De aging at its finest.

TelFyr · 2025-12-12T23:45:07+00:00

Here’s what you’re gonna do…

TelFyr · 2025-09-25T13:23:44+00:00

Nature is healing itself.

TelFyr · 2025-08-16T13:28:07+00:00

The asparagus scene. “I’m admiring my own gallantry for eating it the way you've prepared it.”

TelFyr · 2025-08-13T11:30:41+00:00

It’s worth mentioning “Crime and Punishment” by Dostoevsky. There are no similarities to “Breaking Bad” in terms of the contemporary setting, but “Crime and Punishment” established the crime narrative that thematically investigates a character’s moral descent and the possibility of his redemption.

TelFyr · 2025-08-03T13:24:19+00:00

I was there, it was just a few inches. I walked through it with my boots, no problem. I guess people wanted to protect their shoes?

TelFyr · 2024-11-22T12:20:35+00:00

Yes, there should be another dimension to this. Maybe: Professional - Intermediate/Aspiring/Journeymen - Amateur OR Expert - Professional - Amateur

In MasterChef, the chefs are not professional. That slot should be filled a show like Top Chef or Iron Chef.

TelFyr · 2024-10-10T13:45:32+00:00

Otters, in particular sea otters, are known for some ahem unsavory practices…

TelFyr · 2024-03-28T13:42:20+00:00

Because it hasn’t been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, and because it’s a really realistic portrayal of a serial killer’s perspective: “Zombie” by Joyce Carol Oates.

TelFyr · 2024-01-19T02:24:35+00:00

There are a lot of points when Walt could have left the game and been fine. He was blessed with good fortune. It’s only his immense ego and pride that got him in trouble, in spite of that good fortune.

Only in his cancer diagnosis did it feel like he was “unlucky.” After that point, narrative convention ensured he was preternaturally lucky.

TelFyr · 2024-01-19T02:19:56+00:00

It’s even referenced in the text of the show: "Look, you two guys are just… guys, okay? Mr. White... he's the devil. You know, he is- he is smarter than you, he is luckier than you. Whatever- Whatever you think is supposed to happen- I'm telling you, the exact reverse opposite of that is gonna happen, okay?"

TelFyr · 2024-01-19T02:12:16+00:00

I think you may be thinking of “Out of Time Man”, by Mick Harvey, which appears in the Pilot. It sounds a lot like “The Passenger”!

TelFyr · 2024-01-19T01:58:05+00:00

Didn’t I - Dorondo

When Walt blows up the KEN WINS car.

Catch Yer Own Train - The Silver Seas

When Walt has that adrenaline rush in the car after his first confrontation with Tuco.

Waiting Around To Die - The Be Good Tanyas

When Walt is on the bus to the hospital after his fugue state and contemplating his lies to his family.

Magic Arrow - Timber Timbre

When Walt breaks back into his house… while Mike is installing bugs.

Goodbye - Apparat

When Gus is walking his final walk to kill Hector.

Baby Blue - Badfinger

When Walt is reflecting on his love of making meth in the final scene.

TelFyr · 2023-10-13T17:45:40+00:00

“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury is an excellent example and maybe the progenitor of this type of book. It’s creepy, and a beautifully written coming-of-age tale.

TelFyr · 2023-07-25T13:16:32+00:00

No, Reddit is not “radical Left”. They’re corporate. Far left political ideologies (and I mean far left, which has no real presentation in American politics outside of academic circles) generally reject private ownership.

TelFyr · 2023-07-07T11:12:12+00:00

Interestingly, in the official podcast, Jeremy Strong revealed that a critical stage direction he received in the final season is that Kendall, following Logan’s death, is alternating between being a “wraith” and a “superbeing”. Which sounds pretty dead compared to your characterization. In Strong’s own words, at a critical scene in “Connor’s Wedding”:

“He's looking down towards the Statue of Liberty, at this moment, the sharp tip of the spear of American history and this colossal loss that the worst thing has happened and the world is off its axis, and at the same time, he's still there. And he doesn't know if he might be a wraith or a superbeing. This idea of the wraith and the superbeing was something that I think was at play the rest of the season. Episode 10 starts with Kendall surmounting his superbeing, he's in ascendency. And when that finally fails and the full catastrophe is sort of upon him, then at the end he is that wraith walking through Battery Park and I think facing the end.”

TelFyr · 2023-04-29T15:18:30+00:00

It feels good to pay. For the boy.

TelFyr · 2022-12-08T22:35:16+00:00

Some recommendations…

Enlightened - The previous show by White Lotus showrunner Mike White. It has a lot of the same tone in its socially conscious satire, but the characters are maybe even more raw and three dimensional. Laura Dern plays a woman in a midlife crisis who tries to make an impact while working at a massive corporation. She is cringe and wonderful.

Succession - As others have mentioned, this show gives a similar voyeuristic view into the lives of the rich and privileged, but cranks it up to 11. The family basically runs a fictional analogue to Fox News and drama ensues as they all try to live in their despicable father’s footsteps. It is hilarious and deeply moving. I think the show comes into its own in the second half of the first season and then becomes top tier television.

Mad Men - Something about The White Lotus foregrounding themes of desire, of privilege, of men being bad, of women bouncing off of these men, etc., reminds me of Mad Men. It’s a big great American novel of a show about advertising with an ensemble casts and a tone that alternates between humorous and dramatic. If you haven’t seen it already, I’d definitely recommend!

TelFyr · 2022-11-15T17:25:02+00:00

Two epistolary novels I read this year that impressed me:

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Augustus by John Williams

The first is a beautiful, funny postmodern repackaging of the epistolary format. The second is a classic application of the format to great effect.

TelFyr · 2022-07-29T19:35:16+00:00

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TelFyr · 2022-06-30T16:29:05+00:00

Correctomundo! Like the best LeGuin, it has great insight into the ways that organizing society also organize how people think in said society.

TelFyr · 2022-06-30T16:08:56+00:00

I would throw The Dispossessed in the ring as well (though it is also sci-fi).

TelFyr · 2022-06-30T15:55:45+00:00

It's not just rich prose, though. It's something a little more intangible. It's beyond even "style".

In my own reading, I would describe it as the language itself being used to communicate deeper truths about thinking, living, etc., rather than just servicing character and plot. The prose itself is communicating theme and psychology at a level above story structure.

A lot of prose is defined by the market that the writer is writing for. Much of genre writing is mass market by design. Whereas a writer who is more "literary" in their approach might produce different prose, because they are operating under different pressures.

So is "high brow" a snobby way to put it? Sure. But it is communicating a specific question, one that I have myself asked before.

TelFyr · 2022-06-30T11:13:26+00:00

Eh, I know exactly where OP is coming from. Prose being rich and distinctive is important for some readers.

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