I’m at that age when big anniversaries happen more and more frequently. The age at which you start to sigh a little when you’re getting up off the couch (and should get up more frequently,...
It’s the end of the year and it’s time to take stock. Or, if you’re like me, it’s time to curl up and let the universe happen to you. This is my response to one of the best movies about...
Faith is always on shaky ground. You might say that back in the good (or bad) old days, faith had more muscle. You could get burned at the stake for questioning your faith - or at least be run out of...
As a writer, I’ll be the first to say it - writers are kind of boring. Especially when someone is trying to feature us on television. What viewer really wants to see someone agonizing over their...
The truth is, I wasn’t ready to like Down Cemetery Road. That’s because I am always wary of lightning when it attempts to strike twice. We already have a hit and a treasure in Slow Horses, which...
“Bravely seek out joy, even when it’s hard.” This is one of the many great lines from the second season of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This, and I’ve been sitting with it for a few days. I think...
This spooky season, I am genuinely sick of serial killers and assorted deviants. I want to care about their victims, and not their twisted inner worlds. But the makers of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer...
Time is strange - startlingly real to the human body, and not real at all if you’re trying to reconcile the theory of relativity with quantum mechanics. Twenty five years have passed since Mark...
Netflix’s Unknown Number documentary recently introduced millions of viewers to a mom who catfished and harassed her own daughter, Lauryn, with text messages that varied from sexual harassment to...
I must begin this column by pointing out that I like superheroes. Their story arcs give me that soaring feeling, and I like the overarching American narrative embedded in our most popular superhero...
