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.

The Mighty Nein: The Zadash Job

And any party we’re not invited to is definitely worth attending.

When a team of trauma-informed tag-alongs decides to become heroes, there’s no way to do it except to go big - and Critical Role achieves just that in this absolute banger of an episode which kept me on my seat’s edge with suspense, stupidity and surprises.

The Leftovers: Cairo

"Let's play ping-pong, okay?"

Yes, please! Ping-pong sounds great. Let's finish that joint and play some ping-pong, and pretend a little longer that the path toward healing that our characters have been on didn't just take a giant U-turn back into the darkness. But these things are rarely linear, are they?

Mini Movie Reviews: Agatha Christie

Today's theme is the Queen of Crime featuring films by Sidney Lumet, Guy Hamilton, René Clair, George Pollock, and John Guillermin.

Heated Rivalry: Rookies

"This is such a bad idea."

I never thought that I would love a show based on gay hocket smut, and yet here we are and it is truly glorious. And it's so much more than that flippant description would imply.