Merri Palmer
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
School
North Heights Alternative School
Expertise
TV Series By Marginalized Creators, "Below Deck" Franchises, Futurism
- Merri can (and often does) perform the entire "Battlestar Galactica" theme song a capella.
- A lifelong performer and musician, Merri created a time- and dimension-travelling alter-ego to explore untapped storylines within the time travel and speculative fiction entertainment genres, and who can be found on her Instagram and website.
- Driven by writing and journalism, Merri started her first newspaper for her elementary school at 8 years old.
Experience
Merri Palmer is a writer, musician, and entertainment producer with a long history in the film and music industries. She's produced hundreds of concerts and multiple-day music festivals. She worked for years in the costumes and pyro departments for dozens of commercials, documentaries, and TV shows, including series from Rooster Teeth, AMC, Comedy Central, and National Geographic, providing her a unique look at the way televised stories are told. She's written music reviews for Bandsintown and other ATX publications. As a musician, she has always maintained a sci-fi-inflected, pop culture-friendly bent to her work: She once even wrote an ode to Kara Thrace of "Battlestar Galactica."
Education
Merri attended the North Heights Alternative School, where she founded The Fringe, the school paper (which continues to this day), and went on to publish her writing and editing in literary collection "Voices from the Heights."
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Stories By Merri Palmer
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Nobody says it's easy to sustain a high-quality procedural crime series for 30 years, but these are Law & Order storylines that fans are sick and tired of.
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As his many years of touring appear to be coming to a close, let's not forget Ozzy Osbourne contributed as much to reality TV as he did to heavy metal.
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Was Donald Glover's groundbreaking comedy-drama all a dream? Maybe it all happened except for Teddy Perkins? Here's the ending of Atlanta Season 4 explained.
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The eerily serene adoptive father of Orcs might be our new problematic fav. Here are Adar's best moments in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 1.
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Bear and the gang made it to California and met White Jesus, but there's much more to discuss. Here is the ending of Reservation Dogs Season 2 explained.
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If Rick considers good and evil meaningless abstract concepts, then how can Evil Morty be evil? Let's ponder this conundrum with the untold truth of Evil Morty.
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Kramer got all the attention back in the '90s, but the show never would've been a hit without Elaine. Here's Julia Louis-Dreyfus' best episodes of Seinfeld.
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It's the perfect time to take a look at some of the many ways in which "The Jetsons" was eerily correct about the future.