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Myles McNutt

@memles.bsky.social

Media Scholar at Old Dominion University and Editor-in-Chief of TV criticism newsletter Episodic Medium

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Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 3w ago

I thought #TheOdyssey was a movie for true CINEPHILES, so how did no one who wasn't sitting dead-middle of the theater break down and go tell an employee they left the blue side lights on when the movie started? (I broke down after 10 minutes, sorry everyone in my row, you're welcome everyone else).

Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 3w ago

Am I settling for a Dolby Cinema screening of #TheOdyssey? Yes. Did I pay a visit to the local museum IMAX screen that stopped showing studio films a decade ago to try to find out why for research purposes? Also yes.

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Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 3w ago

I do a lot of defending of the potential of online education, but when an external vendor hired to "transition" my course to a new format takes the 20+ minute video lectures I produced as the core of the class and collates them under a heading of "Consider" I start to feel like we're cooked.

Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 3w ago

Missed this on Monday, but thankfully someone on the Episodic Medium Loyal Viewer Discord caught it. What a fun insight into the #Emmys' struggle to handle the death of the proper main title sequence.

‘Beast in Me’ Music Emmy Nom Questioned, But TV Academy Backs It

In response to the assertion that the limited series doesn't meet the criteria to be eligible for the best original main title theme music nomination it received, the TV Academy acknowledged that it n...

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Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve been seeing Apple’s attempts to market something this generic (if, to agree with Dan, competent) and it’s…pretty bleak stuff.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 3w ago

The people who made Apple TV's "Lucky" clearly HATE the book that they optioned. They scrapped 98% of the book? That's not so bad, because the book is pretty mediocre. But what they replaced the mediocre stuff with is... kinda mediocre. Watchable, but forgettable. My review:

more tacos, please@tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Media scholars from around the country (myself included) have worked with MACRO Lab on an extensive new report: "The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger.” macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-warner-merger

The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Decades of mergers and acquisitions have reduced the number of major U.S. media companies to a handful of transnational conglomerates that dominate the production and circulation of news, film, television, sports, games, and other forms of media and culture. If Paramount Skydance acquires Warner Bros. Discovery, not only will this newly-formed conglomerate be burdened with $79 billion of debt, it will struggle to respect competitive safeguards, serve consumer needs, cultivate the media industry's long term health, and act in the broader interest of the public. A team of more than 20 media experts from universities across the U.S. and Canada have collaborated on this research to encourage the courts, government regulators, non-governmental organizations, legislators, and citizens to challenge this deal. While this study addresses some of the quantitative impacts of this potential merger, our scope is far wider. The fourteen sections of this study define consumer welfare, public interest, and healthy competition more broadly, and consider democratic objectives like fair media access for non-profit and public-serving organizations, the preservation of community cultural spaces like theaters and of community social events like sports, and the support of a diverse range of stories and storytellers. Having spent decades researching the many (often non-quantifiable) ways that media and culture shape our lives as citizens and individuals, we enumerate here what kinds of impacts we can expect from this deal, and why policymakers and the public should be so concerned. Download the report as a pdf (2.8 MB) or read each section below
NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

California is among the states suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation's largest movie studios and TV newsrooms. n.pr/4peiT2k

Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 3w ago

It might FEEL logical that a mostly shot-for-shot CGI-heavy live-action remake of a 10-year-old CG-animated movie flops, but you'd have made the same argument before the shot-for-shot live-action remake of a 15-year-old movie made $630m last year, so I'd say additional context is necessary.

Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 4w ago

I appreciate the clarity with which this new season of #ProjectRunway demonstrates its disinterest in atoning for last season’s sins by actively hyping the return of contestants from that season like we would welcome the reminder. So considerate to give us zero hope of improvement.

Tomas Franzese@tomasfranzese.bsky.social · 4w ago

For Remastered, I wrote about @doublefine.com's PsychOdyssey, a powerful documentary about the humanity behind game dev. I've always felt this was required viewing, but this moment for Xbox, the studio, and devs around the industry makes it as relevant as ever: www.remastered.blog/double-fine-...

After The Xbox Layoffs, This Documentary Is Required Viewing

Double Fine’s PsychOdyssey is worth watching more than ever in the wake of Xbox's recent layoffs and studio sell-offs.

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Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 4w ago

Obviously I have no intention of being bedfellows with that ecosystem, but what if I said I reject the premise of Woke Little House because it refuses to make the Ingalls themselves as complicit in racism as they were historically?

Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · 4w ago

the embargo is now up so i can tell you that the little house on the prairie essay i wrote for nymag will go up probably next week, and in the mean time i look forward to watching the right-wing media lose its shit over Woke Little House