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PhD, not MD, tweeting about television, movies, art, and other visual media. All views mine. Frequently flippant. Possibly spoiler-laden. he/him/his.

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Streaming TV to keep my mind from despair. I finished this week’s episode of @cwsupermanlois through @TheCW’s app and, as the credits rolled, it suggested a follow-up title, the 1980s comedy Too Close for Comfort. If that’s not the theme of the day, I have no idea what is.

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Severely behind on this season of @cwsupermanlois—only starting tonight and really not loving it after two episodes. I definitely hope there’s a way they turn this around, but, not being a comics reader, I have no idea how. Certainly can’t be the Justice League film way, right?

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Season three definitely had a considerable pendulum swing of emotions. I’m choosing to focus on something that unites the whole: Charlie and Nick’s oft-repeated introspection: “why are we like this?” I think we should all be asking ourselves that more often. 3/3

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Like many, I spent part of the weekend binge watching the third season of #Heartstopper. I only know the Netflix adaptation and had, with the first two seasons, felt the weltschmerz of remembering my own adolescence while watching what it could’ve been... 1/x

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…if I had been fortunate enough to be born into this semi-fictional world. I think Mr. Farouk is the character who stands in for people like me and I’m as happy for him finding fulfillment as I am for all the others and their individual journeys. 2/x

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Hey @netflix, really enjoying Nobody Wants This, 2.5 episodes in. It was a fairly strong likelihood, though, with Adam Brody. 😍 But who does your closed captions? Because tourists for tsuris is almost as bad as avarice for amorous, as far as errors in the CC go.

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I know I’m exceptionally late to viewing this, but today felt like the day to begin the final season of #TheCrown. Wow. The writing really speaks volumes about British sensibilities. I had hoped to find episode recaps on @tomandlorenzo, but I suspect they’d confirm my feelings.

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Beautiful surprise to come to the end of this week’s episode of @TheRingsofPower and find the voice of my beloved @rufuswainwright.

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And four episodes later, a line no one could forget: “You got a little schmutz here on your S.”

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While everyone else is focused on real-life superhuman acts at the #Olympics2024, I’ve been revisiting Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman on @StreamOnMax. 1000% not a read, but this series is to Superman as the 1960s live-action version with Adam West is to Batman.

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And now, one I remember vividly: S2 E14, otherwise known as the one where Raquel Welch’s character tries to kill Superman with a kiss, using Kryptonite lipstick.

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I’ve also devoured the most current/final/ongoing seasons of #StarTrekDiscovery, #InterviewwiththeVampire, #GoodOmens, #RuPaulsDragRaceAllStars, as well as the following films: #Saltburn, #RedWhiteandRoyalBlue, #MyPoliceman, and #GoodGrief. More to come, surely. 2/x

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Because going to Pride manages only over to make me feel more invisible and worse about myself, this year I’m staying home and consuming as much queer media as possible. So far, I’ve binged the entirety of #Euphoria, #PalmRoyale, #DantesCove, and #DeadBoyDetectives. 1/x

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To whichever marketing and computer programming cross-promotional geniuses that turned the progress cursor for the new season of #InterviewwiththeVampire on @AMC_TV as it aired on @YouTubeTV into a coffin, I tip my hat.

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I’ve been rewatching #Hacks from the beginning. I had forgotten how much I need whatever is Deborah Vance injected directly into my bloodstream. Jean Smart is everything. Then @StreamOnMax app errors and unavailable notices. Not cool.

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Huh. Neither. Underwhelming.

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On every season of #DragRace that has aired in a presidential election year, there has been a political debate or ad challenge.

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Seriously, this scene is all the proof anyone needs: https://t.co/NGFJdqEGod

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I can die now. Harriet Sansom Harris liked one of my tweets. 💀

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I’ve been a fan since The Five Mrs. Buchanans and ever so much more since Frasier and Desperate Housewives.

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Rewatching Star Trek: Discovery in advance of the final season in April. Not much identifiable art to see, but I’m struck by Stamets reminding Culber of his eagerness to share de Koonings at the Met (I hope he meant Elaine) and Saru citing Giotto. Trek+art=happy nerd.

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I’ve been woefully remiss in not applauding @PlutoTV sooner for launching a Dynasty channel. It’s so good. I just wish they could feather in episodes of The Colbys and include the reunion miniseries that concluded everything.