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Liz Shannon Miller

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Sr. Entertainment Editor at Consequence, writer of other stuff. I like space battles, videos of cats, old-school funk, and the Oxford comma. Still wearing a mask at the movies. She/her.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · Dec 14

ICYMI, I write a newsletter of streaming film and TV recommendations — it is called Stream On and I work hard to find cool stuff to feature each week. Please subscribe here: consequenceofsound.activehosted.com/f/82

And you can check out what it looks like here: consequence.net/best-new-sho...

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Stream On: What to Watch This Weekend

The Stream On newsletter attempts to help you answer that eternally confounding question: What films and TV shows should you be watching?

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Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 1h

Greil Marcus talking about what criticism is. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Question to Greil Marcus: "What is the purpose of criticism?"

Greil's answer: My next book is about Bryan Ferry, the leader of the band Roxy Music. Now, you listen to a song like Roxy Music’s “More Than This” and you say, what makes this so great? How did that happen? What is going on here? That’s what criticism is, just wrestling with your response to something. That thing where someone has captured a moment so completely that you sort of fall back in awe. That’s what I’ve been doing my whole life as a writer. There is this urge to, not exactly take possession of something, but to become a part of it to some small degree.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 21h

you beat me to it

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 22h

The live-action #HowToTrainYourDragon is now on Peacock. I a) almost entirely forgot it exists b) almost entirely forgot how mad I was at it in my review! consequence.net/2025/06/how-...

The New How to Train Your Dragon Is an Existential Crisis for Live-Action Remakes: Review

Despite barely changing anything from the original movie, this remake is almost 30 minutes longer. HOW?

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 1d

it's true

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 1d

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 1d

Liz's Good Time Video Game Blog and Hot Take Emporium, coming to your internets in 2028.

Carli Velocci👽 @carlivelocci.com · 1d

I can't wait for the day when all video game podcasts and websites run out of video game terminology and can't come up with a title.

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zoya the destroyer @sophiahelix.bsky.social · 1d

I am 100% certain Drake will appeal the dismissal just because we need to get to the stupidest timeline, in which we have to read a Clarence Thomas decision in favor of fucking Drake

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 1d

DYING at this

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1d

I for one think it's sweet that they're giving newborn babies WSJ bylines

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 1d

(maybe this writer mentioned that in the article. I ain't gonna click to find out)

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 1d

what's so funny about this is that Johnny Cash's depiction in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is basically Poochie without the skateboard and more drunk driving

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1d

I know pulling this quote is borderline hackwork at this point but Jesus fucking CHRIST

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 2d

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 3d

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 2d

looking to talk to people in film/TV production about AI. DM me or contact britt [dot] h at movieweb [dot] com.

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Meghan O'Keefe @megsokay.bsky.social · 2d

Just learned POLDARK is now streaming on Netflix. In addition to being a very silly, sexy soap opera featuring a shirtless Aidan Turner scything in a field, it's also got a fun ANDOR connection. Where else can you watch a young Kyle Soller play the feckless nephew of the O.G. Mon Mothma?

Caroline Blakiston (aka OG Mon Mothma) as Aunt Agatha at dinner with Kyle Soller (aka Syril Karn) as Francis Poldark in POLDARK

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Rick Porter @rickporter.bsky.social · 2d

Parker Posey as UNC grad Victoria Ratliff in The White Lotus

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 3d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 2d

I'd just say ease into things. Make a few new friends, rediscover old ones, see what people are talking about.

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Zach Wilson @televisionaryzw.bsky.social · 3d

Classic TV streaming alert: A trio of short lived but well remembered sitcoms are now streaming on Roku. Specifically The Naked Truth, Action and Sledge Hammer!

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 3d

have you found a good percentage of your people here yet? I found that the transition got a lot easier once I did that

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 3d

"hey boss I need a raise"
"why, cost of living issues?"
"...yeah, sure."

ad for the john fluevog/starfleet academy boots going on pre-sale Oct. 9th

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The Magical Merchant @thetillshow.blacksky.app · 3d

Black baseball players >>>>>

Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 3d

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 3d

"This will definitely come in handy in 15 years when I record a video review talking about the third movie in the series, a movie in which Gillian Anderson gets to frown disapprovingly at Jared Leto!" — Liz Shannon Miller, San Diego, 2010

Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 3d

nothing like the triumph of finding the Flynn's Arcade T-shirt I got at Comic-Con 2010 so I can record my video review of #TRONAres in style!

(I recall working hard for this shirt. ARG-esque hijinks were involved.)

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