
Soraya Roberts
culture writer. contributing @defectormedia. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION: MY SO-CALLED LIFE (ECW, 2016). UNTITLED CULTURAL HISTORY (LIVERIGHT, 2025). firstlast @ gmail
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1 week ago |
defector.com | Soraya Roberts
I went into Overcompensating knowing very little except that it was a vehicle for comic Benito Skinner. I know Skinner, like most people know him, through his @bennnydrama7 Instagram account. He started it while still a high school student in Ohio—seven was the number on his football jersey—but only began posting his celebrity impressions and campy sketches as a college student at Georgetown. I specifically know him for one of my favorite bits of satire ever.
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3 weeks ago |
defector.com | Soraya Roberts
Would you be into watching a 100-minuteI Think You Should Leave sketch? Because that’s basically what Friendship is—a Tim Robinson sketch stretched out way past its welcome. Robinson stars as Craig Waterman, that familiar everyman that Robinson is so good at portraying, a middle-of-the-road dude in literal beige who basically becomes undone by his own squareness.
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1 month ago |
defector.com | Soraya Roberts
Anything I say about “Magnetic,” the lead single off TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe’s first solo album, Thee Black Boltz, won’t live up to hearing it for the first time. Go listen to it. Better yet, go watch the video. It’s super simple.
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2 months ago |
defector.com | Soraya Roberts
In the modest new British detective series Ludwig, comedian David Mitchell—who you will likely know as uptight office drone Mark Corrigan from Jesse Armstrong’s very pre-Succession cult hit Peep Show—plays the shut-in twin of what appears to have been a much livelier detective who goes missing.
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2 months ago |
defector.com | Soraya Roberts
A week after Doug Ford (our provincial version of Trump, in every sense of the word) handily won the premiership of Ontario for a third time in a row, and within days of the announcement that some fucking banker was taking over as the new Prime Minister of Canada, I was in The National Gallery of Canada looking confused. I looked like this because I thought they had put a J-cloth, smeared in oil, behind a glass case and called it art.
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wrote about tunde adebimpe's first (!!!) solo album and the time-travelling quality of mixes (he designed it to be like a mixtape :x) https://t.co/lu3PBwNjWE

i got too excited about DROP. poor DROP. https://t.co/EYEsZ27vhd

wrote about mark corrigan's new show. https://t.co/9ZYyUCcsyU