I had to explain what was going on in season 2 episode 1 of Loki to my dad. On his second watch.

I actually preferred the first episode to the second. I thought the pacing was weird in the second. All that time on ( spoilers )

I haven't watched The Walking Dead regularly in years but decided to check out the series finale, which was mostly okay, though it didn't fully feel like a finale since it has spin-offs coming soon. ( spoilers )

Anime Network On Demand has started supplying episodes of Hidamari Sketch, and I'm once again deeply jealous of the girls' friendships and living situation. Even the brief parts of my time at college that were a little like that don't compare.

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On Demand is also starting a run of School-Live! (Gakkō Gurashi!), which is part wacky high school ( Read more... )

The latest episode of Fear the Walking Dead, "El Matadero," just further fanned the flames of the Nick/Troy I've been seeing this season. ( spoilers )

In my area of New York we had a swift drop in temperature by 20-30 degrees Fahrenheit, along with the kind of rain we haven't gotten much of in the last few months, and my head rebelled and stuck me in bed and mostly unconscious Friday and Saturday. Things have been somewhat better today ( Read more... )

I'm half-watching one of the (I think) last episodes of the Ash vs. Evil Dead TV series. Man, did this turn into a thankless grind. I'm just holding on to see how it ends ( Read more... )

( spoilers for The Walking Dead: 'Heads Up' )

Looking at the Goodreads page, I seem to be alone in being unimpressed with Station Eleven: a Novel by Emily St. John Mandel. ("A Novel" because this is Serious literature by an artiste dealing with genre conventions like an apocalypse and the post-apocalypse, not something written by some genre hack.) Like so many books that have "a novel" as ( Read more... )

Here's an article ranking the best and worst US states for surviving a zombie apocalypse. Although I don't agree with all the criteria, it's an interesting read. I'm a goner, but at least Jersey ranks worse. Although at least I live on a large island, while Manhattan is basically a bottleneck that has high population density ( Read more... )

I saw Warm Bodies on cable again today, and it saddens me that I can't recommend it to my roommate because it has some gross moments and she's sensitive to that. It's funny and often sweet, and I think it would be right up her alley if not for the horror elements. It is a movie about a zombie who falls in love with a living woman and takes her home ( Read more... )