Agony Booth Archives

Hi there! My name is Scooter, and I used to write for the Agony Booth, a great website that used recaps, rather than reviews, to critique films, series, and other media, calling out what worked and gleefully mocking what didn’t.

Ever since the Agony Booth shut down around the start of 2022, I’ve been wanting to rescue my own contributions to the site, all of which date from the Booth’s earlier text-and-images phase. This archive is all about doing just that. At some point I’d also love to repost past AB contributions from other authors should they choose to give me permission to do so, but mainly I just wanted to see my own stuff again.

Agony Booth Archives is not affiliated with the progenitor of the original Agony Booth, who later wrote under the name Dr. Winston O’Boogie, and whose hard work, diligence, and wit made the Booth and the entertainment it provided possible.

New content appears below; for the full list see the archive page. To get in touch with me, use the contact form here.

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Shout-out to the team at Internet Archive, whose Wayback Machine made the recovery of much of the above material from the defunct Agony Booth site possible. To show your gratitude for their amazing work and to keep it going for future generations, consider donating to this nonprofit organization here. Huge appreciation also to the founder of The Agony Booth and his team of writers, editors, and vloggers, who put untold hours of passion into a site that entertained people worldwide for twenty years. Thanks for that, and for letting me be a small part of it.