Damn Fine TV/Film
“Only the good die young” as the song goes. Over the years there have been a number of TV shows that have made an impact on us here at 25YL, which we have been sad to see struck down in their prime. A season or two that grabbed us, and…that’s it. Whether there is some …
Twin streams of light cross in a shadowed hallway, illuminating little. Smoke unfurls from a Marlboro cigarette, and hands seek each other out in a dim hospital room. The iconography of The X-Files is minimal to the extreme and steeped in ambiguity: empty spaces, creeping shadows, and answers hidden beyond the next corner, always out …
Continue reading "Negative Space: Truth and Shadows in The X-Files"
After a painfully long wait, Better Call Saul is finally back for Season 4. Here at 25YL, we're gearing up for our weekly coverage of the series. Join Ali Sciarabba every Wednesday as she deep-dives into the latest episode. In the meantime, if you haven't seen the Season 4 trailer, check it out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gxAGhIKNi8 …
Where do you start with Mister Rogers? For years, his neighborhood was a welcoming place for children all over the world. With his lasting messages of love, kindness, compassion, and strength in troubling times, Fred Rogers has remained a relevant and (some would say) desperately needed antidote to an ever-scarier world. So it shouldn't be …
Continue reading "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Mister Rogers and the Power of Nostalgia"
In just eight episodes, season 1 of True Detective reminded us what television could (and should) be. Here at 25YL, we're about to relive the experience. The show is just as riveting today as it was when it aired in 2014. Time is a flat circle, after all... Join us every Thursday (beginning July 12th) …
25YL is excited to announce our weekly coverage of the HBO limited series Sharp Objects. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects follows crime reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) as she returns to her hometown to investigate the murder of two young girls. The eight-episode series airs Sunday nights on HBO (9pm EST) …
I didn’t even meet Ben and Bryon, the intrepid Twin Peaks Unwrapped hosts, when they were seated at a sound board recording their podcast just a few feet from me way back in 2016. After our hearts were temporarily stopped in the spring of 2015 (when David Lynch pulled out of the project), and following …
Tracee was not a bright young woman with a promising future, so far as anyone could tell. Her story is harrowing, but it bothers me particularly because I’ve known a few girls in my life who followed similar paths. Abusive upbringings, time bombs of repressed anger, seemingly destined for a new abusive relationship following the …
Continue reading "The Sopranos Part 1: No Redeeming Qualities"
Welcome back to our weekly series Favorites! This week we are doing something extra special as its our 1st birthday! We have come a very long way this year, you can read more about that here in this letter from our Chief. It seemed apt then that we should look back at some of the …
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 …
Continue reading "Westworld Season 1: Secrets and Mysteries"