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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 17h

The way Lee and Betty Jo flirt and you’re never quite sure who is playing who only to realize that actually neither of them are, they’re just complex people having a mutually beneficial nice time together? 🤌

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 17h

Recap: Lee Gets Smashed in All Kinds of Ways in This Week’s ‘The Lowdown’

Wouldn't you know, as soon as I decide to do a fun game about who's beating up Lee in The Lowdown each week, along comes an episode where he doesn't get his face smashed in at all. I mean, he... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 1d

I always enjoy this show, the third season is still good, and you know what? There’s more room for an American version of Alice in Borderland than Squid Game.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 1d

Spoilers: ‘Alice In Borderland’ Season Three Goes Full ‘Squid Game’ in Its Last Act

Netflix's Alice In Borderland returned for its third (and final?) season after a three-year hiatus, and that's fine because this season doesn't require a detailed memory of the previous installments. Seasons one and two adapted the manga of the same... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 6d

I maintain that Doctor Odyssey was propaganda for Disney cruises because otherwise all you hear about cruises is exploding toilets and norovirus outbreaks.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

Almost 100 people came down with norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean ship amid a 13-day voyage, the CDC reported this week.

Norovirus Outbreak Sickens Nearly 100 on Royal Caribbean Cruise

Four crew members and 94 passengers came down with norovirus while sailing from San Diego to Miami.

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 7d

Much like Reservation Dogs, every episode of The Lowdown is its best episode until the next one comes along.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 7d

Recap: Who's Beating up Lee in 'The Lowdown' This Week? Poachers!

After last week's frenzied two-part premiere, The Lowdown is finally settling into its natural storytelling pace. Episode three, titled "Dinosaur Memories," focuses almost exclusively on Lee's hunt for Dale Washberg's missing paperback mysteries. When Lee was blackballed from the Washberg... Read more...

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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 7d

'The Lowdown,' 'Survivor,' 'Alien: Earth,' And More On Podjiba!

First up: Survivor is back, which means it's time for our winner picks that definitely will prove to be the perfect final three for the season! I think you will find that our selections are wholly unsurprising, if you listen... Read more...

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Mike Redmond @mikeredmond.bsky.social · 14d

Like @torionic.bsky.social I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more eyeball.

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 14d

Recap: The ‘Alien: Earth’ Finale Needed More Eyeball

From the very first episode, a common critique of Alien: Earth has been that it's all rather obvious. So when I tell you that the season finale is titled "The Real Monsters," I can assure you that it's not talking... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 14d

Kicking the Eyeblobby can down the road to next season… if there IS a next season

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 14d

Recap: The ‘Alien: Earth’ Finale Needed More Eyeball

From the very first episode, a common critique of Alien: Earth has been that it's all rather obvious. So when I tell you that the season finale is titled "The Real Monsters," I can assure you that it's not talking... Read more...

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 14d

ALIEN: EARTH did what I once considered impossible: turned me into someone defending PROMETHEUS and ALIEN: COVENANT as actually, kind of good, and it's annoying that the series ignored their lore while also sort of copying their themes? spoilers, at @vulture.com:

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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 14d

'Black Rabbit,' 'Task,' 'The Lowdown,' And More On Podjiba!

This week, a brand new segment which we may or may not keep going: TV After Ten (Minutes)! In which I will judge a show entirely on the first ten minutes that I've seen. In the inaugural segment, we covered... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 14d

I am really digging The Lowdown, and the time has never been better for a mystery about… caring about your community

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 14d

FX’s ‘The Lowdown’ Makes Great Use of Ethan Hawke’s Punchable Face

When it was announced that Jimmy Kimmel would be returning to the airwaves, I breathed a sigh of relief. Because it was a win for free speech and consumers pushing back at corporate bottom lines? Yes, of course -- but... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 15d

Watching the Welcome To Derry trailer and pretending it’s the third season of Castle Rock

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 16d

It’s wild that Oliver was the guest on the episode that got Kimmel pulled, and now… here we are (he’s right, though)

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 16d

John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation

Aside from Sinclair deciding at the last minute not to air the Charlie Kirk special on Friday night in Jimmy Kimmel's time slot, as originally planned, there hasn't been much new news about the Jimmy Kimmel situation, aside from an... Read more...

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 17d

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 18d

True story: someone puked loudly in the theater during the big climax of the movie (not because of the movie, they were drunk) and while I didn’t dislike HIM as much as many critics I can safely say my experience of it was worse

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 18d

‘HIM’ review: All Guts, No Glory

HIM is a dumb movie, and that'd be fine if it were just a dumb movie -- some of the best horror movies are bone-stupid! -- but it's not. It's a dumb movie with pretensions of being something greater, something... Read more...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 19d

Using LLMs in this context essentially guarantees that existing biases are maintained and reflected consistently. There’s no longer a way to seek out a “good doctor” if they’re all flattened into using the same poisoned data sets. There is no argument in favor of the ethics of any of this.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19d

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 19d

So excited to see what my boy Eyeblobby does in the finale, but I think @mikeredmond.bsky.social is onto something…

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 19d

'Alien: Earth' Theory Time: Who Will the Eyeball Creature Infect?

As Alien: Earth heads into its season finale, the The Eye (or T. Ocellus if you nasty) has been the show's MVP and Chekov's gun. There's no way that thing wasn't going to infect someone with wild results, and Episode... Read more...

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Pajiba @pajiba.com · 19d

Colbert, Meyers, Stewart and the Last Stand of Late Night

Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart returned (during his vacation) to do an episode in response to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel by Disney/ABC. Those hoping (like myself) for 20 minutes of righteous rage might have been disappointed,... Read more...

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 21d

I MEAN

Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 21d

It’s like nobody even remembers The Man Show

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 21d

Like what if Kimmel is cancelled and off the air before Colbert?

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 21d

#TheMuppetShow will return in 2026 as a Disney+ special from Seth Rogen starring Sabrina Carpenter. The hope is for the special to serve as a backdoor pilot for a new season of the iconic series bit.ly/3VmUmKt

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21d

NEW: ABC puts JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE on hiatus after conservative backlash, station group and FCC chair pressure network over Kirk comment. Details at @vulture: www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’

It follows conservative backlash to a comment Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk.

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 21d

Colbert gonna return the favor and campaign for Kimmel at next year’s Emmys after they’re both off the air

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21d

Update: It's not just Nexstar

“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC spokesperson

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21d

This is...something

Nexstar, one of largest owners of TV stations in the country, is pre-empting JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE "for the foreseeable future":

"Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming."

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 21d

I was shocked it was an 8-ep season (because I dont pay attention haha)

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Tori Preston @torionic.bsky.social · 21d

A refresher as we wait for next week’s season finale of #AlienEarth

Pajiba @pajiba.com · 21d

‘Alien: Earth’ Episode 7 Recap: Let’s Talk About the Death Toll So Far

As you'd expect from a penultimate episode, plot threads and narrative themes began coming to a head last night on Alien: Earth. Hermit attempts his grand escape with Wendy, only she insists on trying to save her fellow Lost Boys... Read more...

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