March 2023 Patreon Update/Newsletter (Patreon)

Hey Skip Introthusiasts!

If you’re reading this, that’s because you are a patron! This channel would not be possible without your amazing support, and it certainly wouldn’t be as well-researched and in-depth.  Thank you from the bottom of my cold, empty heart.

Every month I try to put out a newsletter like this one, just to give you a heads up for what to expect and remind you if you missed anything!

My next video was supposed to launch this Saturday but I’ve postponed it because it’s a project that has quickly ballooned on me: I’m going to be giving the ol’ copaganda treatment to Abbott Elementary, the ABC sitcom about public school teachers. We’ll dive into the plight of American public schools, education budgets/policy, and those dreaded charter schools. I’m pretty excited about this one and I think you will all really enjoy it.

In February I posted my video about The Empty Apocalyptic Horror of The Last of Us. It was a little bit of a departure for me. It was more negative than most of my videos tend to be, and it was released as the series is still airing. I think that in hindsight I should have waited for the season to finish, but I still feel pretty confident in what I said despite the pushback in the YouTube comments. We live and we learn as a channel!

I made my first Lil Skippy (my second channel where I’m going to be making unscripted bite-sized content). Check it out, subscribe, share them, do whatever! These are all going to be unlisted until I can get into a groove with them so for now they’re just being broadcasted to you special people, because I trust you! Don’t let me down….

The Live Mailbag for March is going to be this Sunday (3/5) at 5pm Pacific, as always there will be another thread for questions.

I’ve attached the Copaganda Reading List (although it hasn’t changed since last month), and for now I’m going to keep my Abbott reading list to myself as it is quickly growing.

Schedule (dates tentative)

February

3/5 Mailbag

3/25 Video — How to make an Apocalypse Show

Further into the future:

Copaganda Episodes

Cop Shows vs. Fentanyl

How TV Whitewashes Child Protective Services

How Cop Shows Tackle Mental Health - Criminal Minds, Hannibal, and various others

How Law & Order Shaped the Status Quo

Private Investigators - Veronica Mars

Women on Cop Shows

Sex Workers and Sexual Assault in police cop shows

Other topics I’m thinking about…let me know if any catch your eye

Yellowjackets and the Art of Genre-Bending

Can We Talk About Schmidt from New Girl?

A Passionate Defense of Lost

Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad Retrospective

The Rise and Fall of Heroes

Letterkenny & the Geometry of Comedy

You: Modern Day Lolita

Please, please, please reach out to me if you have any comments, questions, concerns, thoughts, prayers, or even if you just want to say hi either here or at bumtugglies@gmail.com.

Best,

Jackson