Gita Jackson

1 week ago | aftermath.site | Gita Jackson

K-pop group KATSEYE dropped their new single “Gnarly” at the end of April, ushering in an edgy new era for the group. I think the song is a full on bop—but k-pop fans hate it. KATSEYE is called a “global” k-pop group, based in Los Angeles and managed through a partnership with Korean label HYBE and the American Geffen Records. This allows for some welcome differences from how Korean groups are managed, in that the group’s members have a smidge more freedom in their personal lives.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Gita Jackson

"Star Wars" has always been political. When the main thrust of the narrative is about rebels rising up against empire, that's simply hard to avoid. "Andor," the Disney+ streaming series that premiered in 2022, wears its politics openly: The show is about the brutal sacrifices people make, or are forced to make, in resistance to authoritarianism. As the new season begins streaming on Tuesday, it seems especially prescient.

1 month ago | aftermath.site | Gita Jackson

The Pitt is a masterpiece of television, and I’ve been enraptured by it all season. It’s a medical drama with the structure of 24, where each episode takes place over the course of one hour in an emergency room in Pittsburgh, often ending on a twist or a cliffhanger. One thing the show pointedly doesn’t have is romance. The fandom is making up for that in spades, even if the biggest ship so far is definitely not going to happen on screen.

1 month ago | aftermath.site | Gita Jackson

I have written so many articles in my life as a journalist, often multiple ones in a day. I can’t honestly say I’m proud of everything I’ve written—I don’t remember everything I’ve written—but I have very few regrets. One thing I do feel ambivalent about are all the tweet roundups I wrote. At any Gawker site, traffic was the end all, be all of your career. I didn’t work at Kotaku during the time when bonuses, or even your employment, was determined by traffic, thank god.

1 month ago | aftermath.site | Gita Jackson

At three in the morning on Sunday night, there was a partial solar eclipse in Aries, and then a day later, Neptune entered Aries for the first time in 150 years. As the stars enter Aries, a sign of decisive action, I am preparing myself to take greater charge of my own destiny. That Sunday night, before these transits started, I found myself in the back room of a bar in Ridgewood, wearing elf ears and bobbing my head to the sounds of a synthesized glockenspiel.