Catching up on writring a little bit about TV and video games I watched (or played) this past year... To kick it off, I thought I'd write a little bit about Motherland: Fort Salem.  For October I meant to watch themed movies and shows (you know, horror and witchy stuff), but I only managed to binge this series 🙃. I finished it just before Halloween so I was within my self-imposed time frame

Many TV shows I let ripen in my "to watch" queue for months (sometimes a semester, sometimes a year...).  This one I watched as soon as it was released on Netflix last month, and it didn't disappoint!On the one hand the formula is well known for this kind of film. There is someone from the future that sends back someone (or some machine) to the past so that they can save the future.  Spoiler

Here's a series that we finished in August 2024. This series was on Paramount+ (yeah, the streaming network that isn't huge and is currently struggling).  I wish that this series had more seasons, but I think the streaming service's financial woes made it necessary to wrap things up.I would best describe this series as What if X-Files didn't deal with extraterrestrials (most of the tie) but with

Here's a fun watch from earlier this month.  It's KAOS and it's on Netflix!  What is it? KAOS answers the question of what if the Ancient Olympian Gods (you know, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, and the gang) were real and what if they were still around today?  What would their lives (and ours as mere mortals) looks like?And, on top of that, what if the folks we see in Greek mythology, like Eurydice,

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 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

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