it's a documentary we watched on hbo max about the beanie baby craze in the late 1990s.
it started with a few white, bored suburban, chicago area moms collecting them & probably would've stayed a chicago or even a mid-west thing, but one of them worked for people magazine & things got big from there ( Read more... )

continuing with our hbo max journey, we've watched two documentaries ( Read more... )

some crazy twists and turns.( spoilers )

finished the last of us. it was just OK, probably the most "OK" show i've seen in a long time. it's not as big as a disappointment as the star wars prequels, but it's close. as my brother said, at least TLoU was interesting ( Read more... )

this is one of the things i wanted to watch on hbo max ( Read more... )

have watched the first two episodes & right now i'm firmly in the "it's ok." camp. i don't know if it's because i liked the game (brother played, i read out the walkthrough) or it's because i saw other people getting excited for the new episode every week or what. but we're not quite 1/3 the way trough, so my feelings might change ( Read more... )

subtitle; The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

from amazon;
If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both ( Read more... )

the cost of youtube tv is going up, again.my brother & i had a talk about is it worth getting it any more ( Read more... )

this is an HOB max thing, that aired on TBS for some reason. i know HBO owns turner's stuff now, but i thought they would keep this on the pay site ( Read more... )

the amazing race is coming back on sept. 21. i wonder if they're still going to follow their COVID protocols ( Read more... )