Recent content by an0maly

This is not about what I'd call "excitement," at this point, and I hope you're being facetious about the rest there. However, if this is confirmed it does a number of things for both science and our regard for our place in the universe that would be incomparable. No thoughtful person could ever...

Don't know if this thread will get a lot of attention, but the first game and the first season were, respectively, astoundingly brilliant and very good. I thought people might want to evaluate season 2 here, and my enthusiasm for it is something between very low and highly skeptical. I will come...

Big if true, level 10. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o Excellent explainer video:

Study of the existential horror:

Watched the finale the other night live, after having to catch up 2 shows an evening. This is the most powerful single season show since Chernobyl. Not on quite that level in terms of a narrative focus and direction, but the intensity matches the latter masterpiece. The pace is also beyond...

I know that in the course of my life I have not taken the time to appreciate poetry, nor to read that much. But a poem resonated with me many decades ago. It instantly became my favorite in high school (at a time when I read a lot of poetry) and has remained so. On multiple levels, it captures...

Yes, I could see it on a very small stage, small theater setting, but not anything bigger. The strongest asset of the film is the acting, and studying their faces as they deal with agony and recriminations.

Watched; really a strong series. Good acting and well-written script. I don't really think all the effort at making it look like one roaming camera shot was needed, and it was awkward at times. It fit better and worked way better in films like Rope and 1917. The problem here was at times I...

Some thoughtful posts on Devil'sDen: I’m sorry but of all the fuckd up officiating that was bull ***** DukeAgain1 said... (original post) The will is coaching ***** off! Nobody likes you here. Everybody who knows basketball knows how good of a coach Scheyer is and he will continue to get...

All current events considered, this could be the most optimistic thought experiment question I have ever seen. I maintain we are headed for an American and global future that is impossible to predict, and so the range of my possible answers would reflect a range of how much damage Musk, Trump...

I've not yet seen Adolescence, and will do so soon, but on your topic there is the fictional film Mass, which is about two sets of parents getting together to discuss the loss of their sons (one was a school shooter, the other a victim of that shooter). It's great, and emotionally devastating. I...

I am going to gradually watch this whole season a second time, but it's clearly one of the best things I've ever seen (inclusive of all films and TV). This video--a more high level viewpoint and focused on acting--is quite good:

I am going to concede this as a standoff, because I don't know how to find any percentages, but all the religious people and most of the religious public doctrine I have seen points to things like the efficacy of prayer and god's providence as real world evidence. They take it that way and I do...

The best use of extant music (outside of Kubrick) is "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die" at the end of the coma dream episode of The Sopranos, but wow, Severance has had some of the best needle drops since that show. At Burt's "retirement" party, which Irv correctly realized was actually a funeral...