The past few episodes of
This Is Us have been defined by cars. First there was Kate’s journey to confront Marc. Then Randall and Beth’s road trip to New Orleans to learn about his birth mom. And finally Kevin’s rush to make it back to L.A. in time for the birth of his twins. “The Ride” continues that theme with an episode all about the first drive home from the hospital after the arrival of a new baby. It’s the simplest episode of the season so far a low-key, character-centric outing that lets the
This Is Us cast shine in some close-quarters acting. Plotwise, there’s not much to it, and it’s surprisingly muted emotionally too. But “The Ride” is at least an effective reminder of how charming these actors can be and how lived-in the show’s characters feel five seasons in.
Riverdale Recap: Everything Purgatorio Revealed About the Time Jump
It s officially a new era for The CW s
Riverdale, as the series has now jumped seven years forward into the future. The time jump has been teased for the better part of last year, after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the original timetable of it happening, which has left quite a lot of fans with preconceived notions and theories about exactly what it would bring. This week, audiences finally got their answer with the debut of Chapter Eighty: Purgatorio , the fourth episode of the show s fifth season. The episode picked back up on the lives of Riverdale High s young adults in some truly unexpected ways, bringing new jobs, new relationships, and a slew of new problems for them to solve.
Actors in Flash Forward: Voices From the Future
(left to right) top: Ronni Lopez, Ro Boddie, Susan Palmer; center: John Nagle, Haley Rice, Gary Smith;
Among many other losses, the pandemic resulted in darkened stages and empty theater seats. But that, of course, is not the whole story: Thespians, like other performing artists, have found ways to keep on acting out. Even in the dead of winter, we have much theater news to report. So let the virtual curtain rise.
Middlebury Acting Company
, streaming Saturday, February 6, 7 p.m. Free. middleburyactors.org, townhalltheater.org
In addition to its monthly interactive play reading/discussion series, the American Dream Project,
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Fantastical novellas and collections of short fiction can offer readers a brief respite from reality.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Tor.com, July), the slender first volume in Hugo Award–winner Becky Chambers’s Monk & Robot series, is dedicated to “anybody who could use a break.” Set in a future in which, freed from work obligations, intelligent robots disappeared from cities into the wilderness, the story follows Sibling Dex, a tea monk (job description: “
listen to people, give tea”), who stumbles upon Mosscap, a robot, traversing wild terrain. As much a philosophical journey as a speculative one, the book fits squarely into the burgeoning hopepunk subgenre.
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