Who's Your Surgeon
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
The baseline for the subway romantasy sighting, before Brian clocks which volume the man was holding. Brian Park
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A Court of Frost and Starlight
Read openly on the F train by a man who then got a woman's number. Brian Park
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ranked on the scale of how horny a man reading in public appears. Brian Park
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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
Dan's pre-Japan cramming, audible in his sudden fluency about Okayama denim mills. Dan Rosen
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Sirât
The episode's central argument: desert ravers, a landmine, and a thumbs up against a thumbs down.
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Funny Games
Offered as the reference point for a film that refuses to give viewers what they want. Dan Rosen
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A Little Life
The natural next project for a director Brian accuses of trafficking in trauma porn. Brian Park
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Hereditary
Invoked for the scene everyone means when they say a film broke the plot. Brian Park
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Animation, masks
Quoted from the profile: the Shylock figure leafing through French Vogue, reciting Brautigan.
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Breaking Bad
The diagnosis-then-nothing-to-lose logic imagined for a critic writing his own obituary.
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Walden
What sensory overload at a reopened museum makes a man want: a pond, no perforated metal. Brian Park
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Atomic Habits
The gateway drug for the self-help buyer Brian's imaginary AI diary would prey on.
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The Artist's Way
Three morning pages of stream of consciousness, the ritual the startup would automate.
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