The Radical Imagining of True Detective: Night CountryThe season just concluded, with a satisfying and only slightly open-to-interpretation ending. The biggest reflections that the series left…Feb 19, 2024Feb 19, 2024
Fargo: The Latest InstallmentThere is something about the Fargo television series… it hits on something important about the original Coen brothers film: place. I think…Jan 15, 2024Jan 15, 2024
Lion King: Scar Gaslighting SimbaIt really strikes me how intense some of the storyline is in Lion King, now that I’m watching it again as an adult.Jun 29, 2023Jun 29, 2023
The Characters in “The Bear”My excitement for the new season of the Bear comes mostly from a curiosity about the characters; they were developed well enough to make me…Jun 22, 2023Jun 22, 2023
Fargo with Chris RockMy latest binge watch was the latest season of the Fargo series. So compelling. How cool, to tell the story of multiple generations of…Feb 4, 2023Feb 4, 2023
The Lobster- is it saying that women are just terrible to each other?I mistakenly thought that this was a scary movie, and had not watched it initially. What a funky societal critique! The tone of the…Feb 2, 2023Feb 2, 2023
Depictions of Alternatives to IncarcerationBefore law school, I had a pretty wide array of TV shows that were starting to interest me, for various reasons. I was lucky enough to be…Sep 2, 2022Sep 2, 2022
Maya and the ThreeI am so glad that this series exists. I enjoyed The Book of Life (which depicted a day of the dead story pre-Coco) and am happy to see that…Nov 8, 2021Nov 8, 2021
Violence in The Many Saints of New York and The Sopranos*Warning There are Spoilers*Oct 13, 2021Oct 13, 2021
