Jordon Wadlington

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Current Things: October 2025

Currently Reading

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

Currently Watching

Currently In Queue

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

  • Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

  • Now that the kids are back in school and we’re in a more consistent routine, had a chance to finish a lot of TV shows that had been lingering. May even have some time to get to some of these films that have languishing in my Up Next queue!
  • I really want to blog more, but it’s been hard with * gestures broadly at the world *. Just when things start leveling out and I try to find my balance, it somehow goes lower. I hope in a few months we’ll look back at this as the low point, but I’m afraid we’ve not quite reached bottom yet. Be kind to everyone you can and try to bear those you can’t.

Finished in September:

Alien: Earth, Season 1: I’m not sure how he does it, but Hawley has this knack for taking nuanced, forward-facing movies and refracting their messages with a more modern lens. Fargo and Alien were essential viewing in their time. Hawley rightly contends that they’re even more essential now.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 17: It’s amazing how well this show holds up considering it’s been consistently running for 20 years without fundamentally changing its formula. If you’ve got the stomach for it, this is the best season in years.

King of the Hill, Season 14: 20 years ago this show argued that the source of our ills isn’t the conservative/liberal split but rather our lack of effort to understand and be decent to each other. Both the message and the messenger have become more vital. Are we listening now?

Foundation, Season 3: 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

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

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

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