u/LoveAndViscera

I have three young children and such is the nature of my job that I don’t get to spend a lot of time having grownup conversations. I have found that my vocabulary, once the envy of SAT-takers everywhere, is not what it used to be. I need the most lexically-challenging podcast you can think of that isn’t STEM. I’m looking for people that talk like a NYT or Atlantic culture and society writer, but not puppet-mastered by an oligarch trying to reintroduce feudalism. Help!

I’ve been rereading some 2010’s Image and keep finding the finales weak. *East of West* and *The Wicked + The Divine* both had endings that felt too happy for what they had earned. *Luther Strode*’s third volume was plain boring. *Fatale* similarly didn’t evolve enough to make its ending feel climactic.

What do you credit that too? Is it something about how long it takes to finish? Is there something about the medium itself that makes finales unusually difficult?