I've decided to make a rule that I can only watch Wheel of Time on my stationary bike, so I've only watched the first three episodes so far, but so far I'm really enjoying it, and I'm getting a workout. The visuals are utterly stunning, and it's just a treat to watch for that reason alone. The show sustained an impressive sense of tension for the ( Read more... )

Rutherford Falls

I don't think I knew what to expect from this, but it's a new Mike Schur show so I was of course going to check it out.

It's actually not a Mike Schur show, though. It's co-created with actor Ed Helms, and notably, with Sierra Ornelas, a Native American (Navajo) writer whose past credits include Happy Endings and Superstore- two of ( Read more... )

I watched the final episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier Friday morning before work. I may watch it again to digest.

It was better on the politics than I'd feared, which is not to say it was good. What the whole episode was, was unsettlingly grim. There were not a lot of good endings for characters, but more than that, there were not a lot of ( Read more... )

I've finally managed to push past the first episode of The Magicians and have watched most of the first season. I think it's one of those shows that's probably enjoyable considered on its own, but if you've read the books it's liable to get on your nerves. That's probably especially true if you've spent a lot of time and thought imposing a ( Read more... )

Have people been watching WandaVision? Isn't it fun and weird and genrebendy? Don't you have no idea whatsoever where they're going with it? Aren't you glad to be going along for the ride anyway?

I also watched Space Sweepers, the new Korean space adventure movie, this weekend on Netflix and I really enjoyed it. I loved the playful way it treated ( Read more... )

Grey's Anatomy Season 17

It's been emotionally difficult to watch the new season, which has been tackling the pandemic head on from the perspective of the hospital workers. This writing and acting has been very good,though. The season started with a two hour episode I had to break up into twenty minute sections to watch, I couldn't deal with any ( Read more... )

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben Winters

It's a funny concept and often well executed, that so much of the plot of Sense and Sensibility is driven subtextually by the omnipresence and seriousness of disease in a way that could, until recently, escape a modern audience. In Winters' version, any time disease or death is threatened, Sea ( Read more... )

Okay I have slept on it and I am still angry about last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy ( Read more... )

In episode two of Hunters (the new Amazon Prime show in which Al Pacino plays a Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter who mentors the young Logan Lerman in the ways of Nazi hunting), Pacino's Meyer Offerman encourages Lerman's Jonah Heidelman to recite the Mourner's Kaddish for his grandmother, who was killed by a former Auschwitz guard turned ( Read more... )

The West Wing Weekly: Tomorrow and The Good Place The Podcast: Series Forking Finale Parts 1 and 2Two podcasts wrapped up last week with massive final episodes- The West Wing Weekly's three year journey through The West Wing finished with an over two hour episode featuring several dozen guests from the cast and crew, notably including the return ( Read more... )