Needs Some Introduction
As a lifelong film and TV fan I try to bring historical knowledge of narrative trends to my weekly analysis and reviews (and hopefully a bit of humor also).
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Sunday Jan 08, 2023
Sunday Jan 08, 2023
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It's a new season and we are about to get HBO's highly anticipated The Last of Us adaptation. In anticipation I provide some background on the project and the reason I am so interested in it despite my general exhaustion with zombie stories.
But before that, I go recommendation crazy in reference to the new hit movie M3gan (which I have seen and mildly recommend) which made me want to recommend many other films (which I thought were better).
Finally, we also discuss the 2016 film, The Girl with All the Gifts, one of the better recent zombie films and how it's themes may intersect with what we may be seeing in this new HBO series.
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
In preparation for next week's premier of Your Honor's second season. Sona and I discuss the ups and downs of the first season.
Then, I have many revelations during my very first rewatch of the first season of Breaking Bad.
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Breaking Bad - Season 1 rewatch - 37:00
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
Saturday Dec 31, 2022
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A glimmer of hope for Toby, Rachel and Libby. A new start for Seth. The series ends beautifully. Let's hope the audience starts to show up.
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
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After some brief movie reviews; Avatar: The Way of Water, Glass Onion (Netflix) and The Banshees of Inisherin; Sona, Celia and discuss the year in our recaps and wrap up the episode with our recap of the seventh episode of Fleishman Is in Trouble. We finally find out where Rachel has been.
Merry Christmas
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Sona and I have some additional thoughts on the finale and overall season of The White Lotus.
Then we catch up on the two most recent episodes of Fleishman Is in Trouble.
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
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Our instant reaction to this often thrilling and occasionally funny (but possibly disappointing) final episode to the season.
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Amazon Prime can be a bit of a content hole but there are many good shows to be found there. Here are just some that fans of The Peripheral may want to sample.
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
We approach the end of the season with a mostly grim episode. At least Valentina has a happy birthday after an initial setback.
I briefly review the return of the British spy series Slow Horses on AppleTV+ and also have sampled the slight and mildly entertaining Three Pines on Amazon Plus.
Plus we break down another excellent episode of Fleishman Is in Trouble on Hulu
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
A disappointing wrap up to the show but it does leave all those tantalizing questions open for exploration, next season, and there does seem to be a very good chance at a second season... although there has not yet been any announcement.
Then Nick, Ray and I geek out on the excellent season of Andor and also talk all things MCU (She Hulk, Black Panter 2, Guardians Christmas special).
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
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For whom does the bell toll? Seems like a lot of possibilities, this week. All the plots escalate. This is a moody episode as we nearly completely abandon comedy for what seems more and more likely to be a tragedy.
Then we discuss the brilliant third episode of the FX/Hulu production, Fleischman is in Trouble.