Climate change is the real battle before us, a battle quite possibly against extinction. It sounds ridiculously fantastic to put it like that; if only we had dragons and a Night King to help us believe.
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‘Will’ explores the genesis of genius, and Shakespeare’s Catholic roots
The story of Shakespeare is eternally appealing, because we want to know what confluence of circumstances, or divine blessing, could produce such a towering figure.
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‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ invites us to the land of the happy fools
‘Kimmy’ takes on everything about life that is hard and makes it all so much bigger and more absurd.
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While “Master of None” looks for love, “Catastrophe” finds it.
In the hyper-curated, beautiful world that Dev lives in, a scene that conveys the touching, ugly stubbornness of marriage seems totally impossible.
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In Netflix’s “The Keepers,” a nun’s unsolved murder tears apart a Catholic community
Sister Cathy Cesnik went missing one night in 1969. The case remains unsolved.
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“Twin Peaks” returns with despair, wonder and damn fine coffee
Our lives, “Twin Peaks” suggested, are far weirder than we generally care to consider, more ridiculous and more frightening
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What is belief? Discussing ‘American Gods’ episode 3
Is belief still alive in America? What do we mean when we say “I believe in God” or “I believe in America”? This week’s episode of “American Gods” is a great place to start.
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“Anne of Green Gables” becomes a gothic nightmare in Netflix’s “Anne With an E”
The new adaptation of “Anne of Green Gables” falls prey to the war on whimsy, the tired modern tactic of reworking the classics in order to make them “realistic.”
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Wading through the strangeness of ‘American Gods’ episode 2
Each week we are gathering four super fans of the show “American Gods”—two Jesuits and two Jesuit grads—to discuss some of the themes and pull out the central questions.
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Teaching Ned Stark to play a Jesuit priest for the BBC
The religious advisor to the new TV series “Broken” on helping actor Sean Bean understand what it means to be a Catholic priest today