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"Well the pressure's down, the boss ain't here He's gone North, for a while They say that vanity got the best of him But he sure left here in style By the way, that's a cute hat And that smile's so hard to resist But what's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like …
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Being-towards-death is the anticipation of a potentiality-for-Being of that entity whose kind of Being is anticipation itself. In the anticipatory revealing of this potentiality-for-Being, Dasein discloses itself to itself as regards its uttermost possibility. But to project itself on its ownmost potentiality-for-Being means to be able to understand itself in the Being of the entity …
When I realised I wanted to write an article about the show, I didn't know what angle to take. I started by asking several people if they had, a) heard of the show, or b) watched the show. Most people said they had heard of the show but never watched it. An alarming number said …
With HBO's sci-fi thriller-mystery Westworld returning for a second season on April 22, I had an urge to give it another spin. Going in knowing what happens, for the most part anyway, (I first watched the show as it aired back in 2016, so it's been a while), I wondered if I would find it …
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Lost was a groundbreaking show for many reasons, but one that is often overlooked is the depth and diversity of the women on the show. While I have been critical of Kate, for being a badly written and infuriating character, that does not mean that I have no love for the women of Lost. Every …
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There is nothing in "Shut up and Dance" that is not possible right now. The technology involved, from hacking into someone's webcam, to tracking the GPS on someone's phone, to the drone, is all already present in our world. As such, the episode is of a piece with Black Mirror's inaugural offering, The National Anthem. It …
The final season of Lost was marred in controversy right out of the gate. There was a very vocal portion of the audience that expected a season full of answers to the five seasons worth of questions that had been asked. The sixth season's premiere, "LAX", established that not only would answers be doled out less …
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Playtest is basically a short horror film, and on that level, it works. It is scary both in the scenes that it presents, and in its concept. There are two levels to this: one pertains to a fear of losing one's personal identity; the other to the possibility that a small decision may have disastrous …
There is a difference between appreciating a work of art and liking it. It's a hard one for many of us; made harder still by a cultural tendency to reduce all value judgments to expressions of preference, or opinion. De gustibus non est disputandum but not everything is merely a matter of personal taste. I recall, however …
"Why do you find it so hard to believe?" "Why do you find it so easy?" "It's never been easy!" Lost was a show that made me a believer. I was a cynical atheist who rankled at the slightest religious or spiritual content. When I first got into Lost, I was vehemently against the episodes …