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
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?
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
What would you like this newsletter to cover?
I am aware that one’s personal newsletter is not the place to go for massive traffic hits, but my readership has been trending downward (with the exception of a couple of blips here and there) of late. As I only live to serve, consider this your free space to
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.