Part two of 2025's most memorable, featuring the TV and movies that gave me pause last year, featuring:

• TV: Task (2025, created by Brad Ingelsby); Black Rabbit (2025, created by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman); The Bear (2022, Christopher Storer); Ren Faire (2024, created by Lance Oppenheim); Duster (2025, created by J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan); Sweetpea (2024, created by Kirstie Swain); The Hardacres (2025, created by Amy Roberts and Loren McLaughlan).
• Film: Nosferatu (2024, directed by Robert Eggers); Frankenstein (2025, directed by Guillermo del Toro); Sinners (2025, directed by Ryan Coogler); Wages of Fear (1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot) and Sorcerer (1977, directed by William Friedkin); Cube (1997, directed by Vincenzo Natali); They Live (1988, directed by John Carpenter); Crank franchise (2006, directed by Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor); Transporter franchise (2002, directed by Louis Leterrier & Corey Yuen); Poor Things (2023, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos); The Loveless (1984, directed by Monty Montgomery & Kathryn Bigelow); Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, directed by Peter Weir).

Resources

• Deadliest Catch cameo: S04:E07 | Refract: On Mirror Rot, Idiosyncratic Inspo, and Hailing the New Year
• Talking with Peter Gaucys: S01:E20 | Creative Chat with Peter Gaucys: On Conversations, Conductors, and Contextual Ghosts
• Participating in Peter's annual group show: S04:E02 | Reconnect: On Prompts, Cross-Pollination, and Creative Elasticity
• Reading roundup 2022: S01:E02 | My Top Books of 2022 & Relational Reading
• Reading roundup 2024: S04:E08 | Review: 2024’s Most Meaningful Reads & What I’m Digging in 2025
• Find even more Big Book Energy in the Little Oracles Archive

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