John Aspler

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PhD neuroscience/ethics. Television analysis. ORCID iD, SciCom, media disability studies, FASD, stigma, feminist bioethics, & public libraries. Antifascist. Pro-choice. He/him.
TV Writinghttps://seriallyengaged.substack.com/
Academic Writinghttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7055-4357
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/LostCadence

It's 2023, so time for me to get out my list of My Favourite New #TV Shows of 2022. Spoiler Alert: It's #Severance, but also lots of other fantastic content and at least under-watched gem (#FROMEpix):

https://seriallyengaged.substack.com/p/2022-in-review-my-favourite-new-tv

2022 in Review: My Favourite New TV

No one can watch every show anymore, so I'm going to present a (non-hierarchical) list of my favourite New TV of 2022. Also, Severance is the Best Show of 2022.

Serially Engaged: A Blog About Television
I do actually still use Mastadon! Even though I haven't said a thing here in a while, it remains on my phone while Twitter has been deleted. Like, as an app, not my account forever.
Finally deleted Twitter (from my phone). I'll still use it to post about TV writing, or to check on friends and whatnot, but I've just been doomscrolling more than using it as a tool for my work, so, deleted!
Okay that's enough staying up late to watch Twitter burn for me.
Just having a nice night alternatingly lurking in the bad place and then shouting into the void.
The internet is a weird place.
I just wanted to Tweet about my TV blog but noooo, social norms had to erode to the point of a complete social media public square collapse and the end times.
Guess I'm back here for a bit. I enjoyed my week on Mastodon like a month ago. But with yet another wave of Twitter has broken news, probably worth tooting over here instead.
Not sure if this is ultimately the Place. Followed a bunch of folks from TV Twitter, and I love the idea of an anti-viral discourse space, but I think I get that from more curated communities on Slack and Discord. But I'll stick around for now!

Absolutely savage signoff: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-from-elon-musk-hardcore-deadline

"Twitter no longer has a communications department to contact for comment."

Hundreds of Twitter employees resign after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum

Hundreds of Twitter’s remaining employees have resigned rather than stay for Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” cultural reset of the company.

The Verge