Lauren Sarner
@laurensarner.bsky.social
TV reporter & critic at The New York Post. Past bylines: HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Inverse. TCA member. Views my own.
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
Taking a break from the sickening tragedy to focus on the beauty for a moment. Rob Reiner achieved something so rare and coveted that artists and entertainers dream of and rarely achieve: cultural permanence. How many times have you made a reference to something going to 11? Shouted "Inconceivable"?
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art
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worst trend of the last 5 years has been every part of the internet getting more “for you page”-y in the sense that it will show popular posts to Every Person on The Website instead of a small niche. End result is nobody interacting knows basic background of the topic or even bothers to read details
December 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
worst trend of the last 5 years has been every part of the internet getting more “for you page”-y in the sense that it will show popular posts to Every Person on The Website instead of a small niche. End result is nobody interacting knows basic background of the topic or even bothers to read details
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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I keep thinking about how important this is, and who benefits from the narrative that only a guy named Edward can be the hero who intervened to protect Jewish lives, not a guy named Ahmed
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I keep thinking about how important this is, and who benefits from the narrative that only a guy named Edward can be the hero who intervened to protect Jewish lives, not a guy named Ahmed
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my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
December 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides
He’s got places to go and people to see
December 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
He’s got places to go and people to see
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The average normie on the street has absolutely no fucking clue whatsoever who this woman is. The only reason WE know who she is, is because Bluesky fucking loves a scandal and there are a shit ton of media people here who have a vested interest in our industry and so keep bringing it up!
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The average normie on the street has absolutely no fucking clue whatsoever who this woman is. The only reason WE know who she is, is because Bluesky fucking loves a scandal and there are a shit ton of media people here who have a vested interest in our industry and so keep bringing it up!
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I think the weirdest thing about AI usage has been seeing how quickly people are willing to surrender themselves to it
like that desire to offload every mental challenge, any need for validation, every single curiosity is channeled through it
like that desire to offload every mental challenge, any need for validation, every single curiosity is channeled through it
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I think the weirdest thing about AI usage has been seeing how quickly people are willing to surrender themselves to it
like that desire to offload every mental challenge, any need for validation, every single curiosity is channeled through it
like that desire to offload every mental challenge, any need for validation, every single curiosity is channeled through it
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Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
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I am enjoying that Mina is a mental giant towering over two doctors, a lawyer, an aristocrat, and an ancient vampire, to say nothing of the Texan
Where would they even be without her???
Where would they even be without her???
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I am enjoying that Mina is a mental giant towering over two doctors, a lawyer, an aristocrat, and an ancient vampire, to say nothing of the Texan
Where would they even be without her???
Where would they even be without her???
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
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writing about the art you care about is such a good feeling, like you're baking a birthday cake for someone you love
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
writing about the art you care about is such a good feeling, like you're baking a birthday cake for someone you love
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it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
it intensely angers me every time I open a book PDF in Acrobat and the software reminds me that I’m reading a Long Document and gee, wouldn’t I prefer a summary instead
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
I am not a first grade child who requires the easy-reader version of big kid books, demon machine
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Also engaging with technology that isn't actively surveilling you.
I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Also engaging with technology that isn't actively surveilling you.
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I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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"I had the weirdest affair imaginable with the worst person alive" OK give me a second to grab a chair and open my Notes app, start from the beginning
December 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"I had the weirdest affair imaginable with the worst person alive" OK give me a second to grab a chair and open my Notes app, start from the beginning
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste