An incomplete list of things I miss

Mourning without mourning

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?

How are we all doing?

Life during wartime

On Tolstoy, Talking Heads, and slow-motion tragedy

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And now Marianne and Heloise from Portrait of a Lady on Fire go to see Hadestown

Or: Sophie the maid has some thoughts on capitalism

Green light

Or: Some things I realized about men once I finally admitted I wasn't one

Why I'm leaving New York

And what it means to come home

Listen to some audio fiction podcasts already

Tired of Netflix? Allow me to suggest an entertainment medium that I, personally, benefit from.

Just watch the early "bad" episodes

A TV show teaches you how to watch it. Sometimes, it has to teach you via episodes that don't quite seem to work.

In which Roger Ebert almost gets me fired

On unlikely friendships, meeting your heroes, and avoiding yourself on the internet