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Disintegration | A journey of purification and reconstruction

The importance of stories in The Sandman

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

Pride and Prejudice | Where femininity builds masculinity

How Ride the Lightning helped establish the metal genre

The Raven | Poe’s study on paranoia

Edgar Allan Poe

Atom Heart Mother is Pink Floyd’s weirdest experiment

Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession

Gantz looks for a meaning in a life resembling a hazardous videogame

C’era due volte il Barone Lamberto | One life is not enough

1950 El Maracanazo | The most tragic after match ever

Mulholland Drive | All roads lead to Cinema

Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Dickinson’s unusual carriage

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Free Solo | The first man who climbed El Cap without ropes

Siddhartha | Buddha’s path to enlightenment

The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism

Artaud | Luis Alberto Spinetta’s Rock Manifesto

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Neon Genesis Evangelion | The harsh relationship with the other

Devilman | The sad tale of Akira Fudo

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all

Charlie Chaplin

The Walking Dead explores human nature

This is Us | How life is the perfect mix of sweet and sour

House, M.D. | When diagnostics becomes investigation

Chernobyl | What history can teach

Friends | Suspension of disbelief at Central Perk

Sex Education | How hard being normal can be

Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

The Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

Teatro Olimpico | Is the greatness of things merely an appearance?

Andrea Palladio

Miracleman By Alan Moore | A society ruled by superheroes

1980 Wimbledon | The clash of styles to be immortal

Rayuela | Playing with the novel

Julio Cortázar

It | Stephen King’s consecration to fame

The Adventures of Pinocchio, the mischievous marionette

Carlo Lorenzini, Collodi

The Queen Is Dead | A great leap forward

Dark is an exception among TV shows

Ambient 1: Music for Airports | A sonic field to explore

The Road Not Taken | A hymn to brave choices

Great Expectations | The path to becoming a gentleman

Charles Dickens

The Leftovers | A symphony of grief

Rick and Morty | The absurd balance between tragedy and miracle of life

Montréal 1976 | Comăneci and the price of the perfect ten

Squid Game | Rules, rage and revolution of the TV Rubik’s cube

Hwang Dong-hyuk

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

Lust for Life combines Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s talent

The Sick Fountain | A joke on traditional poetry

Aldo Palazzeschi

Love after Love by Derek Walcott | Feast on your life

Bicycle Thieves | A simple and unforgettable story

Vittorio De Sica

The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller | What four different nemeses can tell

Harvest | The simplicity of a country-rock gem

Berserk | The path of the Black Swordsman

The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story

Jonathan Entwistle

We’ll die apart | Love between temporality and eternity

Ophelia | An artistic treaty on Melancholia

John Everett Millais

Bowie’s Low embodies a modern spirit

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

Veronica Mars | When teen drama meets neo-noir

On the Road | A delusional journey over America

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

Achtung Baby | When U2 dreamt it all up again

Slanted & Enchanted | Cut up noises over the success

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

Dawson’s Creek | Teen drama revolution

Kevin Williamson

At Newport 1960 is a blues fresco impossible to resist

Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy

Guillermo Del Toro

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

Game of Thrones | When TV goes big

Persepolis | An intimate narration of war

Marjane Satrapi

Attack on Titan is a manga about power and freedom

Poem of the Mountain | Marina Tsvetaeva on the end of love

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The Downward Spiral tells about the fall of a man

Nine Inch Nails

Night Song of a Wandering Shepherd in Asia by Giacomo Leopardi | Pain is universal

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The Handmaid’s Tale | Nolite te bastardes carborundorum is a cry of power

Margaret Atwood

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace’s maximalist novel

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Grace | A pure drop in an ocean of noise

Mrs Dalloway | Time, death and longevity

Sharp Objects | A deep and dark humanity

Westworld | Free will is not free

The revolutionary power of The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

Blues for The Red Sun | Where Psychedelia meets the Desert

La voce del Padrone | Franco Battiato’s Pop Miracle

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Glee | The anthem of underdogs worldwide

Lolita | A character taking on a life of its own

Vladimir Nabokov

Master of None | Different stories, same show

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

One Art | Losing is not the end of the world

Elizabeth Bishop

Before and after Twin Peaks

1984 | Big Brother is watching you

Dorohedoro characters mix dark fantasy and comedy

Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary teaches how to be a bovarist

Gustave Flaubert

BoJack Horseman | A human journey

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

How Watchmen Changed Comics Forever

Gilmore Girls | An everlasting flavor of friendship

Amy Sherman-Palladino

The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Cathedral tells the big and small relationship struggles

Life of Pi | A story that makes you suspend your disbelief

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? | Gauguin’s pictorial testament

The Good Place could be a better place

Garden of the Arcane Delights | A tribe of darkness

As I Lay Dying | A revolutionary literary style

William Faulkner

Mindhunter | How to understand serial killers’ patterns

Stoner | The story of an ordinary life

The Feast in the House of Levi | The power of being disruptive

Maid | A game-changing tail on motherhood and abuse

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Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

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King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

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