It’s a Festivus for the rest of us. Whether you observe something this time of year or not — Christmas, Chanukah, New Year’s or, on 23 December, Festivus — odds are good you’ll be taking a few days off. Odds are better you’ll want to watch a little bit of television during that break. Which leads us to a recommendation and an assertion: You must watch The Americans, which is simply the best drama on television these days, particularly if you’re a child of the 1980s (or were born thereafter and mistakenly think the decade cool). And the assertion? Die Hard is the best Christmas movie of all time. As a wise person once meme’d: “It ain’t Christmas ‘til Hans Gruber falls from the Nakatomi tower.”

Soundtrack for this morning’s edition: Apple Music’s Alternative Hits 1984. (God help us…)

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