Sam Sanders

God bless Taylor Swift.

She's very good at many things.

And some of her songs have gotten me through breakups.

But I'm still getting song lyrics about prom.

The mega Christian rock group that has dominated this kind of Christian music for decades now.

For folks who don't know what we're talking about, the best way to describe it is like the spirit of a U2 ballad.

Like that kind of music, earnest, simple chord progressions, melodies and hooks that linger on the five and the one.

They're everywhere.

And you hear it across so many genres everywhere.

It is this performance of anthem.

I am perpetually intrigued by whatever Netflix's strategy is, because I'm not sure they know what it is.

Some years it feels like all they want to make is schlocky reality TV.

Some years it seems that all they want to make is rich white woman in danger, someone showed up dead shows.

But when Netflix wants to make something great and push it and make sure that we all know about it, they can.

And this year that show was Adolescence.

I was surprised by how good it was.

I didn't expect Netflix to be able to do something that great.

But the way they shoot it, the portrayals of all of these characters.

It is pretty remarkable.

And it's so good, they made me watch a show that I would have never wanted to watch.