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While this technically only matters for one episode out of this week’s batch of O.C. episodes, I need to get it out right now: I love Luke Ward. It’s a truth I’ve had to keep close to the vest so far during this coverage—because, honestly, what’s to love about Luke prior to “The Secret,” other than Chris Carmack’s beautiful blue eyes?—but I’ve been wanting to shout it from the rooftops ever since I started.

Doing retrospective coverage like these O.C. reviews is difficult for a number of reasons, all mainly personal. It’s no secret that I’ve been wanting to do this coverage for a long time—since my A.V. Club days—and the stars only just recently aligned me to do so. With my coverage, I obviously bring in a large amount of knowledge, not just of The O.C. itself but of teen dramas in general, along with my knowledge of the television landscape at the time the show ran and my own personal experiences of all of this as a teenager (the same age as these O.

Welcome to our inaugural edition of Episodic Classics, as LaToya Ferguson will be revisiting then first season of Fox drama The O.C. for paid subscribers this fall. To learn more about our fall coverage, and how your yearly subscriptions (20% off through 9/15) can help unlock additional Episodic Classics coverage later this year, click here. “Welcome to the dark side.” As a good number of you Episodic Medium readers migrated from The A.

By Howard Wolinsky The Washington Post confirmed Saturday that famed uropathologist Jonathan Epstein, MD, is moving on from his long-time home at Johns Hopkins University following a controversy over bullying allegations. Epstein told the Post he could no longer work with colleagues who accused him wrongly of misconduct. Some colleagues claimed Epstein had bullied them and leaned on them to support opinions rendered by Epstein’s wife Hillary, a pathologist at another institution.

Documents: Last Updated: Jan. 3, 2024, 7:12 p.m. Assigned To: Loretta A. Preska Citation: Giuffre v. Maxwell, 1:15-cv-07433, (S.D.N.Y.) Date Filed: Sept. 21, 2015 Date Terminated: May 25, 2017 Date of Last Known Filing: Jan. 3, 2024 Cause: 28:1332ct Diversity-(Citizenship) Nature of Suit: 320 Assault Libel & Slander Jury Demand: Both Jurisdiction Type: Diversity All 943 pages: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24253240/1324-epstein-documents-943-pages.pdf 01/03/2024 1320 NOTICE of Documents Ordered Unsealed by Court Order of December 18, 2023 re: 1315 Order.

I often complain nowadays that movies are too long. It could just me getting old and grumpy, but runtimes for feature films have been creeping higher for awhile. And the prevalence of streaming platforms does nothing to constrain that trend, since a lengthier movie doesn’t mean theater managers get fewer showings per day to sell tickets. “Eradication” is the rare film that, at about 85 minutes, I wish was longer. It’s a solid, inventive apocalyptic thriller/horror set in a near-future where a pandemic has infected most of the humans on the planet.

The Hall of Fame lists Frank Thomas as a first baseman. And yes, he did play 971 games at first during his 19-year career. But Thomas was really a designated hitter, spending 1,310 games at that position. My rankings, in fact, show him to be the best DH in the entire Modern Era, the period from 1961 through 2022. Thomas won back-to-back Most Valuable Player Awards in the American League in 1993 and 1994.

The study of the French Revolution has evolved in many different directions since the bicentennial of 1989. Like historical studies in general, it has taken the “global turn,” relating developments in France to world-wide patterns of imperial expansion, commerce, migration, intellectual exchange, and conflict (this shift led me, nearly a decade ago, to write an article urging a degree of caution: not every significant event in revolutionary France is best explained by the global context).

Eric Von Schaumburg’s biggest battle was long in a life cut much too short. He “Fought Like A Champion” for a decade before news of his passing from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, just a couple of weeks shy of his 40th birthday began to circulate Monday. In a pair of odd coincidences, it was also the 10th anniversary of his diagnosis with the disease on June 19, 2013 and the birthday of Gehrig, one of the greatest players in baseball history.