Film Episodes

We spend our whole lives chasing happiness. So this week Carlos asks the one voice in the room that may be incapable of feeling it to help him define it. What begins as a simple question ends somewhere neither of them planned. Is happiness something you feel, something you practice or something you only notice once you stop looking past it? Along the way — a cop who spent twenty years counting down the days, a movie watched six times as maintenance and a soggy bowl of corn flakes that might h...

Everyone remembers the gold watch monologue from Pulp Fiction. Few people remember the eight silent seconds in the middle of it. In Episode 2 of Carbon & Keel, Carlos and Sam start with Christopher Walken, a forgotten pause and a watch that survived several wars, then end up somewhere closer to home: commitment and the difference between starting something and finishing it. Along the way they get into why Walken took the role, the mistake Tarantino left in the film and why promises matter ...