Myles McNutt
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Associate Professor of Media Studies, @ODU ; Editor/Critic, Episodic Medium; #EmptyCupAwards Guy; Canadian.
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#Heartstopper
may be a deeply faithful adaptation, but
@AliceOseman
nonetheless made a range of adjustments—a new crush, a new perspective on a bully, etc,—in telling their own story anew.
So I was thrilled to talk with them about Imogen, Ben, and more.
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I just want to say that Jane Fonda’s presentation of Best Picture was perfect: right amount of pause, great control of her reaction to the envelope where there’s just a HINT of emotion, then a wonderfully nuanced joy as she reads “Parasite” aloud. Truly stellar work.
#Oscars
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I wonder how long they waffled between “Passpawt” and “Pawsport.”
This is Monty. He’s getting his passpawt photo taken but won’t stop making silly faces. Going to be here all day. Still 13/10
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#ToyStory4
thoughts:
1) The existential question of “what counts as a toy?” is an A+ theme that taps into childhood creativity AND allows Disney to merchandise DIY projects.
2) Given that she named what is clearly a spork “Forky,” I am presuming Bonnie is the movie’s villain.
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“Wait, what’s a “procedural miniseries," exactly?”
*Reads on*
“…that is no longer my most pressing question.”
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With six Oscars,
#MadMaxFuryRoad
ties for the most wins by a film that won neither Director nor Picture.
The other?
#StarWars
.
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Two years ago, CBC News erroneously identified me as an Associate Professor (I swear I was clear in the email).
Today, ODU’s Board of Visitors officially approved my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, fulfilling the Canadian Chyron Prophecy.
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The revelation that he was privately fighting this for four years, and watched as his legacy was being established at the same time his health continued to rob him of the legacy he deserved?
A heroic and unfathomable tragedy.
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#TheGoodPlace
Pilot: How is this going to last more than a season?
#TheGoodPlace
Finale: SEASON TWO SOUNDS AMAZING GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
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I’m writing 13 Reasons Why fan fiction, except it’s about how the 13 Reasons Why cast has a group chat where they discuss how in the hell a fake docuseries about dicks and shit offers more resonant commentary on contemporary high school culture than their show.
#AmericanVandal
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@_AlexHirsch
Yeah, sure, but is it a real
#GravityFalls
experience if you don’t wait completely random numbers of weeks between episodes and have no idea when to expect a new episode?
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"OH NO NOT THE DUFFER BROTHERS” said the 5% of Stranger Things viewers who know who the Duffer Brothers are.
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Let’s face facts: Kathleen Kennedy has (essentially) fired a true murderer’s row of White Dudes Who Stumbled Into Blockbuster Success That Twitter Has Turned On, it’s really impressive. What a collection.
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This is chaotic, history-warping behavior
@disneyplus
and you KNOW it’s chaotic, history-warping behavior.
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Here’s what we did. We took a celebrity,
@TiffanyHaddish
, and we surprised her with her hero,
@Oprah
. This is how it went.
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The Director: “The song’s ‘Lost in Japan,’ so maybe we do a ‘Lost in Translation’ riff?”
Label: “Uhhhh, like 1% of his fanbase has seen that movie?”
The Director: “He’ll be in a very small robe.”
Label: “Here’s a blank check, have fun in Japan."
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I wish
@Netflix
would say what's basically true: "We love appearing progressive by supporting marginalized groups with programming but we don't own ODAAT and it's going into a fourth season and it will be cheaper to make a new show instead and hope you forget about this one."
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For those, like me, unwilling to accept the chaos of the viral bracket: An Actually Logical Disney/Pixar Bracket.
Please destroy friendships with this one instead, for the sake of my sanity.
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Anecdotally, my students are super into YOU, and react incredulously when I inform them it existed on Lifetime five months ago. So I believe this.
Joe isn't the only one watching:
@YouNetflix
is on track to be viewed by more than 40 million members in its first four weeks on Netflix!
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@TheAVClub
The real thrill was asserting the place of
@_AlexHirsch
’s
#GravityFalls
in the decade’s best programming.
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Baby Yoda toys won't be ready for a while, but Disney still has plenty of regular Yoda toys
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They paid $5 million for an ad and yet can’t afford a social media manager who understands how @-replies work? C’mon, brands.
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Let’s not let the hair fool us: Laurie is a Logan. Look in your heart. You know it’s true.
Timothée Chalamet in Little Women is 1865 Jess Mariano.
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Dear CBS,
I am writing to request the name of this
#TheGoodFight
extra, so that I might file a lawsuit against them.
#EmptyCupAwards
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Disney’s 2019 has Episode IX, Infinity War Part 2, Toy Story 4, CGI Lion King, and Frozen 2.
Good luck, other studios.
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And both projects are being produced after the death of their ostensible subjects, by the relatives of their straight white contemporaries or the contemporaries themselves, whose primary goal is to valorize themselves or their loved ones for their part in someone else's story.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY & GREEN BOOK are both ostensibly abt a queer genius, but instead foreground the mediocre heterosexuals in their orbit.
Both projects then join these adjuncts in munificently forgiving these men for their indecencies once they are destroyed by their queerness.
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Dear Twitter:
#TheLionKing
has no humans, so we need a term other than “live action” to describe Disney’s latest remake.
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Regardless, super proud to have
@KaceyMusgraves
as my Top Artist of 2018 on
@Spotify
. If you haven’t listened to Golden Hour yet, you still have 28 days to make it YOUR most-listened album of 2018.
#2018Wrapped
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It’s truly insane that HBO Max pivoted from “We need to reshoot and rerelease an entire movie to satisfy fans*” to “We will write off a finished superhero movie and never release it” in less than two years.
*Bots
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Yes, hello, police? I would like to report a vicious assault on me, personally, by the television series
#BoJackHorseman
.
#EmptyCupAwards
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Caught up with
#TheCircle
, which has reinforced how thrilling it is to see people on a reality show that they’ve (more than likely) never seen before. They’re figuring out the game as we are, and stumbling in ways that feel strikingly human.
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Also, just to reiterate from the summer: it is impossible to adapt the second book as written, so I hope they understand a
#ToAllTheBoysIveLovedBefore
sequel needs to look to the third book as its source material.
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I have spent roughly 11 years steadfastly avoiding the dumb U.S. health system, and always worried that I wouldn’t recognize when I was sick to the point I would have to suck it up and figure it out.
In related news: I recognized it. (Twisted intestine. Surgery successful).
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Honestly, let’s invent an award to give Jane Fonda for this performance.
#Oscars
the roar after she announces Parasite asthe winner sounds exactly like the roar when the home team wins a playoff game at the buzzer — everyone fucking loves Parasite — this is beautiful
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Twitter, you need to start your day with this
@sethmeyers
interview with Timothy Olyphant. Just trust me.
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Is September 14 some kind of national holiday I’m not aware of? Because releasing Bojack Season 5 and American Vandal Season 2 on the same day is a CHOICE from Netflix, and feels unprecedented.
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Look at Netflix out here making "we" statements on social media and alluding to a magic number of viewers that
a) They've never revealed
b) They are not required to enforce due to subscription-focused business model
We’ve made the very difficult decision not to renew One Day At A Time for a fourth season. The choice did not come easily — we spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season.
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It is my personal opinion that if Hugh Jackman closed The Music Man to do Deadpool 3, Sutton Foster should be introduced into the MCU as Michelle from Bunheads as retribution for her lost wages.
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The Academy created a solution that made almost zero tangible impact on the broadcast for normal people and irrevocably destroyed their legitimacy with their membership.
Let's keep this a part of tonight's story.
#Oscars
Telecast omitted the part of Eyes of Tammy Faye acceptance speech that talks about the value of below the line filmmakers
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I wrote episodic reviews of the entire first season of
#Heartstopper
for fans and new fans alike, and I hope they prove a productive companion to your journey through the series.
You can find them all collected here:
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The emerging
#SNL
situation is another reminder how much those who decry "cancel culture" fail to distinguish between "censorship" and "certain kinds of comedy should disqualify you from industrial opportunities of this magnitude, there's no shortage of white dudes."
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All of these celebrities coming out in support of Ell*n Deg*neres realize that no one was arguing she was mean to the famous people or audience members she was being paid to appear to like, right?
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I'ma let you finish, because I love Lin citing Dwayne's wrestling promos, but it's microphones. They recorded it with microphones.
Go behind-the-scenes of
#Moana
with
@TheRock
and
@Lin_Manuel
to see how "You're Welcome" was recorded! More here:
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@jowrotethis
Gotta say, I’m not one to judge someone for finding joy in something I didn’t, but when people try to argue this made any modicum of sense I just black out.
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Me earlier: Oh, I’m so glad there’s a live audience for
#JesusChristSuperstarLive
.
Me now:
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#Shameless
may still have one more episode to go, but I couldn't hold back my rage at the disrespect they've shown Lip Gallagher.
He didn't NEED to escape. But he needed a clearer story arc than the mess he's been given.
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PERSONAL NEWS: As I step away from The A.V. Club, I realize no other outlet will ever let me write episodic TV criticism how I write it, or build a community like I want to.
So I'm starting a Substack and asking you to support me creating a space myself.
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Tell me you didn't understand the most successful show on your service without telling me you didn't understand the most successful show on your service.
Breaking:
#Netflix
orders a
#SquidGame
reality show, the "biggest competition series ever," with a record $4.56 million cash prize
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I’m going to avoid the claphands emojis but seriously: Netflix’s business model should not require a broad audience for a program to be valuable and choosing to program in this fashion is antithetical to their claims to being invested in issues of diversity and representation.
Netflix Content VP Cindy Holland On ‘One Day At A Time’: “We Just Couldn’t Find The Broad Audience”
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Osaka’s early loss in tennis and Biles’ withdrawal from the team competition happening on the SAME DAY is a stress test for Sports Journalism that they absolutely will not pass.
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The positions are now clear.
Disney: Sony is cutting Spider-Man out of the MCU because they won’t give us 50% of the franchise that’s only successful because of our involvement.
Sony: Disney won’t let Feige produce our movies anymore, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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Seems like a good week to remind folks that you can support the kind of criticism The A.V. Club is bypassing in favor of A.I. by subscribing to Substacks featuring its former editors and contributors.
For Film:
For TV:
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TFW you see all sorts of tweets about a “bad take on shippers” and you find it and discover the writer who tweeted it worked on the latter seasons of
#Shameless
, which the show may well have never gotten to if not for shippers.
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#TheBabySittersClub
has a premise that could easily coast on charming stories about babysitting but is instead out here like “let’s talk about prejudices against trans youth and Japanese internment camps.”
Peak “Didn’t Have To Go That Hard” Energy. You love to see it.
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I literally just had a full mental breakdown at the fact they just changed laughter to music. I can’t catch my breath. Is this a panic attack?
If music is the best medicine
@WestSideMovie
is the cure for what ails you. Congrats on the
#GoldenGlobe
for Best Picture — Musical/Comedy.
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See? This Myles McNutt person knows what he's talking about. (Thanks,
@constancegrady
. Although I echo the "you do you, Susan Johnson" thing, persuasive as my argument might be, to me, who wrote it.)
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2017 is not going down without a fight.
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This would’ve been a well-written apology the LAST time this discourse (rightly) came for him, but it’s telling it took the Britney doc to inspire this but earlier Janet-focused discourse didn’t.
Justin Timberlake: “I specifically want to apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson...”
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For
@TheAVClub
, I broke down how this week’s
#Survivor
mistook transparency for accountability, betraying the trust of its players and its viewers in its “
#MeToo
Moment.”
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Just to be clear, WB did not campaign
#JudasAndTheBlackMessiah
as a leadless movie. Voters who believed that Stanfield was supporting were simply plentiful enough for him to make the category.
#Oscars
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Because rather than ingratiate himself with audiences and develop personal connections, Corden instead built his brand on his camaraderie with the celebrities on his couch, which created viral content but echoed the widespread reports of his rudeness to “regular people.”
As James Corden says farewell tonight after eight years at The Late Late Show, I wonder: Why aren't more people talking about his departure?
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@CarolineSiede
It is striking a nice equilibrium behind WandaVision’s “let’s create a standalone space to explore grief” and F&TWS’s “pieces moving into place for the future of the MCU."
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TFW you realize the best episode of
#GameOfThrones
' last season—"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," obviously—is submitted for neither Directing nor Writing at the
#Emmys
.
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Me when
@jennafischer
&
@AngelaKinsey
started mentioning my Office reviews on their podcast, in an email: “This is lovely but you should stop at Season 8, it gets messy.”
My narcissism when they stop mentioning me for one singular week in Season 8:
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Six seasons of writing about the show taught me not to expect otherwise, but still: it's a real shame that
#Shameless
went out this way. My
@TheAVClub
review of the
#ShamelessFinale
:
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Did…anyone think it was an accident? Like their finger just slipped and wired Taylor Swift hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” playing over the opening credits of
@PrimeVideo
's limited series "Wilderness" is not by accident — The song was suggested by writer-producer Marnie Dickens, who thought the lyrics matched the storyline perfectly.
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The YouTube algorithm keeps giving me
#TheSociety
social content and none of it includes Grizz and I’m really wondering who dropped the ball here.
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Look, Keri Russell should have won an Emmy for playing Elizabeth Jennings, but doesn’t knowing she’s going to be the first actress to win an Emmy for a GIF make you feel better about it?
#Emmys
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Poor Garrett Clayton doesn't even get to sing the number they added to the movie for Zac Efron? Harsh.
#HairsprayLive
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#ASimpleFavor
is exactly the kind of shotgun-blast of a movie that you should want to see in a movie theater with a large group of people, and so OF COURSE the experience of seeing it in one was a constant reminder of the hellscape that is contemporary moviegoing etiquette.
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This isn't surprising, but notably it's caught up in a larger negotiation between Paramount and Netflix, who are intricately entangled (see: Cloverfield and Annihilation deals, plus Scorsese's Irishman):
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NEITHER OF THESE PHOTOS FEATURES BONES THIS SHOULD BE A PHOTO OF BOOTH AND BONES AND THEN A PHOTO OF BOOTH BEING ALONE AND SAD GET IT TOGETHER PRIME VIDEO I AM A CRACKPOT I KNOW MY TRUTH BUT I AM STILL RIGHT
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Entire trade press cycle identifying him as an anti-vaxxer: silence.
Taylor Swift fans have complicated feelings when he’s in her newest video: this.
Her POWER.
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The
@PeabodyAwards
have posted the full citations for this year's winners, which means we can fully bask in the justice of
#AmericanVandal
's Peabody Award.
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@kvanaren
@poniewozik
“Amazon picks up a multi-season adaptation of the Cones of Dunshire.”
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Me, occasionally: You know, maybe exposure has made me less rage-y about the “Skip Intro” button.
Me, just now, starting
#TheMuppetShow
: I WILL BURN THE SKIP INTRO BUTTON TO THE GROUND HOW DARE YOU
@disneyplus
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I'm grading papers, and if there was one message I could send to undergrads about generating a thesis statement, it's this:
A thesis is not a tease of what you're going to argue in a paper. It is an explicit statement of what you're going to argue.
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Fav if you saw the curb coming. RT if you were convinced the golf cart was going to flip.
#GreaseLive
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