The Leftovers: The Prodigal Son Returns

For a television show that's about a biblical event, The Leftovers has always been fairly quiet about its religious roots. A priest here, a biblical allusion there, episodes about churches or the Baby Jesus... okay, maybe it hasn't been all that quiet. To wrap up its first season, it leans heavily into religious themes, beginning with a title based on a biblical parable, and featuring a priest, confessions, plenty of baptism imagery, and fire, fire, fire.

The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 27)

“The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically anything, and so, eventually, it does.”

Book twenty-seven is a bit of an anomaly. It’s a large book as far as its height and width, although not as thick as other Discworld books, barring Eric. It’s also lavishly illustrated by Paul Kidby, and is something of a graphic novel.

Big Bear Eagle Cam: 2026

Last year we reviewed the Big Bear Eagle Cam, featuring the now-famous bald eagle pair, Jackie and Shadow. It turned to be a fabulous season, with three eggs laid. They all hatched, and two of the three chicks survived to fledge. We can’t know what will happen this year, as Nature is what it is, but Jackie laid her first egg on January 23, 2026, so the 2026 official season has started.

The second egg was laid January 26, 2026, at about 5 pm Pacific time.

The Pitt: 8:00 A.M.

"You guys get to do this like every day?"
"If we're lucky."

Well, it’s not every day that you get to see both maggots and a visibly erect penis in the same episode. Luckily, it was not at the same time.

Heated Rivalry: Olympians

"Congratulations."
"Thank you. Now take off your clothes."

Did you really think we'd have a show that involved a Russian hockey player and not go to the Sochi Olympics?

Bookish: Season One

Does the world really need another mystery series? We have loads set in the US and the UK and, if one is willing to read subtitles, the French and the Italians are doing some smashing series as well.

The Night Manager: Season One Review

“You have to commit.”

I’ll start by telling you the basics of The Night Manager, even though they sound like the plot of just about any movie that isn’t pre-existing IP these days: When Jonathan Pine, the night manager at a five-star Cairo hotel, stumbles onto some terrible information about illegal chemical weapons, he gradually gets involved in taking down the wealthy arms dealer Richard Roper on behalf of a rogue unit within British intelligence.

The Leftovers: The Garveys At Their Best

"Those times... they were like... tremors. This... this is the big one. Like the world is gonna end."

Anyone else remember Nyan Cat? Nyan Cat, that cheery little pixel kittie, flying through space with a rainbow contrail, meowing along to a synthetic beat?

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett (Discworld 26)

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

Book twenty-six, as one can infer from the title, is about time. It also stars Death and Susan and some other people we meet in this particular volume, as they deal with the temporal purloiners in question. The auditors of reality are at it again. Humans are too unorganized and chaotic for those gray-robed cosmic bureaucrats, so they set another plan in motion to deal with them. And they’re really out to get us this time around.

The Boys: Season Four

"What's a little genocide between friends?"

I often talk about how certain shows make me feel. The Boys makes me feel nauseous.

So why am I writing this review?

The Pitt: 7:00 A. M.

“And so it begins.”

I had forgotten how nice it is to actually be excited over a show that comes out on a yearly cadence. The Pitt is back! And I’m actually covering it in a normal fashion this time around.

A Man on the Inside: Season One Review

The reason I knew she was the one for me is the second I met her, I had a thought. It was persistent, this thought. Wouldn't leave my head. "This is the person I want to grow old with."

A widowed retiree goes undercover at a nursing home to catch a thief.