Lost in the Movies: belated May 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #91 - The Morning Show (+ feedback/media/work updates: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Belfast, Benjamin Franklin, Latin American history, The Office finale, Joan Chen's career, the Oscars slap, generational shifts, archive reading: making my movie Class of 2002 & more) + 7 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances

belated May 2022 Patreon round-up: LOST IN THE MOVIES patron podcast #91 - The Morning Show (+ feedback/media/work updates: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Belfast, Benjamin Franklin, Latin American history, The Office finale, Joan Chen's career, the Oscars slap, generational shifts, archive reading: making my movie Class of 2002 & more) + 7 TWIN PEAKS Character Series advances




Delayed almost a week by my work on Lost in Twin Peaks (which I discuss extensively at the outset), this exclusive Patreon podcast was supposed to be a relatively brief overview of recent activity. After all, I was covering a shorter period than in other recent updates. And I didn't expect the podcast to have an anchoring subject due to the time crunch as my deadline passed, the relative paucity of movies viewed this spring, and the conclusion of my "Twin Peaks Cinema" patron series in February. Nevertheless, Episode 91 blossomed into not only a lengthy discussion (over three hours, requiring my podcast recommendations to be shuffled off into a couple bonus mini-episodes), but also one with a nearly-fifteen-minute "film in focus" - or rather "series in focus" - at its center.

I came across the Apple TV series The Morning Show mostly by accident, and was initially turned off by what I heard (literally: my first exposure was audio from another room as someone else watched it). Yet I found myself slowly reeled in by the hook of season two, and soon I was making my way backwards into the story - in a show which is already itself structured around a major flashback. There is quite a lot to dig into: the coronavirus pandemic, the #MeToo phenomenon, the toxic "PMC" culture of media elites, and even similarities to Twin Peaks/Fire Walk With Me's storytelling arc. Fair warning: to meaningfully discuss the series in this context, I have to reveal major plot points of season one.

Elsewhere in this sprawling podcast, I offer shorter capsules on several films I did see during this time, reflections on recent awards ceremonies (including, yes, the notorious Slap), and musings about generational divides and commonalities - a subject of growing fascination - in literally every category of the episode including some introductory anticipation of a potential project as well as my conclusive archive reading about the making of my film Class of 2002...a selection that coincides with the twentieth anniversary of that class' graduation. And while I concluded my standalone "political reflections" section in March there's still plenty of commentary sprinkled throughout these various parts of the podcast as well (much of it as grim as what I ended with a few months ago).

Having spent my March and April patron podcasts catching up with the prior six months to a year of what I'd been viewing, listening to, and receiving as feedback, my (belated) May podcast catches up with what I've been consuming or working on in March, April, and May themselves. From this point on, the $1/month Patreon reward will be able to focus on just that particular month's film capsules, listener feedback, behind-the-scenes work, and other activity.

Meanwhile, alongside this regular recurring feature, I provided a new reward throughout May (it began a week earlier, with different intentions, in April). Going forward, I'll be sharing three new or revised Twin Peaks character entries each month for all patrons, well in advance of the eventual public series. In fact, within these entries I advanced more content than I usually would in May, since I was initially expecting a different schedule this month. Here's what you can currently read on Patreon...

TWIN PEAKS Character Series advance entries in May:





Finally, although I also cross-post these separately, no Patreon round-up would be complete with my highest-tier reward, the second part of my monthly Twin Peaks Conversations offered to $5/month patrons. In May, the exclusive discussion with Andreas Halskov, the Danish scholar behind TV Peaks and other Peaks/Lynch books and commentary, spanned almost an hour and a half, twice the length of the public introduction available on YouTube. In other words, two-thirds of the entire conversation is reserved for patrons at that tier (who always have exclusive access to at least half the material).


Podcast Line-Ups for... 
Lost in the Movies #91

INTRO

MONTHLY UPDATE: Repackaging Lost in Twin Peaks season 3, re-scheduling Character Series, highlight of published work: Fire Walk With Me illustrated companion, Generations video, when I would abandon projects

LISTENER/VIEWER/READER FEEDBACK: from Patreon including my response on different forms of Twin Peaks Conversations / from YouTube including Satyajit Ray & Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata & The Big City, original viewers of Twin Peaks, achronological storytelling in The Return, discovering all of Twin Peaks in recent years / from my site including boomers from the 60s to Trump, difficulty in creating top 100 list now / from Apple Podcasts including Joan Chen, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl & Madame Mao

FILM CAPSULES, Part 1: Riveted: The History of Jeans, Belfast

SERIES IN FOCUS: The Morning Show

FILM/TV CAPSULES, Part 2: Benjamin Franklin, Inland Empire, The Avengers, Captain America: The First Avenger, Winter Surfing: New England's Best Kept Secret, Everything Everywhere All At Once, started The Power of Nightmares, hoping to watch more classic films again, The Kominsky Method season 3

MEDIA JOURNAL: The Office series finale (w/ aside on Lost series finale), Ted Lasso, Miami Mice, American Chronicles - The Class of '65 w/ boomers & other generations in middle age, other American Chronicles topics / Oscars & the Will Smith/Chris Rock slap overlaps w/ Grammys & the zoomer ascension w/ aside on "Gen Z" semantics, relating both to other generationally significant ceremonies like the Super Bowl halftime shows of 2022 & 2016 / Bad Empanada videos including Manifest Destiny/Lebensraum, Juan Peron, Argentina's dictatorship & upper class knowledge including The Official Story film, the Shining Path, disguised neoliberal propaganda, the Churchill/Stalin famines, climate change false optimism vs. doomerism & the problems for mass mobilization

OPENING THE ARCHIVE: 2002 in 2012: The Making of My Movie, Class of 2002

OUTRO

Lost in the Movies #91 bonus - Podcast recommendations #1

includes David Horowitz, 60s New Left vs. current left, Ousmane Sembene, Solaris

Lost in the Movies #91 bonus - Podcast recommendations #2

includes Psych's Twin Peaks tribute & that moment in the fandom, forcing cultural change as a political project, the Trump appeal



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