Welcome to class three! First the bad news:

• Auditing student Tre did not drop the course.

Then the worse news:

• Enrolled student Darren asked us to compare Black Narcissus to Black Panther

Followed by a brief bit of good news:

• We wound up barely talking about Black Panther.

Before returning to bad news:

• The students couldn't stop talking about Black Narcissus because they couldn't stop talking about the nuns’ sex appeal.

And finally ending on some actual good news:

• The students managed to focus on, if only for a minute here and a couple minutes there, the assigned readings. They told me why a movie about five nuns, a sexy man, and his little pony continues to captivate audiences, Darren and Tre included.