A Post In the Machine

Notes on: "Belfast," "The French Dispatch," "The King's Man," the Great Resignation, "Formula 1: Drive to Survive," "Counterpart" and "The End of the F***ing World."

One of the benefits of leaving full-time television criticism to do other writing is that I got off the hamster wheel of non-stop, overwhelming television watching that left me no time to see movies, among other things (like, you know, finishing all the shows I reviewed, seeing friends, doing much of anything else, etc.).

Having, in the last two years, …