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He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III. https://alansepinwall.ghost.io

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 25d

Some news: yesterday was my last at Rolling Stone. For now, I'm going solo, doing all my TV reviewing, recapping, etc., at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing. Many more details here:

Don't stop believing

Some news, as they say

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 7h

Keaton was an excellent director. Not her fault that she was handed one of the worst Twin Peaks scripts. (Which Eric knows, too.)

Eric Goldman @theericgoldman.bsky.social · 8h

Directed by Diane Keaton

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 10h

I grew up on all of Keaton's work with Woody Allen. (Sleeper was played *often* in my house.) I'd be sad that so many great performances by her are in movies I have zero interest in ever watching again if it wasn't for Baby Boom, Reds, The Godfathers, Something's Gotta Give, and many others.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 11h

Find someone who loves you like Brian loves Diane Keaton as a basketball playing nun on The Young Pope.

Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 11h

RIP Diane Keaton

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 12h

Unsolicited Wick pick

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 12h

One of Keaton’s first screen roles was in an episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. In 2011 she made an HBO pilot playing a thinly-disguised Nikki Finke, but it didn’t get picked up. Her only regular TV role was on Young Pope.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 13h

Just this morning, I was listening to you. Talk about her in Love and Death. She was the best.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 13h

The late, great Diane Keaton in The Godfather Part II

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts on a hugely frustrating season (series?) finale of Peacemaker:

Peacemaker finale recap: 'Full Nelson'

In which James Gunn turns the end of the season — and show? — into a set-up for other DCU stories

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

My review of HBO’s The Chair Company, where Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin try to prove that their comedic style can work for more than the length of an I Think You Should Leave sketch:

Review: Tim Robinson's 'The Chair Company' on HBO

Can the star of 'I Think You Should Leave' make his style work in an ongoing series?

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

In today's free What's Alan Watching? newsletter, my review of Netflix's Boots, plus The Chair Company, The Lowdown, Slow Horses, and more:

Give them the 'Boots'

A new Netflix coming-of-age drama, plus 'Peacemaker,' 'The Lowdown,' 'Slow Horses,' and more

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Especially since many college-age kids are perhaps less apt to have fond thoughts about the franchise these days?

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that's my favorite of his, even if the blue and red one is theoretically better.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the ol' Christmas tree suit in comic book form:

Wonder Man in his ugliest green and red costume with a design that's meant to spell W and M on his torso.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

The most gloriously hideous superhero costume of them all!

Eric Goldman @theericgoldman.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh, I like this approach.

Also... they got the ugly green suit in there!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBbL...

Marvel Studios' Wonder Man - Official Teaser Trailer (2026) Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ben Kingsley

YouTube video by IGN

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, Daboll is willing to get Dart killed if it will save his own job.

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts on a hugely frustrating season (series?) finale of Peacemaker:

Peacemaker finale recap: 'Full Nelson'

In which James Gunn turns the end of the season — and show? — into a set-up for other DCU stories

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Can you set aside the trauma to offer some Dart analysis?

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

In today's free What's Alan Watching? newsletter, my review of Netflix's Boots, plus The Chair Company, The Lowdown, Slow Horses, and more:

Give them the 'Boots'

A new Netflix coming-of-age drama, plus 'Peacemaker,' 'The Lowdown,' 'Slow Horses,' and more

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

I am not Martian Manhunter, no. Sorry.

a close up of a green cartoon character with yellow eyes

Alt: Martian Manhunter has psychic powers

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

That Peacemaker finale was not what I was expecting. In many ways. Hmm.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

This is the problem with having a coach whose primary goal is to save his job at all costs.

My hope at this point is that Dart looks good but the team loses enough games to get Daboll fired anyway.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 6d

When Jaxson Dart is playing well:

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

A stool is at least sturdy in a way that a director's chair is not. Every time I sit in one, I feel like it could collapse at any second.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

Even a bar stool is preferable! And I otherwise hate seats with no back support!

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 2d

When you get that 500th review:

A character in the Oscar-winning Breaking Away — an incredible movie that Clay stubbornly refuses to watch because he's a troll — hoists a trophy in celebration.

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