David French

So my recommendation is also visual.

It's a film.

I am a huge fan of the director, the late director, John Frankenheimer.

Films Frankenheimer has directed include The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, a wonderful film.

His most famous one in the 90s is Ronin with Robert De Niro, probably De Niro's best performance of the 90s.

And before that, he directed a picture for HBO that I watched recently called Against the Wall.

It stars Kyle MacLachlan and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as kind of a bevy of thespians.

And it is a dramatization of the Attica prison riot.

And it is terrific.

I had such a good time watching it.

Frankenheimer is a great director of action and kinetic action in particular.

And the prison riot scene feels like you're in the midst of it.

It's so well shot and so well directed and captures sort of the sense of, especially from the perspective of the guards, the sense of surprise and shock.

And then from the sense of the prisoners, the sense of opportunity, like, oh, we are actually doing this.

This film has been kind of on my watch list for a long time.

So I was like, let me just watch this as kind of a Frankenheimer completionist.

And I came away thinking that this is some of his best work.

The electrical grid and other infrastructure were already in very, very poor shape.

They were at their life's end prior to the hurricanes.

And now virtually everything has been wiped out.