a french village
A French Village, Season 1, Episodes 3 and 4: "Crossing the Line" and "On Earth as It Is in Heaven"
"We lost the war. We might as well win our peace."
Lily Osler
Writer, Trekkie, incompetent knitter. Managing Editor at Episodes.
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You Can See Everything and the queasy duality of Elizabeth Holmes
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Real screams: 13 entertainments that can scare even a hardened horror buff
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Adults
The eternal, beautiful stasis of the twentysomething hangout sitcom
Plus: The Love Hypothesis, Never After Dark, and dunking on Peppermint Patty.
If I liked Digger, am I even myself anymore?
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books
On Exit Party and being a time traveler
Emily St. John Mandel's new novel asks us how we can hold onto our pasts without falling into poisonous nostalgia.
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week 10
We come to the end and grapple with Infinite Jest as a whole and what to make of the book's legacy
The New York Times
The New York Times top 100 TV shows and the always slippery TV canon
In: Exit Party, Forgotten Island. Out: the idea that it should be easy to build a TV canon!!
Resident Evil
Resident Evil's world doesn't care about you
The best cosmic horror in years? In a video game movie directed by Zach Cregger? It's more likely than you think
Infinite Jest
Episodes Book Club: Infinite Jest, Week Nine
Lily and Emily consider the impossible: might Infinite Jest be... self-involved?