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Daniel Fienberg
@thefienprint.bsky.social
Chief Television Critic, The Hollywood Reporter. General social media dabbler.

Most of my content/writing/word-spewing can be found here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/e/the-fien-print/

I think about it almost every time he pops up anywhere. If "Mulaney" premiered with a 1.0 in the demo today, Fox would give it an instant three-season pickup.
September 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
1/3rd a Mulaney.
September 18, 2026 at 3:25 PM
<cough cough> DR. Peter Weller.
September 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I remember Showtime! The "American Gigolo" network!

[Also... *Did* it run on Showtime? When?]
September 18, 2026 at 6:06 AM
I'm more unc. According to my understanding of such things. Which is limited.
September 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM
The entire population of Bluesky awaits their lack of answer.

I hope your email emphasized that this is an accessibility issue. Any audience unable to tell when Jackson Lamb is farting might as well not be watching "Slow Horses" at all.
September 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM
[Fart. Burp. Groan.]
September 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I contain multitudes!
September 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
It's "Neagley" with an "N" not "Eagly" with an "E," cuz "Eagly" with an "E" goes <shrieking eagle sound effect>.
September 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Ohhhhhh. That makes more sense. The "Who blocked who and why can't I see what?" game is one of the things that still confuses me about Bluesky after all this time.
September 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Sure, you're talking about the picture, but I appreciate Vulture offering service journalism for necrophilic masturbators.
September 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
The Top 2 Best Parts of that Person's Tweet:

1. The asking of a question and then having replies turned off, like their faith demands that they be able to bother people willy-nilly, but they don't care about the response, which... is probably true.

2. Their account is primarily furry content.
September 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
The close captioner always earns their paycheck with the flatulence!
September 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Really? www.metacritic.com/tv/slow-hors...

That's a pretty select sample, since very few critics have the bandwidth to review the sixth season of shows, but... Still. Critics like "Slow Horses"!

And Gary Oldman can do a LOT of wrong. But he's great in "Slow Horses"!
September 16, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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September 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I changed my joke from "Adam Dunn" to "Kyle Schwarber" 88% for you, Linda.
September 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
As Rick's THR story notes, the NFL lead-in was down by a near-identical amount. But also... there are a lot of dumbos at CBS and not the cool flying elephant kind. (I only watched because I was forced to. I will never watch a full episode again. Until I'm forced to again.)
September 16, 2026 at 6:25 AM
I think people DO know Scott Pelley. But I think people — I have no idea who "people" is — don't know he was fired or how or why. I just don't think anybody understood or cared that this was a "new" "60 Minutes."
September 16, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Most people have never heard of Bari Weiss. NOBODY — not a damn person — has heard of Nick Bilton.
September 16, 2026 at 6:03 AM