Sean T. Collins

💀All of the horror TV series/seasons below get the STC weekend-binge seal of approval: Channel Zero S1-4 The Terror S1/S3 Them S1-2 Dead Ringers Brand New Cherry Flavor Crystal Lake Widow's Bay Cape Fear It: Welcome to Derry Monster S1-4 Midnight Mass The Fall of the House of Usher The Stand (1994)

Cooper, Audrey, and Diane's storylines all reach their climaxes in the antepenultimate episode of Twin Peaks Season 3, to an alternately euphoric and punishing emotional effect. My review is up at @popheist.com — gift link, but subscribe! I poured a lot into this one.

I think the country is full of people like this, decent people who behave decently and teach others to do the same; and that these people look at participants in the regime, who flaunt their indecency, the way Kurt Russell looked at the Thing.

well i'll be god fucking damned, it fully broke through.

My son was suspended from school for giving another student a "pigjob" and now we're all sitting around the empty dinner table as a family with our palms flat on the surface staring at nothing in particular in silence. It is understood none of us will ever ask what the word means.

Cooper, Audrey, and Diane's storylines all reach their climaxes in the antepenultimate episode of Twin Peaks Season 3, to an alternately euphoric and punishing emotional effect. My review is up at @popheist.com — gift link, but subscribe! I poured a lot into this one.

"The thousand injuries of Grover Elmo had borne as Elmo best could, but when he ventured upon insult Elmo vowed revenge."

I feel like this is is potentially a very useful Twin Peaks screenshot

minor problem with the Twin Peaks review, will be back shortly

"DJ Shadow talks about all your favorite shit" okay I'm in

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

the "Unshaken" part of Red Dead Redemption 2

Schumer, Gillibrand, Jeffries, the state Democratic party, all of them thought to themselves "we'd prefer to distance ourselves from the hugely popular Democratic politician." Canny Kathy Hochul thought to herself "actually, popularity is good"

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

I feel like… this is just… the ad?

Why does every interview with a WWE Superstar sound like the testimonials people in the Party give in 1984 after they've been broken in Room 101

Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper at the sheriff’s station.

Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly have signed an endorsement deal with DraftKings

Death to Fascism

Voted early. Bruce Blakeman burn in hell

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly have signed an endorsement deal with DraftKings

This week's MobLand wonders if enjoying violence versus merely being very good at it is a distinction without a difference.

"You've gotten so big!" Crystal Lake is a scream. I reviewed all eight episodes, including the finale

The Lowdown is so funny, and the nervous energy of Betty Gilpion's character is just making it funnier. (Gift link!)

Welcome to STC Sunday Morning! From "I've Been Loving You Too Long" to "Goodbye, Margaret," I wrote about Twin Peaks: The Return Part 15, one of the most moving episodes of television I've ever seen, for @popheist.com. (Gift link!)

🎶 Lula of the Nine Fingers and the Ring of Doom 🎶

Death to Fascism

Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff. n.pr/48eAvU9

The essay that we wrote on THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS for Criterion's 4k release is now online. This is a piece about Jame Gumb that addresses how the transgender perception of the character was formed. criterion-v2.herokuapp.com/current/post...

Today at @popheist.com, Heistoween continues as @austingorton.bsky.social celebrates the Crestwood House monster books! I spent SO much time with these in my school library, and there's a good chance you did too.

do yourself a favor and click through this to see what it's replying to

Slavoj Vivek's The Pervert's Guide to Campaigning