Articles, features and blog posts from my time in journalism. Content writing clips can be found here.
Entertainment
- The Dark Knight Trilogy made Chicago a part of Gotham’s DNA
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine is not exempt
- The People vs. Oscar
- All aboard the Florence Pugh bandwagon
- The uncompromisingly weird reintroduction of Jake Gyllenhaal
- To binge-watch or not? A True Detective experiment
- Can My Brilliant Friend succeed as foreign-language prestige TV?
- No one ends a season like BoJack Horseman
- Sharp Objects is proof that how TV is delivered matters
- The Americans had the best music cues on TV
- John Mulaney builds a pretty great gazebo
Blogs
- Why Wheel of Time should be your quarantine read
- Which Christopher Nolan protagonists are Wife Guys?
- The zodiac signs as Christopher Nolan characters
- My favorite on-screen dad: John Wick
- Foreign dramas are perfect quarantine TV
- Does The Bachelor have a social media problem?
- Love Island never had a chance in the U.S.
- Are You the One? and the dream of a queer Bachelor
- Inside the 2020 Sports Oscars After-Party
- 2020 Best Picture nominees as cocktails
- An argument with myself about the BoJack Horseman finale
- Only the internet can save The Gentlemen
- Paddington 2 is the rudest January dump
- Star Wars cuties, ranked
- 92 Christmas movies with the word “Christmas” replaced with “sports”
- Where to celebrate Christmas according to Hallmark movies
- 103 questions, comments and concerns about The Knight Before Christmas
- Winnie the Pooh Wednesday
- Just a bunch of Succession theme song memes
- All Hail King Bran the Scammer
- Game of Thrones season 8 drinking game
- Why is Popstar trending today? Because it rules
- Justice for The Favourite
- Oscar-inspired cocktails to get you through whatever the Academy has planned
- A better way for Bruce Springsteen to EGOT
- Jason Mendoza is The Good Place’s most delightful twist
- The Bold Type season 2 went full hate-watch
- Are You the One is a perfect MTV dating show
- The best shows of 2017, or the year I skipped dark TV
- Meet Riz Ahmed, Emmy winner, internet boyfriend
- It’s Gabrielle Union’s first Emmys and she’s doing amazing
- What an Outstanding Drama Emmy win for This Is Us would mean for peak TV
Interviews
- Fiona Shaw, actress, Killing Eve
- George Mackay, actor, 1917, True History of the Kelly Gang
- Julio Macias, actor, On My Block
- Jacob Hamilton, director, Jumpshot
- Alex Stern, casting director, Survivor, Are You the One, and more
- Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach, sound supervisor, Crip Camp
- Jo McLaren, stunt coordinator, Maleficent 2, Cats
- Minhal Baig, director, Hala, writer, BoJack Horseman
- Kayvan Novak, actor, Men in Black International, What We Do in the Shadows
- Mads Brugger, director, Cold Case Hammarskjold
- Joey Chesnut, competitive eater, 30 for 30: The Good, The Bad, The Hungry
- Kobayashi, competitive eater, 30 for 30: The Good, The Bad, The Hungry
- Zooey Deschanel, actress, promoting Crocs
- Matthias Schoenaerts, actor, The Mustang;
- Rob Marshall, director, Mary Poppins Returns;
- Anne Sewitsky, director, Sonja The White Swan;
- Isabelle Riva, Unity VR;
- Alex Gibney, director, The Inventor;
- Justin Hurwitz, composer, First Man;
- Ian Somerhalder, actor, promoting Take Your Cat to the Vet
Reviews
Movies
- The High Note
- Spaceship Earth
- True History of the Kelly Gang
- John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Knives Out
- The Report
- Parasite
- Blinded by the Light
- Them That Follow
- Us
- The Nightingale, Judy and Punch
- Velvet Buzzsaw
- Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile
- Honey Boy
- Late Night
- The Inventor: Out for Blood
- Widows
- The First Purge
- Ocean’s Eight
TV
- Perry Mason
- Quiz
- Love Life
- Hightown
- The Great
- Normal People
- Run
- Killing Eve season 3
- BoJack Horseman season 6 part 2
- Hunters
- High Fidelity
- Avenue 5
- Sex Education season 2
- The Outsider
- The Crown season 3
- Dublin Murders
- BoJack Horseman season 6 part 1
- Silicon Valley season 6
- Succession season 2
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- True Detective season 3
- Russian Doll
- The Good Place season 3
- Maniac
- BoJack Horseman season 5
TV Power Rankings
- Week 1: Eat the rich
- Week 2: Emmy preview
- Week 3: We’re not done talking about Fleabag
- Week 4: Please watch Superstore
- Week 5: John Mulaney hive, come through
- Week 6: Are you watching Watchmen?
- Week 7: BoJack Horseman with a bullet
- Week 8: HBO is really good at this TV thing, huh
- Week 9: In which Disney Plus enters the picture
- Week 10: Protect Baby Yoda at all costs
- Week 11: Was ‘This Extraordinary Being’ the best episode of the year?
- Week 12: Time for a seasonal Please Like Me rewatch
- Week 13: Best shows of 2019
- Week 14: What to watch while you hibernate
- Week 15: Cheerleaders rule, The Bachelor drools (just kidding, it also rules)
- Week 16: Dispatches from John Mulaney
- Week 17: Survivor is the best reality show on TV right now
- Week 18: 25 shows to watch while social distancing
- Week 19: Mae Martin is magnetic in Feel Good
- Week 20: 5 shows to watch for fans of Scrubs, soccer and sour dough starters
- Week 21: 5 shows to watch for fans of heists, happiness and Christine Baranski
- Week 22: 5 shows to watch for fans of feminists and vampires
- Week 23: 5 shows to watch for fans of perfect line readings
- Week 24: 5 shows to watch for fans of rom-coms and improv
- Week 25: 5 shows to watch for fans of baseball and existentialism
- Week 26: 5 shows to watch for fans of dystopias, despots and easy decisions
- Week 27: 5 shows to watch for fans of serene and surreal competition shows
- Week 28: 5 shows to watch for fans of amplifying Black voices
- Week 29: 5 shows to watch for fans of stanning British multi-hyphenates
- Week 30: 10 best shows of 2020 (so far)
Sports
- 10 scary NBA players as horror movie monsters
- The Michigan vs. Notre Dame rivalry is back to revive my personal family feud
- Playoff Diaries: Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals
- Is Paul Pogba a Nebraska Huskers fan? An investigation
- Every World Cup national team nickname, ranked with minimal explanation
- Every single silly sports reference in Netflix’s Set It Up
- A safe space for Sister Jean haters
- March Madness team shirts are an offense to the idea of school spirit
- The angst of March Madness picks when your alma mater is good
- Miami’s Chris Lykes is a tiny March Madness treasure
- Your guide to the Evgenia Medvedeva flutz conspiracy theory
- Kiss and Cry Chronicles: Adam Rippon Appreciation Edition
- James and Cipres are Olympic figure skating’s Cinderella pair
- Nathan Chen is the Golden State Warriors of men’s figure skating
- 21 questions about Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl halftime show
- The case for Golden State Warriors fans
- 10 great NBA players and the conspiracy theories they could make you believe
- 5 questions for the Prophet Tony Romo
- Conor McGregor, trash talk and the lasting impact of first impressions
- Who is James Michael McAdoo?
- Was it petty or disrespectful? The NBA Playoffs so far
Food
- Southern Comfort wants to be taken seriously as whiskey, adds whiskey
- Apple wants you to hang out in their stores, add plants to prove it
- Every Starbucks holiday drink, ranked by how festive it makes you feel
- Every worthwhile sports bar appetizer, ranked by personal preference
- 5 foods you will find at every parent tailgate on college football Saturday
- 5 potential flavors for the Mystery Oreo, all at least better than Banana Split Oreos
- Pumpkin spice is the Icarus of seasonal flavors
- Iced pumpkin spice lattes are the official drink of global warming
- Starter questions for a heated debate about cookie candy corn
- PBJ Oreos sound great, might be terrible, are in stores now
- Don’t vote for pickle-flavored soft pretzels
- Hamptons Rose Drive Thru is very on brand for the Hamptons
- Some Australian devil invented avocado lattes, avolattes if you will
- Hard no on chickles, Nashville hot chicken stuffed pickles
Shea Corrigan 