AppleTV Plus is, from what I understand, THE destination for high quality TV programs in the 2020's. I say that I only understand that to be the case because I don't watch a lot of serialized television. I'm much more of a movie guy. TV series, to me, are a little arduous in how in-depth they are. I have two hours to watch a movie, yes. I don't have ten hours to give to a ten episode series of hour-long episodes. And then they take YEARS between seasons nowadays. I'm lucky if

I've already sang the praises of recently overdue veterans, Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson, by creating their respective top five lists. As I'm writing this, we're on the eve of the upcoming Fall festival season, where we'll be seeing upcoming award contenders rise and fall. But as we've seen every year, not all the narratives we build up or predict to happen will occur. Anyone remember when certain pundits thought Wicked: For Good would be the next Return of the

Oh, the lowly Netflix Original Movie. I talk repeatedly about Shudder movies and about how I never ever know what I'm going to get when I open up that service. It could be an extremely delightful hidden gem, or it could be repetitive crap I've seen dozens of times before. But with Netflix... man, doesn't it FEEL like we know what we are going to get? For every K-Pop Demon Hunters, we get about twenty The Last Days Of American Crime. Netflix movies are notoriously bad, but the