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Michael Idov

15 Oct, 2 tweets, 1 min read

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1316344273835642881

Speaking as someone who used to work at NBC News — this is a horrible, venal, reputation-ruining decision. Trump will now only care about drawing more eyeballs than ABC (be it curiosity, hate-watch, whatever), and call it a victory if he does. We must give NBC none

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1316344273835642881

And yeah, I know none of it actually matters. But there’s got to be consequences for treating Trump as “content” in 2020. Wish NBC had any shows worth boycotting lol

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4 Jun 19

Here is the end result of my weeks of thinking about #ChernobylHBO. Basically, I am taking a pause to reassess the kind of stories I’ve been trying to tell.

For the last few years, I’ve combined working in Russian film with some stabs at Hollywood. Sold a pilot to TNT, etc. Being “Russian,” most of my pitches that gained traction had to do with Russia. Spy stuff, hacker stuff.

My assumption, supported by observations, was that writing Russia-set or -themed TV for a US audience required severe simplification at every turn. “Authenticity” meant first bending an idea into a familiar shape, then carefully dressing it with little insights.

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13 Feb 18

Wow, check out the inaugural issue of Vogue Poland. You could write a damn dissertation on this cover. So here's a short one, in a few tweets.

In 1998, when Vogue came to Russia, Soviet chic was the last aesthetic anyone wanted to see -- the whole point was to shed this kind of hard dour grayness and Be Like The West; now, 26 years later (29 for Poland), there's worldwide hunger for precisely this kind of grayness.

This cover isn't "nostalgic" — it's using Soviet-ness as a shortcut to a sense of danger and stakes; and don't forget that, to the Polish eye, everything but the women on this cover belongs to a foreign occupying power. (And the photographer is, ahem, German — Juergen Teller).

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