Foundation, Season 4: Say what you will about modern Apple, but there’s no other corporation that would throw the mind-boggling amount of money it takes to bring a hard Sci-Fi show to TV. It could very easily collapse in on itself, but for now it’s keeping all it’s centuries-spanning plates spinning

My kids have never gotten so many approving looks from old people than when they’re playing checkers at a Cracker Barrel

The Bear, Season 4: back to the basics. A much more enjoyable season than the last, but pretty uneven. I have some quibbles with how some emotional arcs were resolved, but there aren’t many shows that can match its highs

Currently Reading

Currently Reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

Currently Watching

• Alien: Earth
• King of the Hill, Season 14
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 17
• Foundation, Season 3
• The Bear, Season 4
• Disclaimer
• Shrinking, Season 1

Currently In Queue

• The Phoenician Scheme
• Black Bag
• Heretic
• Challengers
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Furiosa
• The First Omen
• Skinamarink

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

• Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

• I’m grateful for the blogging habits around posting about media– it’s kept me writing despite not really feeling like it. I’ve got a lot of cool trips coming up and I really want to write more about those. Need to figure out a system for doing it!

Finished in August:

Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚Maybe the most astonishing yet unsurprising book you’ll ever read about Apple. Contextualizes not only Apple, but the geopolitical situation of the past 20 years as well as the next 20 in a way that grows a pit in your stomach with every page turn. Highly ... jordon.me

The Studio, Season 1: comes at you with the same energy as Curb Your Enthusiasm, packaged as an insider Hollywood farce. Totally get where that isn’t appealing to everyone– but man– it’s appealing to me!

Weapons: The most hopeful movie of the year

Gotta say a little more about Weapons. It’s the most visceral reaction I’ve had from a movie for as long as I can remember. Julie literally said that I couldn’t say the things I was saying as we were walking out. All the answers you’re looking for in our current situation are here.

Poker Face, Season 2: It’s so expertly-crafted and the central conceit is so fun that you can forgive when they go back to the well one too many times. TV is so much more fun when there’s a good whodunnit (and a good Star Trek!) on

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Currently Reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚Maybe the most astonishing yet unsurprising book you’ll ever read about Apple. Contextualizes not only Apple, but the geopolitical situation of the past 20 years as well as the next 20 in a way that grows a pit in your stomach with every page turn. This is required reading

Messy, but mostly in good ways. Love the nods to ghibli

KPop Demon Hunters: messy, but mostly in good ways. Love the nods to ghibli

The Studio, Season 1: comes at you with the same energy as Curb Your Enthusiasm, packaged as an insider Hollywood farce. Totally get where that isn’t appealing to everyone– but man– it’s appealing to me!

Gotta say a little more about Weapons. It’s the most visceral reaction I’ve had from a movie for as long as I can remember. Julie literally said that I couldn’t say the things I was saying as we were walking out. All the answers you’re looking for in our current situation are here.

The most hopeful movie of the year

Poker Face, Season 2: It’s so expertly-crafted and the central conceit is so fun that you can forgive when they go back to the well one too many times. TV is so much more fun when there’s a good whodunnit (and a good Star Trek!) on

Currently Reading

Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver 📚

Currently Watching

• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 17
• Foundation, Season 3
• The Bear, Season 4
• Poker Face, Season 2
• The Studio, Season 1
• Disclaimer
• Shrinking, Season 1

Currently In Queue

• Black Bag
• I’m Still Here
• Heretic
• Challengers
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Furiosa
• The First Omen
• Skinamarink

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

• Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

• I’m grateful for the blogging habits around posting about media– it’s kept me writing despite not really feeling like it. I’ve got a lot of cool trips coming up and I really want to write more about those. Need to figure out a system for doing it!

Finished in July:

Eddington: What happens when answers matter more than truth?

Superman: Worth pushing past your superhero fatigue to see this one. Entertaining from start to finish with plenty to chew on thematically. Another one that I can’t believe wasn’t written in the past three months. It’s just plain nice to have a good Superman movie out there.

Mountainhead: Not as crackerjack as Succession, but playing on the same field. Armstrong–per usual– gets that in order to show how warping being a billionaire can be, you have to show why anyone would want it in the first place

Elio: this was not the most cohesive movie. But I appreciate its themes and there were a ton of Alien references, so…

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What happens when answers matter more than truth?

What happens when answers matter more than truth?

Worth pushing past your superhero fatigue to see this one. Entertaining from start to finish with plenty to chew on thematically. It's also just plain nice to have a good Superman movie out there. Another one that I can't believe wasn't written in the past three months

Worth pushing past your superhero fatigue to see this one. Entertaining from start to finish with plenty to chew on thematically. It's also just plain nice to have a good Superman movie out there. Another one that I can't believe wasn't written in the past three months

Not as crackerjack as Succession, but playing on the same field. Armstrong--per usual-- gets that in order to show how warping being a billionaire can be, you have to show why anyone would want it in the first place

Not as crackerjack as Succession, but playing on the same field. Armstrong--per usual-- gets that in order to show how warping being a billionaire can be, you have to show why anyone would want it in the first place

this was not the most cohesive movie. But I appreciate its themes and there were a ton of Alien references, so...

this was not the most cohesive movie. But I appreciate its themes and there were a ton of Alien references, so...

Currently Reading

Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver 📚

Currently Watching

• The Bear, Season 4
• Poker Face, Season 2
• The Studio, Season 1
• Disclaimer
• Shrinking, Season 1

Currently In Queue

• Black Bag
• I’m Still Here
• Heretic
• Challengers
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Furiosa
• The First Omen
• Skinamarink

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

• Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

• It’s been a tough couple of months and I’ve not really had the head space to write. Need to find a way to change that soon.
• It’s always an event when there’s a new Lorde album! It didn’t catch me like some of the others did, but she’s always been about depth over an initial grab.

Finished in June:

How To Train Your Dragon: I was dubious when this was announced, but it stuck close to the animated original when it should and diverted when it made sense. Also wow– those flying scenes! I’m so glad DeBlois gave them the space they needed to breathe

Your Friends and Neighbors, Season 1: Never doubt the roles that Jon Hamm picks. I knew this would be good, but I didn’t know how good it would be. Never met a symbol it couldn’t use…

28 Years Later: With the way it comments on immigration and treatment of others, I refuse to believe that this movie was written and filmed more than three months ago.

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With the way it comments on immigration and treatment of others, I refuse to believe that this movie was written and filmed more than three months ago.

With the way it comments on immigration and treatment of others, I refuse to believe that this movie was written and filmed more than three months ago.

Your Friends and Neighbors, Season 1: Never doubt the roles that Jon Hamm picks. I knew this would be good, but I didn’t know how good it would be. Never met a symbol it couldn’t use…