Joe Pera Talks With You has been one of the quiet joys of the last year or two around these parts, and if you haven't been watching, the latest episode ("Joe Pera Guides You Through The Dark") is a pretty beautiful episode. ("Reads You the Church Announcements" and "Shows You Iron" from the first season are also good places to start if you want to take the whole thing in.) It is, as my friend Julie described it, a profoundly gentle show that is also elliptically hilarious. I particularly love the degree to which the show both celebrates Joe's gentle, midwestern-to-the-point-of-parody optimism and kindness, and acknowledges his blind spots, but celebrates the ethos anyway.
Anyhow, that's my big old entertainment pick of the year, so dig in if you're looking for a quiet and beautiful lil corner in your life!
