Intro Like my Agents of SHIELD retrospective, I thought it was appropriate to talk about the other corner of Marvel TV: the Netflix shows. It's quite impressive that they seem to run the gamut between beloved and despised to the point that certain actors playing certain roles are considered definitive while others are considered the... Continue Reading →
Mothers and their children share a special something something. Hey, I don't know what to tell you; my own mom was the dirt fucking worst. All kinds of abusive and really just the absolute pits. She died a long time ago, though, so it's fine. I won. But what are you, my therapist? This isn't... Continue Reading →
The Bad Welcome back to our two part Agents of SHIELD retrospective. If you missed part 1 (and why would you read the second part before the first), I went over some of the things I loved about the series. As you probably figured out, I’ll be talking about the worst aspects of the series... Continue Reading →
The Good Stuff In August of 2020, the Marvel TV show Agents of SHIELD aired its 136th and final episode after seven seasons with little fanfare. While TV shows come and go and seven seasons is quite an achievement, this particular show is very interesting. I still remember seeing a trailer for the pilot episode... Continue Reading →
No commercial more instantly turned me off to the idea of watching a television series than the infamous "Fuck Batman" ad that gave us our first look at Titans on the DCUniverse streaming service. When that was my introduction to the series, it was easy enough to write it off as "not for me", and we even... Continue Reading →
My wife wants us to paint our bathroom. I sometimes worry that she has forgotten who she married. There is nothing in the world I would rather do than nothing. Every so often she has grand designs on some project or another. She'll ask "Do you want to [do a thing I don't want to... Continue Reading →
I went to the movies for the first time since February 2020 today! God, I have really missed that. Obviously in the COVID era, I have developed quite the affinity for watching movies at home, but I have always adored the cinema. Watching movies at home is fine, if a bit distracting. Watching them in... Continue Reading →
"OZ... that's the name on the street for the Oswald State Maximum Security Correctional Facility- Level Four" This show stands out as one of my all-time favorites, despite a few hiccups. This was HBO's very-first original series, before "The Sopranos", "Sex and the City", "The Wire" and others came THIS. The brainchild of series creator... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the end of April! I hope you guys are ready for all of those May flowers! For more from April, click HERE. That's actually not fair. It hasn't rained much here at all. Due to our sewage issues, we recently had a chunk of our back yard dug up. We put down some... Continue Reading →
I mentioned back on the Ides of March that I had a very slow cinematic start to the month. Boy did I rectify that in the back half of the month! I went on an absolute spree to finish out March (like a... lion? Is that right yet?), catching thirteen movies in a fourteen day... Continue Reading →
I am wholly convinced we have been living in the one true Golden Age of television. Think about what's come out since the turn of the century. Gone are the days of the boob tube; TV now presents some of the most engaging, thoughtful, and poignant forms of entertainment across all media. There are also... Continue Reading →
It's the Ides of March! I don't... I don't know what that means. Something to do with Julius Caesar being assassinated, but it isn't called that BECAUSE of it. The Ides were a thing before he died. It's like... if I was assassinated on Christmas, Christmas wouldn't be famous for THAT. (That got dark fast... Continue Reading →
February sure is a short month. It feels like I just did part one of this. Nevertheless, we are moving full-bore into MARCH, the month that has something to do with lions and lambs; I could never keep it straight. Does it come in like a lion (fierce) and out like a lamb (soft?), or... Continue Reading →
My back is not yet 100%, but it's miles ahead of where it was at this point in January. It turns out that I have a mutant healing factor! OR I was being a hypochondriac. But probably the healing factor. That seems more likely. Anyway: it's Valentine's Day! Happy Valentine's Day to lovers, young and... Continue Reading →
I think this is the bad guy. Now we come to the final disc of the set, and the last five episodes of Sailor Moon R- Chibi-Usa, the annoying brat who's FINALLY been revealed as the daughter of Sailor Moon & Tuxedo Mask from the future... has been kidnapped by the Black Moon Clan, and... Continue Reading →
