![]() ![]() Apple TV+ produced an eight-episode adaptation of The Mosquito Coast that shot in the desert on the US-Mexican border and in picturesque locations in California and Mexico, but apparently no one involved considered that audiences might be put off if the central family didn’t even reach the Mosquito Coast until the season finale. ![]() But other streamers fell into the same trap. The Disney+ MCU shows are exhibit A of this phenomenon: five very different shows with unbelievable budgets and star-studded casts, none of which quite managed to stick the landing. So many shows came out the gate this year with stratospheric production values, huge names before and behind the camera, and stunning locations, but still felt as if little or no thought was given to creating coherent, satisfying stories. The first is that this was the year that taught us the difference between “expensive” and “good”. …I take two lessons from the state of the TV medium in 2021. Abigail Nussbaum did a separate “Best TV of 2021” post for Lawyers, Guns & Money. It’s not a perfect novel, but it might be a necessary one. But as I come to close out the year, I can’t help but appreciate this effort, perhaps the first novel to not only address climate change but imagine how we might go about dealing with it, and what will be required to accomplish this. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson – My review of this novel was decidedly mixed and frustrated, and as I wrote there, I found the actual experience of reading it rather challenging. Abigail Nussbaum, who read 86 books this year, says these are the best - “2021, A Year in Reading: Best Books of the Year” at Asking the Wrong Questions. ![]()
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