Phillip Maciak

TV critic @newrepublic // writing DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) // teaching @wustl // buy my book AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME!

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

Hey, I got a screenshot for you. I'm writing a cultural history of the DAD! @DuttonBooks @jillschwartzman

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Just so we’re clear.

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

@BigMeanInternet I don’t know about single volumes, but Lynn Spigel’s Make Room for TV, Jane Feuer’s Seeing Through the 80s, Amanda Lotz’s Television will be Revolutionized, and AJ Christian’s Open TV will sketch out a lot of the arc, historically.

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

@RichardvReeves @newrepublic Hey, thanks!

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

@notjadedpunk @DuttonBooks @jillschwartzman Thanks!

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

Hey, I got a screenshot for you. I'm writing a cultural history of the DAD! @DuttonBooks @jillschwartzman

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

@LukeEpplin @DuttonBooks @jillschwartzman Thanks!

[Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin]

Here's some of what I wrote this year that I really enjoyed: My review of Kara Swisher's (bad) memoir for @thebafflermag that touches on the limits of tech journalism informed by access journalism https://t.co/BZEY12ED0V

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

The O’Douls version

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

And here it is. Desperation is the brand. https://t.co/78vcBuGG7h

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

When I was a kid, I used to laugh so hard at SNL that I puked. I would full-body heave so much that I would have to run into the laundry room and throw up.

Anyway, today, for the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE(!), I got to write about SNL, a show I (we) grew up with.

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

@steffantriplett @jaminlin @aishasabslo Holy moley! What an honor — thank you!

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

I wanted to write about the state of the spin-off, so I took the occasion of DUNE: PROPHECY — a show set in the normiest nook of the freakiest cinematic universe — to do it.

For @newrepublic https://t.co/rfTMvHjGFu

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

This is an important comment. Dems listen too much to "the groups" is being coded as an anti-leftwing view, but it's about a broader culture of coalitional cowardice that often doesn't have a strong ideological view one way or the other. It just doesn't want anyone inside the tent to be too upset.

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

I wrote about FX's electric IRA crime saga SAY NOTHING and the limits of ambition in the Limited Series Era, for @newrepublic https://t.co/k1skXMsuGi

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

how can reading be a privilege when that’s what allows me to constantly see these fuck ass posts

[Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak]

For all my fans*

*the people who liked that one tweet I did about how Somebody Somewhere is better than Succession, but who also were only kind of tepid in their support of the actual essay I wrote about that show

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Interesting essay from @moetkacik on the Billionaire Purges, which connects the post-Gaza clampdown on protest and alignment with Trump to break the Biden admin shift in corporate enforcement.
https://t.co/rvUJ5MrYEr

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

This guy any chance he gets

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

I see, the slogans weren't simple enough, they needed to confuse the voters—that's how you win!