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Ok, so I kinda have to post about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. It’s made a huge splash, it’s filling theaters, and it’s gotten people talk about a 2,500 year old poem. So I need to discuss it. I have a lot of thoughts, about different pieces of it, so this post is gonna be things I can talk...
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During my long hiatus from the blog, I watched the first two seasons of Netflix’ Shonda Rhimes series Bridgerton. I always intended to write a couple posts about it, but at this point it’s far enough in my rearview mirror that I don’t remember a lot of what I would have said about it, and I don’t...
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The late 19th century in America is not often depicted in film or television (in contrast to the Late Victorian Age in Britain, which is a pretty popular setting), and even more rare is any depiction of the position of Black people in the post-Reconstruction era. So I really like the fact that The...
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One of the plot lines of Season 2 of the The Gilded Age is ‘Maud Beaton’ (Nicole Brydon Bloom) scamming Oscar (Blake Ritson) of the van Rhijn money, bringing him and Agnes (Christine Baranski) to the brink of ruin. This is worth a post. There were quite a few scammers who targeted everyday men and...
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The central plot of Season 2 is the struggle between the Knickerbockers (Old New Yorkers) and the New New Yorkers over access to a rare and socially precious resource, opera boxes. Allowing for the fact that the show’s narrative focuses on the fictitious Bertha (Carrie Coon) and George (Morgan...
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So the Historian is going back to the movies, or at least to the tv shows. I’ve been extremely busy and I’m not sure how much time I’ll have for further reviews, but I’ve been watching Julian Fellowes’ HBO’ series The Gilded Age and felt like I needed to write about it. The Gilded Age...