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Pluribus Episode 9: Save the World or Get the Girl (Season 1 Finale, Apple TV+, 2025)

Carol and Manousos meet, negotiate, clash, and team up.

The rest? Read my #Larrys100 review: https://write.as/larrys100/pluribus-episode-9-save-the-world-or-get-the-girl-season-1-finale

#tv #Pluribus #SciFi #VinceGilligan #AppleTV #100WordReview #Television #SeasonFinale #100DaysToOffload

Baltimorons (Jay Duplass, 2025)

Melancholy May-December rom-com. Improv comedian meets divorced dentist. Day-long adventure against grimy urban Christmas.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review: https://write.as/larrys100/the-baltimorons-2025-duplass-brothers-productions-directed-by-jay-duplass-4

#movies #ChristmasMovies #IndieFilm #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #JayDuplass #ChristmasReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

Pluribus Episode 8: Charm Offensive AppleTV 2025

Carol and Zosia's slow-burning love story. Sexual tension until the collective consciousness deduced that Carol needed to get laid.

The rest? Read my #Larrys100 review: https://write.as/4p88jk6t4i3zwab7.md

#tv #Pluribus #SciFi #VinceGilligan # #100WordReview #Television #100DaysToOffload

Oh. What. Fun. (Amazon, 2025)

Holiday party eggnog left out to curdle. 1970s gender stereotypes, check-collecting stars, and meanness as 'satire' blended together.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review:
https://write.as/larrys100/oh

#movies #ChristmasMovies #AmazonPrime #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #ChristmasReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

Pluribus Episode 7: The Gap (Apple TV+, 2025)

Meditative and harrowing. Carol is drowning in loneliness, Manousos is on a glass-huffing vision quest. Both nearly break.

The rest? Read my #Larrys100 review:
https://write.as/larrys100/pluribus-episode-7-the-gap

#tv #Pluribus #SciFi #VinceGilligan #AppleTV #100WordReview #Television #100DaysToOffload

Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper (Hallmark, 2025)

The season's first banger. Atypical male lead, Anchorman-style comedy, and Christmas Ale buzz romance.

Supporting cast matters: fruitcake of an ensemble.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review: https://write.as/larrys100/merry-christmas-ted-cooper-hallmark-2025-4-out-of-5-hot-chocolates

#movies #ChristmasMovies #HallmarkMovies #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #ChristmasReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

An Alpine Holiday (Hallmark Channel, 2025)

Real French Alps sets, sisterhood over romance, and Ashley Williams's quirky comic timing.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review: https://write.as/larrys100/an-alpine-holiday-hallmark-channel-2025-2-5-5-hot-chocolates

#movies #ChristmasMovies #HallmarkMovies #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #AshleyWilliams #ChristmasReview #100WordReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

An Alpine Holiday (Hallmark Channel, 2025)

Real French Alps sets, sisterhood over romance, and Ashley Williams's quirky comic timing.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review: https://write.as/larrys100/an-alpine-holiday-hallmark-channel-2025-2-5-5-hot-chocolates

#movies #ChristmasMovies #HallmarkMovies #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #AshleyWilliams #ChristmasReview #100WordReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

An Alpine Holiday (Hallmark Channel, 2025)

Real French Alps sets, sisterhood over romance, and Ashley Williams's quirky comic timing.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review: https://write.as/larrys100/an-alpine-holiday-hallmark-channel-2025-2-5-5-hot-chocolates

#movies #ChristmasMovies #HallmarkMovies #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #AshleyWilliams #ChristmasReview #100WordReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

An Alpine Holiday (Hallmark Channel, 2025)

Real French Alps sets, sisterhood over romance, and Ashley Williams's quirky comic timing.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review: https://write.as/larrys100/an-alpine-holiday-hallmark-channel-2025-2-5-5-hot-chocolates

#movies #ChristmasMovies #HallmarkMovies #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #AshleyWilliams #ChristmasReview #100WordReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

An Alpine Holiday (Hallmark Channel, 2025)

Real French Alps sets, sisterhood over romance, and Ashley Williams's quirky comic timing.

The rest? Read my #100HotChocolates review: https://write.as/larrys100/an-alpine-holiday-hallmark-channel-2025-2-5-5-hot-chocolates

#movies #ChristmasMovies #HallmarkMovies #100WordReview #RomCom #HolidayMovies #AshleyWilliams #ChristmasReview #100WordReview #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

Pluribus Episode 6: HDP

Carol turns vlogger and documents what fuels the Human-Derived Protein drink. John Cena explains the cannibalism.

Gilligan provides plot answers while leaving us with philosophical questions.

Read the full #100WordReview: https://write.as/larrys100/pluribus-episode-6-hdp

#tv #Pluribus #SciFi #VinceGilligan #AppleTV #socialmedia #JohnCena #rheaseehorn

The late Brother Wayne Kramer's narration of his life was a liminal listening experience. Hearing his voice made him alive, even though I knew he wasn't.

Easter egg for #AudioMemoir series followers: Both Kramer and Evan Dando tell versions of the story in which Kramer fired Dando from an MC5 reunion tour.

100-word review #AudioMemoir series:
https://larrys100.writeas.com/tag:AudioMemoir

#books #MusicChannel #MC5 #WayneKramer #MusicMemoir #100WordReview #100DaysToOffload

Stranger Things is a hot mess. Bloated plot, adults playing teens. But by episode four of Season 5: Part 1, I was back in.

Full #100wordreview:

https://write.as/larrys100/stranger-things-season-5-part-1-netflix

#StrangerThings #TVReview #Netflix #ScienceFiction #FediTV #Drabble #Larrys100 #100DaysToOffload

Larry's 100 Christmas movie season begins: A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Netflix 2025

3.5/5 Hot Chocolates ☕

"Alicia Silverstone joins the Christmas Movie industrial complex.

Netflix got its Hallmark RomCom right: meta winks, middle-aged angst, Silverstone's puppy-dog eyes, and baking."

Full #100WordReview: https://write.as/larrys100/a-merry-little-ex-mas-netflix-2025-3-5-5-hot-chocolates

#FilmReview #ChristmasMovies #HolidayMovies #Netflix #Cinemastodon #AliciaSilverstone #100HotChocolates #100DaysToOffload #drabble

Larry's 100 Review - PLURIBUS EPISODE 5: Got Milk

Carol becomes Agatha Christie as clues lead to an abandoned dog food factory and a classic episodic TV cliffhanger.

Full 100-word review: https://write.as/larrys100/pluribus-episode-5-got-milk

#Pluribus #VinceGilligan #TVReview #drabble #AppleTV #100WordReview #100DaysToOffload #ScienceFiction #Larrys100 #RheaSeehorn

New Larry's 100 Review in the #AudioMemoir series:

Evan Dando reads his own book.

Funny, honest, soulful. He takes an unflinching look at punk privilege, the alterna-hunk years, and decades of addiction. No redemption arc. No apology tour. Just warmth, talent, and brutal honesty.

Full #100wordreview: https://write.as/larrys100/rumors-of-my-demise-evan-dando-audiobook-read-by-author-2025

#Lemonheads #AudioBook #bookstodon #100DaysToOffload #EvanDando #IndieRock #MusicMemoir

New Larry's 100 Review in the #AudioMemoir series:

Evan Dando reads his own book.

Funny, honest, soulful. He takes an unflinching look at punk privilege, the alterna-hunk years, and decades of addiction. No redemption arc. No apology tour. Just warmth, talent, and brutal honesty.

Full #100wordreview: https://write.as/larrys100/rumors-of-my-demise-evan-dando-audiobook-read-by-author-2025

#Lemonheads #AudioBook #bookstodon #100DaysToOffload #EvanDando #IndieRock #MusicMemoir

New Larry's 100 Review in the #AudioMemoir series:

Evan Dando reads his own book.

Funny, honest, soulful. He takes an unflinching look at punk privilege, the alterna-hunk years, and decades of addiction. No redemption arc. No apology tour. Just warmth, talent, and brutal honesty.

Full #100wordreview: https://write.as/larrys100/rumors-of-my-demise-evan-dando-audiobook-read-by-author-2025

#Lemonheads #AudioBook #bookstodon #100DaysToOffload #EvanDando #IndieRock #MusicMemoir

New Larry's 100 Review in the #AudioMemoir series:

Evan Dando reads his own book.

Funny, honest, soulful. He takes an unflinching look at punk privilege, the alterna-hunk years, and decades of addiction. No redemption arc. No apology tour. Just warmth, talent, and brutal honesty.

Full #100wordreview: https://write.as/larrys100/rumors-of-my-demise-evan-dando-audiobook-read-by-author-2025

#Lemonheads #AudioBook #bookstodon #100DaysToOffload #EvanDando #IndieRock #MusicMemoir

New Larry's 100 Review in the #AudioMemoir series:

Evan Dando reads his own book.

Funny, honest, soulful. He takes an unflinching look at punk privilege, the alterna-hunk years, and decades of addiction. No redemption arc. No apology tour. Just warmth, talent, and brutal honesty.

Full #100wordreview: https://write.as/larrys100/rumors-of-my-demise-evan-dando-audiobook-read-by-author-2025

#Lemonheads #AudioBook #bookstodon #100DaysToOffload #EvanDando #IndieRock #MusicMemoir

New #Larrys100 Review of Pluribus Episode 4, Please Carol:

Has a memory card ever been so cinematic?

This is Vince Gilligan as an artisan. Making beautiful television from Carol setting up her camera, to the Paraguayan existing in his bunker. Small moments that communicate vividly, while Big Ideas demand a philosophy class.

Some see #Pluribus as defending individualism. I'm increasingly uncertain.

Full #100wordReview: https://write.as/larrys100/pluribus-episode-4-please-carol

#VinceGilligan #TVReview #100DaysToOffload

Starting a new review mini series: author-read memoirs, and the unique intimacy it creates.

Next Up: Cameron Crowe's The Uncool: A Memoir

"Listening to Crowe's warm narration as he mines his teen music journalism years for laughs and tears, it felt like Almost Famous: Writer's Cut"

Full #Larrys100 Review: https://write.as/larrys100/the-uncool-a-memoir-cameron-crowe-audiobook-read-by

#Memoir #Audiobook #AudioMemoir #CameronCrowe #MusicMemoir #70sMusic #Drabble #100WordReview #Bookstodon #FediBooks #AlmostFamous #FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh

Kurt Vile's Classic Love EP: quintessential Vile. Warm. Weird. Funny.

A collaboration with Luke Roberts centers the EP. Two versions of the title tune both work.

"Hit of the High Life" sounds like a lost song off Neil Young's On The Beach: confessional, raw, angsty about the world, macro and micro.

Full @larrys100 #100WordReview:https://write.as/larrys100/kurt-vile-classic-love

#MusicReview #KurtVile #IndieRock #ClassicLove #Music2025 #Larrys100 #Drabble #FediMusic #NowPlaying #MusicMonday #LukeRoberts

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)

This movie hits differently at 52 than at 32. A bleak movie that sends time running short pings to midlife doldrums. Birth, school, work, death-level doom.

Need motivation to get going? The clock's ticking. Could you do your life before it's too late? Schmidt is the warning.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/about-schmidt-alexander-payne-2002

#AboutSchmidt #FilmReview #AlexanderPayne #ClassicFilm #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)

This movie hits differently at 52 than at 32. A bleak movie that sends time running short pings to midlife doldrums. Birth, school, work, death-level doom.

Need motivation to get going? The clock's ticking. Could you do your life before it's too late? Schmidt is the warning.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/about-schmidt-alexander-payne-2002

#AboutSchmidt #FilmReview #AlexanderPayne #ClassicFilm #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)

This movie hits differently at 52 than at 32. A bleak movie that sends time running short pings to midlife doldrums. Birth, school, work, death-level doom.

Need motivation to get going? The clock's ticking. Could you do your life before it's too late? Schmidt is the warning.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/about-schmidt-alexander-payne-2002

#AboutSchmidt #FilmReview #AlexanderPayne #ClassicFilm #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)

This movie hits differently at 52 than at 32. A bleak movie that sends time running short pings to midlife doldrums. Birth, school, work, death-level doom.

Need motivation to get going? The clock's ticking. Could you do your life before it's too late? Schmidt is the warning.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/about-schmidt-alexander-payne-2002

#AboutSchmidt #FilmReview #AlexanderPayne #ClassicFilm #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002)

This movie hits differently at 52 than at 32. A bleak movie that sends time running short pings to midlife doldrums. Birth, school, work, death-level doom.

Need motivation to get going? The clock's ticking. Could you do your life before it's too late? Schmidt is the warning.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/about-schmidt-alexander-payne-2002

#AboutSchmidt #FilmReview #AlexanderPayne #ClassicFilm #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024)

I cried watching. Was it nostalgia and middle age? Watching with my teen daughter? Ignoring societal suffocation to revel in the community of the film's third act?

Growth has happened for all of us, but we carry who we were forward too.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/pavements-alex-ross-perry-2024

#Pavements #Pavements #FilmReview #MusicDoc #Documentary #AlexRossPerry #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024)

I cried watching. Was it nostalgia and middle age? Watching with my teen daughter? Ignoring societal suffocation to revel in the community of the film's third act?

Growth has happened for all of us, but we carry who we were forward too.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/pavements-alex-ross-perry-2024

#Pavements #Pavements #FilmReview #MusicDoc #Documentary #AlexRossPerry #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024)

I cried watching. Was it nostalgia and middle age? Watching with my teen daughter? Ignoring societal suffocation to revel in the community of the film's third act?

Growth has happened for all of us, but we carry who we were forward too.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/pavements-alex-ross-perry-2024

#Pavements #Pavements #FilmReview #MusicDoc #Documentary #AlexRossPerry #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024)

I cried watching. Was it nostalgia and middle age? Watching with my teen daughter? Ignoring societal suffocation to revel in the community of the film's third act?

Growth has happened for all of us, but we carry who we were forward too.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/pavements-alex-ross-perry-2024

#Pavements #Pavements #FilmReview #MusicDoc #Documentary #AlexRossPerry #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024)

I cried watching. Was it nostalgia and middle age? Watching with my teen daughter? Ignoring societal suffocation to revel in the community of the film's third act?

Growth has happened for all of us, but we carry who we were forward too.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/pavements-alex-ross-perry-2024

#Pavements #Pavements #FilmReview #MusicDoc #Documentary #AlexRossPerry #FediFilm #Drabble #Aging

The Eternaut (Netflix, 2025)

Covertly, a celebration of middle-aged wisdom and long friendships. There's grace in knowing what you're good at, and who was there with you when you figured it out.

The resistance needs experienced hands.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/the-eternaut-netflix-2025

#TheEternaut #TVReview #SciFi #Netflix #FediTV #Dystopian #Larrys100 #Aging

Brooklyn Motto (Alex Johnson, 2025)

Sometimes you need a book to take you back, not to relive who you were, but to remember how it felt to be becoming someone. Art gives us that gift: revisiting youth without getting stuck there.

Johnson's crime novel did that for me.

My #100wordReview - https://larrys100.writeas.com/alex-johnson-brooklyn-motto-2025

#BrooklynMotto #BookReview #CrimeNoir #Bookstodon #ContemporaryFiction #NYC #Larrys100 #Drabble #FediBooks #Aging

In January, I wrote, 'I feel bad for the rest of the books I will read this year.'

As we wind down 2025, my statement holds. A novel for the Neo-Neolithic age

Full review #100WordReview:

https://larrys100.writeas.com/death-of-the-author-by-nnedi-okorafor-2025-in-january-i-wrote-i-feel-bad

#Bookstodon #NnediOkorafor #SpeculativeFiction #AIFiction #Drabble #Larrys100

In January, I wrote, 'I feel bad for the rest of the books I will read this year.'

As we wind down 2025, my statement holds. A novel for the Neo-Neolithic age

Full review #100WordReview: https://larrys100.writeas.com
#Bookstodon #NnediOkorafor #SpeculativeFiction #AIFiction #Drabble #Larrys100