Light On Light Through
Paul Levinson talks about TV, movies, politics, social media, outer space, good food, science fiction; occasionally reads from his science fiction stories, plays concerts of his music, interviews other authors
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 415
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Review of Stowaway: Breathless Realism
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 175, in which I review Stowaway.
blogpost review: Stowaway: Breathless Realism
See also The Missing Orientation
Tenet: A Re-View
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 174, in which I review, re-view, re-vu Tenet.
Biden and the Republicans
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 173, in which "Captain" Phil Merkel interviews me about Joe Biden's speech to Congress last night, and how likely it is that Republicans in Congress will en…
Review of For All Mankind, Season 2
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 172, in which I review For All Mankind (Episodes 2.2-29) on Apple TV+.
Podcast review of For All Mankind, episodes 1.1 - 2.1
Blog post reviews of these epi…
Review of Home Before Dark
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 171, in which I review Home Before Dark on Apple TV+.
Blog post review of Home Before Dark
Further viewing: The Opinionization of Journalism
Further readin…
Review of Q: Into the Storm
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 170, in which I review Q: Into the Storm.
Blog post review of Q: Into the Storm.
*Special thanks to my student, Kayla Auza (in my Digital Media and Public …
Review of Shtisel 3: Cheesecake and Faith
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 169, in which I review Season 3 of Shtisel.
Blog post review of Shtisel.
See also Unorthodox: Less and More than Shtisel
the first interstellar seder in …
Review of For All Mankind (Season 1 and Episode 2.1)
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 168, in which I review For All Mankind (Season 1 and Episode 2.1) on Apple TV+.
Podcast review of For All Mankind, episodes 2.2-2.10
Blog post review of Fo…
Review of The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 167, in which I review The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, on Amazon Prime Video. If Groundhog Day is a 10, I rate The Map of Tiny Perfect Things a substantial…
Opinions, Lies, and Polarization
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 166, in which I discuss how opinions and lies compete with facts in today's media, and lead to increasing polarization.
Further reading:
- Postjournalism by …
Twitter Ban of Trump Was Right, Even Though It Violates the Spirit of the First Amendment
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 165, in which Brian Standing on WORT-FM Radio (Madison, Wisconsin) interviews me about why I think Twitter's banning of Donald Trump was the right thing to …
Insurrection, Trump, Impeachment, More
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 164, in which Captain Phil on WUSB-FM Radio (Stony Brook, New York) interviews me about last week's storming of the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump, the prospect…
Review of Bridgerton: Alternate Jane Austen
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 163, in which I review Bridgerton, and say it's an alternate history Jane Austen story.
Read this review: Bridgerton: Alternate Austen
Review of The Queen's Gambit
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 161, in which I review The Queen's Gambit, reported today (3 December 2020) in The Hollywood Reporter as "atop the Nielsen streaming chart" for the second …
Review of The Undoing
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 160, in which I review the just-concluded limited series on HBO, The Undoing.
Tiger King: A McLuhanesque Perspective
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 159, in which I offer a McLuhanesque perspective about Tiger King, Netflix's runaway smash docu-series.
Further reading: McLuhan in an Age of Social Media
Why Did the Polls Get So Much Wrong Again in 2020 US Election?
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 158, in which I discuss why the polls got so much wrong, again, in the 2020 US Presidential election. They did predict that Biden would win, which he did, …
Review of The Crown season 4
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 157, in which I review The Crown season 4 -- the best season so far in this superb series.
Further listening:
Review of The Crown seasons 1-3
Further readin…
Why Did So Many People Vote for Trump?
Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 156, in which I consider why more than 70 million Americans voted for Donald Trump in the just concluded Presidential election.
Further reading: Escape from…