John Ryan Sullivan

  • On Television – True Detective: Night Country (season 4)

    (This post contains spoilers) As someone who has watched and enjoyed all four seasons of True Detective it feels strange to only now write about the show. Where was the urge after watching the previous seasons? I think the desire may stem, in part, from the lack of attention season four received compared to the…

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  • On Television – Sunny

    On Television – Sunny

    (this post contains massive spoilers about the show Sunny) I spent ten years trying to write a novel without understanding how to tell the story. I had been reading a good deal of John Steinbeck and it influenced everything I wrote. I was young enough that I did not see this influence until I shared…

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  • (I discovered today that I only shared this on Medium.com which I stopped using in 2017. So, yes, this is old but it’s one of the few times I’ve been able to interview people regarding their film work – and have a record of it! – that I can share. So here goes…) This interview…

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  • (I discovered today that I only shared this on Medium.com which I stopped using in 2017. So, yes, this is old but it’s one of the few times I’ve been able to interview people regarding their film work – and have a record of it! – that I can share. So here goes…) This interview…

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  • Criticism versus Reviewing (and does it matter?)

    I have been posting a fair number of reviews about television shows and movies of late. I struggle with calling what I write reviews as I purposely try and not comprehensively review anything. I suppose I take the coward’s way out, I try and write what I consider appreciations of things I think worthy of…

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  • Current Cinema – Dune Part 2

    (This post contains spoilers) How should a person judge a film adapted from a novel? Is it fair to compare the two given the audio/visual nature of the film? Frank Herbert most likely never imagined bagpipes in space while writing Dune, yet here we are and they are amazing. Part of why I’ve resisted writing…

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  • On Television – The Agency

    (This post contains spoilers) First things first, this image, which is the main one used for the show, is terrible. It makes Michael Fassbender look gaunt and scared. If you watch the show he does’t look like this (he looks like he always does and certainly never scared). That’s my main issue with this image,…

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  • On Television – Mayor of Kingstown

    A brief post about a current show – Mayor of Kingstown.

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  • On Television – Landman

    On Television – Landman

    A brief post about a current show – Landman.

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  • Watching Films and Resisting Manipulation

    A short essay before a few film reviews.

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