Greatest hits!: “Okla-fucking-homa!” (1955). Not even kidding. “Millions” (2004). “Reservation Dogs” (2021-23)
Lowest lows …. “The Aprils Fools” (1969)?
Euripides
Janissary January 2026 Consumption
Greatest hits of January: Euripides’ “Andromache”, “Manchester by the Sea”, “Civil War”, Hegel, Hegel, Hegel, Simone Weil’s essay on the Iliad, “The Naked City”.
Misses: “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and, pointedly, “Where the Truth Lies”.
Euripides’ “Iphigenia in Aulis”
This play narrates the moments preceding the sacrifice of Iphigenia so that the Greek fleet can set sail for Troy.
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