Mark Harris

Just finished watching The Diplomat S4 and it is wildly sharp and off-the-charts entertaining. Every one of the eight episodes ends on a season-finale-level OMG-what-now twist. Wall-to-wall fun, sterling performances, and a kind of current political resonance that doesn't feel smug or forced.

I believe the precise wording was "Shove that ballroom up your FAT ass!"

I think more author photos should show the actual working process.

"We're glad you're a subscriber but you need to be a PREMIUM subscriber to read this article." Oh, honey, no. You don't understand. Nobody cares that much.

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

It would be so funny if It Happened tonight, and these were his official last words.

Shirtsleeves 2028!

"All of my real human American friends who consider the Cheesecake Factory to be fine dining are right here with me, just out of camera range!"

I recommend reading the quote replies to this for a couple of minutes. It might cheer you up.

I was born in 1963. Let me tell you what life was like for gay and lesbian Americans then. [clears throat politely, writes book, delivers it to publisher]

Victor, the Traitors player who has actually got everything correctly figured out and repeatedly articulates his big theory but is so sweaty and insistent and lacking-in-even-basic-chill that nobody will believe him, is very Bluesky-coded.

Useful context for this and the other clips @atrupar.com is posting this morning: The president is a rapist.

For those of you who don't know about him: Meet James Dolan, the Vivek Ramaswamy of NYC sports and real estate.

It's tragic to learn the details of Lindsey Graham paying male sex workers to shame and humiliate him when so many of us would have done it for free.

[stares resignedly at the wall]

The Devils was to be a one-week-only release, launching WB's new indie-ish and rerelease label Clockwork (which will purportedly survive the Skydance purchase). But it's done such big business ($2.3 million in five days) that it's staying in theaters. If you can, see this wild piece of film history.

New Jersey is SEETHING with jealousy over this.

Just saw the restored, NC-17 version of The Devils. 55 years later, Ken Russell remains A LOT, for better and worse. But OMG, Vanessa Redgrave. One of our greatest actresses 100% committing to a part that could have been camp. She and Derek Jarman's production design lift this into the stratosphere.

Just thinking about watching Celebrity Traitors in 2028 when Billy Evans and Katie Zacharia really go for each other's throats during the roundtable.

Suddenly picturing rich boy Francis in the tub in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Listen to Mark Hamill! Signed, Guy who gets mistaken for Mark Hamill at least once a day here

Whenever I write something like this that looks at AIDS history, a small minority of people will say things like "Get over it! Move on!" It's interesting to me that it's mostly those who remember it, not younger people. Anyway, to them: Nah. There's no getting over history, only getting through it.

His entire aesthetic and his entire political worldview are the same: dumb fucking loser Dice Clay standup from the '80s

Rough news. I only met Ann Hornaday a few times, but she was extraordinarily kind to me. And she loved movies the way movies should be loved--with high standards, an open mind, and deep generosity. She will truly be missed.

The photo in this post is of Rami Malek, from Ira Sachs's new movie The Man I Love, one of two films (the other is Elsinore, with Andrew Scott) about with an actor with AIDS fighting to work as his time runs low. Elsinore opens next month; The Man I Love is, absurdly, still w/o a US distributor.

There's been a surge of popular art about the first years of the AIDS crisis. In this new essay, I try to honor and explore a charged moment in which custody of that art-making is shared by people who lived through those dark years and people who didn't. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/t...

Not really a spoiler but "He is batshit crazy!" is the biggest, most explosive laugh I have had in a movie this year.

Even by the currently embarrassing standards of CBS News, this, from the network's chief legal correspondent, is astonishing. Naked right-wing partisanship, Islamophobic racism, blunt-force stupidity, and inability to read the room even when the actual room is right before her eyes. MAGA grand slam!

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

It's so deeply satisfying to hear this said, AND I don't believe for a moment that he got Tommy's vote, AND the combination of those two feelings has me deeply apprehensive about Nov. 3. (But watch it, all four minutes. It's been a long time coming.)

Enjoying the current US Traitors because in Victor, it gives us a new type: The rare faithful who is smart enough to get things almost exactly right but whose sketchy roundtable demeanor screams, "I'm lying!" But I'd like it more if Cumming were an engaged host, not an ornately shticky "character."

Silly to treat Digger, of all movies, as the great test case. the last chance for audiences to prove that they will embrace an original movie not based on existing IP. I guess Sinners and Weapons and Marty Supreme and Obsession never happened. It's fine for a movie to be a divisive flop. It happens!

The "deplorables" comment was actually Hillary *defending* most Republican voters.

Hindsight is easy, but I do think a lot about what a cataclysmic mistake it was for the Democratic establishment to concede instantly, in 2016, that "basket of deplorables" was a gaffe. It could have been used to own a hard truth, with nobody backing down from it.

Who will the next White House press secretary be? An American Girl doll? A blonde scalp glued to a mop handle? An 8x11 photo of Megyn Kelly scotch-taped over a Speak & Spell? It's very exciting!

This is...honestly quite moving. deadline.com/2026/10/stev...

This is a conversation that I know a lot of people here have daydreamed about having, and it's worth your time.

My feeling: When there's a big element of surprise in a movie, people should give it a week in national release without discussing it. After that, if you spend a lot of time on social media, I don't think you can reasonably expect total silence. But I'm curious about other people's opinions on this.

The movie gets you up to speed. No homework necessary.

You Can See Everything opens today on 900 screens. For me (and judging by the reviews, I'm not alone), it's the movie of the year. See it as soon as you can, with as many people as you can, after reading as little as you can.