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Phillip Maciak

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TV critic @newrepublic // writing @nytmag @nymag too // teaching @wustl // dad culture studies // buy my book AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME!

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Joined February 2011
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If you like Twin Peaks & WandaVision, Scrooge McDuck & LeBron James, FaceTime & Vine, UFOs & Betty Draper & the app that tells you about the stars when you point your phone at the sky, then... ...pre-order my book AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME today!
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RT @bigblackjacobin: Here's some of what I wrote this year that I really enjoyed: My review of Kara Swisher's (bad) memoir for @thebafflerm
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RT @Steven_Hyden: The O’Douls version
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And here it is. Desperation is the brand.
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@steffantriplett @jaminlin @aishasabslo Holy moley! What an honor — thank you!
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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
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RT @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…
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I wrote about FX's electric IRA crime saga SAY NOTHING and the limits of ambition in the Limited Series Era, for @newrepublic
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RT @BrandyLJensen: how can reading be a privilege when that’s what allows me to constantly see these fuck ass posts
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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
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RT @ddayen: Interesting essay from @moetkacik on the Billionaire Purges, which connects the post-Gaza clampdown on protest and alignment wi…
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RT @BaileyCarlin: This guy any chance he gets
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RT @dan_olinger: THE YABUSELE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED
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RT @EoinHiggins_: I see, the slogans weren't simple enough, they needed to confuse the voters—that's how you win!
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RT @DeebsFLA: HOW OLD ARE THESE FUCKING MONKEYS?!?
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Lot of stuff circulating right now about the "Manosphere" — does anybody have any reading recs for specifically the way fatherhood is talked about in those spaces?
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RT @HeerJeet: Walz stopped with the "weird" stuff (or radically scaled it back) because the Harris campaign was taken over by Biden alumni,…
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RT @JADubin5: Again, this is why Inside the NBA going away is not as bad a thing as many people think it is. Having people with authority l…
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@gerrycanavan Look upon my memes, ye mighty
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The finale of Cuarón’s DISCLAIMER is like when David Brent from The Office tells a misogynist joke and then looks at the camera and says, “sexist.” All that skill, all that acting talent, in service of the smuggest Shaggy Dog story you’ve ever heard.
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