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In which season one draws to a close on an incredibly odd cliffhanger
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Thoughts on the cinematic catasterpiece of our time.
Which TV show is going to have the worst quarantine episode?
This question is just what it sounds like on the tin. Predict for me a show that is going to go all in on doing something meaningful about This Time in Our Lives and badly botch the execution — vaguely similar to the infamous “Isaac and Ishmael” episode of West Wing.
Babylon Berlin: "Episode 5" and "Episode 6" (with Emma Fraser)
In which lazy summer days are here and Lotte and Gereon are just adorbs you guys you guys you guys
Babylon Berlin: "Episode 3" and "Episode 4" (with Liz Shannon Miller)
In which the show's tonal audacity becomes apparent and Emily really hopes a certain two people kiss
An incomplete list of things I miss
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Babylon Berlin: "Episode 1" and "Episode 2" (with Libby Hill)
In which Gereon Rath gets to Berlin, Lotte wears a great hat, and Emily finds a new favorite TV show
Name a TV character. How are they handling quarantine?
Name literally any TV character and tell me how quarantine is going for them. (You could also do characters from other media, but TV feels like a rich medium for quarantine-related storytelling.) I’ll start: Don Draper decides that he can end the quarantine and escape a small space where
How are we all doing?
Hey, Episodes subscribers: Just checking in to make sure we’re all hanging in there. I am not handling isolation particularly well, as my wife can attest, but I baked my first-ever loaf of bread last night, so I’m learning things all the same. Tell me how you’re
Life during wartime
On Tolstoy, Talking Heads, and slow-motion tragedy
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