# overrated (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover overrated. Page: Feed: --- ## [My Therapist Might Be Insane](https://bradp.substack.com/p/my-therapist-might-be-insane) _2026-07-24 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ a true story that's slowly colonizing my mind ## [Inside Television](https://bradp.substack.com/p/inside-television) _2026-07-13 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ a short story recently published by The Metropolitan Review ## [Desperate Measures](https://bradp.substack.com/p/desperate-measures) _2026-06-25 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ recently published in the inaugural issue of Overwrite magazine ## [Steve Buscemi Is No Leading Man](https://bradp.substack.com/p/steve-buscemi-is-no-leading-man) _2026-06-20 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ 2 underrated movies, 1 overrated television show ## [That Time I Was Almost Kidnapped](https://bradp.substack.com/p/that-time-i-was-almost-kidnapped) _2026-06-16 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ a true Y2K story ## [Overrated & Underrated Artists pt. 3](https://bradp.substack.com/p/overrated-and-underrated-artists-56e) _2026-06-13 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ Lucian Freud & Robert Overby, with apologies to John Williamson for whom I'll soon get my shit together ## [Sarah Charlesworth, Academy of Secrets](https://bradp.substack.com/p/sarah-charlesworth-academy-of-secrets) _2026-06-02 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ published in the current issue of Aperture Magazine ## [All Juice, No Seeds: My Vasectomy & Me](https://bradp.substack.com/p/all-juice-no-seeds-my-vasectomy-and-0ee) _2026-05-19 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ published in Playboy in 2019, liberated from the paywall in 2026 ## [How to Self-Destruct](https://bradp.substack.com/p/how-to-self-destruct) _2026-05-15 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ writing commissioned by a magazine, then nixed ## [Dispatch, May 6th](https://bradp.substack.com/p/dispatch-may-6th) _2026-05-06 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ where I write unfocusedly about a few things ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fK7MAn2W5Ndq) _2026-05-06 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Art Show Art Show 2](https://bradp.substack.com/p/art-show-art-show-2) _2026-04-14 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ paintings from a solo show in 2008, with accompanying banter ## [Art Show Art Show](https://bradp.substack.com/p/art-show-art-show) _2026-04-12 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ paintings from a decades old solo exhibition ## [A Screed Against Art Fairs](https://bradp.substack.com/p/a-screed-against-art-fairs) _2026-04-10 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ published in Charlie White's The Enemy in 2014 ## [Some Movies I Vouch For](https://bradp.substack.com/p/the-motion-pictures-4da) _2026-04-09 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ a list of movies I love, with rambling justifications ## [Overrated & Underrated Artists pt 2](https://bradp.substack.com/p/overrated-and-underrated-artists-07e) _2026-04-02 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ Jackson Pollock & Paul Feeley ## [Every Year of My Life - 1976](https://bradp.substack.com/p/every-year-of-my-life-1976) _2026-03-31 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ Happy Days starring Patty Hearst ## [Previously paywalled post now UNLOCKED, big news](https://bradp.substack.com/p/previously-paywalled-post-now-unlocked) _2026-03-30 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ Posted and paywalled in 2023, set free in 2026 ## [3 Perfect Paintings](https://bradp.substack.com/p/3-perfect-paintings) _2026-03-27 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ from deep within the belly of art history ## [Jerry Seinfeld Is a Hack](https://bradp.substack.com/p/jerry-seinfeld-is-a-hack) _2026-03-19 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ Television & Painting, Part 1 ## [Realizations & Revelations, 2026](https://bradp.substack.com/p/realizations-and-revelations-2026) _2026-03-13 · Brad Phillips · Brad Phillips_ and it's only March, I'm gonna realize and revelate so much more ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Li3tf2o8umei) _2026-03-13 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [What Went Wrong With… Homophobia In Mainstream Hip-Hop Music?](https://whatwentwrongwith.com/2025/07/15/what-went-wrong-with-homophobia-in-mainstream-hip-hop-music/) _2025-07-15 · What Went Wrong Or Right With...? · WHAT WENT WRONG WITH…?_ Back in High School, it always puzzled me that the most homophobic boys were also “jocks”. To me it was extremely ironic to hear a group of garrulous kids yacking about “fags” while they undressed in front of each other and showered together, two of the most faggot-y \[…\] [Listen](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Ye_-_Cousins.ogg) ## [What Went Wrong With… YouTube Movie Critics?](https://whatwentwrongwith.com/2025/03/06/what-went-wrong-with-youtube-movie-critics/) _2025-03-06 · What Went Wrong Or Right With...? · WHAT WENT WRONG WITH…?_ Contemporary film criticism is so excruciatingly dull and unvaried, not to mention biased. I suppose it’s apt that as Hollywood movies have become monotonous and tedious to watch, so too have its so-called critics. Never has there been such a palpable cult-like atmosphere where the self-important and the \[…\] ## [What Went Wrong With… Blink Twice (2024)?](https://whatwentwrongwith.com/2025/01/07/what-went-wrong-with-blink-twice-2024/) _2025-01-07 · What Went Wrong Or Right With...? · WHAT WENT WRONG WITH…?_ Blink Twice isn’t merely an overrated movie, it suffers from many problems, including one glaring issue with the plot that I just couldn’t get past. I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s common sense not to wear expensive jewellery out in the street because it might get nicked. You \[…\] ## [What Went Wrong With… Censoring The Song “Fairytale Of New York” By The Pogues (And Other Art)?](https://whatwentwrongwith.com/2024/12/04/what-went-wrong-with-censoring-the-song-fairytale-of-new-york-by-the-pogues-and-other-art/) _2024-12-04 · What Went Wrong Or Right With...? · WHAT WENT WRONG WITH…?_ It’s that time of the year again; the air becomes frigid (like your mum), the nights become darker (like your mum’s perineum) and both television and radio becomes shittier (like your mum’s underwear). The point of that last sentence was to wake up all those slowly sleepwalking into \[…\] ## [What Went Wrong With… Defiance (2008)?](https://whatwentwrongwith.com/2024/10/07/what-went-wrong-with-defiance-2008/) _2024-10-07 · What Went Wrong Or Right With...? · WHAT WENT WRONG WITH…?_ Defiance is a film that stars Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber as the real-life Bielski brothers, who “defied” the Nazis and saved Jews from extermination, recruiting them into their resistance group. Despite the Bielski partisans committing various violent acts, my telly’s EPG tells me this is a “true \[…\] ## [What Went Wrong With… The Substance (2024)?](https://whatwentwrongwith.com/2024/09/27/what-went-wrong-with-the-substance-2024/) _2024-09-27 · What Went Wrong Or Right With...? · WHAT WENT WRONG WITH…?_ I’m retired from doing this shit but a free ticket’s a free ticket and when I’m confronted with non-stop praise for a flick and it then turns out to be disappointing, I feel I have to vent my filmic spleen. I mean, just take a look at the \[…\]