The work isn't the whole picture. This is a small commonplace — music on rotation, films keeping me company, anime on the watchlist, and lines worth holding onto. It updates when something earns its place.
A financial adviser launders cartel money in the Missouri lakes, and every good decision costs him something worse. Bateman directs half of it as quietly as he plays it. I'm told it slips in the back half — for now I'm just watching the Byrdes dig.
A sex therapist's teenage son runs an underground advice clinic at school. Warmer and better-written than the premise lets on — an anywhere-and-no-when British-American world that treats awkwardness with real tenderness.
A film that says everything by saying almost nothing. The closing shot will stay with me for years.
A friendship breakup, weaponized. Funny in ways you feel guilty about.
A film that should not work, and works completely. Cried at the laundromat scene three separate times.
The kind of film that rearranges what you remember about your own father. Devastating.
A film made out of warmth and grumpiness in equal measure. A hot toddy of a movie.
A courtroom thriller that is mostly a marriage thriller. The dog is a top-five performance of the year.
A meditation on grief, time, and the strange weight of being a person who outlives almost everyone you love.
A student gets the power to command anyone, once, and uses it to declare war on an empire. Ridiculous, operatic, and it completely earns that ending.
Watch this one with the lights low. An anime that feels like a long, slow breath out.
A 74-episode tightrope walk that never falls off. Probably the best mystery thriller I will ever watch.
A bullied kid walks into a boxing gym and the show never once mistakes talent for the point. Nobody has animated the weight of a punch better.
A formative one. I rewatch it every two years and find a different show each time.
The future is already here — it is just not very evenly distributed.
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
You cannot do better than the people you spend time with. Choose carefully.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative — and that is all there is to it.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
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