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Six Limited Series That Don’t Just Entertain, They Ask Something of Your Soul

If your watchlist’s starting to feel like a second job, limited series can be a kind of grace. They give you a full story without demanding years of your life. No endless seasons, no drawn-out plots. Just something complete, something that knows when to begin and when to end. And maybe there’s something quietly faithful […]

Adrian Drayton · 5 May 2026

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Plur1bus Episode 5: When Care Becomes Control

Episode 5 of Pluribus titled “Got Milk” pushes the story into sharper territory by focusing on power, responsibility and the uneasy space between care and coercion. The fallout from Carol’s use of the truth serum has altered the hive’s behaviour. Their visits to her home are sparse and subdued. The ease and confidence they once […]

Adrian Drayton · 1 December 2025

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Plur1bus Episode 4: The Cost of Truth

Note: This commentary contains spoilers for episode four of Plur1bus Episode four ‘Please Carol’ pushes Carol (Rhea Seehorn) further into her interrogation of the hive-mind now that she has confirmed they cannot lie. A calm conversation with Larry, one of the hive’s representatives, exposes how limited that honesty is. Their answers come from collective memory […]

Adrian Drayton · 22 November 2025

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“The Promised Land” Finds Holy Humour in the Wilderness of Faith

The Bible is a pretty hot property at the moment with the character-based drama of The Chosen, the fantasy stylings of House of David, and the modern-day dystopian take of Acts in Testament.  They all show how recent Bible adaptations are experimenting with genre and storytelling. Now comes The Promised Land – a mockumentary about […]

Adrian Drayton · 20 November 2025

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Plur1bus Episode 3 Turns Loneliness into Defiance

Note: This commentary contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Plur1bus Episode 3 of Plur1bus titled “Grenade” opens by deepening the isolation of Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) who remains the un-joined individual in a world now subsumed by the hive-mind. A flash-back to a trip Carol and her partner Helen take to an ice-hotel gives emotional […]

Adrian Drayton · 19 November 2025

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Brilliant Minds Shows Us That True Vision Isn’t About Eyesight

Review: Brilliant Minds  Medical dramas have long thrived on heightened tension—emergency room chaos, impossible diagnoses, and the occasional moral crisis. At their worst, they fall into formula: a “disease of the week” resolved by a heroic doctor just in time for the closing credits. HBO Max’s Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto, could easily have landed there. Instead, […]

Adrian Drayton · 30 September 2025

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The Newsroom 17 Years On: Truth, and the Call to Integrity

When Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom first aired in 2012, it imagined a world where journalism could resist the pull of ratings and speak honestly to the public. Jeff Daniels’ Will McAvoy wasn’t chasing viral clips or hashtags. He wanted the news to mean something. Back then, critics said the show was naive. Seventeen years later, […]

Adrian Drayton · 24 September 2025

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Platonic Reminds Us Why Friendship Still Matters

Friendship is a strange thing. It sneaks up on us, it saves us, and sometimes it complicates our lives more than we’d like. Now in it’s hysterical second season, the Apple TV+ series Platonic, starring Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen, leans hard into that messy, awkward, necessary part of life: having a friend you can’t […]

Adrian Drayton · 16 September 2025

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Friendship’s Genuine Plea for Connection 

Friendship is a strange movie, and it is strange for a couple of reasons. It sticks out as something of an anomaly in a world that seems to have abandoned the comedy film in its purest form. In the last two weeks I have seen The Naked Gun, The Roses, and now Friendship buck the […]

Jonty Cornford · 8 September 2025

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Chief of War and the Unfinished Story of Stolen Land

We live on stolen land. That is not a metaphor, not a rhetorical flourish, but a plain and stubborn fact. The ground we build on, the soil we farm, the beaches we claim as holiday escapes—all of it was taken. In the United States, the genocide and displacement of Native Americans is at least acknowledged […]

Adrian Drayton · 2 September 2025

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What If Acts Happened Today? ‘Testament’ Dares to Imagine It

We often ask what it would look like if Jesus were among us now. How would people respond? Would they follow him? Ignore him? Cancel him? Testament, a new TV series from Angel Studios, takes that question and runs with it—not by retelling Jesus’ life, but by dropping the Book of Acts into a world […]

Adrian Drayton · 24 July 2025

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Vivid, Artful, Imperfect, and Worth Your Time

Review: The Chosen Season 5 The Chosen is back, and this time, it walks straight into the heartbreak and weight of Holy Week. Season 5 doesn’t reinvent the story of Jesus’ final days. But it doesn’t need to. Instead, it slows down and leans in. It gives space to grief, confusion, fear, and hope. You […]

Adrian Drayton · 7 July 2025

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The Sacred in the Chaos

Review: The Pitt The Pitt stands out not only for its structure and storytelling but for its clear empathy toward the emotional and physical demands placed on health care workers. Set in a high-pressure emergency department, each episode captures a single hour of one long, unrelenting day. The series began at 7:00 a.m., and by episode […]

Adrian Drayton · 1 July 2025

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Justice, Revenge, and the Fragility of Faith in The Last Of Us Season 2

Warning: If you have not watched Season 2 of The Last Of Us this review contains spoilers. The Last of Us Season 2 extends the narrative weight of the first season but shifts its focus toward an intense moral examination of justice versus revenge. The season does not ask which is right, but what each costs—and […]

Adrian Drayton · 5 June 2025

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The Penguin Lessons

Note: This analysis contains spoilers for The Penguin Lessons. The Penguin Lessons is a beautiful, surprising gem of a movie, based on the memoir of British teacher Tom Michell. Michell taught English at an exclusive private boy’s school in Argentina in the 1970’s when it was on the brink of revolution. Sometime in the past, […]

Katherine Grocott · 21 May 2025

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Reflections on ‘Civil War’ and the Current U.S. Immigration Policies

After watching Alex Garland’s Civil War when it came out last year, I was struck by its haunting portrayal of a nation unravelling under the weight of its own divisions. The film, told through the eyes of journalists documenting the chaos, delves into themes of truth, trauma, and the human cost of political upheaval. What […]

Adrian Drayton · 12 May 2025