Jordon Wadlington

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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

Current Things: August 2025

Currently Reading

Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver đź“š

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  • 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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Eddington, 2025

What happens when answers matter more than truth?

Superman, 2025

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

Mountainhead, 2025

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, 2025

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

Current Things: July 2025

Currently Reading

Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver đź“š

Currently Watching

Currently In Queue

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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28 Years Later, 2025

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…

How to Train Your Dragon, 2025

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

Current Things: June 2025

Currently Reading

Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver đź“š

Currently Watching

Currently In Queue

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.

Finished in May:

Friendship: dudes! We’re our own worst enemy!!

(And we have each other’s backs)

The Last of Us, Season 2: Bold decisions do not equal bold outcomes

Andor, Season 2: there’s so much to get into with how our culture’s general knowledge of Star Wars is crucial for how this plays, but I’ll just say this show will stand along 1984 as a seminal text on the impact of facism

Sinners: a thematic and technical masterpiece. This is a messy movie because it’s dealing with a messy subject.

An absolutely perfect Righteous Gemstones finale. More to say later

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Friendship, 2024

dudes! We're our own worst enemy!!

(And we have each other's backs)

The Last of Us, Season 2: Bold decisions do not equal bold outcomes

Andor, Season 2: there’s so much to get into with how our culture’s general knowledge of Star Wars is crucial for how this plays, but I’ll just say this show will stand along 1984 as a seminal text on the impact of facism

Sinners, 2025

A thematic and technical masterpiece. This is a messy movie because it's dealing with a messy subject.

An absolutely perfect Righteous Gemstones finale. More to say later

Current Things: May 2025

Currently Reading

Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver đź“š

Currently Watching

Currently In Queue

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.

Finished in April:

Yellowjackets, Season 3: What a messy season of television. The show is a shadow of its former self— except for when it’s not (like in the finale). One more season should be good enough to wrap this up.

The White Lotus, Season 3: “Death” this season as opposed to “Sex” last season. It lost a step from season 2, but there’s no way you’re going to put Parker Posey, Carrie Coon, and Walton Goggins in the same show and I won’t love it.

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Yellowjackets, Season 3: What a messy season of television. The show is a shadow of its former self— except for when it’s not (like in the finale). One more season should be good enough to wrap this up.

The White Lotus, Season 3: “Death” this season as opposed to “Sex” last season. It lost a step from season 2, but there’s no way you’re going to put Parker Posey, Carrie Coon, and Walton Goggins in the same show and I won’t love it.

It’s all fun† and games‡ until the Switch 2 preorders get delayed

†It’s not fun
‡Nor a game

Mr. Henry’s. đź“Ť

Testing micro.social’s location feature

Current Things: April 2025

Currently Reading

Currently reading: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver đź“š

Currently Watching

Currently In Queue

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

  • Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

  • Second year in a row that my personal favorite movie of the year won the Oscar. Gotta pick something super weird next year

Time for my 100% correct ranking✝ of this year’s Oscar Best Picture Nominees:

  1. Anora
  2. The Brutalist
  3. Dune Part Two
  4. Nickel Boys
  5. Conclave
  6. A Complete Unknown
  7. Wicked
  8. Emilia Perez
  9. The Substance

✝Give or take an I’m Still Here

Finished in March:

Severance, Season 2: this show continues to walk the tightrope between nonsense and profundity better than any I’ve seen since Fringe– maybe even LOST– because it realizes that sometimes life is profound because it’s nonsensical.

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Severance, Season 2: this show continues to walk the tightrope between nonsense and profundity better than any I’ve seen since Fringe– maybe even LOST– because it realizes that sometimes life is profound because it’s nonsensical.

This will forever be a Sean Baker stan account and we welcome all the new members

Time for my 100% correct rankingâśť of this year’s Oscar Best Picture Nominees:

  1. Anora
  2. The Brutalist
  3. Dune Part Two
  4. Nickel Boys
  5. Conclave
  6. A Complete Unknown
  7. Wicked
  8. Emilia Perez
  9. The Substance

âśťGive or take an I’m Still Here