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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 · 24d

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 · 1d

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 · 20h

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 · 13h

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

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

The most gloriously hideous superhero costume of them all!

Eric Goldman @theericgoldman.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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

Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

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

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 20h

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

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 · 1d

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

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 5d

When Jaxson Dart is playing well:

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

I'll happily write one about what Clay thought of Breaking Away?

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

At NY Comic-Con to moderate an Alien: Earth panel, and glad to see that the eyeball showed up early.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

Detroiters to me always felt like a thinly-disguised sketch show. This feels narrative in the way that didn’t. (And I liked Detroiters a lot.)

Tombmas Boosketty @wykstrad.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing before the paywall mentions Detroiters, so I have to ask if you deal with the narrative series Kanin and Robinson wrote (and Robinson starred in) before ITYSL? That might go some way toward answering your question.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

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

I would like to preorder this book right now with a side of wheat toast, please.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

But when you lose every year with the level of top-end talent the Yankees have? *Something* has to change, whether it's replacing Boone or replacing both of them.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 5d

Sports were a mistake.

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