Mega Informal Review

Been having a stressful time lately. These are things I’ve read or seen lately and have had thoughts about (if short). Just need to exorcise. Primetime (2026) by Lance Oppenheim Was okay. Robert Pattinson is fun. I keep confusing Skyler Gisondo with Nicholas Braun. It frustrates me that people keep interpreting it as being solely about how Chris Hansen’s To Catch a Predator faltered by making a spectacle out of (attempted) sexual violence; like that is one thematic axis, but the other equally or more significant axis is about powerful people deflecting from their abuses by pointing at others’ over whom they wield control. Not only is Chris Hansen using his pursuit of justice to deflect from his own extramarital affair, but Bill Conradt (the local Texas politician who committed suicide as he was about to be raided on the show) is depicted as weaponizing anti-pervert politics the same way. Some months ago, I bought shorts from the Bummer Shop, and accidentally received the wrong pair…