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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · 6d

First 4 on my 🌳Fear as Folk🌳 2025 spooky season syllabus: boxd.it/Pd7OS

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · 8d

Spooky Season 2025 movie syllabus on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/Pd7OS #Filmsky

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · 9d

Came here specifically looking for more to these tonight 😅

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19d

The Disney & ABC boycott is WORKING 🔥 Let’s keep going! We the PEOPLE have the power.

Sinclair, the broadcasting company that owns hundreds of ABC affiliate stations, has BACKED OUT of airing a remembrance of Charlie Kirk, posting a YouTube link instead.

#BoycottDisneyABC #Sinclair #JimmyKimmel

Sinclair Quietly Backs Out of Airing Charlie Kirk Special Amid Kimmel Suspension, Offers YouTube Link Instead
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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · 20d

Movies with mom + a classic for something I’m writing.

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Aug 30

This week’s apparent theme: Bebes and the things that want to eat them?
🤖👶🏻🧜🧛‍♂️

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Aug 21

“In the days since publishing my recap I’d rewatched the episode and some episodes of #SexandtheCity, and I’d read all the reviews and listened to all the podcasts about #AndJustLikeThat that I’d avoided while covering the show myself, and I found myself… becoming irrationally angry.“

AND JUST LIKE THAT: An Irrationally Angry Epilogue

"Maybe that was bullshit?"

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Aug 16

Can anyone point me toward some really smart writing about #AlienEarth by trans critics?

Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Aug 15

Here it is: the final #AndJustLikeThat recap. Prepare yourselves for some real tonal whiplash at the end!

AND JUST LIKE THAT: StrawCarrie Shortcake Meets the Nonbinarykins at the End of All Things

Nothing lasts forever, most especially not a misbegotten television series.

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Aug 6

The gentleman wondered what he had gotten himself into… (It was Carrie. He had gotten himself into Carrie.) #AndJustLikeThat

AND JUST LIKE THAT: Curb Your Duncthusiasm

The gentleman wondered what he had gotten himself into… (It was Carrie. He had gotten himself into Carrie.)

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 30

You know what’s terrible for depression? THIS SHOW! #AndJustLikeThat

AND JUST LIKE THAT: Carrie Gazes into the Abyss and the Abyss Gazes Back

You know what’s terrible for depression? THIS SHOW!

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 23

The way everyone is like “Stevie and Lindsey are making nice!” When actually they’re just promoting a rei$$ue. #BuckinghamNicks
(She’s v cynical today, folks, sors.)

Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 20

13 years ago, she made me believe. 🥹

Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 20

Oh hey btw Johnny Writes… is on @serializdapp.bsky.social now.
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JohnnyWrites's profile on Serializd

Check out JohnnyWrites on Serializd!

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 19

Unpopular opinion, obv, but, like, this is basically the Carrie-and-Aidan-sending-each-other-blank-postcards of classic rock, right? #FleetwoodMac #StevieNicks #LindseyBuckingham

Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 19

I… swear I watched a new episode of #AndJustLikeThat last night, but… all I seem to recall now are random darkened images, as if glimpsed through a scrim or by candlelight, of people coming in and out of rooms and saying things. Was it a dream?

AND JUST LIKE THAT: Go Off, Show! Give Us Nothing!

Also, stop trying to make "flirking" happen.

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 17

Not Hissonor Julian Fellowes about to try to convince us that THIS is a ✨healthy relationship✨😂 #DowntonAbbey

Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 17

RIP #ConnieFrancis

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 14

One of the things that’s so frustrating about #TheGildedAge is it’s ostensibly about old v new money AND has #CarrieCoon and #ChristineBaranski on either side of that divide yet they have BARELY been in the same show this whole time!

Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 14

Last week’s #AndJustLikeThat: Pretty much fine? Mostly fun? Read, subscribe, share please!

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 14

I am once again asking the universe for Season 4 of #AndJustLikeThat to center on Berger publishing a novel based on his experience dating Carrie and thus forcing her to reckon with the fact that she has spent her whole career exploiting her friends’ personal lives for profit.

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yeah, I’m v behind on my pre-summer blockbusters past summer blockbusters rewatching. 😐

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 11

SURPRISE! This one was kinda ok! Am I wrong??? Maybe! Either way the recap is still savage! #AndJustLikeThat

AND JUST LIKE THAT: Pretty Much Fine! Basically Fun!

I am very curious what *checks notes* 2025 Booker Prize judge Sarah Jessica Parker really thinks of Carrie’s novel...

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Johnny Russell @johnnyrussell2.bsky.social · Jul 9

Summertime sadness, poolside. #JoanDidion #BookSky

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