I finally caught up with The Acolyte, a Star Wars universe adventure. The series is a typical streamer length (8 episodes) and sadly it was cancelled shortly after it was release.  As the expression goes, the body wasn't even cold yet 🫤.I rather liked the series because it paints a picture that is a bit more complicated than the typical Jedi = Good, Anger/Sith = Bad. In fact, in this series

Here's a game I "finished" this month.  I was curious about this game as it was an iOS Arcade exclusive for a while and the free three month trial of Apple Arcade was like a siren call... In the end, I skipped the mobile experience and decided to buy this on sale on Steam some time over the summer (or was it in the spring?)By "finished" I mean that I earned all Steam achievements, I finished the

Here's a show I finished last month (August 2024) and thought I'd write a few things about it before it completely faded from memory. This is a Tom Clancy adaptation for Amazon Prime.  The series had four seasons, and the first two were the strongest in my view.  The series stars John Krasinski (of The Office fame) as Jack Ryan, and Wendell Pierce as James Greer (Ryan's Boss).The first season

Here's a game that took WAY too long for me to finish (considering how much I like this series). I finished June 2024 but I started October  2023.I was reluctant to start this game. I love the setting. I love the size of the map, and I love its "simplicity" when compared to the ENORMOUS maps that came with Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla.  Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed those games,

Here's another TV show I started a while back, but I just got around to finishing.  I came across this one on Plex one afternoon while browsing the free streaming offerings a year or so ago. I had never watched Flash Gordon (the original movie), but I think I need to track it down and see how it compares.  I guess this 2007-era TV show is loosely based on the comic strip.The one season

You're having a beer with your pals the other daaaaaay....The finale for Letterkenny was this past May (at least for us Hulu viewers, maybe it was available earlier in Canada), so I thought I'd write a couple thoughts on the series. Letterkenny takes place in a rural Ontario community, which took its name from Letterkenny in Ireland and is populated mostly by the descendants of Irish immigrants

Another bit of a whackadoo series that I binged in June. This one is on AppleTV+, and it's questionable whether it's worth the watch 🙄 (spoilers).In this series, Amber Chesborough is an American scientist in Colombia researching psychedelics to treat addiction. When she is kidnapped by militants, her brother, Bambi, and her husband, Prince, both US Army Delta Force operators (in the same unit),

Here's another series I binged back in May-June. Another series I wanted to like, but...m'eh. Also a series that I only stuck around to the end of season 2 because of Lena Headey being headlined 😂The gist of the story is that there are space-based lighthouses (called Beacons) and just like their terrestrial counterparts, they serve as navigational beacons helping spacefarers navigate the hazards

Here's one from back in June.  The season and series finale was 6/27 and this show was cancelled after 4 seasons. All I can say about that is GOOD (insert grumpy cat meme somewhere here 😹). I guess this wasn't your daddy's Walker, Texas Ranger 😹. In looking up this series, I am surprised that I never caught the original Walker, Texas Ranger on TV because I used to watch a fair amount of

Here's one from May. I started this short series in January, but I really didn't get back to it until May.  I was bummed to learn that this came out a few years ago and I missed it, because it means that it most likely will not get a sequel.I don't know why JCVD dropped off the face of the planet in the 90s, but this mini series was a fun way to poke fun at all the tropes of action movies of that