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Eric Vilas-Boas
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@vulture.com writer and editor covering animation, streaming, movies, and TV | die-hard fan of hiking and physical media

“i’m not a miracle worker, i’m a janitor”
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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · Nov 15
with more folks on bluesky, a re-introduction! I'm an entertainment journalist, currently editing at Vulture. I cover streaming and animation, mostly, and I'm a big fan of physical media and old-school anime.

Here are five recentish pieces I was happy with...
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fenixpj.bsky.social
Chris Sabat's best (yes BEST) role and performance
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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zackdavisson.com
If you know someone who is super into DANDADAN or DEMON SLAYER or KPOP DEMON HUNTERS or GODZILLA, why not get them a book for Christmas that will explain and deepen their understanding of something they already love?

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI

amzn.to/4rq4UXY
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
ericvb.bsky.social
just saw that over the holiday I was quoted in this fun @aarongoldfarb.bsky.social piece "Did I Write the Most Viral Drinks Story of All Time?"

what a time to be alive -- read it at @vinepair.com vinepair.com/articles/lea...
Did I Write the Most Viral Drinks Story of All Time?
Back in 2014 I was still trying to find my way as a booze writer. Like the few dozen or so of us in the field then, I’d kind of gotten into the business accidentally. I had once wanted to be a screenw...
vinepair.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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tvmojoe.bsky.social
As I suspected, that big Mad
Men 4K foul up was a studio error, it seems. Someone at Lionsgate messed up. @ericvb.bsky.social has the scoop. www.vulture.com/article/mad-...
The Mad Men Rollout on HBO Max Might Make Fans Vomit
Thanks to a screwup in the file transfers, the show’s 4K release is riddled with errors.
www.vulture.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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russfischer.bsky.social
Something I discovered at my last job: Licensor TV libraries are shockingly chaotic. I'd be given "full access" to a series, only to find mislabeled, disorganized, and incomplete catalogs, which created questions no one at the company could or would answer.
ericvb.bsky.social Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 9h
UPDATE: This actually wasn't HBO Max's fault.

Source tells me incorrect files were delivered to HBO Max. Lionsgate is working on getting them the right files now and those corrected files will be posted as soon as possible.

updated @vulture.com >>>
www.vulture.com/article/mad-...
The Mad Men Rollout on HBO Max Might Make Fans Vomit
Thanks to a screwup in the file transfers, the show’s 4K release is riddled with errors.
www.vulture.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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walthickey.bsky.social
ok now that its solved we can agree that this cockup is amazing right
ericvb.bsky.social Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 9h
UPDATE: This actually wasn't HBO Max's fault.

Source tells me incorrect files were delivered to HBO Max. Lionsgate is working on getting them the right files now and those corrected files will be posted as soon as possible.

updated @vulture.com >>>
www.vulture.com/article/mad-...
The Mad Men Rollout on HBO Max Might Make Fans Vomit
Thanks to a screwup in the file transfers, the show’s 4K release is riddled with errors.
www.vulture.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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mattielubchansky.com
man it really is very demoralizing to be bowing and scraping for months to get a crumb of coverage of a book as criticism is basically sidelined in every publication just to see some shit like olivia nuzzi's crap get more and more and more and more and more oxygen lol
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
ericvb.bsky.social
screwing this up on MAD MEN of all shows is kind of insane to me
The Mad Men Rollout on HBO Max Might Make Fans Vomit
The show’s new 4K release is riddled with errors.
www.vulture.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
ericvb.bsky.social
that kind of day
repost count at 665 reposting something to get them to 666
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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bartenderhemry.bsky.social
Also they're just sick. They're killing people and whether you think it's justified or not (obviously it's not) that should mean something. Instead they're running around laughing like an axe murderer in some terrible horror movie. Completely broken people
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d
There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Writer-painter Josh Hickman, my friend since high school, wrote a powerful book about being his mother's caretaker during her decline from dementia. Reading it healed me after going through a similar experience. I recommend it to all caregivers. We carry it signed by Josh. mzs.press/SIGNED-Forge...
Screenshot of a section of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: She was… difficult," I have caught myself, sighing weakly, in unguarded and honest moment since my mother's passing. In fact, she was probably the most difficult person I've ever known. She was difficult to deal with, difficult to communicate with, and difficult, if not impossible, to please. When I asked about her by those who had never met her, she also remained somewhat difficult to describe. For me – especially the younger version of me – she was a frightening and enigmatic contradiction, only predictable in her unpredictability. She affected a misplaced aristocratic, even snobbish air, such that many, who didn't know her well thought her well educated, or perhaps some sort of blue blood, but she came from a poor, broken Canadian home and never attended college. She strive to appear polished and controlled, though she possessed a virtually unveiled violent temper. She was endlessly critical, overbearing and argumentative. She always acted as if she deserved better, no matter what she was getting. Where did all this come from? At times I still catch myself struggling to figure it out." Excerpt from forgetting, Josh Hickman's memoir about caring for his mother as she declined from dementia: "One evening, she rose from the couch to go to the bathroom, stumbled, wobbled for a long moment, then collapsed in a heap on the carpet. Horrified, I jumped up and examined her, trying to rouse her, but she was unconscious. Panicking, I dragged her by the armpits back onto the couch, noticing she had soiled her underwear. Yanking the underwear off and throwing them in the bathtub, I pulled her sweatpants up and stared into her ashen face. Was she dying? My mind raced as I tried to figure out what to do. For the moment, I handled things myself in lieu of calling 911. Remembering a brief conversation from months carlier, I recalled her vagucly mentioning she had been diagnosed with a heart condition, a diagnosis she had of course brushed off as "bullshit." She had been given a prescription for this which she wasn't taking. The ailment was atrial fibrillation, which can cause sudden tachycardia and subsequent fainting, My mind shot to the incident of her "falling" on the balcony and breaking her wrist. I hurriedly scoured her voluminous medicine closet, found the medication she had shown me, pulled a pill out, then tried to jiggle her awake so I could force it in her mouth. Her eyes finally opened after several tense seconds, widening as she stared blankly at me. As I yelled at her to wake up and take the pill, she gazed at me vacantly, as if she had no idca who I was. Was she having a stroke? My mind raced. I knew strokes were also possible due to blood pooling in the atrium, especially if one..." Excerpt from Josh Hickman's book Forgetting, about caring for his mother during her decline from dementia: "I had barely I finally informed my mother that she had had nearly two months to mentally and physically prepare herself for this last move, and the time had arrived. Still, she claimed that she hadn't understood that we were actually moving to the condo. She said she thought that was just an "idea." Forced to ignore her protests yet again, I told her she could wait on her couch, and I would do my best to have it packed last. I thought it might help her to actually see the boxes and furniture physically leaving the apartment, that it might aid her in comprehending the inevitable was actually happening before her eyes. I figured it might be best to depart the empty apartment together, mysclf, my mother, and Sammy driving last to the new place as it filled up with our belongings." The cover of Josh Hickman's book Forgetting: The Trials and Tribulations of Caring for a Difficult Parent with Dementia. The cover on the photo shows the author's mother, a woman with brown hair, wearing a black pullover, holding the author as a toddler. He is reaching out to touch her collar. Behind them is a Texaco station in front of a shopping mall in Dallas in the 1970s.
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.

🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
WSJ Gentry Beach, a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. and campaign donor to his father, has been in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project if it is released from sanctions. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. who is helping him seek a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from a Russian state-owned company. One sign that he may be serious is that some of his most-trusted friends, sanctioned billionaires from his St. Petersburg hometown-Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk and the Rotenberg brothers, Boris and Arkady-have sent representatives to quietly meet American companies to explore rare-earth mining and energy deals, according to people familiar with the meetings and European security officials. That includes reviving the giant Nord Stream pipeline, sabotaged by Ukrainian tactical divers, and under European Union sanctions. Earlier this year, Exxon Mobil met with Russia's biggest state energy company, Rosneft, to discuss returning to the massive Sakhalin gas project if Moscow and Washington gave the green light.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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zackdavisson.com
I worked with Discotek when they first started putting out these releases to create a Leiji Matsumoto Bible to ensure that all of the terms would be consistent between the manga and anime releases

No other company ever asked me to do that. It showed how much they cared. I have mad respect for them
discotekmedia.bsky.social Discotek Media @discotekmedia.bsky.social · 6d
Galaxy Express 999 - TV Series Complete Collection is out!

The entire classic 113 episode TV series from Leiji Matsumoto featuring the adventures of Tetsuro & Maetel traveling the galaxy in a single set!

store.crunchyroll.com/products/gal...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Hh...
Galaxy Express 999 - TV Series Complete Collection - Opening from Blu-ray
YouTube video by Discotek Media
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November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026.
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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henrytcasey.net
NYC: it's playing at Metrograph in December! metrograph.com/film/?vista_...
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
ericvb.bsky.social
A few filmmakers and other Hollywood folks were kind enough to answer my emails this week. Happy Thanksgiving from @vulture.com 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
Happy Thanksgiving, to those who celebrate
rob-sheridan.com Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · Nov 28
Blessing Bluesky with a cherished #Thanksgihing tradition: Revisiting the time millions of kids had to witness Barney the Dinosaur collapse to the ground and get stabbed to death by cops during the 1997 Macys Parade. 💫
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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ndhapple.bsky.social
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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IT’S JUST SUCH A GOOD LOOKING SHOOOOOOOWW
Mamoru (Tuxedo Mask) and Usagi (Sailor Moon) in an evil elevator Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus in a surreal monochrome swirl Luna and Artemis the cats in a similar swirl Fire energy racing up the tree-like interior of a Dark Kingdom skyscraper Sailor Moon - The Shining Silver Crystal: The Moon Princess Appears
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
found a free pdf copy here
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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rollinbishop.com
At the risk of being entirely too earnest online, thanks for reading.

me in re:frame #33:
Anime is better with you
Fellowship isn't only for Lord of the Rings.
buttondown.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM