I was invited to give a review talk about relativistic jets from AGN in the ”AGN redemption" conference. The venue was at beautiful, humid Zihuatanejo. I haven't been in such a excruciatingly hot place since I lived in Porto Alegre, or when I visited Rio during summer. So if you are wondering if Zihuatanejo is warm at the end of October: yes sir! Very much so.

Anyway, the organizers asked me to give a comprehensive overview (30 minutes) of "jet formation and evolution". The theme of the conference was the Shawshank Redemption movie, because this is the place where the movie ends (if you haven't watched the movie, go stream it). So the organizers made a big deal about it. They asked the presenters to mention their favorite movie at the end of each talk. Most of them did, but I chose not to because I did not have 1 minute to spare in my review talk (reviewing the entire field of AGN jets in 30 minutes is no easy task, it turns out).

I decided to pick about ten papers in the field that caught my attention in the last 2-3 years, and focused on those papers and why they are relevant. And I strictly concentrated on formation, dynamics/kinematics and the status of the radio-loud/radio-quiet division. The slides are available here. For future reference, the talk was given on October 31st 2025.

By the way, I should point out a correction to the slide 27 about the second M87* ring: even though I wrote in the slide that it was observed by EHT, it was actually seen by ALMA+GLT+GMVA. My bad.