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
John AsplerJan 5, 2023

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
John AsplerJan 5, 2023
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.
John AsplerDec 29, 2022
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!
John AsplerDec 16, 2022
Okay that's enough staying up late to watch Twitter burn for me.
John AsplerDec 16, 2022
Just having a nice night alternatingly lurking in the bad place and then shouting into the void.
John AsplerDec 16, 2022
The internet is a weird place.
John AsplerDec 16, 2022
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.
John AsplerDec 16, 2022
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.
Show threadJohn AsplerNov 21, 2022
@fkaOctaviaKeats Ha, same! I don't really engage with films, just TV, so I've always been happy to follow the same dozen or so critics to wherever they go, from platform to platform, from beat to beat. But the community aspect of a comments section was really missing for me these past few years. Twitter served that purpose, a little, but Episodic Medium and a couple LOST and Game of Thrones Slacks / Discords do that now. But I'm always looking for new spaces!
Show threadJohn AsplerNov 21, 2022
@fkaOctaviaKeats Definitely the AV Club, but it was always more about the folks who wrote there (and who no longer do, for various reasons) for me. Followed them over to blogs like Episodic Medium and Emily St James' Letterdrop. For fan discourse, I've found my way into some podcast community Slack and Discords (for specific shows, like Buffering), but I'll have to check out what you suggested! I use TVMaze in place of Letterboxed for tracking shows, but there isn't much community engagement.