i’m coleman spilde (pronounced spill-dee), and yes, i’m going to write my own website in first person. i’m an entertainment critic at the daily beast, covering television, film, music, and pop culture calamity. above this paragraph is me on Halloween 2020 dressed as Elizabeth Hurley in Bedazzled, just one of the many references i can’t get out of my big, square head. i have a background in media studies, cultural analysis, and advertising and i’ve spent my whole life fiendishly consuming every morsel of entertainment i can get my hands on. i love experiencing worlds through films, getting lost in a soundcloud rabbit hole finding emerging artists to support, adding a new television series to my extremely varied rolodex, and sticking my big norwegian nose into corners of the internet to research and write about it all. and yes, i’m working on updating my resumé and clips pages—bear with me, it’s hard being busy and beautiful at the same time.