All the Young Dudes What the world needs now is another Gord Downie, but we might be alright with Jesse Welles and MJ Lenderman

10/10 🎸
All the Young Dudes
Music that still sounds like honesty, place, and human voice — and why that matters now.
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#MusicEssay #AltCountry #IndieRock #NarrativeElectricCo

TV Used to Be a Window to Conversation — Now It’s Just a Door to More On the loss of communal viewing, weekly conversation, and shared cultural time.

9/10 📡
TV Used to Be a Window to Conversation — Now It’s Just a Door to More Content
On the loss of communal viewing, weekly conversation, and shared cultural time.
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#TVStudies #StreamingCulture #MediaCriticism #NarrativeElectricCo

No Longer Afraid of the Dark: On Finding Horror Once the Nightmares Stopped A personal turn toward horror — and what fear reveals once it’s no longer consuming you.

8/10 👻
No Longer Afraid of the Dark: On Finding Horror Once the Nightmares Stopped
A personal turn toward horror — and what fear reveals once it’s no longer consuming you.
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#HorrorWriting #GenreEssay #PersonalWriting #NarrativeElectricCo

Oh, Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars, Give me those Star Wars, Don't let them end Tony Gilroy’s Andor is the masterpiece post-original trilogy Star Wars we deserve

7/10 ⭐
Oh, Star Wars! Nothing but Star Wars…
Why Andor worked — and what it proves about risk, politics, and adult storytelling in franchise culture.
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#StarWars #Andor #FranchiseCulture #NarrativeElectricCo

The Music Dance Experience is Officially Cancelled The Argument for Revolt and Dissent in Severance

6/10 🪩
The Music Dance Experience Is Officially Cancelled
Severance, dissent, corporate theater, and why dissonance still matters in storytelling.
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#TVAnalysis #Severance #PopCulture #NarrativeElectricCo

Do You Hate Fascism? Boycott the Super Bowl It’s Super Bowl week, but all I can think about is Nazis

5/10 🏈
Do You Hate Fascism? Boycott the Super Bowl
Spectacle, complicity, and the uncomfortable places where politics and leisure collide.
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#PoliticsAndCulture #MediaSpectacle #Essay #NarrativeElectricCo

Saturday Night Live and the Institutionalization of Counterculture (brought to you by T-Mobile) This weekend, I did something fucking crazy; I watched Saturday Night Live live, as it aired on broadcast television.

4/10 📺
Saturday Night Live and the Institutionalization of Counterculture
How SNL moved from insurgent satire to institutional product — and what that shift says about power and comedy.
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#TVWriting #Comedy #CulturalCriticism #NarrativeElectricCo #SNL50

Seven Years In: Sobriety and Salvation through WTF, HDTGM, and David Berman The years I spent in prison with Marc Maron were transformative.

3/10 🧠
Seven Years In: Sobriety and Salvation through WTF, HDTGM, and David Berman
On sobriety, parasocial lifelines, art as scaffolding, and the strange ways voices can save us.
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#Sobriety #PersonalEssay #MusicWriting #NarrativeElectricCo

Wilcohatchee: Four Friends, Two Americas, and the Road Between Them A Southern Road Trip Through the Heart of America's Culture Wars

2/10 🚗
Wilcohatchee: Four Friends, Two Americas, and the Road Between Them
A Southern road trip turns into a meditation on friendship, culture wars, recovery, and the long roads between us.
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#Americana #RoadTripEssay #Friendship #NarrativeElectricCo

Locked in a Hotel Room with Prince: Film, Gen Z, and the Absence of Challenging Media How 80s Movies Taught Us to Grow Up—and Why Gen Z’s Media Won’t

1/10 🎬
Locked in a Hotel Room with Prince: Film, Gen Z, and the Absence of Challenging Media
What ’80s movies asked of us — and why so much contemporary media feels afraid to challenge its audience.
🔗 mikespry.substack.com/p/locked-in-...

#FilmWriting #MediaCriticism #GenZ #NarrativeElectricCo

This ends #NarrativeElectricCo. season two. Thx for reading. It has been great to find an audience for these conversations.

So keep reading/sharing/subscribing, and we'll see you in S3 w stunt casting, shark jumping, and guest stars like Gary Busey, Bea Arthur, and TBA. No repeats. Weekly release.