Pachinko 2017
★★★★4.0
Archetype
The Comfort Seeker
Warmth, resolution, rewatchability. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
15% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Warmth, resolution, a place they can return to. The rewatch is the point; the third time is the best time.
Where it goes wrong: Comfort can be a wall. The work that would have changed your mind never gets past the first ten minutes.
More about the Comfort Seeker
- Avoids
- Cruelty for its own sake, endings that withhold, homework. You do not need to be tested by an evening in.
- How they rate
- You rate on how something leaves you. Reliability earns stars; ambition without kindness does not.
- Good company
- The Empath and the Sincere feel like home. Provocateurs baffle you, and you are the one they most need to hear from.
- Against the crowd
- You are kinder than the crowd to gentle, unfashionable work and cooler on acclaimed bleakness.
In three lines
- More warm than almost every curator. tonal darknesswarmbleak 66%
- More easy than almost every curator. challengeeffortlessdemanding 64%
- More cool than almost every curator. emotional intensitycooloverwhelming 61%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · GoldMaxed
- On a streak · Silver50 of 100
- Opinionated · Silver53 of 200
- Time traveler · Silver7 of 10
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Reader9 of 10
- Conversationalist9 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Titanic
Back to the Future
WALL·E
The Truman Show
Paddington 2
Seriess
Ted Lasso
Bluey
Fleabag
The Bear
Severance
Books
Klara and the Sun
Piranesi
The Left Hand of Darkness
Circe- Pachinko
Albums
Make a playlist- Rumours
- Blue
- Illmatic
- Hounds of Love
- Blonde
Games
Portal 2
Stardew Valley
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Outer Wilds
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
Read this chart
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
By medium
How cal rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The map
Every curator, placed by taste
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; cal is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart
Every curator, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Against the crowd
Where cal parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Drift
How what cal loved has moved
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Comfort Seeker98%
In the community
- Kinder than 61% of curators
- Has rated more than 52% of curators
- More warm than 99% of curators
- 15% of curators are Comfort Seekers
Among 634 curators with a profile.
Taste profile
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 61 rated titles.
This month they were wandering outside your usual taste and chasing intensity. From 19 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
The Wire 2002
★★★½3.5
Se7en 1995
★★½2.5
Extremely well made and I never want to see it again. That is the whole review.
Mostly about the craft.
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
★★★½3.5
Fleabag 2016
★★★★½4.5
Die Hard 1988
★★★★4.0
Circe 2018
★★★★4.0
John Wick 2014
★★★½3.5
Hounds of Love 1985
★★★½3.5
Severance 2022
★★★★4.0
Parasite 2019
★★★3.0
Spirited Away 2001
★★★★★5.0
Deadpool 2016
★★★★4.0
Elden Ring 2022
★★½2.5
The Truman Show 1998
★★★★★5.0
Fight Club 1999
★★½2.5
Hades 2020
★★★½3.5
Got me through a bad spring. Tom Nook is a predatory lender and I love him.
Mostly about how it felt.
Illmatic 1994
★★★★4.0
Breaking Bad 2008
★★★3.0
Klara and the Sun 2019
★★★★½4.5
The Secret History 1992
★★★3.0
Celeste 2018
★★★½3.5
Back to the Future 1985
★★★★★5.0
The Bear 2022
★★★★4.0
Titanic 1997
★★★★★5.0
Portal 2 2011
★★★★★5.0
Kid A 2000
★★★3.0
Star Wars 1977
★★★★½4.5
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★½3.5
Aftersun 2022
★★★3.0
The Avengers 2012
★★★★4.0
Blonde 2016
★★★3.0
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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