Thoughts on Things.
This year, my Best Of 2021 list takes the form of a few pairs or trios: Weird Fun: WandaVision, Loki (both Disney+), and Doom Patrol (HBO Max) WandaVision was a superb televisual turn for the MCU. Admittedly a gift for television scholars, given its aping of various decades’ worth of Read more…
Some thoughts on the feature-length films I’ve seen this year so far at the Wisconsin Film Fest. I’ll update as I see more. Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary is an animated tale of Calamity Jane’s childhood. A painterly animation style renders the Oregon Trail beautiful and evocative. The Read more…
As the year wraps up, here’s my own list of things I liked the most on television this year.
As I sit here on June 3 on my lovely porch and hear little more than birdsong, and yet every voyage onto the Internet brings images and sounds of an America on fire with protests over yet more murders of African Americans for the “crime” of simply existing, and of Read more…
Before we start, some caveats: (1) these are my favorites, not “the best” necessarily – I didn’t see everything, not everything is my cup of tea, and these are just what I really liked and responded to; (2) I took “TV show” to require more than one episode, so no Read more…
I can’t resist the opportunity to create a list, so here are my top shows of the year. Note, though, that it’s a record of my own personal favorites and preferences, not a declaration of Ultimate Value. If I listed “best” or “most important,” I’d be more inclined to think Read more…
Continuing with my lists of media that “made me” (follow links for videogames and television) I now turn to movies. 1. The Star Wars trilogy There is nowhere else this list or story could begin than in a galaxy far, far away with a Corellian blockade runner being pursued by Read more…
I’ve posted my list of television that made me, but as I reflected upon there, after Sesame Street, not much else had a huge impact on me till the mid-90s. By contrast, I grew up with video games, the medium developing as did I, conveniently about as complex (or not) Read more…
What are the television shows that “made” you? Not those that are necessarily the best, nor even the ones you like the most, but the ones that played key roles in your development, that were there at important times for you, or perhaps that you regularly look back to? A Read more…
As 2017 draws to a close, here’s my list of the best television I’ve seen so far from 2017. Operative is that this is the best “so far” … not because I believe the next few hours will show me anything new and brilliant, but because I obviously haven’t seen Read more…