Episode One

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Whiplash

A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery

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The Big Sleep

Chandler's Marlowe stories invented the hard-boiled detective — every noir owes a debt

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Disco Elysium

The greatest detective RPG — your brain is the crime scene

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True Detective

McConaughey and Harrelson in the Louisiana dark — philosophical noir at its peak