1:14 For Evil’s Sake – And since we’re now shooting in Paris, we’re going to open this episode with the Frenchest thing we can think of: Mimes. No, really. Murderous mimes, even.  (Also baguettes.) There’s an Immortal assassin named Kuyler operating out of France who likes to use mime disguises, party magic, etc. to win…

1:12 Eyewitness – Tessa sees what looks like a murder on a bridge visible from the window at a gallery, and tries to get the police to pay attention (hey look, it’s that same police detective EVERY TIME — the Seacouver PD must be really small). So naturally she takes it upon herself to be…

The late Stephen Gay Gould is one of my favorite essayists; he combines subject matter about the vagaries and intricacies of natural history with an engaging delivery that showed him to be a well-rounded, endlessly curious man. But of course he (a liberal atheist-leaning agnostic cultural Jew) and I (a believing Latter-day Saint and political…

Two commemorations of note take place this week: The first anniversary of the public murder of Charlie Kirk. The 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I am not going to revisit the actual events themselves here; what I want to mull on is the aftermath. As the confirmation of Charlie’s death was reported on the…

(I’ve decided to call this a “rewatch” rather than a “bingewatch” — it’s not really a binge when you’re only watching one or two episodes a week.) 1:10 Revenge is Sweet – Rebecca, a beautiful mortal woman (Vanity, Prince’s one-time squeeze — if we can’t cast rock stars, we’ll cast the rock-star-adjacent!), stalks Duncan with…

1:8 Deadly Medicine – Duncan JUST SO HAPPENS to be almost killed in a hit-and-run, and it takes him clear until the ambulance deposits him in the ER and the doctor (Joe Pantoliano!!!) has already taken X-rays before his Immortal healing catches up. Duncan stumbles out when no one is looking, but Dr. Wilder had…