

Thank you all so much for your patience as I work on the PAW Patrol video (the script is currently 23 pages). In the meantime, enjoy the monthly roundup!“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living. I don’t have time to do full conversations on eve...

July 2022 AMA

LINK: https://youtu.be/sMh8oTL1zmASorry again for the technical difficulties but thanks for all your great questions! You can watch my answers at the link above!Hit me with your questions, fire awayyy!!Ask me about police dogs, PAW Patrol, good TV shows, bad TV shows, the meaning of life, or anything else!I'll post...

July 2022 Patreon Update/Newsletter

Hey Skip Introthusiasts! (I kinda like the ring of that one)I’m hard at work on the PAW PATROL VIDEO!!!!Yeah that’s right. After what feels like decades of teasing, I’m deep in the weeds of researching and watching what might possibly be the single worst television show I’ve ever seen in my life.I was reading a...

THERE'S TOO MUCH TV - Roundup June 2022

“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.I don’t have time to do full conversations on everything I’m watching but here are some stray thoughts on everything I’ve watched in the last month. I’ve also been requested to include content warn...

Irresistible Livestream

Hey all!I'll be going live for a watchalong of Jon Stewart's 2020 movie about the 2016 election "Irresistible" at 5:30 PM PST tonight!https://www.twitch.tv/jackapnCome watch with me!

June 2022 AMA

Put your questions here! Ask me anything! Future projects, what I think of Severance or other shows, how I'm coping with the finality of the Celtics 2021-22 season, why I sometimes call these Q&As and other times AMAs, or current events and the way they're covered in the media—anything really!They don't e...

June 2022 Newsletter

Hello Skip Introists!If you’re reading this, that’s because you are a patron! It’s your support that allows me to keep the channel going and produce the videos that you’re passionate about (and get access to that sweet, sweet bonus content). Thank you for doing that, it’s really nice! Every month I put out a ...

Update!

Hey everybody!I was planning on setting up the Q&A for this Sunday but I unfortunately have Covid and it is kicking my ass (thank goodness for Pfizer or it'd be so much worse). Sorry for the delay but I'll put the new schedule in a newsletter next week!Thanks for your patience!Jackson

The Unsettling Spaces of SEVERANCE [No Spoilers]

Severance on AppleTV+ is not so subtly about capitalism, but it leaves a lot of its most powerful critiques to an unlikely source — set design.

THERE'S TOO MUCH TV - Roundup May 2022

“What are you watching?” is pretty much the automatic question I get when I tell people what I do for a living.I don’t have time to do full conversations on everything I’m watching but here are some stray thoughts on everything I’ve watched in the last month. I’ve also been requested to include content warn...