Hi, I’m Hannah.

About This Substack

The iconic (?) Eudora Welty once said: “I read simply voraciously, and can drum up an opinion afterwards.” You and me both, Eudora! [Full disclosure, I’ve never read any of her work, so honestly she might be trash, but that’s not what The New Yorker said.]

I almost named this newsletter “All wheat, no chaff” because I’m on a quest for the GOOD stuff — we’re swamped in “mid” TV and marooned on Franchise IP Island, just trying to find something GREAT to engage with. [And also because I was raised in Sunday School so my analogies often unfortunately come with a tinge of the Biblical.]

If you don’t have time to watch everything or keep up with the fickle lady that is pop culture, I will be your guide! I’m here to give the rundown of the good stuff and diatribe [verb] the bad stuff.

Is this the newsletter for you? Well, be warned that I tend to over-index on:

• Prestige TV

• Big-event movies

• Timothée Chalamet

• Exuberance

• Nerdy franchises

• The British Royal family

• Taylor Swift

• Chatty rambles

I’ll share each week what I’m reading, watching, or listening to, with recommendations for what I loved and hated. I want to hear YOUR thoughts and opinions, too, so drop a comment on any posts that strike your fancy!

About Me

My full-time job is as an editor with The Athletic, a company with some of the best storytelling — and best newsletters! — in the world, if I do say so myself. I love sports the same way I love K-Pop and movies and Game of Thrones: The shared eventizing of it all.

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