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  • Severance S01


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    Read time:

    6–9 minutes
    Severance S01
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    Is this praxis? It’s good enough for me. This is a labor movement story, through and through, and it’s good at what it’s doing. You feel for the workers’ predicament—it’s torturous—and are naturally led to consider what parallels can be…

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  • Emily the Criminal


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    Read time:

    2–4 minutes
    Emily the Criminal
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    Allow me to be a hater for a moment. This is slop. A “simulacrum of a movie” is how my friend described it. It certainly has all the parts of a movie, but it’s not clear the writer-director actually knew…

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  • Better Call Saul


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    Read time:

    4–6 minutes
    Better Call Saul
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    Better Call Saul is a masterfully executed tale of social order, crime, and ennui. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’re doing yourself a disservice. While the series stands on its own and does not necessarily need to be compared…

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  • Star Trek: Picard S01–02


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    Read time:

    15–23 minutes
    Star Trek: Picard S01–02
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    Picard is an exciting yet ultimately disappointing show. After watching the core trilogy of shows from the 90’s (The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager) and Star Trek movies 1–10, it was extremely refreshing to see a fully modern Star…

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  • Barry S03


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    Read time:

    7–11 minutes
    Barry S03
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    Barry is among the best shows on American TV right now, which is a very short list. Season one was amazing, two somehow topped that, and the third is now easily the best. It is not the funniest season—though it…

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  • Stranger Things S04


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    Read time:

    11–16 minutes
    Stranger Things S04
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    The fourth season of Stranger Things was mostly quite fun and entertaining, but this season was soured for me by some messy mechanics, particularly in the finale. The highs were well done, though more in a slop TV sort of…

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