For the last few months, I've actually had a crowded schedule of TV watching! This is remarkable for me, since I almost never watch shows as they air, much less watch multiple ones with conflicting schedules. They've now dropped off one by one, as their seasons ended, and so now I am late to the party with recommendations (well, mostly).

Sleepy ( Read more... )

Strange Empire
I've now watched the first six episodes (out of a total of 13), and I have mixed feelings on the show. On the one hand, the characters and actors are great! On the other hand, the writing and world-building occasionally makes no sense. For instance, I have no idea how much time is supposed to have passed in these six episodes. ( Read more... )

After such a long post last week, I've barely watched anything this week!

Strange EmpireThis was a Canadian TV show that started last year; I was interested in it at the time, but never got around to actually watching it. And now it's on Netflix! So I'm checking it out ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting to post reviews of stuff I've been watching. I could wait till next Monday, but I keep doing that and I already have a month's worth of backlogged stuff to review. So, quickly:

Pride and Prejudice (the BBC 1990s adaptation ( Read more... )

Hey, remember when I used to do this 'Watching Monday' thing? I thought I'd start again. Well, without going back to catch up, because it's been several months and I've watched a lot in that time. But here's what I watched in the last week:

BahubaliA really fantastic Indian movie, a remix of mythic tropes with more modern ideas, and all of it ( Read more... )

I had a very boring week and watched almost nothing, except for the premiere of iZombie. I hadn't even heard about this show, so it was just a lucky coincidence that I happened to watch it, but it had a cute opening. Liv unexpectedly becomes a zombie, but finds that she can maintain a mostly normal life as long as she eats brains regularly. So she ( Read more... )

Man, I've missed several weeks of this. Let me try and catch up briefly:

LagaanThis is one of the only Bollywood movies to have been nominated for an Oscar, but it was mostly sold to me with the promise that if I watched it, I would finally understand cricket. Spoiler: I still do not understand cricket ( Read more... )

Sleepy Hollow
2.17
[Spoiler (click to open)]I mostly enjoyed this episode, though I do feel like there was a lot of unexplained stuff happening. I mean... witches aren't human? When did that happen? I'd assumed witchery was just something you learned, maybe connected to an inborn talent, but not all of this "us vs them" and "I could never be happy with a mere mortal" stuff ( Read more... )

Sleepy Hollow
2.16
[Spoiler (click to open)]Eh, I didn't really like this episode. It had a lot of potential - I am totally down for magic hologram Thomas Jefferson - but I didn't think it used any of that potential. Where was last season's awareness of the complexities of history? Did Crane and Abbie just totally forget that whole Sally Hemings conversation they had? ( Read more... )

Sleepy Hollow
2.15
[Spoiler (click to open)]Overall, I really liked this episode. Lots of adorable bonding moments between the characters, lot of Ichabod vs the 21st Century, and the Monster of the Week was fine and historically ridiculous (which I approve of). I'm interested in Henry and Frank's plots, though I'm not entirely sure where either of them is going, but it ( Read more... )