Category Archives: TV

The Marvelous Subversion of Mrs. Maisel

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Max West

The 1950s has long been the Left’s favorite punching bag. To those of the loud, urban, NYC-pseudo-intellectual milieu, the small towns of Mayberry, and wherever Ozzie and Harriet and ‘the Beave’ lived, are jokes, absurdist romanticizations of an era that … Continue reading →

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Bryan Magee Interviews Bernard Williams About René Descartes

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Max West

There used to be a time when things like this were on TV. My head almost exploded from just the title card alone:

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Dear White People – S02

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Max West

Dear White People is an alleged sitcom that, along with Blackish, attempts to both show us how much ‘cooler’, with-it, and socially woke POCs are (relative to whites) & to make fun of white people in clever new ways. Well, Season … Continue reading →

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BBC: Civilization(s)

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Max West

Today’s Prufrock email blast notes: The BBC is bringing back Kenneth Clark’s Civilization. Unsurprisingly, it’s now called Civilizations, and the first episode has its share of egalitarian posturing. Otherwise, it’s not bad: “Here’s one of the fundamental differences between this … Continue reading →

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Heathers (2017)

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Max West

The SJW jihad to turn every new TV show into a simultaneous anti-white pogrom & ‘Coalition of the Fringes’ lovefest marches on… except this one may have backfired (?): Heathers (2017) turns the premise of Heathers (1988) on its (Diet Coke) head. The … Continue reading →

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Babylon Berlin (2018)

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Max West

Babylon Berlin is a $40 million TV series, a public/private collaboration (no pun) between German state TV and UK’s Sky Atlantic. The show begins airing on Netflix today. The series intends to depict Weimar Germany in the 1920s, albeit with … Continue reading →

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PKD: Electric Dreams

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Max West

The sheer volume of quality content in this, the Third Golden Age of Television, is overwhelming. The British show Black Mirror, a modern update to The Twilight Zone (with self-contained episodes riffing on the theme of our enslavement to technology) … Continue reading →

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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Max West

As the Alt-Right, and white identity politics in general, grows in size as a counter-cultural force, we can expect The Cathedral to portray this phenomenon through satire. In proportion to the rate of Alt-Right growth, progressive satire will posses proportionally … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World (2017)

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Max West

Rebelling against the power and corruption of The Vatican, Martin Luther exploited the social media of the era (the Guttenberg printing press), using sometimes crude and bombastic language to repudiate the base assumptions of the elite power structure of his … Continue reading →

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Game of Thrones

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Max West

Due to S07 discussion of the show being absolutely everywhere in culture, and alll seasons of the show having over 95% ratings on RottenTomatoes, I decided to finally try watching Game of Thrones (GOT). The first thing I discovered is … Continue reading →

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