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If you're looking for a new show to watch, may I recommend AMC's Lodge 49? It's weird and wonderful and profound and silly and honestly just surprises and delights me with every new scene. It's about an affable burnout who joins The Order of the Lynx, a local lodge.
The show itself seems to be an alchemical text, but I can barely follow that level of it I'm not sufficiently well-versed in alchemy. What I do know is that many scenes are visually stunning recreations of tarot cards or other esoterica, and that thread runs through this.
It's definitely a faithpunk show, which is always exciting and interesting to me. But it's a hard critical look at faithpunk, too. It's about the esoteric quest and the alchemical magnum opus, but it's also about how silly/dangerous those things are. https://t.co/dPhrxthINK
There is a new emerging genre of prestige tv show that I’d like to attempt to describe. I call it faithpunk. The two exemplar shows are The OA on Netflix and The Leftovers on HBO. Each show gets better with every season. It took me a while to grok them, but I did. Here: