How good are TV episodes? Very good!
Bad Times at the El Royale is a Decently Good Time
Alternating between great pot boiler scenes and largely useless flashbacks, here’s what we think of Bad Times at El Royale.
Hilda and Children’s Entertainment
We go all over the place in this one: animation, Hilda, Gravity Falls, Tarkovsky, My Neighbor Totoro, etc.
Venom could have been better by being worse
Venom was a movie that I had absolutely zero interest in seeing. Aside from a shockingly good cast there was no reason to expect anything from it. I rolled my eyes with everyone else at the trailer. Surely a mediocre shart that I didn’t need to see. But as the “mixed-to-negative” reactions started rolling in… Continue reading Venom could have been better by being worse
BoJack Horseman on Shows that Never End
All your favorite subjects back in one place: Mad Men, BoJack, narrative, episodic TV, how we conceptualize time, it’s all here!
An Imaginary Syllabus: Mediums
A reading list to explore the different ways we can create experience. Go back to school with us as you unqualified teachers.
Block’hood, Stardew, and Cities Skylines: Messaging in Games
Community based games try to match framed narrative and ludonarrative.
Friends on Flicks 