Television
Season 4, Episode 8: “Green”; Episode 9: “Tonnato”; Episode 10: “Goodbye” The thing about a streaming show is that you can be done with it at any time, if you truly want to be done with it. Actually, this is true of almost everything, but most people weirdly don’t
Television
Season 4, Episode 7: “Bears” This family wedding reception-themed episode was fully one entire hour long, but it felt as long as a family wedding reception actually is. It attempted to repeat the success of Season 2’s “Fishes”, which was one hour long and stuffed with family-playing guest stars.
Book Review
Yes, I Read War & Peace! Look, it’s not classy, but I gotta take my victory lap. I read War & Peace, all one-thousand two-hundred and twenty-four pages of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. The project did require two months and I did return the book to the library
Television
Season 4, Episode 6: “Sophie” I know what this show has come to remind me of. I couldn’t think of it for a long time, but now I know. It reminds me of the TV scripts I used to write in 8th grade that were about thinly-veiled versions of
Television
Season 4, Episode 5: “Replicants” This episode was a collection of random scenes stuffed into a pillowcase. And the pillowcase has insufferable taste in music. I resisted writing this review. I dreaded writing this review. I struggled internally about how to make this review entertaining, let alone informative. I guess
Television
Season 4, Episode 4: “Worms” And then Bear stocks went back up again! I can’t take this kind of rollercoaster ride; I fully do not like rollercoasters. But I cannot deny that this was a charming episode. Critical to its charm is that it was all about Syd, a
Cinema
I Break My Silence My silence lasted roughly ten minutes I went to see the new Superman movie with my family over the weekend. Those of you who haven’t followed me for the last twenty-five years don’t know this, but Superman is a big part of my (non-theistic
Television
Season 4 Episode 3: “Scallop” Television giveth, and mercilessly television taketh away. This episode opened with an extended montage of Syd cooking and plating a scallop under soft bisexual lighting while an irritating licensed song played. It continued, ad infinitum, until Carmy tasted the scallop and declared it perfect. This
Cinema
Q2 is over, and it was our most productive quarter on the record (we only have six quarters on the record). However, for that reason, it was also a fairly thin quarter for the Cinema. I went to the movie theater twice, maybe. Biggest Ws The biggest W regarding the
Television
Season 4 Episode 2: “Soubise” This episode was markedly better than the premiere. There appeared on the horizon development, conflict, and growth. When Carmy made not one but two forward movements in his self-direction, I gasped aloud. We may still win this one. The core events of this installment surround
Television
Season 4 Episode 1: “Groundhogs” Unfortunately, since reviewing the 2025 Best Novel Hugo nominees, I’ve become addicted to negativity. For that reason, I’m introducing a new 10-part limited series here on the blog: Mission UnBearable, an episode-by-episode review of the new (final?) season of The Bear. You might
Book Review
I encountered the work of Peter S. Beagle for the first time recently. Yes, I’ve never even read The Last Unicorn. Am I a Fake Fantasy Fan? Indubitably. I have seen the animated film, which is weird and yet touching and yet baffling. I know that Peter S. Beagle