"Outerlands" Provides Community in Unexpected Places
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.

Summer vacation in the forest—7-year-old Lene from Mecklenburg isn't looking forward to it at all! Nothing but trees, mountains, and children who speak a language she finds strange: Bavarian! But then there's the story of Wald-Peter, who is said to be trapped in a "cave of sleeping souls," or that of the mysterious Wald-Ursel, whose soul lives on in the forest. Lene meets Forest Obelix and a cool young ranger, learns Bavarian rap, and discovers the best hiding places in the forest.
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
An action film led by two queens, fighting for what they believe in through power and pain.
The Night Doctor achieves telling an original story in which the pace accelerates progressively while supported by dark aesthetics.
Barry Jenkins' masterpiece holds up as the story of a lifetime centered on the intersection of Blackness and gay identity.
I think these messages and the way they are presented in this small-town in Texas are increasingly more important as the internet/ social media becomes more and more critical and judgemental every day. Love yourself today and every day because as Ru Paul always says: “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love someone else?”
A few episodes in, I realized the most prominent theme of In The Long Run wasn't culture, race or even finding independence--but the idea of belonging.