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Stranger Things has always been about recalling people to life—about fighting for your life and others’ lives.

It is a thousand and one stories woven together in a tapestry, a Persian rug, of beauty.

“The Eleventh Hour” shows us that sometimes having faith like a child awakens belief when all else fails.

Abbott Elementary reminds us that the impermanent houses the eternal.

We don’t have any stories of heroes without heroes in real life.

I thought the show would only succeed once Boba Fett expands his table. It turns out, the showrunners thought the same thing.

Till We Have Faces expresses the way in which Christian storytelling at its best has the potential to work upon people.

The people at Lucasfilm squeezed the epilogue of The Mandalorian’s second season into The Book of Boba Fett’s first.

Cast down the mighty. Send the rich away. Four episodes in, we’ve got our plot now.

Maybe this boss in a galaxy far, far away will actually get it right where others got it wrong.

Stories that don’t end hint that the storyteller is writing aimlessly into the void, and they trap the audience in the world of the story.

The Hawkeye Scrooge faced his past, burned the suit, and gained something of a daughter in the process.

Even criminals deserve a chance at redemption, and there is always hope where there is new life.

It’s an almost impossible task, to give up your right to another’s life.

A Castle for Christmas is hopeful in the same way that Advent is a season of hope.

Now that Ronin is “out there” again, Clint can’t let the wrath reserved for Ronin fall on someone else, let alone a kid who needs his help.