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Fargo (1996)
Elevator pitch
Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) needs money desperately, so concocts a plan to extract some from his wealthy father-in-law; he arranges to have his wife kidnapped by lowlives Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Gri...
Just offer women elective caesarians
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Given all the near-apocalyptic news stories we’ve been treated to over the last six months, you can be forgiven if you didn’t notice the recent Ockenden Report into ‘the biggest childbirth scandal in NHS...
Paddington (1976 - 1980)
Some years ago I was trying to explain to a younger animator the style I wanted for a piece of work. After quite a lot of back and forth I ended up showing him an episode of the ‘70s children TV series Paddington. He watched, rapt, and, at...
Metropolitan Mixtape: July 2026
La France Profonde
As you may have been beginning to suspect, The Metropolitan has been on holiday for the last two weeks. We’ve been away not only from Substack, but also from the UK, noise and light pollution, and, largely, people; we’...
Up in smoke
Every Saturday for four and a half years The Metropolitan has posted a fresh essay and one of the Editors has finally put her foot down (can you guess which?) and demanded an actual holiday instead of just going to type in Cornwall for a ch...
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