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The best television of 2022
Congratulations to us! We have once again survived a year of “content,” and yet another etch on the sliding scale between what used to be short- and long-form filmed storytelling, and whatever this medium is en route to becoming. And hey, bonus round: we did at least a sixth of it without twitter. And how…
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Well, it ain’t Andor
It happened quickly. Sitting in the dark pushing my way through the muddy middle plotting of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, or more recently this week, absorbing the tonal mishmash of the first two episodes of Disney+’s new Willow extension. “Well, it ain’t Andor,” my brain shrugged, and my expectations — and interest — accordingly dropped.…
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Rix Road
“THE DEAD SPEAK!!” So began the final episode of A More Civilized Age‘s mini-season of Andor coverage, recapping and responding to the season finale of Lucasfilm’s finest achievement in the Disney era*. Since about twelve hours after I got back from Egypt, I having been devouring this podcast ravenously. I’ve had cause to reflect, in…
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Fans want power
in which it becomes clear that power fantasies for children have fucked up a generation or two of grown-ups
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Should I stay or should I go
Twitter, now irretrievably devalued and set on a course to imminent or eventual obsolescence by the whims of a lousy billionaire with delusions of grandeur, was my social platform of choice. It wasn’t a “hell site,” though as a white cis man in an affluent country, it wouldn’t be (for me). It didn’t give me…
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Death on the Nile
So, which way does your brain cast? Forward or back? Sideways? Are there other options? Mine is stuck on “forward” most times, forever modelling the next sequence of events in nervous partial disregard of whatever is in front of it, right now. It makes watching a movie, or particularly a few movies in a row,…
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“The Republic doesn’t exist out here”
Here I am again: early-praising something that I’m sure will turn out to be heartily disappointing, or incomplete, or about Luke Skywalker, or will reach its endgame to reveal that it was actually the detailed backstory of Grand Moff Jerjerrod all along. (Looking at you, Karn.) But I cannot help it: as someone on the…
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