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Reviews
Severance: The We We Are (2022)
After Breaking Bad, I thought I'd never see a perfect episode of television again.
Welp, somehow, Ben Stiller made it happen. The We We Are is 40 minutes of beautiful heart attack. The suspense is unrelenting. The payoff is everything you could ask for in a season finale, right up to the gasp-inducing final line. Severance will be remembered as the greatest work in television this decade, mark my words.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Enjoyable, but doesn't quite understand who it's lampooning.
An excellent media satire that avoids taking a political side - until the last act. Still, it's enjoyable, ambitious and genuinely funny at times. Why the story devolves into the corporate Dem faux-utopian posture is beyond me, but hey, that's Netflix.
Oh ok, so I'm supposed to think the delusional Ariana Grande fans are the good guys - even though we've presented the media arms that push this celebrity/pseudo-science drivel as part of the problem for 90 minutes? Right.
So, look. It's fun. It's worth a watch. But ultimately it encourages us not to look in the mirror, but to look for someone else to blame. We'd have been given much more to think about if the conclusion didn't lean on the tired left/right moral binary. Art reflects the media's version of reality, I suppose. But in actual reality, we're all part of the problem. Watch level-headedly.
The Porter: The Untold Story at Everest (2020)
Beautiful and unpretentious.
So often these nature trek docs take on a self-righteous tone, and The Porter rises above the pack in both its portrayal of porters and in the humble yet adventurous attitude of its other subject, Nate. While it rightly touches on the hardships of porter life, the highlight of this film is the joy, hospitality, and sense of humor of the porters and locals as Nate ascends Everest. Beautifully shot and endlessly inspiring.