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Tessa Lindgren · Taste Buds
Bud · The Provocateur
Tessa Lindgren @tessa.tv · 52 logs · 12 followers · 13 following
Provocateur · open · contemplative · contemporary
Demo account. Prestige television, watched in order, no skipping. Season two is where the truth lives.
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Archetype
The Provocateur Suspicious of comfort. With a streak of The Formalist.
12% of Buds. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Work that unsettles: bleak, open, demanding. They trust discomfort more than reassurance and rate the thing that made they argue.
Where it goes wrong: Difficulty is not depth. Sometimes the cold thing is just cold, and you rated it up for the chill.
More about the Provocateur
Avoids Comfort, closure, and being told how to feel. Warmth on its own reads as a sales pitch.
How they rate Your five stars go to the difficult. Your one star goes to the smooth. The middle is where you are bored.
Good company The Formalist respects you, the Ironist enjoys you, and the Comfort Seeker is your most productive opposite.
Against the crowd You are the reliable spicy take: harsher than the crowd on beloved warmth, kinder to the punishing and the strange. Buds like them: Gaz
Rates generously Open to the unusual
In three lines
They like endings left open to interpretation. More than almost anyone here.
resolved open-ended 71%
They are happy with a slow, patient pace. More than almost anyone here.
contemplative relentless 68%
They lean toward the new and current. More than almost anyone here.
contemporary nostalgic 63%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste .
The numbers What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
In the community
Kinder than 80% of Buds Has rated more than 44% of Buds More open than 99% of Buds 12% of curators are Provocateurs Among 652 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
resolved open-ended contemplative relentless contemporary nostalgic Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. World-building barely moves their ratings.
Taste profile
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
Resolved Open Ambiguity: +2.4σ toward Open +2.4σ Contemplative Relentless Pacing: -2.2σ toward Contemplative -2.2σ Contemporary Retro Nostalgia: -2.2σ toward Contemporary -2.2σ Easy Demanding Challenge: +2.0σ toward Demanding +2.0σ Rough Meticulous Craft attention: -1.7σ toward Rough -1.7σ This month they were trying a medium you rarely log and in a generous mood. From 18 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Films Empty. Add things from their pages.
Time traveler · Silver
8 of 12
First entry · Bronze
Maxed
On a streak · Bronze
42 of 60
Severance
Breaking Bad
Piranesi
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Little Life
Punisher
3.5★ · 7
Conventional Experimental Formal experimentation: +1.0σ toward Experimental +1.0σ Cool Overwhelming Emotional intensity: -1.0σ toward Cool -1.0σ Pulp Prestige Prestige vs. pulp: +0.9σ toward Prestige +0.9σ Intimate Epic Scale: -0.8σ toward Intimate -0.8σ Warm Bleak Tonal darkness: +0.8σ toward Bleak +0.8σ Earnest Ironic Sincerity vs. irony: +0.8σ toward Ironic +0.8σ Interior Event-driven Character vs. plot: -0.8σ toward Interior -0.8σ Thin setting Dense world World-building: +0.4σ toward Dense world Serious Comedy-forward Humor: -0.3σ toward Serious standard deviations from the average Bud Ratings
3 stars: 4 3.5 stars: 16 4 stars: 10 4.5 stars: 6 5 stars: 16 ½★ 3★ 5★
52 rated · mean 4.13 Profile built from 52 rated titles.
Heaven Above Rowen is the real thing. Every choice feels considered. This one is going to stay with me.
Mostly about the story.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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5.0
Love Me got under my skin. Unhurried, and the unhurriedness is the point.
Mostly about the story.
I did not expect GOLLIWOG to hit this hard. Heavy going, and it is meant to be.
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Han cantado bingo got under my skin. Small and intimate, and all the better for it. More about who these people are than what happens to them.
Mostly about the performances, the story.
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The funniest tragedy on television. Every episode ends with someone losing and the show never tells you who. The wedding is the best hour; the funeral is the best scene.
Mostly about the story, comfort.
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It took me two seasons to understand it was about work, not affairs. Then it became the best show ever made about being paid to lie.
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Season one is a panic attack with a plot; season two is the best argument for television as a medium since The Wire. Forks is a perfect episode.
3.0
The only show that made an office corridor frightening. The season one finale is the tightest hour I have seen since Ozymandias, and I do not say that lightly.
Mostly about the craft, the story, comfort.
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone bleak open experimental contemplative cool intimate demanding ironic dense world interior prestige contemporary serious rough Tessa Lindgren. The ring is the average curator; the further out, the stronger the lean toward the word. Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Read this chart Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
Glossary
By medium
How Tessa Lindgren rates each kind of thing Films 22 ratings mean 3.75 Television 13 ratings mean 4.62
The map
Every Bud, placed by taste Against the crowd
Where Tessa Lindgren parts ways with the audience Books 8 ratings mean 4.31
Music 6 ratings mean 4.25
Games 3 ratings mean 4.17
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
Glossary
mara_k · The Provocateur mara_k cozy_cal · The Comfort Seeker hollis · The Archivist omni_omar · The Comfort Seeker omni_omar quinn.ironist · The Ironist viktor_v · The Provocateur taya · The Sincere taya pranathitipparam · The Formalist pranathitipparam sol_sings · The Sincere amara.reads · The Prestige Hunter devontae · The Genre Devotee yuki.reads · The Provocateur lena.lofi · The Formalist kit.everything · The Genre Devotee ada.archive · The Provocateur june_bug · The Comfort Seeker june_bug rafael.replay · The Comfort Seeker theo.thrills · The Ironist sib.contrarian · The Provocateur marcus_mainline · The Genre Devotee gaz_horror · The Provocateur hana.watches · The Provocateur hana.watches ruthless_ruth · The Provocateur ruthless_ruth xolodolo · The Comfort Seeker priya.pages · The Empath priya.pages ines.v · The Empath beatsbyleo · The Formalist dannythemermaid · The Comfort Seeker dannythemermaid tobyplays · The Cartographer tobyplays paigeb · The Empath kellymarie · The Ironist garganchuan · The Prestige Hunter garganchuan ryan · The Omnivore nadia_noir · The Provocateur cartographer_cy · The Cartographer cartographer_cy shan · The Comfort Seeker kofi_k · The Cartographer pixel_pete · The Comfort Seeker pixel_pete ragingbert · The Empath sim555 · The Genre Devotee perfectdru · The Empath you easy · pulp demanding · prestige intimate · ironic epic · earnest · faint dots are the research dataset; ringed dots are your circle
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Tessa Lindgren is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Glossary
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): you 3★, crowd 3.8★ Fleabag (2016): you 4.5★, crowd 4.2★ Mad Men (2007): you 5★, crowd 4.0★ Never Let Me Go (2005): you 4.5★, crowd 3.9★ The Godfather (1972): you 4.5★, crowd 4.3★ Heat (1995): you 3.5★, crowd 4.0★ Sunset Boulevard (1950): you 4★, crowd 4.2★ Twin Peaks (1990): you 4★, crowd 4.2★ The Left Hand of Darkness (1969): you 4★, crowd 4.3★ Die Hard (1988): you 3.5★, crowd 3.9★ The Thing (1982): you 3.5★, crowd 4.0★ Circe (2018): you 3.5★, crowd 4.2★ Elden Ring (2022): you 3.5★, crowd 4.8★ Chernobyl (2019): you 5★, crowd 4.3★ Parasite (2019): you 3.5★, crowd 4.3★ Bluey (2018): you 3.5★, crowd 4.3★ The Truman Show (1998): you 3.5★, crowd 4.1★ The Bear (2022): you 4.5★, crowd 4.1★ Titanic (1997): you 3★, crowd 4.0★ Severance (2022): you 5★, crowd 4.2★ BEEF (2023): you 5★, crowd 3.9★ Baldur's Gate III (2023): you 4★, crowd 4.8★ Breaking Bad (2008): you 5★, crowd 4.5★ Blood Meridian (1985): you 4.5★, crowd 4.0★ The Shawshank Redemption (1994): you 4★, crowd 4.3★ Piranesi (2020): you 4★, crowd 4.3★ Up (2009): you 3★, crowd 4.0★ Ted Lasso (2020): you 3.5★, crowd 4.2★ Aftersun (2022): you 4★, crowd 3.8★ The Wire (2002): you 5★, crowd 4.3★ A Little Life (2008): you 4★, crowd 4.0★ Back to the Future (1985): you 3★, crowd 4.2★ Shutter Island (2010): you 4★, crowd 4.1★ The Zero Theorem Love Me crowd you Above the line you were kinder than the crowd; below, harsher. Orange dots differ by a star and a half or more.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Glossary
Drift
How what Tessa Lindgren loved has moved Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
Glossary
