Scott Thurlow

Games & Gaming Culture: Ghost of Tsushima

TLS samurai salutes Sucker Punch’s most recent and hugely successful release, delving into why this game is so excellent on numerous fronts.

Film & TV: Starship Troopers

Strap in soldier! As TLS reviews this retroactively perfect propaganda parody piece by Paul Verhoeven. [Aggregate score: 10]

Literature: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

TLS awakes to find themselves in an uncanny review of the quintessential Kafkaesque experience. [Aggregate score: 9]

Film & TV: First Cow

In what is possibly the first bakery attack, TLS commits small time milk robbery in latest A24 flick, First Cow. [Aggregate score: 7]

Literature: The Daughters of the Moon by Italo Calvino

TLS discovers who among us are moon children and who are the ravenous consumers while discussing this dreamy, fairytale-like story.
[Aggregate score: 5.5]

AFI Top 100 #054: M*A*S*H

Somewhere at the corner of offensive and uncomfortable, adjacent to unfunny, lies M*A*SH. [Aggregate score: 2]

Games & Gaming Culture: Summer Digital Showcases 2020

TLS recaps a few of the digital/direct game showcases so far this season in lieu of the usual E3 and similar expos.

As mentioned in the ep, check out the Devolver Digital Direct 2020 show.

AFI Top 100 #006: Gone With the Wind

It pretty much blows. [Aggregate score: 3.75]

Games & Gaming Culture: Weird War II

Get out your Spear of Destiny and strap on your witchcraft-powered jetpack as TLS goes on a tour of video games that feature occult, supernatural, and/or fantastical technology alongside the traditional WWII era and setting.

Literature: The Knowers by Helen Phillips

TLS wishes themselves a happy death day while reviewing this solid slice of a short story.
[Aggregate score: 7]