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Sophie Petzal

@sonicscrewup.bsky.social

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TV writer, ‘BLOOD’, ‘HOLLINGTON DRIVE’, THE LAST KINGDOM’, ‘MEDICI’, other things you’ve not seen. They gave me a Writers Guild Award once. Mostly post about Arsenal.

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 23d

News to me (I didn’t even go looking, google algorithmed me the story, incredible) but Blood is coming to Netflix if you never watched it and want to. www.digitalspy.com/tv/a67998771...

"Gripping" Adrian Dunbar thriller that "wastes no time in ratcheting up the tension" gets new UK home

Something to tide you over until Line of Duty s7 gets announced...

www.digitalspy.com

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 1m

My tv is too big for it so I thought the easel was genius and I do like it but Alors - WIRES. Etc.

Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 3h

If cats never said yes when they meant no, they wouldn’t have ditched you for someone better leaving you to put sad plastic sheets up all over the neighbourhood looking for them. 🫣

The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 6h

Cat People: this is for you, spot on.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 4h

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 3h

Won’t fit in me wonky corner

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 3h

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Review: Guillermo del Toro's longtime passion project 'Frankenstein' is its own marvelous monster

Jacob Elordi's yearning creature breaks spines and hearts in a violent, kinetic adaptation that co-stars Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz and Mia Goth.

www.latimes.com

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 3h

He was older than me so it felt like pushing it 😆

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 3h

Riot Women proves the point you don’t need endless relentless plot to keep people binging. It just needs to be really fucking good with characters I want to see more of. Finished one ep and am desperate to get straight to the next.

Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 3h

‘I need to know dates’. We ALL know that person, don’t we?? Everything is such a fucking inconvenience. The busiest person in the world. So observational 😆.

Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 3h

Amelia Bullmore as the incredibly boring dates obsessed nurse is absolute comic genius in Riot Women. Love her.

Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 4h

Offer me home decor tips of what to do with the bloody PS5 by the way. I fucking hate ‘shit on the floor.’

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve got the same banging habitat mugs as Tamsin Grieg in Riot Women

Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve got the same banging habitat mugs as Tamsin Grieg in Riot Women

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 5h

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Homan: "If the hateful rhetoric continues, there will be bloodshed. People are going to die ... there is going to be more bloodshed unless this hateful rhetoric stops."

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 4h

I am become middle aged when the DPD guy showed up with a TABLE that was supposed to arrive before 2pm and I said to him ‘what time do you call this??’

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 17h

One of the things I greatly admire about the @realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN is its achingly lonely vastness: enormous rooms, land that goes on and on, buildings that are bigger than a building seems like it could be. And yet, the story is very human and vital. See it in a theater.

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 7h

I also thought this was an incredibly bizarre and fitting companion piece to his equally beautiful Pinocchio.

Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 7h

I spent a lot of the movie thinking 'wow, Del Torro is such a filthy little creep about women who want to fuck monsters. I love him.' And also 'Del Torro makes fairy tales for adult audiences.'

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 7h

I spent 90 minutes of this movie desperate for the loo because I clearly can't watch movies in the morning when I've consumed coffee, which definitely hampered my experience, but I couldn't bring myself to leave. It was sweeping, beautiful, emotional, poetic Del Torro. I want to see it again.

The Verge @theverge.com · 8h

Netflix’s Frankenstein jolts the classic tale with del Toro’s signature flair

A new take on the familiar.

buff.ly

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 8h

I think Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN is very good and very Paradise Lost-y

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/m...

‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Creature Rises

www.nytimes.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h

oh my god the Riyadh Comedy Festival www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 8h

I think if I was the Arsenal PR person I'd be putting out tidbits with a little more caution, is all.

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 9h

That worked so well last time

Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 9h

Kai Havertz could be set to make his injury comeback for Arsenal ahead of schedule dailycannon.com/2025/10/have...

Kai Havertz injury latest hints at boost for Arsenal

Kai Havertz could be set to make his injury comeback for Arsenal ahead of schedule, according to reports.

dailycannon.com

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 1d

oh no we asked readers for Qs they would want to ask candidates at the debate and someone submitted one from chatgpt :(

subject line: "question to mayoral candidates (from chatgpt)"

you know what, brains are over. let's have chatgpt vote for us. let's have chatgpt run for office! who cares

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 9h

What a ledge

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Daley just posted this on TikTok #CelebrityTraitors

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