What I'm working on - August 2026 (Patreon)

Hi Patrons! I realized I never actually made an update post for this month, and I wanted to let you know the status of the HTGAWM video. I'm editing it and hoping to get it done posthaste, it's just an extremely long unscripted video so kind of time-consuming to pare down (I started with over 4 hours of footage.) It's shaping up to be at least 2 hours and 40 minutes long. It's very much just me rambling about the show, including a lot of me struggling to remember the extremely convoluted plots of each season, but hopefully that will satisfy! It was certainly cathartic for me.

In editing, looking for old TGIT promos, I found this hilariously horny one from around when HTGAWM was premiering. You have to watch it immediately. I'm genuinely kind of touched/nostalgic at how blatantly they were appealing to the Lifetime wine mom-types. I feel like major networks not being as blatantly catered to liberal wine moms these days is yet another sign of the right wing shift in American culture. Bring back horny ABC promos whoring out all the male leads!!!

Next up, I'm thinking of preparing a Halloween video in advance. I'm often in London for the film festival in October, which I plan to do again this year. I just got my press pass confirmed! But what that's sometimes meant is that I'm too busy in October to make anything Halloween-themed, despite always wanting to! So this year I want to try to start working on one in September that I can hopefully have ready for spooky season.

Fun fact about me, actually really really sad fact, is that I've seen way too many installments of the Friday the 13th series, and despite having thoughts on all of them, I've never had a chance to discuss them on YouTube. So I'm thinking of having a big rewatch in the next month (plus finally watching the later ones I haven't gotten to) and making that my Halloween topic. I think I'd have a lot of fun doing it.

After that, once I'm back from LFF, I'll probably do another festival recap video, and then going into the winter maybe it'll finally be time for Hello, Dolly! That feels like more of a cozy, cold-weather video topic to me anyway. I've also seen requests for another Lifetime Christmas movie video around the holidays, which I'd happily do. I've long wanted to do a holiday video where I watch every Christmas-themed thriller Lifetime has released, but I've never had enough to work with there. The crossovers between the channel's holiday movies and thriller movies are exceedingly rare. But I recently watched one that I think qualifies, Deadly Girls' Night Out, which turned out to be surprisingly Christmassy. So with that and It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder, maybe I can finally do it!

HTGAWM Patreon exclusive coming soon! I'm done with my first pass so just need to go back over it to add clips. I was planning to only minimally use clips, to make things go faster, but the more I edit, the more I want to add more clips, so I might have to take a little longer to download the whole show and do a more in-depth edit. It'll be worth it to make you endure the parts of the show I had to endure!

Thanks for being here! Hope you're having a good Speedway Junky Summer!