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Carrie sits across from a giant stuffed toy with a huge tomato for a head at a Japanese restaurant in a scene from And Just Like That.

I’m So Bored, I Could Die

By Natasha Ochshorn • September 16th, 2025

And Just Like That… is a show that often feels in my brain the same way scrolling on the internet does.

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Detail from a drawing of an opulent hotel framed by palm fronds, fruit, and other lush vegetation.

The Listeners Draws a Line at Naziism

By Natasha Ochshorn • August 13th, 2025

You cannot accommodate Nazis without tainting any good you try to accomplish.

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A still from Mountainhead shows the four main characters arm-in-arm in day-glo orange ski coats on the side of a snowy mountain.

Mountainhead

By Natasha Ochshorn • July 8th, 2025

The bros up at Mountainhead are going to leave their bodies behind.

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Diego Luna looks pensively off into the distance in a scene from Andor.

What Are We Talking About When We’re Talking About Star Wars?

By Natasha Ochshorn • June 10th, 2025

The depiction of fascism in Andor, – its annihilating possibilities, its pervasiveness, its seductions towards complicity – feel extrapolated from the present moment, terrifyingly. Its rebellion feels hopefully so.

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The main foursome in Halt and Catch Fire pose in a promo pic for the final season of the show.

Programming Romance

By Natasha Ochshorn • May 8th, 2025

AI will get to know you, or at least predict your shopping habits, but you cannot get to know it back.

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Saruman evilly ponders his orb in this still from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings.

No One Has Actually Read Lord of the Rings

By Natasha Ochshorn • April 16th, 2025

It is really easy to lie about having read a book that many people are familiar with but many fewer accurately remember.

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A still from Buffy the Vampire Slayer shows the titular heroine clutching a wooden stake with a determined look on her face.

Buffy Reboot

By Natasha Ochshorn • March 12th, 2025

Stage and film actors have been “remaking” Shakespeare for over 400 years and no one has a problem with it if the production is good. I’m kidding, people have a problem with everything.

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