Joe Reid

Senior Writer

@joereid      

Joe is the senior writer at Primetimer and co-host of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast. His work has appeared in Decider, NPR, HuffPost, The Atlantic, Slate, Polygon, Vanity Fair, Vulture, The A.V. Club and more.

• POSTED November 24, 2023

  
  Trapped in Commerce: When TV Shows Surround Their Characters With Everything They Could Want
  Seinfeld found frustration, while Dawson's Creek's endgame couple found their way back to each other.
• POSTED November 23, 2023

  
  How Felicity Turned the Thanksgiving Episode Upside Down
  It's freshman year of college, and nobody wants to leave New York.
• POSTED November 22, 2023

  
  Squid Game: The Challenge Matches the Thrill of the Original
  Despite bad buzz and concerns over player safety, Netflix has made a cleverly plotted, well-edited reality competition.
• POSTED November 21, 2023

  
  The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Is No Place for Levelheaded Crystal Kung Minkoff
  Three seasons in, Crystal isn't willing to get in the dirt with her co-stars — which means it's time to move on.
• POSTED November 15, 2023

  
  The Survivor Auction Is Back and Better Than Ever
  Jeff Probst added some twists, but he also restored what was so much fun about watching people bid cash on french fries.
• POSTED November 15, 2023

  
  The Boy Who Lived Should Inspire HBO to Confront Its Dealings With J.K. Rowling
  The story of Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double is a tragedy told with grace and honesty. That honesty can also be turned toward the Harry Potter author.
• POSTED November 14, 2023

  
  Here's Why You Should Skip the Live Watch and Risk Survivor Spoilers
  Liberate yourself from the tyranny of the clock, and finally be surprised by a tribal council result.
• POSTED November 13, 2023

  
  What's the Buzz on The Curse's Surprising Vibrator Sex Scene?
  The Showtime drama starring Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone is the latest show to use kink to communicate a lot about their characters.
• POSTED November 10, 2023

  
  What to Do About Prue, the New Weak Link on The Great British Baking Show
  Prue Leith now comes a distant third in the judging order, after Paul Hollywood and Paul Hollywood’s handshake.
• POSTED November 10, 2023

  
  Emma Stone Brings the House Down Even as The Curse Falls Apart
  The Oscar winner delivers a blistering performance of white liberal self-obsession in Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s Showtime series.
• POSTED November 9, 2023

  
  Big Brother Doesn't Belong on Fall TV
  CBS needed a long Big Brother season to shore up its strike schedule, but that led to a very frustrating second half of BB25.
• POSTED November 8, 2023

  
  The Bear: Everything We Know About Season 3
  Carmy's restaurant is up and running, but what do we know about the show's third season?
• POSTED November 7, 2023

  
  Mindhunter Deconstructed Its Protagonist in Its Final Episodes
  The series's end shined a light on the ways the criminal justice establishment — Holden Ford included — can fail Black communities.
• POSTED November 3, 2023

  
  The Most Frustrating Loose End That Mindhunter Left Dangling
  David Fincher's late series could have gone down an especially dark road with a storyline about Bill Tench's possibly disturbed son.
• POSTED November 2, 2023

  
  HBO's Angels in America Will Always Cast a Long Shadow Over Queer TV Shows
  Queer politics, the Red Scare, and Roy Cohn are among the many topics Tony Kushner and Mike Nichols explored in their 2003 masterpiece.