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Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles COMICS - ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS I see what Mare of Easttown is going for; with creator Brad Ingelsby’s workmanlike script, it’s impossible not to.Teenage mothers, dead-end jobs, opiate addicts, cancer patients, necessary but unaffordable medical procedures, chronic illness, the constant flow of cheap booze, old high-school glories substituting for any new real-world ones: This, the show argues, and not without reason, is ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “CHANNEL ZERO” IS THE Everything I’ve ever heard about Channel Zero, I’ve heard from other people on the internet.Perhaps that’s the way it should be. This rich, gorgeous, and astonishingly frightening horror anthology series takes the story lines for each of its four seasons so far from creepypasta — scary short stories in the form of faked message-board posts and comment threads. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles COMICS - ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS I see what Mare of Easttown is going for; with creator Brad Ingelsby’s workmanlike script, it’s impossible not to.Teenage mothers, dead-end jobs, opiate addicts, cancer patients, necessary but unaffordable medical procedures, chronic illness, the constant flow of cheap booze, old high-school glories substituting for any new real-world ones: This, the show argues, and not without reason, is ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “CHANNEL ZERO” IS THE Everything I’ve ever heard about Channel Zero, I’ve heard from other people on the internet.Perhaps that’s the way it should be. This rich, gorgeous, and astonishingly frightening horror anthology series takes the story lines for each of its four seasons so far from creepypasta — scary short stories in the form of faked message-board posts and comment threads. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » PERRY MASON The flashbacks occur at intervals throughout the episode. They take us to the trenches of World War I — still without its even more savage sequel by the time “Perry Mason” takes place — where our title character is an American military officer, leading his men in a chargeover the top.
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » 005. “YOU’RE GONNA BE MY 005. “You’re gonna be my regular Saturday night thing, baby!”. This is Steve. (The one on the left.) Steve is a bit of an anomaly in the world of Road House, a bit of an enigma. He’s one of four people abruptly fired from the Double Deuce by Dalton when he assumes control of “all bar business” (per Tilghman) as the joint’s cooler. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » CLARICE This week’s episode of Clarice finds the show at its most Hannibal-esque, and I mean that in both senses of the word.First, you have some of the show’s most boldly aestheticized shots: a roast duck filmed in disorienting, slow-moving close-ups designed to make it look like something out of The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre, the appearance of Clarice Starling’s memories in a glass orb on her ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT Hank mutters an awestruck “Holy shit.” “Exactly right,” Wade replies, as if his name were in fact Holy Shit. In the middle of it all there’s Cody, who whether by the rasp of his voice or the scent of his musk recognizes who the mysterious stranger is and fills in Jack and the assembled gawkers accordingly. “Gentlemen,” he says ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FRANK TILGHMAN One of the several hypotheticals Pain Don’t Hurt has entertained at length is my belief that Frank Tilghman is the Emperor Palpatine figure of the story, the secret puppet master behind Brad Wesley who engineered the conflict with Dalton and brought it to a head by orchestrating the murder of Wesley and his associates when they were no longer of any use. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HER Her is a movie in which a nebbishy dotcom writer named Theodore Twombly dates Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde and falls in love with a computer voiced by Scarlett Johansson. I promise you, I fucking promise you, no matter how many five-star reviews and best-of-the-year lists you come across: Whatever picture you have in your head of what such a film will feel like, that picture is ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “GAME OF THRONES” THOUGHTS Intimacy and grandiosity, empathy and brutality – Game of Thrones doesn’t just straddle these lines, it water-dances on both sides at once. So you get a skeleton-army attack out of a Ray Harryhausen Saturday-matinee movie and a domestic-violence murder out of ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS Mirror Mirror 2 editors: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer contributors: Lala Albert / Clive Barker / Heather Benjamin / Sean Christensen / Nicole Claveloux / Sean T. Collins / Al Columbia / Dame Darcy / Noel Freibert / Renee French / Meaghan Garvey / Julia Gfrörer / Simon Hanselmann / Hellen Jo / Aidan Koch / Laura Lannes / Céline Loup / Uno Moralez / Mou / Claude Paradin / Chloe Piene ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CATEGORY » PAIN DON’T HURT Road House is a film about a very famous bouncer. Not the most famous bouncer; that man is a supporting character. And not technically a “bouncer” either; our hero, played by Patrick Swayze, beautiful and terrible as the dawn, is a cooler, which is to say the Head Bouncer In Charge. But his job is basically bouncing, and he’s so good at it that he’s become famous for it. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » STEVE This is Steve. (The one on the left.) Steve is a bit of an anomaly in the world of Road House, a bit of an enigma.He’s one of four people abruptly fired from the Double Deuce by Dalton when he assumes control of “all bar business” (per Tilghman) as the joint’s cooler. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT The staff of the Double Deuce react to the Coming of Wade in a variety of ways. Tilghman leers, of course. The Nameless Bartender’s eyes get a little wide, his mouth goes a little slack. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS Mirror Mirror 2 editors: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer contributors: Lala Albert / Clive Barker / Heather Benjamin / Sean Christensen / Nicole Claveloux / Sean T. Collins / Al Columbia / Dame Darcy / Noel Freibert / Renee French / Meaghan Garvey / Julia Gfrörer / Simon Hanselmann / Hellen Jo / Aidan Koch / Laura Lannes / Céline Loup / Uno Moralez / Mou / Claude Paradin / Chloe Piene ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CATEGORY » PAIN DON’T HURT Road House is a film about a very famous bouncer. Not the most famous bouncer; that man is a supporting character. And not technically a “bouncer” either; our hero, played by Patrick Swayze, beautiful and terrible as the dawn, is a cooler, which is to say the Head Bouncer In Charge. But his job is basically bouncing, and he’s so good at it that he’s become famous for it. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » STEVE This is Steve. (The one on the left.) Steve is a bit of an anomaly in the world of Road House, a bit of an enigma.He’s one of four people abruptly fired from the Double Deuce by Dalton when he assumes control of “all bar business” (per Tilghman) as the joint’s cooler. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT The staff of the Double Deuce react to the Coming of Wade in a variety of ways. Tilghman leers, of course. The Nameless Bartender’s eyes get a little wide, his mouth goes a little slack. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » MUSIC The horror-movie atmospherics of Quake are the closest reference point for Watchmen’s first and strongest track, “How the West Was Really Won.” The show’s unofficial theme music—it recurs repeatedly in the series’ most frightful moments, including the ripped-from-the-comic image of a gigantic alien squid in the ruins of Manhattan—it’s the sound of Reznor and Ross going full ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HALT AND CATCH FIRE Underdog TV: Better Call Saul, The Americans, & Halt and Catch Fire Your illustrious co-hosts are back on the television beat for a full episode on three underwatched shows very close to our collective heart: Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul, Cold War spy thriller The Americans, and tech-industry drama Halt and Catch Fire.Those capsule descriptions are entirely inadequate for capturing ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FANTASY When I picture the deaths of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, the first word that comes to mind is obscene. The dragons are technical filmmaking achievements of a scale and quality never before seen on television. They are emblems of high-fantasy spectacle with real awe and real bite, in a field now dominated by literally and figuratively bloodless blockbusters. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » O’CONNOR Morgan was an important man, in the same sense that Brad Wesley’s grandfather was an important man: “He was an asshole.” Or as Carrie Ann put it, “Morgan was born an asshole and just grew bigger.” Here was a guy who was so temperamentally unsuited to the trade of bouncing that his presence actually made the old, hellhole version of the Double Deuce worse than it would have been had ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER There’s one episode left in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and given the way Sam was eyeing the contents of the high-tech Wakandan briefcase Bucky delivered to him, it seems safe to assume the Falcon—whose wings got torn off by Walker, if you’re in the symbolism market—is about to don the stars and stripes himself.I’d guess some sort of reckoning with Sharon is in the offing, as ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FRANK TILGHMAN One of the several hypotheticals Pain Don’t Hurt has entertained at length is my belief that Frank Tilghman is the Emperor Palpatine figure of the story, the secret puppet master behind Brad Wesley who engineered the conflict with Dalton and brought it to a head by orchestrating the murder of Wesley and his associates when they were no longer of any use. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » YOUNGER One thing I never noticed before starting this project, one thing I never noticed before tonight in fact, one thing I never noticed despite watching Road House dozens of times over the course of nearly fifteen years, is that when Brad Wesley’s goofiest goons, Tinker and O’Connor, come to the Double Deuce with Wesley’s nephew Pat McGurn to force Frank Tilghman to overrule Dalton’sPAIN DON’T HURT
January 1st, 2019
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MUSIC TIME: NINE INCH NAILS – GHOSTS V: TOGETHER & GHOSTS VI:LOCUSTS
April 1st, 2020
> The fifth and sixth volumes > of _Ghosts_ (subtitled _Together_ and _Locusts_ respectively) > return to the atmospheric terrain now familiar from Reznor and > Ross’ soundtrack work: buzzy ambience, simple melodic hooks, an > emotional palette that vacillates between peace and dread. But > rather than soundtracking an on-screen drama, they arise from the > very real COVID-19 pandemic and its society-wide remedy, social > distancing. The musicians say that the > current crisis was the reason they completed the two records in the > first place, “as a means of staying somewhat sane.” As > such, _Ghosts V-VI_—released for free less than two months after > the World Health Organization declared> a
> global health emergency—are very likely the first major albums to > have been inspired by the coronavirus crisis. I reviewed the two new, free Nine Inch Nails albums _Ghosts V: Together_ and _Ghosts VI: Locusts_ for Pitchfork. Tags: Atticus Ross , ghosts , ghosts v: together , ghosts vi: locusts, music
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THE BOILED LEATHER AUDIO HOUR EPISODE 105!March 28th, 2020
You’ve got time on your hands—why not spend it by listening to Stefan Sasse and I discuss the “Arianne I” sample chapter from _The Winds of Winter_ in the latest episode of the Boiled Leather Audio Hour—available hereand wherever
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE TEN: “ALL IN”March 28th, 2020
> And so passes a season of _Ozark_ that largely, if not quite > entirely, did away with the previous season’s writing tics—the > timed ultimatums, the ultraviolence during the cold opens—and dug > us deep into a brand new character, only to yank him away from us by > the end, _Sopranos_-style. It may not be a canonical drama, no > matter what the awards shows say, but it’s an entertaining one, > and one that isn’t afraid to aim high now and then. At the end of > last season I speculated> that
> the show might be on the verge of greatness, and said I’d be > thinking about it for a long time. I don’t think either of those > predictions quite played out, but the show kept me engaged and never > insulted my intelligence in the process. Sometimes, that’s plenty. I reviewed the season finale of _Ozark_ Season Three for Decider. Tags: decider , ozark, reviews
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE NINE: “FIRE PINK”March 28th, 2020
> There’s a _Sopranos > _ episode, maybe you > remember it, called “Long Term Parking.”> In
> that episode, reveals to that they’ve been working with the FBI, in hopes that > Character B, too, will want to flip on the mob. The two separate, > and then Character A receives a phone call from that Character B has attempted suicide, and that > will come pick Character A up to visit > Character B in the hospital. As Characters A and D take that ride > together, your brain reels back and forth from relief to dread to > relief again, since it seems Character A is in the clear. Only > they’re not, not by a long shot. Character D isn’t there to give > them a ride—at least not the ride they wanted. Character D is > there to drive Character A out into the middle of nowhere and murder > them, which Character D does. All these characters who seemed to > love Character A are revealed as charlatans, or at the very least as > people who put their own safety ahead of every other consideration. > If you pose a risk to the family, you will be killed. It’s that> simple.
>
> Anyway, the cinematographer for that episode of _The Sopranos_ is > Alik Sakharov. Sakharov also directed _Ozark > _ Season 3 Episode 9 (“Fire > Pink”). Why do I bring that up? Oh, no reason. I reviewed the penultimate episode of _Ozark_ Season Three forDecider.
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE EIGHT: “BFF”March 28th, 2020
> What we have here is a chickens-come-home-to-roost episode. _Ozark > _ Season 3 Episode 8 is titled > “BFF” for reasons that I must say elude me at the moment; it’s > the antepenultimate installment of _Ozark_‘s third season which > sees a lot of long-delayed reckonings, as characters wake up to > truths that should probably have been self-evident. And the truth> hurts.
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE SEVEN: “IN CASE OFEMERGENCY”
March 28th, 2020
> The thing I keep returning to while watching this show is how taxing > it must be for Marty and Wendy to constantly have to think at > maximum brain capacity, all day every day. Like, that casino license > business—what must it take to keep stuff like that in line and > still find the time and energy required to, I dunno, eat dinner or > go to the bathroom or schedule a doctor’s appointment? It must be > enormously draining for everyone involved. I think _Ozark_ may be > an experiment in seeing how far and how taut a string can be pulled > before it finally snaps. I reviewed episode seven of _Ozark_ Season Three for Decider. Tags: decider , ozark, reviews
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE SIX: “SU CASA ES MICASA”
March 28th, 2020
> So, let’s talk about running times. As has been customary in > previous seasons, _Ozark _ Season > 3 routinely presents us with episodes that run right up to, and > sometimes cross, the full 60-minute mark. In the past I might have > called this “Netflix Bloat,” part and parcel of the same mindset > that led the Netflix/Marvel collaboration series to run, oh I dunno, > four to six episodes too long each season.>
> In _Ozark_‘s case, at this point anyway, I don’t think that’s > a fair criticism. I never feel bored during an episode, never wonder > why we’re spending time watching the cinematic equivalent of paint > drying—the way I often did on _Jessica Jones_ or _Luke Cage_, > when characters would be shot just walking to the places where > actual scenes were happening, as if the show needed to clear its > throat before actually getting down to business.>
> What _Ozark_‘s lengthy runtimes _do_ produce is a sense of > disconnection between what happens at the start of an episode and > what happens at the end of it. For example, _Ozark_ Season 3 > Episode 6 (“Su Casa Es Mi Casa”) ends when Ben Davis, off his > meds for a previously undisclosed bipolar disorder, and his nephew > Jonah Byrde track Ruth Langmore to a cash dropoff that goes south > when unknown parties in black SUVs show up and gun down the Kansas > City mob grunts tasked with the dropping off before blowing up the > truck they were driving.>
> I was so engrossed by the whole business—by seeing how Ben’s > condition was manifesting itself, by Jonah’s use of his drone, by > the evident care and tenderness Ben feels towards Ruth, by Ruth’s > relationship with the KC assholes, by whether they were going to > fuck with her again, by whether Ruth would get out of there in time > when the shit hit the fan—that I completely forgot how the episode> began.
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE FIVE: “IT CAME FROMMICHOACÁN”
March 28th, 2020
> I believe that covers everything? This is an eventful show, with a > real gordian knot’s worth of plot threads. It’s to the point > where it can be hard even to remember where we were this time last > season. (Remember Rachel and the Blue Cat? They haven’t even been > so much as mentioned.) One moment you’re digging up dirt on an FBI > agent and the next you’re apologizing to a horse breeder for > cutting an animal’s nuts off for no good reason. Then again, I > suppose this is how life feels for the Byrdes, perhaps > the _busiest_ main characters in any prestige drama I can > remember. Every time Wendy asks Charlotte to put something on her > schedule I cringe a bit inside. How much more can these people take? I reviewed episode five of _Ozark_ Season Three for Decider. Tags: decider , ozark, reviews
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE FOUR: “BOSS FIGHT”March 28th, 2020
> In the end, Marty gets dropped back off at home after his forcible > sojourn to Mexico, and all is right with the world, more or less. > But there are ominous signs for the future. (Aren’t there always?) > I’ve got no idea how his scheme to corrupt a federal agent is > supposed to play out. And Helen’s warning to Charlotte (who knows > nearly everything about her family’s dirty deeds) that no one must > ever tell her daughter Erin (who’s in the dark) _anything_ lest > they face dire consequences is a Chekov’s gun if ever there was > one. This is not a show in which people succeed in keeping secrets; > indeed, constant revelations are the very engine that powers the > entire story. Poor Erin Pierce is gonna find out soon enough what > her mother’s real job entails, and I wouldn’t want to be in the > blast radius when that particular bomb goes off. I reviewed the fourth episode of _Ozark_ Season 3 for Decider. Tags: decider , ozark, reviews
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE THREE: “KEVIN CRONIN WASHERE”
March 28th, 2020
> But most promising of all, I think, are the curveballs the episode > throws. I _like_ how out-of-nowhere Wendy’s decision to reclaim > custody of Ezekiel is; that makes it hard to pin down as just > another plot beat and makes it seem more like the product of a > personal decision. I also like how Uncle Ben seems like…not such a > bad dude! He’s a fine confidant for Wendy, who tearfully tells him > about the affair she had that helped blow up her marriage (“It > fuckin’ sucked” is her verdict after the fact), and a halfway > decent suitor for Ruth, who like I said actually smiles at the dude. > (It says a lot about Julia Garner’s talent that she can make her > character scowl in like forty different expressive ways, to the > point where you might not even notice she’s never happy until, all > of a sudden, she is.) I reviewed episode three of _Ozark_ Season Three for Decider. Tags: decider , ozark, reviews
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE TWO: “CIVIL UNION”March 28th, 2020
> As a title, _Ozark _ pegs the show > to a unique location. It has a nice oddball ring to it as well. But > if this show were looking for another name, _A Series of Unforeseen > Events_ would work pretty well. Every time Marty and Wendy Byrde > do…well, pretty much anything, some other unexpected thing comes > back to bite them in their collective ass. I reviewed episode two of _Ozark_ Season Three for Decider. Tags: decider , ozark, reviews
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“OZARK” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE ONE: “WARTIME”March 28th, 2020
> These strongly delineated characters, and the performances behind > them, keep the show afloat. As Marty, Bateman is all quiet cynicism > and resignation; he always seems to be struggling just to get > through the day, and his volume never rises above a four. Linney’s > Wendy alternates between chipper, we-can’t-lose plan-making and > peals of derision when her saturnine husband tries to shoot her > down. And Garner, the real star of the show, portrays Ruth as a > woman who always has to keep proving herself, sometimes succeeding, > sometimes lapsing into impulsive outbursts of anger when someone > accuses her of falling short.>
> You can string a lot of story between these three opposing poles, > that’s for sure. They’re sturdy, they’re easily recognizable, > and they play off one another beautifully. (It’s impressive, in > its way, for the show’s _auteur _Bateman to continuously take a > back seat to the more dynamic performances of his leading ladies.) > The Redneck Riviera setting and the tangle of competing criminal > enterprises give the show its own unique flavor, too. Yes, the show > has its obvious precedents and its storytelling tics, but I’m > still glad the Byrdes are back. I reviewed episode one of _Ozark_ Season Three for Decider. Tags: decider , ozark, reviews
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“BETTER CALL SAUL” THOUGHTS, SEASON FIVE, EPISODE SIX: “WEXLERV. GOODMAN”
March 25th, 2020
> Somewhere along the line, the Kimmy Wexler who refused to get in > that car became the Kim Wexler who, despite being kept in the dark > (literally, thanks to director Michael Morris and cinematographer > Marshall Adams’s obscurely low lighting) by Jimmy McGill, decides > to get in his car anyway. And we know where Jimmy’s headed. I reviewed this week’s episode of _Better Caul Saul_ for my Patreon. Tags: better call saul, breaking bad
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IMAGINE THERE’S NO APOCALYPSEMarch 23rd, 2020
> Dredging up _Nightbreed_ from the depths of my personal canon at > the present moment — imagining us in the place not of the > pitchforks-and-torches humans but the gloriously bizarre creatures > they choose to persecute — has given me unexpected solace. The > post-coronavirus society in which I wish to live is one of herd > immunity and mutual aid, one where workers whose vital services we > take for granted are justly compensated for their indispensable > labor, one where the art that sustains our spirit is created by > artists we strive to support, one where health care and housing are > recognized as universal rights. I wrote about the Clive Barker film _Nightbreed _and our need to reimagine the post-apocalypse for the Outline. Tags: Clive Barker , horror , movie reviews, Movie Time
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“WESTWORLD” THOUGHTS, SEASON 3, EPISODE 2: “THE WINTER LINE”March 23rd, 2020
> In fact, this is the second _Westworld_ episode in a row in which > entertaining the audience seems as important as, or even more > important than, confusing the audience. There are the usual > fake-outs and surprise reveals and questions about where > (and _when_) the characters are, sure. But there’s a surprisingly > warm rapport between Maeve and Sizemore on one hand and Bernard and > Stubbs on the other. It’s the kind of vibe that lends itself to > amusing banter, but it’s also an opportunity to show us characters > who care about each other, instead of the show’s usual > every-droid-for-himself approach.>
> Likeable characters aren’t everything, but they serve as strong > anchors for a mind-bending narrative—just ask John Locke, > Starbuck, Agent Cooper, or Mulder and Scully. Maeve and Bernard > aren’t in that illustrious company just yet. But they’re a lot > closer than they were an hour ago. I’ve been enjoying _Westworld_‘s more direct approach this season. I reviewed last night’s episode for Rolling Stone. Tags: reviews , Rolling Stone, TV
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“BETTER CALL SAUL” THOUGHTS, SEASON FIVE, EPISODE FIVE: “DEDICADO A MAX”March 17th, 2020
> Once again there’s a cycle of shittiness; once again there’s a > person who thinks they have both the right and the power to decide > exactly where the wheel stops. I wrote about this week’s episode of _Better Call Saul_ for myPatreon.
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“Better Call Saul” thoughts, Season Five, Episode Five: “Dedicado a Max” PRO WRESTLING IN EMPTY ARENAS IS THE WEIRDEST SHOW ON EARTHMarch 17th, 2020
> Are professional wrestlers just the world’s most muscular theater > kids? To quote wrestling legend “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, who > appeared on last night’s episode of WWE’s _Monday Night Raw_:> Hell yeah.
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> Broadcast live without an audience for the first time in history, > both _Monday Night Raw_ on the USA Network and last Friday’s > episode of _Smackdown_ on Fox stripped wrestling down to its bare > essentials: a ring, a microphone, and wrestlers to use both. The > result was less like the WWE’s usual played-to-the-rafters > gladiatorial spectacle and more like tech week > for a black-box > production. It showcased the performers at their weirdest, wildest, > and most, well, theatrical. I wrote about the strangeness of wrestling without crowds for Vulture. Tags: raw , real life, reviews
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Pro Wrestling in Empty Arenas Is the Weirdest Show on Earth “WESTWORLD” THOUGHTS, SEASON THREE, EPISODE ONE: “PARCEDOMINE”
March 15th, 2020
> Holster your six-shooters and hitch your horses: After a two-year > hiatus, _Westworld _ is > back — only it’s barely recognizable as _Westworld_ anymore. > Taking last season’s scattered segments set outside the Delos > corporation’s theme-park system and stretching them out to > (almost) an entire episode, the sci-fi brain-teaser’s season > premiere (“Parce Domine”) introduces its new main character: the > real world. It’s part _Black Mirror,_ part _Battlestar > Galactica_, and, on the whole, a major improvement. I’m back on the _Westworld _beat for Rolling Stone this season, starting with my review of tonight’s season premiere. I liked it more than I thought I would! Tags: reviews , Rolling Stone, TV
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“THE NEW POPE” THOUGHTS, EPISODE NINEMarch 11th, 2020
> When it finally happens, the meeting of the Young Pope and the New > Pope is an anticlimax. It’s not the confrontation, the clash, > the _climax_ promised by the opening credits, which feature Sir > John Brannox leading a procession from the right-hand side of the > screen while Lenny Belardo strides across the beach in his skivvies > from the left, presaging a showdown in the center that never > arrives. It’s just Pius XIII in the garb of a simple priest, > walking into a room where John Paul III waits for him. It happens so > simply and so quickly I didn’t even realize what I was looking at.>
> And that’s just one of the ways that the season finale of _The > New Pope, _one of the best television shows I’ve ever seen, > defies expectations. I wrote about the finale of _The New Pope_ for Vulture. It was a pleasure and a privilege to write about this extraordinary show, the best thing about which I can say is that it was worthy ofits predecessor.
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“The New Pope” thoughts, Episode Nine “BETTER CALL SAUL” THOUGHTS, SEASON FIVE, EPISODE FOUR:“NAMASTE”
March 11th, 2020
> On _Better Call Saul_, the devil is in the details. This has been > true if not from the start then at least from the early going, when > it became clear that co-creators Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan were > out to depict the show’s thriller sequences, whether of the legal > or action variety, as matters of tradecraft. It has this in common > with _The Americans_, which though it faltered slightly with its > too-generous ending always rooted the espionage antics of Elizabeth > and Philip Jennings in utter tedium. If Mike Ehrmantraut took a > brake from painstakingly studding a garden hose with nails long > enough to watch the Jennings dig a hole to exhume a dead colleague > practically in real time, he’d certainly relate. I wrote about this week’s episode of _Better Call Saul_ for myPatreon.
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“Better Call Saul” thoughts, Season Five, Episode Four:“Namaste”
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