Tatiana Maslany
Snatched (2022) [Hulu’s Bite-Size Halloween Review]
A 15-year-old boy finally comes out to his parents; they seem as doubtful of accepting it as he’d feared. Then what looks to be a meteor shower hits overnight — and the next morning, he ge...
Power Trip Season 1 — A Summing-Up
It’s a strange feeling to seemingly be the only person talking about something you think is great — something you think really deserves more people listening, paying attention to it, and (...
Power Trip Episode 8 “Forgive Me”
“Forgiveness” is a very big word. It implies so much that we either take for granted or perhaps find we cannot move ourselves to do at all, particularly with some people whose actions we f...
Power Trip Episode 7 “Hate Me”
…each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone. — from “September 1, 1939”, by W. H. Auden There’s a very famous quote from...
Power Trip Episode 6 “Dance with Me”
“Episodes come along that you think have no bearing on the story, then 12 or 14 reels later it hits you with a crash.” — Harry Carr, writing about the classic film “Greed”...
Power Trip Episode 5 “Don’t Blame Me”
Sometimes, life throws surprising shifts at you after moments when you’re at your lowest — positive surprises. You could be nibbling gently on toast, trying to not annoy the service worker...
Power Trip Episode 4 “Play with Me”
Even in comedy, Tatiana Maslany has never given less than 110 percent. It’s one of her strongest assets as a performer; even in audio, you never get the sense that she is not living as the chara...
Destroyer (2018)
“I’m not interested in what I know,” Nicole Kidman said of her near four-decade career in acting. “I’m interested in what I don’t know.” In conversation with Vanity Fair’s Krista Smith at this year’s ...