This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is about longing, as Doors writer-director Saman Kesh  takes me through his love for the neon melancholy fever dream that is Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express.

Fun fact: We were originally going to talk about Terminator 2, but Saman was so excited to see Criterion’s magnificent Wong box on my shelf that we got to talking about that, and then before either of us knew it we were off and running in an entirely different direction. But a good one, and one that turned out to be strangely purgative.

You’ll see. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher to get the episode instantly, or if you prefer you can download it directly from the web.

And then you can catch today’s episode of NOW What, in which Rad talks to the creative team who helped save a pair of television shows from, shall we say, unbearable whiteness … it’s a whole thing, you should just listen to the podcast. It’s at the bottom of Rad’s piece, but of course you can also find it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify as well.

What else? My review of HBO’s The Nevers is up, trying to figure out whether it’s even possible to separate the art from the artist when the artist is Joss Whedon and the art is about how people with structural power use that power to subjugate those with less of it.

I know. It’s tricky.

Oh, and I just wrote a thing about this year’s Oscar Shorts. which are pretty great except for the couple that aren’t. But every program has at least one title that’s straight-up brilliant, so that’s nice … even if those aren’t the ones most likely to win.