Film Review: Amy
Riding Fame’s Inherent Rollercoaster The entirety of Amy, Asif Kapadia’s riveting and heartbreaking documentary about Amy Winehouse, is made of archived footage — home videos, tabloid photos, concert tape, recording […]
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Enlightened Season 2 Episode 8 “Agent of Change”
“You can walk out of hell and into the light. You can wake up to your higher self, and when you do, the world is suddenly full of possibility, of […]
Enlightened Season 2 Episode 7 “No Doubt”
The long flow of the Oscars last night had a very similar feel to the narrative arc of Enlightened’s seventh episode and Amy’s mental state. It all starts out so […]
Enlightened Season 2 Episode 6 “All I Ever Wanted”
Love came to my door With a sleeping roll And a madman’s soul He thought for sure I’d seen him Dancing up a river in the dark Looking for a […]
Enlightened Season 2 Episode 5 “The Ghost is Seen”
I’ve always enjoyed the title card of “Enlightened,” so non-existent, pale, light, dissolving into thin white air. You sometimes forget that it’s even considered a weekly opening sequence- no music […]
Enlightened Season 2 Episode 3 “Higher Power”
I smiled along with Tyler’s big grin last episode even though what he did to Omar was difficult to endure. There was just something so gratifying watching him with excitement […]
Enlightened Season 2 Episode 2 “Revenge Play”
If there’s one thing Mike White captures beautifully in “Enlightened,” it’s the slow and subtle progressions (or digressions) of a character through both the arc of a season, and, specifically […]
Enlightened Season 2 Episode 1 “The Key”
Amy Jellicoe is enraging, insightful, awkward and caring. She’s narcissistic but empathetic, naïve but aspirational. The first year of Enlightened taught us all of this and much more, and similar […]
