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All In For the Big Binge: Watching Multiple TV Seasons In A Rush.
Recently I watched 50 episodes, and thus 50-plus hours of television, starting the French series “The Bureau,” aka “Le Bureau des Légendes” from the beginning and eagerly following it, like a great novel, voraciously, until the end.
This i...
Let's Talk About "House Of the Dragon."
The Observer is a spoiler-free curated collection of television series and films.
What “House of the Dragon” was up against when it premiered in 2022 was nothing short of a “there be dragons” kind of warning. As in, oh, don’t...
Film: Capturing Modern American Struggles
In early 2024, I made a conscious decision that I feel validated about now. I didn’t want to watch Alex Garland’s “Civil War” because, in the frayed-nerve times leading up to the presidential election in this country, I already felt overwhe...
The Observer: "A Shop For Killers" returns; thoughts on "The Bear" bowing out.
The Observer is a spoiler-free curated collection of television series and films.
Way back in January of 2024, which now seems like eight years ago, I fell hard for the Korean action series “A Shop For Killers,” which would g...
Film & TV: Field Notes.
Last Thursday night it was hard to not be excited — standing in front of the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, a local treasure that has the only 70mm screen in Oregon, about to join hundreds of others at a 10:15 p.m opening night screening of...
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