Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
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DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
https://linktr.ee/phillip.maciak
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
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Phillip Maciak
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
· Apr 16
I'm writing a cultural history of the DAD! With Plume! Get ready for Father's Day 2027, friends! This is what's happening now! @duttonbooks.bsky.social
Task Rabbits alert: I spy State Trooper Lizzie Stover in this trailer!
New ‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: Emerald Fennell’s Latest With Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi Hits Theaters Next Valentine’s Day
New ‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: Emerald Fennell’s Latest With Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi Hits Theaters Next Valentine’s Day
With “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn,” Emerald Fennell swiftly became one of the industry’s hottest new female directors. But her follow-up to those two films, a new take on a classic and beloved Emily Brontë novel, may define Fennell’s legacy, and whether she’ll remain a major Hollywood voice.
READ MORE: ‘Wuthering Heights’: Jacob Elordi Says Emerald Fennell’s Agonizing Adaptation Is “Painfully Beautiful” And Will “Obliterate Your Heart”
That’s because Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” is full of bold choices, like Margot Robbie playing a character who’s a teenager in Brontë’s novel.
Continue reading New ‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: Emerald Fennell’s Latest With Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi Hits Theaters Next Valentine’s Day at The Playlist.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Task Rabbits alert: I spy State Trooper Lizzie Stover in this trailer!
Like a third of the top 100 films of the 21st century are Vines.
The thing about bringing Vine back now is the place it filled in the market has been completely demolished. Vine could only exist in the time Vine existed
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored f...
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Like a third of the top 100 films of the 21st century are Vines.
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it's good that there'll be a formal and (hopefully) functional archive of old Vines, but for Dorsey to do this nearly 10 years after he himself killed Vine and allowed TikTok to swallow up the short-form-video market right after after is, well,
The thing about bringing Vine back now is the place it filled in the market has been completely demolished. Vine could only exist in the time Vine existed
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch
Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restored f...
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
it's good that there'll be a formal and (hopefully) functional archive of old Vines, but for Dorsey to do this nearly 10 years after he himself killed Vine and allowed TikTok to swallow up the short-form-video market right after after is, well,
I have a review of Matthew Rhys and Claire Danes' THE BEAST IN ME in the hopper and en route to you soon. But, meantime, if you're looking for a show that does what this show is trying to do but meaningfully better, and that maybe you haven't seen yet: DAMAGES is streaming on hulu right this minute.
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have a review of Matthew Rhys and Claire Danes' THE BEAST IN ME in the hopper and en route to you soon. But, meantime, if you're looking for a show that does what this show is trying to do but meaningfully better, and that maybe you haven't seen yet: DAMAGES is streaming on hulu right this minute.
Morey got this idea from @rtrspodcast.bsky.social, confirmed.
Jared McCain has been assigned to the Delaware Blue Coats, per Sixers.
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Morey got this idea from @rtrspodcast.bsky.social, confirmed.
MAD MEN dropping its back catalog on Netflix while it was still on the air is an underrated event in the history of the streaming boom, I think.
Hey, look! Something is actually being *added* to the HBO Max library. And it's Mad Men finally in 4K!
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
MAD MEN dropping its back catalog on Netflix while it was still on the air is an underrated event in the history of the streaming boom, I think.
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
This, by Becca Rothfeld, is terrific. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Review | A conservative argues we need to value ‘women as women.’ But what does that mean?
Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women “as women” is a start
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This, by Becca Rothfeld, is terrific. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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if everything is going to be this bleak and sad it's nice to see the news peppered with little slices of life like jeffrey epstein emailing himself a file called "genuiis_____ideas (3).txt" that just says stuff like "microchup. = brain ? "
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
if everything is going to be this bleak and sad it's nice to see the news peppered with little slices of life like jeffrey epstein emailing himself a file called "genuiis_____ideas (3).txt" that just says stuff like "microchup. = brain ? "
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ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...
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Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
I think somebody should make a hallucinatory paranoid biopic of Nico Harrison in the style of Oliver Stone's NIXON.
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I think somebody should make a hallucinatory paranoid biopic of Nico Harrison in the style of Oliver Stone's NIXON.
I assume this movie is about Miranda Priestley laying off two-thirds of the staff of Runway after it's bought by a private equity group called, like, Dusk River Capital Partners or something.
Everything is the aughts again.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 | Teaser Trailer
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November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I assume this movie is about Miranda Priestley laying off two-thirds of the staff of Runway after it's bought by a private equity group called, like, Dusk River Capital Partners or something.
Hats off to Larry Summers' absolutely psychotic, but also plausibly literary, email-writing style. Should he write a novel-in-fragments? I don't know.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Hats off to Larry Summers' absolutely psychotic, but also plausibly literary, email-writing style. Should he write a novel-in-fragments? I don't know.
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hard to not be a doomer about this tbh!
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
hard to not be a doomer about this tbh!
Somebody already said MAD MEN s5, so I'll say THE LEFTOVERS s2.
Name your fav season of TV
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Somebody already said MAD MEN s5, so I'll say THE LEFTOVERS s2.
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What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business
I learned many surprising lessons from my 20 months as editor-in-chief of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
The Warriors are bringing back this Oakland-centric design for their City Edition uniforms this year. Do Warriors fans in the East Bay like this? Does it feel condescending? Disingenuous? Or, like, nice? cc: @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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Golden State Warriors 2025 City Edition 59FIFTY Fitted Hat
The Golden State Warriors 2025 City Edition 59FIFTY Fitted Cap features an embroidered Warriors City Edition logo at the front panels with a logo at the right-wear side. Additional details include the...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Warriors are bringing back this Oakland-centric design for their City Edition uniforms this year. Do Warriors fans in the East Bay like this? Does it feel condescending? Disingenuous? Or, like, nice? cc: @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
www.neweracap.com/products/gol...
www.neweracap.com/products/gol...
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So...NYTimes' Dealbook conference has panel, "Journalism Interrupted," w/Charlamagne Tha God, Jon Favreau, Amna Nawaz, David Remnick, Stephanie Ruhle, Andrew Schulz, and Ben Shapiro. Less than half these people are actually professional journalists. https://loom.ly/rADC3Sk
The New York Times Announces Lineup at Annual DealBook Summit on Dec. 3 | The New York Times Company
The New York Times today revealed the lineup for the 2025 DealBook Summit taking place on Dec. 3 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The live journalism event will be hosted by Andrew Ross…
www.nytco.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
So...NYTimes' Dealbook conference has panel, "Journalism Interrupted," w/Charlamagne Tha God, Jon Favreau, Amna Nawaz, David Remnick, Stephanie Ruhle, Andrew Schulz, and Ben Shapiro. Less than half these people are actually professional journalists. https://loom.ly/rADC3Sk
ICYMI: I wrote, for @newrepublic.com, about how THE CHAIR COMPANY is about a conspiracy of love.
THE CHAIR COMPANY is a high-surrealist critique of the dehumanization of work and a portrait of fragile humanity.
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
It's also better than Severance. There, I said it.
For @newrepublic.com:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
“The Chair Company” Is a Horror Show About The Workplace
Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s new show is distinctly more surreal and uncanny than “Severance.”
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ICYMI: I wrote, for @newrepublic.com, about how THE CHAIR COMPANY is about a conspiracy of love.
Congratulations to Bari Weiss, the new General Manager of the Dallas Mavericks!
Good riddance to Nico Harrison, the personification of everything that’s going on. Blew up something good because he didn’t understand it and it didn’t conform to his vision of toughness. One of the clearest pictures of Everyone Is 12 Now ever produced. Untold damage to my psyche. Enjoy podcasting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Congratulations to Bari Weiss, the new General Manager of the Dallas Mavericks!
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Why, did he do something wrong
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Why, did he do something wrong
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."