Sublime

In The Waltons or Spooks our heroes don’t assimilate the facets of their opposite, they simply vanquish them and return to type, for the world of series is a world without change. The counter-argument must be rejected and the thesis restored.

THE TORA-SAN PHENOMENON The seventies marked the beginning of a series of films called Otoko wa tsurai yo (“It’s tough being a man”), which holds the Guinness record for the longest film series in history, with 48 feature films. The first episode in the series was released in 1969 and the last one in 1995. The hero in all of them is Torasan, a

Hollywood tends to extremes;

I did what any polite, travelling Englishman would do. I nodded when offered a second serving of psychedelic potion and thanked my hosts for their hospitality.

art is still about finding order and balance