The Perfect Hamburger Dept.

Between one thing and another — book edits, lingering illness, other things I don't want to go on about in public — some more thoughts came together to clarify why homogenous entertainments are individually good but collectively bad.

Earlier in the week, I threw the dice and watchedThe Equalizer,knowing full well it has about as much to do with the TV series (which I loved, unabashedly) as21 Jump Street had to do with its own eponymous predecessor. It wasn't a bad movie — let's face it, nothin...