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In an effort to be more present in my own life and to not watch bad TV just to watch, and to spend more time reading and doing family things, we cut the satellite cord and now have just broadcast … Continue reading
Category Archives: Television
I finally got around to checking out the Solo movie on Netflix, though I haven’t finished watching. This time something about the Star Wars universe hit me, something obvious that probably everyone else in the universe already grasped: Star Wars … Continue reading
I saw a familiar rant on Facebook recently: someone complaining that a TV show got details wrong, in this case about how legal matters worked. Both writers who spend time getting the details right in their stories and experts who … Continue reading
For a while some twenty years ago, there was this meme going around that maintained you might not be as boring as you think you are. I’d like to believe that, but I don’t. About as far as I can … Continue reading
I find it almost impossible to watch cinema. My palate has been irretrievably vitiated by a constant diet of trashy teen pix, romcom, bromance, vilely stupid adventure flicks, indie gay comedy, and B-minus monster movies dated pre-1977. This means I fall asleep after ten minutes of Babette’s Feast, and I have a perfect 0 for 0 record at having seen the Oscar nominees in any year before the ceremony.
Continue readingYesterday, Darwin and I were watching a Big Name Spy Thriller on DVD. It had the same plot every other spy thriller uses: STEP ONE: Spy Protagonist learns of an object he needs to get hold of in order to … Continue reading
CBS released an actual trailer (instead of a stupid teaser trailer) for Star Trek: Discovery. And the Internet is losing its head As of this writing, the trailer has over four million views on YouTube and zillions of negative comments. … Continue reading
A few years ago, Archie Comics unveiled with fanfare Kevin Keller, the first gay character in their comics universe. There was some backlash, but overall the character proved enormously popular. So popular, in fact, that he was given his own … Continue reading
So far I’ve written about the Gay Tragedy and the Gay Tease. Finally, we also have the Gay Promise. This is when the producers announce loudly and firmly that they’re going to have a gay character on the show. Real … Continue reading
Now that it’s streaming on Netflix, I’ve been watching THE TWILIGHT ZONE for the first time. (I had a deprived childhood.) The show has had a big impact on the SF community for decades, like a grandfather who used to … Continue reading