Dan Conley

At this point, the episode seems to be spiraling towards a dreadful conclusion. It again begins with Anya having a night terror. Majga tries to wake her calmly, but eventually gives in to her mother’s method and shakes her awake. Majka explains to Wojtek that she has these screaming

For most of my life, being an American has been a privileged position in the world. We have always had our own challenges — being one of the most violent societies on earth is nothing new — but there has always been a secure shell around even the worst circumstances, a sense

In a recent essay I wrote about the singer songwriter Adrianne Lenker, I went on at some length about her early career masterpiece “Mythological Beauty,” a stunning song she wrote about her mother that is appreciative, understanding and shockingly mature, given that it details some of Adrianne’s childhood trauma

I had an interesting experience recently while creating a PowerPoint for a client. This client had delivered a speech to audiences in the past in a different language and he had me translate it into English, then sent along the deck he had used so I could update that as

In my journey through Eastern European cinema, my favorite discovery has been a 2017 Hungary romance called “On Body and Soul.” Much has been made about this being, possibly, an autistic love story, but I think placing such labels distracts from the simple beauty of the film. There’s a

In the last segment, I mentioned how this episode could use some American style melodrama. But I’ve had second thoughts about that conclusion. There’s actually quite a bit of drama in this episode, and in these scenes featuring Majka and Wojtek. The challenge is reading Eastern European faces.