Last night we watched the Charlie Brown Christmas special, and I reflected back for a bit on how much things have changed since the times when I used to watch that as a kid. Not just the fact that it’s one of the few overtly religious kids Christmas specials out there, but how back in […]
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First off, the good: any time I’m still watching a show in its fifth season, that’s a sign that I’m a pretty big fan of what they’ve been producing. And Only Murders in the Building is a genuinely good show. The first season was fantastic. Steve Martin and Martin Short and Selena Gomez play off
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This semester, I’m helping to teach a seminar on Stranger Things. Yes, I get to do cool things like this and get paid for it. Yes, I am very grateful for that opportunity. I get to watch a show I’ve really enjoyed, this time with a critical eye to see what’s happening, how it all
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I’d heard a lot of good things about Shogun when it first started airing. Enough to make me sit up and pay attention, but not enough to get me to actually watch it. (Honestly, these days there are so many different things to watch, if I get something new, it typically has to wait in
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Various corners of the internet have repeated the refrain time and time again: Hollywood’s not coming out with anything original anymore. It’s remakes all the way down. While I’d go along with a statement like most of the tentpole films that get a ton of marketing are remakes or adaptations, I don’t think that’s true
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