Personally, I’ve mostly been playing. Dressmaker has consumed me and is a strong contender for my personal Game of the Year. It’s not my usual genre at all and yet I cannot stop making dresses.
I also just finished the newly released Funeral for the Sun, which is a detective game in the same vein of Return of the Obra Dinn. That was absolutely excellent. Nothing felt too obscure, but I still felt clever when I figured things out. It had very pretty art too.
Victoria Grossack: I came down with bronchitis – bad enough for me to go to urgent care – and so have only had the energy for re-runs and election analysis.
But I just started the third season of Lupin, and at least the first episode was fun.
Mikey Heinrich: I just watched the final episode of VisionQuest and for reasons that will be obvious when you watch it but I won't spoil here it hit me really hard.
Beyond that, I binged both seasons of Our Flag Means Death and really loved it. So much positive queer energy.
ChrisB: A few years ago, I found a podcast called The West Wing Weekly. Josh Malina (Will Bailey) and Hrishi Hirway do an outstanding job of discussing each episode along with some special events. I rewatched the entire series while following the podcast.
These two guys recently started reviewing The Diplomat. I had started watching it a while ago, but got distracted and never went back to it. I am now re-watching the first season with the podcast and loving both.
My other favorite podcast is The Rest is History. They have just finished a series on King Arthur, so I am reading some books that take place in Camelot. The Crystal Cave is the current read and it is fantastic!
Morella: Haven't been watching much. Friends convinced me to join them in World of Warcraft: Forever so been playing a lot of that lately. I do listen to the Distractible podcast with Markiplier and his friends Bob and Wade. I highly recommend it if you like goofing around and good-natured nonsense.
Heather: I've been watching the second season of The Lowdown on Hulu, Sterlin Harjo's follow-up to Reservation Dogs. I really like this season, even better than the first one. Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee Jones joined for this season.
I have an AMC A-List membership and I go to a ridiculous amount of movies. My local AMC is my happy place. I saw Godzilla Minus Zero, Club Kid, The Liberation and I Play Rocky, all in the last week. (I was not looking forward to I Play Rocky but I kept hearing from people how it's better than you think it's going to be, and I ended up agreeing.)
Billie Doux: I started watching Dark Matter on Apple+ and couldn't stop. I did both seasons in three or four days, and then I bought the book and read it in two days. It's a multiverse story about a man named Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) who is taken out of his life and away from his wife (Jennifer Connelly) and son by another version of himself, and deposited in a world where he made much different choices.
I honestly can't say more without spoiling it, but it gets wildly creepy and goes in directions I never expected it to go. Very much my cup of tea. I'm hoping for a third season.
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And that's it from us! What have you all been reading and watching?
I've been watching Yaga, a new Canadian show heavily advertised as starring Hudson Williams who plays two roles but one of them is a missing person and the other one is murdered at the end of the second episode so he's not actually in it much. It's about the Russian folk legend Baba Yaga...but the setup is a missing person investigation on Vancouver Island. It's been interesting so far. Also watching Silicon Valley. I think I'm going to pick up BritBox as I'm running out of things I want to watch on Crave.
ReplyDeleteI recently read the Jasper Fforde's last Thursday next novel (which is very meta even for Fforde!) and am currently working on Inversions by Iain Banks.
Chris B, is this the Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart? I always loved those books. As to Dark Matter, I've not seen the show (although I watched another show with that title) but I have read the book which is quite good.