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Tim Goodman is the former award-winning Chief TV Critic for both The Hollywood Reporter (2010 to 2019) and The San Francisco Chronicle (2000 to 2010).

In 2019, he jumped the industry fence and took a two year, first-look development deal with FX to write television shows. Since the pandemic and the implosion of the TV industry — great timing, Tim! — he’s been writing a book, various scripts, this very Substack since January, 2022, freelance projects and TV industry consulting work.

He lives in Portland and the Bay Area.

He’s a modernist and existentialist and only does cool shit in the pursuit of happiness. His guiding philosophy is this Thoreau quote: “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

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The Bastard Machine. It’s TV+. Television criticism and other content from writer Tim Goodman, who’s currently writing TV shows (plus a novel).