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1/8/25Severance‘s mazes

The Ben Stiller-directed series places a corporate team (led by Adam Scott’s character, Mark) in endless maze-like hallways–signless, antiseptic, refrigerator-white. Meanwhile, their brains become the real maze as their work-brain has been surgically partitioned from their non-work brain. Scary stuff.


1/8/25 – Labyrinth fiction

Daisy Hildyard’s short story, “Revision,” in the Dec. 23, 2024 New Yorker smartly considers academe and class differences as a labyrinth which its protagonist Gabriel must navigate.


10/28/24 – Mazy ‘do or maze brain?!

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8/1/24–Imagine if Ariadne had given Theseus one of these!


7/22/24A musical labyrinth, if you’re ready to enter the labyrinth of your “capricious instincts”…

Thanks to Discover Labyrinths for this find:


7/7/24Rom-com labyrinth

In the new Netflix rom-com A Family Affair, Nicole Kidman’s character Brooke Harwood asks Zac Efron’s character Chris Cole if his Icarus Rush action-hero movies are based on the Icarus myth. Cole is comically clueless, so Brooke explains. “He was the son of Daedalus, who was an engineer who built the labyrinth that King Minos had the Minotaur trapped in.” Cole responds: “Dr. Minotaur was my arch-nemesis in the first three movies.”

A later scene shows Cole on set looking a bit like the blind angel Pygar in Barbarella.

As Nicole Kidman’s character says, “There you go.”


6/25/24L spotted in Durham