Welcome to The Bastard Machine...

...with Tim Goodman

By the summer of 2019 — exhilarating maskless days, if you can remember! — I was very much over being a TV critic. I had been one for about two decades and done everything I could possibly do by then save for writing a non-fiction book about that particular world and nothing seemed less appealing except for maybe shooting myself in the face.

I was at the…