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Stranger Things Have Happened
About a month ago I finally got around to seeing Stranger Things on Netflix (thanks to friends and neighbors). It’s pretty much everything every good review said: wonderfully nostalgic, well-paced, a real sense of the unexpected, Winona Ryder unrecognizable at … Continue reading
Simple Song for the MacLaren’s Gang
I just finished a longer-than-anticipated rewatch of the eighth season of How I Met Your Mother. Complain all you want about how the ninth season ended, but the eighth season’s wrap stands out as one of my favorite moments from … Continue reading
Still Getting LOST
This past weekend, composer Michael Giacchino gathered an orchestra and played some of the great music that made up the soundtrack for LOST. The “We Have to Go Back” concerts covered two nights and six seasons of television. Here’s a … Continue reading
Kristen Bell Goes to the Good Place
I wasn’t planning on watching (m)any new shows on television this fall season. I got word at the last minute, though, of a new show by Michael Schur (of Parks and Recreation fame) called The Good Place. The show follows … Continue reading
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A Reduction of Dimensions
I’m often interested in the interplay of genres and forms, particularly when it comes to storytelling and when one form seems to subsume another. The easy target, of course, is television and the internet. The relationship between television and the … Continue reading
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Fifty Years of Star Trek
The first episode of Star Trek aired 50 years ago today. And while I’ve had an on-again/off-again relationship with the franchise, I can surely appreciate its contribution to the collective consciousness of 21st century America. I think the only show … Continue reading
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Time Strikes Back
We’re just over a month away from the return of The Flash on the CW. The kind folks in charge have released a quick trailer for the season premiere. We’re smack-dab in the middle of a major time paradox. Check … Continue reading
Animated and Shiny
Running into a fan of Joss Whedon’s Firefly is always a good thing (and nowhere near as rare as finding a fan of Dollhouse, but I digress). The show caught has caught a lot of people’s fancy, especially in light … Continue reading
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2016 in Twenty Twelve
In “preparation” for the 2012 Olympics in London, the BBC put together a “documentary show” titled Twenty Twelve. It followed a dysfunctional version of the London Olympic organizing team during the five hundred days leading to the games opening ceremonies. … Continue reading
In Class with Klosterman
This semester I’m trying a couple of new things with my students to try and engage them on an intellectual level that doesn’t necessarily feed the beast of academia. We are currently in a unit where we talk about the … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 