Welcome to a different kind of HYPERFIX! Normally, I write about a bunch of random obsessions. This week? We must talk discuss all things Lindy West, polyamory and millennial feminism. I wish it wasn’t this way, but I don’t believe I can move on until I get all the discourse out of my system. War is happening. An energy crisis l…

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New Crafts

I’m still crafting to support good causes. I already told you I started making mini designer bag charms, but I am also continuing my SATC homage. I have finally made the Charlotte phone case and Marnie phone grip. It’ll be up later this week!

Reddit told me you can do sublimation on nylon tights, so I’m doing that. Can’t decide on a design to test first, so if you have any tight ideas, let me know.

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Stuff I Got This Week

• Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging by Jamilah Lemieux. I love Jamilah’s work so I had to get this on the kindle ASAP.

• I finally went to Maru coffee in Los Feliz. I am sad to report it was worth the wait.

• I’ve been smoking a lot of Maven Genetics and recently started enjoying their Halos. It’s a rosin-infused pre-roll that is real tasty. I like French Diamonds.

Stuff I Did and Thought This Week

• Last night I did a show at Nico’s. I made a joke about looking like a goth Willy Wonka. It was a very whimsical look. Like I owned a Hot Topic that sold incense. Like someone at HBO said, “We need a Chris Fleming for black women! A middle-aged woman who can name all the Living Single characters!” and then when I got off stage someone was like “Did you know Chris was here?” I did not. I just started making fun of myself before I left the house. Anyway, Chris did let me know that he was thinking “I should wear more polka dots and velvet” when I said it.

• Stayed up all night watching Vladimir on Netflix even though it made me so angry. I’ve never hated a female character so much, but then I loved her.

• I don’t care what Timothee Chalamet thinks about ballet or the opera. Not at all. Not once. Not ever.

• I finally put some of my clothes on poshmark and depop! I will empty my closet and be one of those people with organized, signature pieces. I WILL.

• Secret Lives of Mormon Wives comes back tomorrow so I will have a reason to live again.

• I became a regular at a local restaurant I really like and this is one of the best things that has happened in my 7 years in Los Angeles.

• I put some new stuff in my Writer Resource Folder if you want some writing, acting, podcasting tips or you wanna read some scripts.

• Remember Girl Talk? idk why he’s just been on my mind.

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Okay, let’s get into the real obsession of the week: Love is Blind. The reunion for the most boring season aired last night and it delivered very little. That’s what we all thought would happen. It was obvious this was not a successful season for the “experiment.” Only two couples ended up saying yes and only one made it to the reunion (Christine and Vic, duh.) Ohio should’ve been easy for Love is Blind. I’m from the Midwest. It’s very easy to fall in love there. All they had to do was swing through a cornfield and find a few guys with actual, real jobs. Instead we got a loser parade of wannabe manosphere influencers.

People said a lot about Traitors needing a tune up. As always, I think those people are wrong. Traitors is perfect and never needs to change. If any franchise is in need of help, it’s Love is Blind. Everything about it is tired now. The format, the contestants, the experiment? All bad. All of it just makes you roll your eyes and fast forward to the part someone online talked about. There are some easy, but major, changes the show could make to keep things interesting. The Ohio reunion didn’t inspire hope that Love is Blind would ever be brave enough to make those changes.

Love is Blind seems content to choose horrible, unemployed man-boys who will turn female contestants into social media superstars for enduring their behavior. This creates viral moments. It doesn’t create solid or interesting relationships. At the same time, no one wants to see average, boring people fall in love. They could find the balance between those things, but no. To up the drama, Love is Blind has started including people with kids. This is another mistake. There’s no world where it’s appropriate to marry someone who has only known your kid in person for less than a week. It’s not fair to the person with kids or anyone who might match with them.

The answer to fixing Love is Blind is actually in another Netflix show: Age of Attraction. After watching all of the available Age of Attraction episodes today, I think they could make one good dating show if you combined them.

Right now though? I can’t say either is worth the watch. What Age of Attraction gets wrong could help Love is Blind become relevant again.

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This was going to be a thing about Heated Rivalry, SNL and why people can’t seem to be normal about the show. That’s not even a top I particularly care about. It seems pretty obvious that love+hot actors=success and infatuation. I’m making crafts making fun of it. Your mom knows about it. Also so many other…

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Well. Happy one year anniversary to the last HYPERFIX! Remember when we were so stoked on the first season of The Pitt? Grey’s Anatomy being good again (it’s not good anymore)? Wow. Time flies.

If you forgot, Hyperfix is a weekly update on the things I’m currently obsessing over, made real quick for you. I’ve gotten into some crazy things since we l…

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So sorry this week’s HYPERFIX is coming at you in the evening! Honestly? I am in an intense Duolingo battle right now with a guy who will NOT stop trying to come for my #1 spot. My usual writing time had to go to that. Obviously.

This week, let’s talk about The Pitt, three new true crime documentaries and other TV things. Also, if you’re in NYC or LA, I have some shows coming up. Look at that beautiful Flex line-up.

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The Pitt (Max)

I switched up my Substack because I didn’t want to focus on TV anymore. It’s not my fault that TV is so fucking back, I have no choice but to tell you about it.

I’ll admit that all of YOU told me about this one, actually. I was slow to watch this. I wasn’t in the mood for another hospital drama. As I’ve said many times, I still watch Grey’s Anatomy. A few people on Bluesky begged me to check it out. Thank god for them. I love The Pitt. This show is incredible.

It’s not ER. It’s not Grey’s Anatomy. It’s The Pitt. Each episode is one hour in the day of a group of ER doctors and medical students. Noah Wyle plays Dr. Robby, a near perfect man. We follow him on the anniversary of his mentor’s death. He’s clearly not over it. He’s tense. He’s on edge. He’s also the best goddamn doctor they’ve got. He’s basically Meredith Grey.

I fell in love immediately and watched 7 episodes in a day. Watching it is an experience, so I don’t want to say too much. Go watch it, we’ll have a real discussion after the finale.

NECESSARY DOCUMENTARIES

I watch too many documentaries. Here are my thoughts.

American Murder: Gabby Petito, 2025 (Netflix)

The latest installment of American Murder takes on the Gabby Petito case. I’ve enjoyed this series. American Murder has done a great job centering the stories of victims and working with families. The other two installments, Laci Peterson and The Family Next Door both seek to correct the record to defend Peterson and Shanann Watts. Gabby Petito’s documentary attempts to do the same, to mixed results.

Because this case is so recent, most people know the details. Instead, they focus on Gabby as a person through her friends and videos. This is one of the better parts of the documentary, though there’s some controversy there. Gabby’s family allowed them to use her letters and text messages. Rather than hire a voice actor to read them like most true crime docs, American Murder used AI to recreate Gabby’s voice. Her family also approved of that, but it definitely brings up some ethical questions.

I don’t mind the use of AI here. I can understand if the family didn’t want to hear actors try to sound like their daughter. Netflix has gone too far before, though. In the documentary What Jessica Did, they used AI to create fake pictures of her. That’s not okay. That’s just unethical. An AI voice to read texts and letters the person actually wrote? It’s different.

People on Twitter said they should just show the text and let people read it so that the victim’s “voice isn’t stolen.” Well, first of all, Netflix would hate that because they know you’re looking at your phone and not the TV screen. Then there’s y’know, people who struggle with reading. And people who are vision impaired and use audio descriptions on their TV. It feels like this reaction is mostly driven by people hating all things AI. I also hate all things AI. At the same time, I cannot understand why people have an issue with this, but had no issue with voice actors doing it for decades. Were they “stealing the victim’s voice”?

Outside of the AI issue, this doc is great at laying out the full story. It mostly lets the evidence speak for itself. The full bodycam footage when the cops pull them over is difficult to watch. Some new details are shared around the timeline, but it doesn’t try to tease a big reveal. This is the story of Gabby and what domestic violence looks like. Her family wanted her texts and letters shared because they really showcase how controlling and manipulative Brian was.

My biggest issue? The doc’s ending. The final message is that Gabby always wanted to be a content creator. When she died, she only had one video on her YouTube with ~400 views. Now, the video has over 7 million views. The doc tries to make this feel good, but it’s just crass. They could’ve ended on the work of the Gabby Petito Foundation and efforts to help women of color who are missing. Instead, they want us to smile because she got internet famous in death?

It’s worth watching if you want to know about the case, but it isn’t as good as the other entries in the American Murder series.

The Fox Hollow Murders, 2025 (Hulu)

Did you know the largest collection of unidentified bones after 9/11 is from some guy’s house in Indiana? In 1996, Herb Baumeister allegedly killed two dozen men and buried them in his backyard. His wife had no idea he was doing this or that he was gay. She did, however, call police when their son found a human skull in the yard.

After one victim managed to escape and go to police (that is a wholeeee other part of the story), police go to the guy’s estate, Fox Hollow. They immediately find over 10,000 bone fragments. They find so many bones, the state of Indiana decides they don’t want to deal with identifying them and the family can pay for DNA testing if they think one of them might be their missing relative.

Because it was assumed all the victims were gay men, the cops did not care. Now, a new coroner is trying to test and identify all the remains. The cops cared so little about this case, they didn’t even arrest Herb when they found a graveyard at his house. They did have a warrant, so they let him go. He went on the run and eventually killed himself in Canada. He left behind a lot of questions, but new information hints that there could be a possible accomplice.

This doc is great. They take time to tell the stories of the identified victims. Their families share what it means to find them and have their story told.

Who Is Luigi Mangione? (Max)

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Happy first month of HYPERFIX!! I hope my fixations have made you feel less alone. Or inspired you to learn a language, watch a documentary or climb Mt. Everest. I’m excited about a lot of things right now, so we should probably just get into it.

Also, again: Are you following me on Bluesky? Or Threads? or Substack? Or TikTok? Or beehiiv? Or Patreon…

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Welcome to another HYPERFIX!! This week we’re talking OJ Simpson, Paradise and Lily Collins’ surrogacy. Perfectly uncontroversial topics.

Also, are you following me on Bluesky? Or Threads? or Substack? Or TikTok? Or beehiiv? Or Patreon? Or hell, even Rednote? You can even hit me up on Duolingo. Or anywhere that is not Twitter. Because I just can’t d…

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Welcome back to HYPERFIX and thanks for your positive comments on this new format. It’s been fun moving all my thoughts from Twitter to a long-form platform!

This week’s fix is for paid subscribers. Let’s get into some reality TV show thoughts, whether my dentist lied about mouthguards, Ozempic, pot and some docs.

Also did you know Tim Allen is on TV…

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Welcome to HYPERFIX, a subset of Deep Trouble. Some of you have asked for weekly recommendation lists of the documentaries, TV shows, and other weird things I’m into. This is that! Also, I think Substack has made it mandatory to do these little recommendation list things, so whatever.

A friend said they love following me because they get to see what…

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