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The Good Place: It’s not nihilism, it’s purgatory

April 20, 2020 Father Andrew Younan 14

Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for season four of The Good Place. If you’ve watched the fourth and final season of NBC’s The Good Place, you already know that the show seems to end […]

The Dispatch

“Star Trek: Picard” leans on nostalgia, pulls its punches

April 2, 2020 Titus Techera 44

Star Trek hasn’t been very good for decades, and it got much worse in 2017, when CBS made an attempt to go woke with the series Discovery. The show had all the strong female protagonists, […]

The Dispatch

With “The Mandalorian,” Star Wars returns to its roots

January 2, 2020 Thomas P. Harmon 6

The first season of Disney’s The Mandalorian deliberately—and successfully—returns to the tighter storytelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It uses sparse dialogue and gorgeous visuals to set the scene, and keeps the […]

The Dispatch

Beautiful Catholic liturgy attracts, and Hollywood knows it

September 19, 2019 Rob Coleman 26

Netflix has just released a trailer for the original film The Two Popes, starring Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis. I plan to watch despite the predictable sermons on the […]

Features

“The Office” and…Flannery O’Connor?

July 6, 2019 Lauren Enk Mann 6

This week The Office, the Steve-Carrell-led TV satire, made headlines to the tune of fan outrage when it was announced that Netflix lost its long-held rights to the show when the streaming service was outbid […]

Film & Music

“Vanity Fair” remains fresh and biting in the Instagram era

February 28, 2019 Nathanael Blake 2

“This is Vanity Fair, where everyone is striving for what is not worth having.” The tagline from the latest television adaptation of Vanity Fair illustrates why it is a perfect tale for today. Released late […]

The Dispatch

Who was this man’s neighbor?

July 9, 2018 Nick Olszyk 3

Fred Rogers’ Christian witness continues to defy our culture’s reflexive cynicism. […]

Essay

Family flourishing and the education of killer robots

June 8, 2018 Thomas P. Harmon 3

Netflix’s re-imagining of a sci-fi classic shows what does—and does not—change about the human condition when a family is “Lost in Space.” […]

The Dispatch

Enough Homer Simpsons; TV needs more Jack Pearsons

March 6, 2018 Elizabeth Anderson 5

This Is Us offers a refreshingly positive depiction of fatherhood. […]

Film & Music

“Stranger Things 2”: Not quite strange enough

November 20, 2017 Thomas P. Harmon 8

In its second season, Stranger Things shifts from a show about human beings with monsters in it, to a show about monsters with human beings […]

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