Tori Preston

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By Tori Preston | TV | June 3, 2025 Header Image Source: AppleTV+ “Appointment TV” used to be synonymous with water-cooler shows, the ones you’d tune into every week because everyone else was watching too, and you wanted to be a part of the conversation.

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By Tori Preston | Film | June 2, 2025 Header Image Source: HBO (via screenshot) Jesse Armstrong is an absolute madman. He came off the end of the critically acclaimed Succession and apparently decided he had more to say about the ways ultra-rich people ruin everything, so he wrote a movie about it. Then he directed it himself, as his feature film debut. He did all of that, the writing and the directing, in under six months. And here’s the kicker: it’s good.

1 week ago | pajiba.com | Tori Preston

By golly, I think they’re gonna do it. I think season three will be all-Abby. Certainly, that’s the way things seemed to be heading, as the final scene of the finale rewinds the clock to “Seattle Day One” from Abby’s point of view. And I imagine that decision may prove frustrating for some viewers, considering where The Last Of Us left Ellie in the moments before that reveal: shouting “No!” while Abby aims a gun at her and a shot goes off. Regardless, it’s the right move.

2 weeks ago | pajiba.com | Tori Preston

There are a lot of headlines these days about “male isolation” and “friendship recession,” detailing the reasons why men seem to be forming fewer deep bonds with other men. Remote work and less participation in church or other community structures limit social exposure, while toxic masculinity pressures men to avoid emotional intimacy.

2 weeks ago | pajiba.com | Tori Preston

Martha Wells’ “The Murderbot Diaries” is a breezy and confident series, each short installment coming in barely longer than a novella. Its vision of the future is neither enlightened nor fraught; it’s simply the natural evolution of capitalism, where unimaginable advances in technology are subverted by cost-saving shortcuts to bolster revenue, and we witness it all through the eyes of one such shortcut: a refurbished, malfunctioning SecUnit that calls itself Murderbot.