Light On Light Through

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 163, in which I review Bridgerton, and say it's an alternate history Jane Austen story.

Read this review: Bridgerton: Alternate Austen

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 162, in which I review four Blumhouse horror movies streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Further reading, written reviews:

• The Lie
• Black Box
• Evil Eye
• Nocturne

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 161, in which I review The Queen's Gambit, reported today (3 December 2020) in The Hollywood Reporter as "atop the Nielsen streaming chart" for the second week in a row.

Further reading: my blog post review of The Queen's Gambit

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 160, in which I review the just-concluded limited series on HBO, The Undoing.

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 159, in which I offer a McLuhanesque perspective about Tiger King, Netflix's runaway smash docu-series.

Further reading: McLuhan in an Age of Social Media

Video with Jesse Ventura mentioned in the podcast

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 158, in which I discuss why the polls got so much wrong, again, in the 2020 US Presidential election. They did predict that Biden would win, which he did, but by smaller margins in several states than projected in the polls. And he lost Florida and Ohio, which the polls said he would win. Why did this happen, again (it happened in 2016), what can be done about it, and what are the implications of this failure in polling for the future?

Further reading: "A Black Eye: Why Political Polling Missed the Mark. Again." The New York Times

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 157, in which I review The Crown season 4 -- the best season so far in this superb series.

Further listening:

Review of The Crown seasons 1-3

Further reading:

Review of The Crown Season 1 ... Season 2 ... Season 3 ... Season 4

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 156, in which I consider why more than 70 million Americans voted for Donald Trump in the just concluded Presidential election.

Further reading: Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 155, in which I put Joe Biden's victory in some philosophic context: it offers proof of John Milton's argument, way back in the Areopagitica, that truth can win in the marketplace of ideas, even when situated in social media.

[painting by Paul Zeaiter, Sydney, Australia]

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 154, in which I explain how Joe Biden is winning the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.