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Happy 2026, y’all! This is also going to be a shorter newsletter, since we’re kind of in the breath before the guild award stuff, winter TV, and whatever is going to happen in “Primate” pops off. I’ve had a fun week, mostly not thinking about movies and television, and replaying Lucy Dacus singing “Bread and Roses” a [redacted] number of times.

But I have been catching up on the “Pluribus” official podcast now that the show’s wrapped. It’s the kind of thing that should be called out in a Craft newsletter because it’s hosted by editor Chris McCaleb, who has been doing these making-of podcasts since the “Better Call Saul” days and has it down to a science.

Even insightful Official Podcasts™ will mostly be about actor reactions/showrunner reflections on character and plot, and that’s wonderful, sure. But the Vince Gilligan crew really seems…