Brian Farvour

1 month ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

Technology. It’s hard to overstate the way in which society has portrayed both its capacity for good and avalanche of flaws; it’s what inspired the likes of “Her” and “Ex Machina, ” with “Black Mirror” entering the conversation in 2011 laser-focused on examining the ways tech could just as quickly go from nothing more than an everyday assistant to the villain of each episode comprising the show’s now-seven seasons.

2 months ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

Within the first few minutes of “Gazer,” it’s easy to tell that a woman named Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) is struggling. Our heroine, it would seem, has been living with a disorder of some sort, one that requires her to go about her day with a cassette tape player spouting commands into her ear throughout; these words, however, aren’t of the motivational variety or her favorite podcast.

2 months ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

It’s the worst nightmare for any parent. Learning that your child has met their end at the hands of someone unidentified not only upends any semblance of normalcy, thus changing one’s life forever, but has served as fodder for countless forms of content since the dawn of storytelling. Turning the focus towards the assailant isn’t necessarily new.

2 months ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

Remember “Orphan?” That rather upsetting horror tale of a deranged woman in her early 30s afflicted with dwarfism who, after posing as a nine-year-old girl, proceeds to inflict a battery of terror upon her adopted parents? Surprisingly, the events of “Orphan” seem to have inspired a real-life scenario similar in more ways than one to the 2009 film.

2 months ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

In this era when it’s difficult to turn one’s head without being bombarded by a barrage of news more distressing than what graced headlines the day prior or a new horrific global event worse than the last, there’s nothing like a cozy mystery to pivot attention towards something far less sad and far more of an unabashed delight. Enter “Ludwig,” where any show easily explained in one sentence couldn’t be off to a better start.