David Mack
@davidmackau.bsky.social
cnn senior pop culture writer/reporter. noted idiot Ex-BuzzFeed News + ABC News (Australia) Writing in Slate, Rolling Stone, NY Mag, NY Times, Bustle, The Daily Beast. Yahoo, MSNBC. Signal: davidmackau.07
icymi i wrote last month about classics dpt nerds getting ready for their MOMENT IN THE SUN. well, it's HERE and it's definitely THEIR MOMENT IN THE SUN www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/e...
Classics nerds are frantically prepping for Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ | CNN
Fans of the ancient world are seizing their moment with the release of this summer’s blockbuster.
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girl i’ve been following for months on tiktok as she rode her bike down all of africa finally made it to cape town 🥲🥲🥲🥲
anyway else see the odyssey as nolan’s response to trumpism & our crumbling body politic/social contract??
for those who’ve already seen THE ODYSSEY, i wrote about why we’ve never had a trojan horse sequence like this before www.cnn.com/2026/07/18/e...
The scene from Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ that will have people talking for decades | CNN
Nolan’s new film depicts the famed Trojan horse in a way not seen before on screen. It takes viewers inside the horse’s grueling conditions in a sequence that’s thrilling — and horrifying.
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bf sent these pics of his flight above the smoke in nyc 🤢
this show is,,,,good??? young elle is a star!
David Mack@davidmackau.bsky.social · 3w agojune diane raphael looks INCREDIBLE in the elle woods prequel
june diane raphael looks INCREDIBLE in the elle woods prequel
someone on twitter has made a whole fan fic thread where ilya from heated rivalry starts dating zohran mamdani x.com/yakassiii/st...
The actor who played the dying mom on The Pitt thought she deserved an Emmy nom so she went out on her own and got one. “Nobody’s got your back but yourself,” she told @davidmackau.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/e...
She submitted herself for an Emmy. Now she’s a nominee | CNN
Brittany Allen, who portrayed a mom with terminal cancer on “The Pitt,” ran her own awards campaign after HBO declined to submit her. On Wednesday, it paid off.
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every subway ad now is like USE AI to make a DECK for your WEIGHT LOSS PILL COMPANY
no one will believe me but i swear to god i am watching an hour-long special of the simpsons where they do a riff on the netflix version of ripley with andrew scott
neighbour’s kid with a sparkler last night kept coming up to me and my friends and saying “avada kedavra”
a massive storm hitting NYC right as the taylor wedding news lands. the universe is off center!!
a cool update from me: this week i started a new full-time role at cnn as a culture features writer!
the gods have spoken, just as the fates predicted slate.com/life/2026/04...
The U.K. Perfected a Certain Kind of Political Photograph. Why Don’t We Have Them Here?
Once a photograph is published of a politician looking sad or distraught in a car, the countdown clock to their resignation starts ticking.
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as someone who had to spend a lot of time in san antonio over the last year,,,, i have no idea where they are gonna go to celebrate
disclosure day question: How were they building her house before they knew she was chosen??
i was satisfied-ish with disclosure day. emily blunt was having a ball and was great, but honestly the performance by this actress is what i’m still thinking about!
not joking when i say rupaul should be in the oscars conversation for stop that train. for what she does with her face alone! comedy is so hard and she’s a pro. you watch her in a movie full of drag queens and realize why she’s the queen of drag
JFK Terminal 8 last night when Knicks took the lead. (via Renny Gong) #NYC 🏀
went to the national museum of catalonia in barcelona and tell me why is timmy chalamet in this 1889 piece???
@davidmackau.bsky.social spoke to a drag historian for this and I think that’s great www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/e...
The director of ‘Stop! That! Train!’ doesn’t want you to think about drag queens | CNN
RuPaul’s new film asks: What exactly is so scary about a bunch of glamorous clowns?
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Got to interview Richard Gadd from Baby Reindeer about the ending of his latest show, Half Man. slate.com/culture/2026...
Half Man Concludes With a Shocking Twist, but Richard Gadd Always Knew It Was the Only Ending
The show’s creator and star, Richard Gadd, on the finale’s big twist, how he feels about your fan fiction, and the one question he gets most.
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I spoke with two of the creators about that perfect finale for Hacks, a perfect show. slate.com/culture/2026...
Hacks’ Finale Was Sublime. It Was Always Supposed to End That Way, According to Its Creators.
Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky, two of Hacks’ creators, on how they planned that conclusion for years.
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Tomorrow I’m interviewing the team behind HACKS about the final season (and finale). What should I ask them??
