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Film & TV: Field Notes. (opens the original)
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I have spent most of the week avoiding the New York Times latest “100 Best” of the 21st Century series, not so much because I felt like I was going to disagree so often that it would spike my blood pressure and anxiety (though that was a factor, to be sure), but because reading that list is a bit of a busman’s holiday, isn’t it? I’ve spent all of these 21st Century years as a television critic, a few trying to write series while in the industry, and the thought of yet another list trying to do t
The Box Set: “Slow Horses, S6.” (opens the original)
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This is a weekly examination of each new “Slow Horses” episode. It contains spoilers, so if you haven’t watched, come back when you have.I watched the trailer for the current season of “Slow Horses” — and posted it here last week — because of course I’m going to watch the trailer even when I know I shouldn’t. Part of me likes to think that I have enough faith in “Slow Horses” to deliver the goods even if a few of them were contaminated in the process, so I don’t regret watching the trailer. But
The Box Set: “Slow Horses, S6.” (opens the original)
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Meditations In An Emergency, “Mad Men,” and TV’s Nearly Perfect Existentialist Moment. (opens the original)
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The Observer is a spoiler-free curated collection of television series and films.A couple of months ago, in the summer of my Pacific Northwest isolation, I came across a picture I was very familiar with:<img alt="" c
Film & TV: Field Notes. (opens the original)
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As Netflix was airing the 49ers vs. Rams game from Australia on Thursday, I got my first look at yet another upcoming WWII-based movie, this one called “The Mosquito Bowl.”It was bad timing. On several fronts.As a country, we were one day from the 25th anniversary of 9/11 — which is today, of course — and are currently seven months into the latest war not called a war, the one in Iran. As a movie fan, I can’t imagine being attracted to what has felt for some time now like “glory porn,” a longing
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