Happy Wednesday folks!
What have we all been watching this week?
I finished season 2 of This Fool which was great.
Currently sitting on my arse watching episode 7 of Hijack which has been a brilliant wee surprise. Not usually a fan of scary airplane stuff but this has me hooked.
Righteous Gemstones season 3 finished up this week too. Love a bit of Danny McBride and this season has been phenomenal.
Can’t forget What We Do in the Shadows - hilarious as ever.
Our boys are 6 and 11, so there is little time for these things called “movies” that we used to watch in our younger days. So, in the last week we have squeezed in the following TV shows:
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The most recent two episodes. Lower Decks crossover was fun fan service. Loved it. The Klingon War episode was also good but a hard watch. One of the few “space war” episodes that gets over the horror of war. Like an unfunny space MAS*H. Not sure I liked the ending though. M’Benga, Chapel and Pike don’t come out of it well IMHO.
Also been watching the Quantum Leap reboot. It’s cheesy AF, but fun, with a good diverse ensemble cast - there is a lot more stuff at the QL base, not just the equivalent of the Sam and Al characters. Which I think is for the best. The chemistry between Bakula and Stockwell was lightning in a bottle which they could never hope to recreate. The voice over at the start is terribly written though. The original series had that great vo. How could they screw it up so bad?
Finally got my wife to start strange new worlds with me last night. She’s the bloody Trekkie yet I had to wait until almost the end of s2 for her to start. Nightmare! We’re 2 episodes in and I’m loving it so far. I can’t wait for lower decks crossover as I thought that was great.
These last two SNW episodes have been quite the tonal whiplash! Not much of a fan of Lower Decks (though I concede they did well at playing rl cartoon characters), but the war episode was great. Definitely agree about the ending though, they’re gonna have to come back to that later and resolve some bits I think, it just puts the characters in such a negative light otherwise.