Spring 2025 – Week 8 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m back from vacation and back on the grind, churning through episodes of Shoushimin Series as I work to once more be up to date on every single Current Project. The series is proving to be even more compelling than I anticipated, a sharp-edged variation on Hyouka that possesses many of its predecessor’s strengths alongside a few new tricks of its own. My housemates have also introduced me to Balatro, which was very reckless and cruel of them, as the game is designed to tickle basically every obsessive game-design bone in my body. So I’m basically drafting a storm engine in the form of a poker deck, where even playing out a winning hand improves my combo pieces? Fucked up stuff, people. Anyway, let’s get to some films!

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Fall 2021 – Week 2 in Review

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. In keeping with the season, this week we tackled a variety of horror films, with decidedly mixed results. Look, my hand wasn’t really on the wheel this week – I was busy trying to clear out the upper heats of Slay the Spire, and thus many of our films were decided by whatever my housemates found on Hulu or Netflix. But we still checked out a couple quasi-classics, and there was plenty of fun to be had even in the less acclaimed selections. Even now, it feels immensely freeing to no longer be writing formal reviews; even deeply flawed films often have something interesting within them, something that couldn’t really be reflected in a “final score.” Let’s dive into the cinematic weeds then, as we commence one more Week in Review!

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