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THE FOURTH ESTATE
If you aren’t watching the documentary series The Fourth Estate right now, stream it and catch up, even if you need that 30-day, free Showtime trial to do it.
The first of four episodes of Liz Garbus’s documentary series started May 27 (I’m watching it as I write) and presents in observational style how The New York Times covers Donald Trump amid his charges of “fake news.”
Book Club
I watched a movie on the plane trip from Denmark to Iceland (The Greatest Showman) and two more a few days later on the flight from Iceland to the USA (The Disaster Artist and Phantom Thread).
If you want to talk about any of those, ask me a question.
The first movie I saw when I got home was a weekend matinee of Book Club. Turns out that one of my former students is a producer on the picture.
Subtitles
While I was in Copenhagen last semester, I went on a study tour with students to Vienna for a week.
Flipping on the television, I couldn’t help but notice that both Denmark and Austria offer viewers a steady diet of The Big Bang Theory.
We can talk about the value of that later.
Now that I’m home, I’m tearing through the latest season of Silicon Valley and I’ve blogged about the shortcomings of the long-running series before.
But, I have been thinking a lot about how much more valuable this sitcom is to Danes than to Austrians.