Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

Marion Stokes was a public intellectual and an activist who also tape recorded television new shows for 35 years. Starting with the Iran hostage crisis and ending with Sandy Hook, Stokes showed how new stories evolve over time. Her pre-Internet prescience is worth considering in today's information ecosystem, complete with curated news feeds for social media users. Stokes understood television news in ways most people have never even considered, with one possible exception: Donald Trump.

There's very little story here Don't expect any third act reveals or anything interesting about the character. The archive footage of historic events is interesting to watch.

Marion Stokes was a complicated woman who in the last 30 years of her life taped at least one channel of television for 24 hours and usually many more than that. She accumulated tens of thousands of hours of television that are now archived on the internet. The story of how we got there is fascinating and the result was a satisfied hubby and wife date night documentary. Credit to Matt Wolf on another outstanding film. Hubby: 8.0/Wife: 7.0 Average: 7.5/10