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Last week, I tweeted that although I have never seen Severance and will probably never watch it, that I was sure that it was a bad television show. It is something about its naked need for prestige, the amount of celebrities and gushy fake famous tv actors that populate the show. It's not for me. I will never watch it but I know that I don't need to watch it, since the entire premise is a farce.
However, The Pitt is relentless, intense, unabashedly smart, television. Noah Wyle stars as the charismatic Dr. Robby and his crew is full of compelling people. It might remind you of ER, but where ER contains personal lives and romance, The Pitt does not have time for such things. The Pitt is more interested in how stress makes the personal life take a backseat.
One episode featured an incel son, a sickle cell patient that warns people of the wonders of the sickle cell trait, which is prominently in black communities. Another one featured a runaway being treated for a STD, and then a man who punches one of the nurses, an intern who won't listen. Like, it fucking rules. Great television.
Mar 7, 2025
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I am obsessed with the continuity-style casting of putting Noah Wyle back in the ER. This show is so freaking compelling!
As a nurse, this show is also incredibly realistic to what an ER is actually like. I haven’t tuned in weekly to episodes like this since Shameless and HOTD were coming out !
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I have been sucked into this show and can’t stop watching (even though it deeply stresses me out)
the entire season takes place over one day in an ER and each episode is one hour of the day
Mar 13, 2025
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I never believed in guilty pleasures before but my god, I think I found mine. I never really liked the idea of guilty pleasures because even bad media has something of value even if it's just an emotional comfort to a consumer.
But this show.
The storylines between the cast can be fucking ridiculous. Everyone is insufferable and sex-crazed. Everyone violates HIPPA throughout the show. I fucking hate this Cooper guy with a fucking passion. I don't know if Violet is just as bad as him (I started the show from season 3 just because), but I'm siding with her just because he's that fucking awful.
The show is a trainwreck, but I'm enthusiastically watching it.
P.S. That Gabriel Fife is really attractive and my buoyancy in this sea of craziness. Even though he, too, is a dick.
Jun 3, 2024
- The Pitt bc i like waiting for thursday and tuning in and i like the ups and downs. Dr Mel King is Favorite person ever.
- ER bc i like the pitt but need the 90s Drama at all times
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown I love learning and soaking up information from a real guy. Personal Favorite episodes are The Greek Islands, Iran, Miami and Russia. he’s Fun and comforting and culture from the real People is the only thing that Really matters
- The X Files… Friends and lovers and Aliens. And David Duchovny. #imnotmad
- The Simpsons. It’s Funny And Bright (i’m a season 4-9 girl myself)
- GIVE ME MORE RECS TO GET OUT OF MY 90s SLUMP!!!
Apr 13, 2025
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I'm often accused of being an "old soul", a categorization I vehemently dislike because it pretends as if my taste is because of nostalgia, as opposed to what is actually cool and compelling. (If something cool comes out now, I enjoy it, but we're in a down period when it comes to culture). But, something old about me, is that I do not care at all about TikTok ending, if does happen. If Elon takes it over from the Chinese, you might as well leave anyway, but I'm just worried at why this is a huge deal for people. It's just an app. Another one will be made. TikTok is not culture, it directly flattens culture into these ten second clips that take music, movies --- things that you need to process --- into something that is now consumed by everyone at a rapid pace, not allowing for the nuances, the style, the aesthetics to sit with us.
I have never watched something on TikTok and thought that this is something in that pushing American culture to deeper heights. I am sorry. Now I am sure they're good stuff on the app, but it's not really a necessity. Whenever I hear the words "it's blowing up on TikTok", my mind immediately growls.
I understood why X becoming overrun with Elon bots and right wingers is a big deal; X actually created things, made careers, made American life, and American events available to be seen by everyone. However, TikTok is a corrupt fantasy, chopping at the wires that make physical connection important.
Read a book! Go to the movies! Go to the restaurant of a cuisine that is unheralded, go to a baseball game. Who cares about TikTok?
Jan 14, 2025
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There's something quite startling about Martin Scorsese's 1980's period compared to the rest of his decades as one of America's greatest filmmakers. In the 80's, he was weird, strange, and making weirdly manic films that feel more New York than even some of his movies about the mob. They're movies about characters who aren't glamarous people that they want to be, but rather, are losers who can't seem to correctly fucntion in normal society. They're non-violent sociopaths. I saw The King of Comedy at Metrograph recently, and it's exhilarating, hilarious, manic, and scary. With Jerry Lewis, Bobby De Niro and Sandra Bernhard, Scorsese was able to create a world where incels who are bad at comedy are wishing for fame. Sound familiar?
This is a great movie. In 1983, it was a box office flop. But in 2025, it is magical in how it's telling the future. A future of scam artists who don't want to work to get there, and don't want to sit in their mediocrity: they want to steal to get their fifteen seconds. Go watch this masterpiece.
Jan 28, 2025
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I am a NBA boy at heart, the players who play in the Association are the greatest athletes on the planet, and everyone should check out a piece I wrote on the Knicks: https://jaysonbuford.substack.com/p/the-knicks-are-struggling-to-be-fun
But MARCH MADNESS is here. So, look, college basketball can be overly sentimental, corny, for hick Midwesterns, and it is not the smart league that the NBA is. Imagine watching Nikola Jokic or LeBron James and that not being good enough for you. NBA haters are, like, a bad financial month away from being KKK members, hiding in plain sight.
However, the NCAA Tournament objectively rules. It shows games every day, every hour, non-stop, teams that you would normally not see play, and upsets, upsets that break your bracket. Upsets happen because mid-major teams get better throughout the year, especially when they play tougher competition before the conference schedules start. It's awesome to when they pull off a shocking upset.
The games are on all day! watch them! BA BA BA BA BASKETBAKLL, GIMME GIMME GIMME THE BALL CAUSE I'M GONNA DUNK IT
Mar 20, 2025