Scott Meslow
@scottmeslow.bsky.social
Author:
— A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE: THE EXTRAORDINARY UNTOLD HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS (Running Press, coming soon)
— FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH LOVE: THE RISE AND FALL (AND RISE AGAIN) OF THE ROMANTIC COMEDY (Dey Street, available now)
— A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE: THE EXTRAORDINARY UNTOLD HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS (Running Press, coming soon)
— FROM HOLLYWOOD WITH LOVE: THE RISE AND FALL (AND RISE AGAIN) OF THE ROMANTIC COMEDY (Dey Street, available now)
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A bit of self-promotion:
If you’re shopping for a David Lynch or #TwinPeaks fan this holiday season, please consider my books. (A few readers have actually said they’re pretty good!) You can order them for your local bookstore (as well as that other place you all know about).
If you’re shopping for a David Lynch or #TwinPeaks fan this holiday season, please consider my books. (A few readers have actually said they’re pretty good!) You can order them for your local bookstore (as well as that other place you all know about).
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A bit of self-promotion:
If you’re shopping for a David Lynch or #TwinPeaks fan this holiday season, please consider my books. (A few readers have actually said they’re pretty good!) You can order them for your local bookstore (as well as that other place you all know about).
If you’re shopping for a David Lynch or #TwinPeaks fan this holiday season, please consider my books. (A few readers have actually said they’re pretty good!) You can order them for your local bookstore (as well as that other place you all know about).
Maddening how Mr. Robot went from moderately overrated in season 1 to insanely underrated in seasons 2-4
Every few months @scottmeslow.bsky.social and I just yell at each other about how mad we are people bailed on the show just as it really got going. Deserves to be canonized, discussed, celebrated!
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Maddening how Mr. Robot went from moderately overrated in season 1 to insanely underrated in seasons 2-4
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I think she came out lovely 😊
3 more illustrations to go! Pre-orders for the Lynch calendar still going strong: www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
3 more illustrations to go! Pre-orders for the Lynch calendar still going strong: www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I think she came out lovely 😊
3 more illustrations to go! Pre-orders for the Lynch calendar still going strong: www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
3 more illustrations to go! Pre-orders for the Lynch calendar still going strong: www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
Rolling straight from a First Reformed rewatch into a Midnight Mass rewatch and these really are two of the most striking performances of the past decade
October 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Rolling straight from a First Reformed rewatch into a Midnight Mass rewatch and these really are two of the most striking performances of the past decade
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I feel very lucky that I got to talk about my Homeland-Security-mass-detention-Asian-American book on The Daily Show
Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I feel very lucky that I got to talk about my Homeland-Security-mass-detention-Asian-American book on The Daily Show
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@scottmeslow.bsky.social made an observation I can’t stop thinking about in his Ghost of Yōtei review, how the game won’t let you run into trees. I asked him about it and he said something about how the game is “nature without its wildness” and that’s basically it, to me
www.gq.com/story/ghost-...
www.gq.com/story/ghost-...
‘Ghost of Yōtei’ Reviewed: Bloody Revenge and Strange Comfort in a Sprawling Open World
Sony's latest action-adventure blockbuster dials up the samurai-movie escapism just when we need it most.
www.gq.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@scottmeslow.bsky.social made an observation I can’t stop thinking about in his Ghost of Yōtei review, how the game won’t let you run into trees. I asked him about it and he said something about how the game is “nature without its wildness” and that’s basically it, to me
www.gq.com/story/ghost-...
www.gq.com/story/ghost-...
Playing Ghost of Yōtei (or fiddling while Rome is burning):
‘Ghost of Yōtei’ Reviewed: Bloody Revenge and Strange Comfort in a Sprawling Open World
Sony's latest action-adventure blockbuster dials up the samurai-movie escapism just when we need it most.
www.gq.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Playing Ghost of Yōtei (or fiddling while Rome is burning):
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OK IT'S HAPPENING! Announcing my 2026 wall calendar, featuring new original illustrations celebrating the works of David Lynch, much missed and forever an inspiration. PRE-ORDERS start today as the art is still in-progress, I expect to print and ship in November!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
September 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
OK IT'S HAPPENING! Announcing my 2026 wall calendar, featuring new original illustrations celebrating the works of David Lynch, much missed and forever an inspiration. PRE-ORDERS start today as the art is still in-progress, I expect to print and ship in November!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
Very excited to formally reveal the cover of my new book — A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks.
The book will be published on February 24, 2026, but you can preorder NOW (and I’d be very grateful if you do!):
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/scott...
The book will be published on February 24, 2026, but you can preorder NOW (and I’d be very grateful if you do!):
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/scott...
August 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Very excited to formally reveal the cover of my new book — A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks.
The book will be published on February 24, 2026, but you can preorder NOW (and I’d be very grateful if you do!):
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/scott...
The book will be published on February 24, 2026, but you can preorder NOW (and I’d be very grateful if you do!):
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/scott...
Thinking about this bit from Wolf Hall a lot lately
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thinking about this bit from Wolf Hall a lot lately
I’m so tired of the sheer contempt of the management class. You can only run a publication like this if you have no respect whatsoever for both your writers and your readers. And at that point, why bother with journalism at all? You can almost definitely squeeze more money out of some other widget
The Things I Thought and Did Not Say While Writing For a Content-Mill
In 1996, Jerry Maguire was laughed out of his office for publishing a company-wide memo encouraging his industry to take a more human approach.
danielcruse.substack.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’m so tired of the sheer contempt of the management class. You can only run a publication like this if you have no respect whatsoever for both your writers and your readers. And at that point, why bother with journalism at all? You can almost definitely squeeze more money out of some other widget
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Well, Los Angeles, it's your turn....
(Link is for day one. There are two more days in this event.)
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
(Link is for day one. There are two more days in this event.)
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN Parts 1—4 - American Cinematheque
www.americancinematheque.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Well, Los Angeles, it's your turn....
(Link is for day one. There are two more days in this event.)
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
(Link is for day one. There are two more days in this event.)
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
I put this in my NYT best movies of the 21st century and I was not kidding
July 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I put this in my NYT best movies of the 21st century and I was not kidding
Great day to buy Plays the Music of Twin Peaks on vinyl
July 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Great day to buy Plays the Music of Twin Peaks on vinyl
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"We had the chance to be truly expansive, and we couldn’t get over the fact that we loved games too much."
This month in Dialogue, @jmrivera.bsky.social on why the games industry shouldn't exist and how games media fails itself.
This month in Dialogue, @jmrivera.bsky.social on why the games industry shouldn't exist and how games media fails itself.
A Dialogue with Joshua Rivera - Unwinnable
"I don't bill myself as a games critic. It's not good for my career prospects."
unwinnable.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"We had the chance to be truly expansive, and we couldn’t get over the fact that we loved games too much."
This month in Dialogue, @jmrivera.bsky.social on why the games industry shouldn't exist and how games media fails itself.
This month in Dialogue, @jmrivera.bsky.social on why the games industry shouldn't exist and how games media fails itself.
I goof on “strand type games” a lot, but Death Stranding really is doing something special
‘Death Stranding 2’ Wants You to Be a Better Person
The latest from video-game auteur Hideo Kojima is a post-apocalyptic adventure about not letting an age of alienation win.
www.gq.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I goof on “strand type games” a lot, but Death Stranding really is doing something special
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always love reading @scottmeslow.bsky.social’s deeply humane takes on just about anything
www.gq.com/story/death-...
www.gq.com/story/death-...
‘Death Stranding 2’ Wants You to Be a Better Person
The latest from video-game auteur Hideo Kojima is a post-apocalyptic adventure about not letting an age of alienation win.
www.gq.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
always love reading @scottmeslow.bsky.social’s deeply humane takes on just about anything
www.gq.com/story/death-...
www.gq.com/story/death-...
Josh doesn’t miss
Over at Slate, I wrote about the Nintendo Switch 2 as the end of the console cycle the company began with the NES
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
Even Nintendo Can’t Weather the Storm That’s Coming for the Video Game Industry
Enjoy the new Nintendo console while it lasts. We may not get another one.
slate.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Josh doesn’t miss
Completely forgot I did this, thanks AI
June 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Completely forgot I did this, thanks AI