A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.
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A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.
Not a crime show; a study of institutions eating the people in them, one season per institution. The fourth is the best thing television has done.
Mostly about the story.
Action as choreography, and it respects you enough to hold the shot. The pencil line is the mission statement.
Mostly about the craft.
It should not work and it does, because Whedon lets them bicker like a family. The shawarma scene is the thesis.
Mostly about the performances, the craft, the story.
Everything I hoped Jia Zhangke's Dance would be, and more. Every choice feels considered. Straight onto my favourites.
Mostly about the craft.
The Day She Returns got under my skin. Every choice feels considered. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the craft.
Indescribable without the term kitchen sink. What a self-indulgent mess.
Films, series, books, albums, games. Skip anything you haven't met.

Which one are you? The test above will tell you.
A taste fingerprint: fourteen dimensions, read against every other Bud. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.
Forrest Gump1994Epic, effortless, nostalgic and meticulous.
Not a genre label: how it moves, how it feels, what it asks of you. Every film, series, book, album and game is read on the same fourteen scales, each in its own terms (a record's tempo and sound, a game's challenge and world), and your profile is matched against them.
A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.




