TV: Signs (Seasons 1 & 2)
If there’s one thing the past several years of binging international drama has proven to …
Film: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Has there been a film with a more complicated critical reception than David Lynch’s Twin …
TV: The Killing (Seasons 1-4)
I watch enough bloody television these days that I’ve started to form an internal taxonomy …
Film: An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
I know why I started watching An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2019): Aubrey Plaza, …
TV: Tales from the Loop
The Amazon Prime series Tales from the Loop intrigued me with its unusual source material: …
TV: The Forest (Season 1)
The only interesting element of the French police procedural The Forest is that it keeps …
TV: Twin Peaks: The Return
In an increasingly insane world, the bar for artistic mindfuckery continues to rise. Indeed, we’ve …
TV: Fortitude (Season 2)
The first season of Fortitude was a glorious masterpiece of genre television, so it’s unsurprising …
TV: The Returned
Slow-building supernatural mysteries can be a double-edged sword: explain too little and there’s no payoff, …
TV: The Kettering Incident (Season 1)
It’s a good time to be alive if you’re a fan of atmospheric chillers where …
TV: Fortitude (Season 1)
Dark, brilliant mysteries emerge from Scandinavia and the U.K. on a regular basis these days, …
TV: Mr. Robot (Season 1)
The new USA series Mr. Robot bears surface similarities to a number of other shows, but …
Novel: Strange Country by Deborah Coates
Deborah Coates’ rural fantasy trilogy comes to a conclusion in Strange Country (2014), another quietly …
Non-Fiction: The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall
I remember reading Alan Sepinwall’s NYPD Blue episode-by-episode reviews back when the Internet was young. …
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TV: True Detective (Season 1)
I suspect it’s possible to enjoy True Detective solely on the basis of its surface …
Non-Fiction: Difficult Men by Brett Martin
A friend of mine at work loaned me Brett Martin’s Difficult Men (2013), an insightful …