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The first season of LOST is so, so good. Arguably the best single season of network TV ever?
This anniversary snuck up on me; hard to believe it's already been a year since Seeing & Believing shuttered the podcast and pivoted to written reviews. I'm still pretty happy with my inaugural post for it (linked below), which offers a brief, simplified philosophy of criticism.
Itâs been one year since @mclengthyname.bsky.social and I made the leap from podcast to newsletter. Sometimes I miss reviewing movies in audio format, but itâs been good to write them out too. I aspire to this standard of care and attention each week. From Kevin, a year ago:
Pay attention.
It's so crazy that one of the only unambiguously positive things that happened under his administration is the one that he is dead-set on attacking and minimizing.
Glad you escaped. One of these days I'm going to have to write up the story of how a similarly disturbing distortion of Jesus' teaching almost made it into the notes of a study Bible I was copyediting at the evangelical publisher where I used to work.
Coming soon: a review of Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS đ
I haven't plugged the Substack in a while, so I wanted to highlight @dodgyboffin.bsky.social's latest piece that went out on Friday: a review of an intriguing documentary about psychics
Lana Wilsonâs documentary approaches the world of psychics with an open spirit.
Further trivia: in early drafts of LOTR, Frodo was named "Bingo"
ultra-gritty Sherlock Holmes reboot starring Jared Leto as Holmes
Fun fact: a shockingly large proportion of chess grandmasters are gigantic drama queens. If it weren't true that most of them were terrible on-camera, there'd have been a reality show about them by now.