Hello Ministry subscribers!
Our first nine months of Ministry of Pop Culture have been a joy for the five of us. We have been able to write about everything from visiting the real-life locations from Schitt’s Creek to asking television writers to script the 2024 election. We have devoted ourselves to our wraparound coverage of television series like The White Lotus, Severance, and The Rehearsal, and to our exclusive interviews with everyone from the jam band Guster to Emily Nussbaum to the writers behind beloved episodes of Friends, Gilmore Girls, and more.
It has been a pleasure to be able to invest ourselves so thoroughly in work we believe in, especially as mainstream cultural journalism continues crashing and burning. (Not great, folks!) We are so grateful and appreciative for all of your support! We do not take it lightly, and we hope to keep doing the best work we possibly can to continue earning that trust.
We hope to continue growing Ministry of Pop Culture for many years to come. We are also people with boring middle-aged-person things like children and apartments and grocery bills. With that being said, this is our notice that we are planning to (gently!) increase the cost of a Ministry of Pop Culture subscription to $6 per month or $60 per year. But before we do that, we wanted to offer each of you, who have been with us from the earliest days, a chance to lock in a subscription at the old price of $5 per month, or $50 per year. Subscribers who upgrade before our deadline of Friday, June 6 will receive:
--Unlimited access to our paywalled articles, including our exclusive conversations with television luminaries.
--Discounts on upcoming workshops featuring the Ministry crew, from TV history lessons and celebrity interview tips to freelance pitching and getting your book published. Paid subscribers will receive 10% off the next year’s workshop events.
--An invitation to our newly launched monthly office hours, where we can talk about everything from the publishing industry to The Pitt. (OK, I just really want to talk about The Pitt with someone, and all of my colleagues are bums who have not watched it.)
And one more thing! If you upgrade your subscription by June 6, we will send you a personalized recommendation—email us at ministryofpopculture24@gmail.com with three books, movies, albums, or TV shows that you have recently loved, and we will recommend something great that is just perfect for you.
Thank you!
Saul and the Ministry of Pop Culture team
P.S.: Here are some more of our favorite stories from the last few months!
A Dispatch from the Real-Life Creepy Town in 'Severance'
Visiting the real sites of Kier, from the birthing center and Woe's Hollow to Irv's apartment and the Great Doors factory.
The Pandemic in Popular Culture, Five Years Later
The story of COVID in 7 scenes, from "How To with John Wilson" to "Station Eleven."