The following is from my series of Oscar Best Picture rankings, as well as my strongly worded suggestions for what should have won from among the nominees. For an introduction to the project, click here. For a way to vote on some Oscar-related ideas, click here. If I’ve written a review on any of the… Read More Better than the Oscars: 60-56
Created by Bruce Miller. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Max Minghella My thoughts on episodes 1-5 can be found here. As the show continues, there’s been a persistent wondering about the role of race in a show set in a dystopian America. My favorite take so far is from Vulture, but The Verge and Cosmo… Read More The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 1, Episodes 6-10
Created by Bruce Miller. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel As a novel, one of the many things which makes The Handmaid’s Tale special is that it does not make up details about the activities of the Republic of Gilead; in other words, everything that happens in Gilead has happened before in real life. The executions,… Read More The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 1, Episodes 1-5
Seeing Things Secondhand 