Watched: Deadwax Season 1 📺 A short form horror for vinyl record lovers. Like The Ninth Gate a tracker gets drawn into assembling a cursed item at the behest of an obsessed wealthy person. This is soaked in noir dread that builds through the episodes. A good supernatural mystery.
Watched: The Boys S5E2, Teenage Kix 📺 Solider Boy remains one of the most awful, but best, characters in this show. He’s a jealous egomaniac whose dialogue is so repellant it’s very funny.
Watched: I Love LA Season 1 📺 Entertaining show. The writers and cast know how vapid, obnoxious, ludicrous but somehow endearing the characters are. The scene where True Whitaker’s nepo-baby character Alani starts speaking Elvish as a threesome falls apart got a startled laugh out of me.
Finished watching: Stranger Things S5E7, Chapter Seven: The Bridge 📺 While the internet complains the show spends too much time on Will being gay, that’s all the writers have given him. He was abducted. He’s gay. That’s it. With 21 core cast members this season, you get flimsy characterisation.
Finished watching: Sean Combs: The Reckoning Season 1 📺 In life, people rarely get what they deserve. But the measure of a person is how those around them have fared, and the broken souls interviewed here have not fared well at all.
Watching: The Mighty Nein Season 1 📺 Hundreds of hours of Critical Role improv compressed into 8 episodes results in generic tropes instead of developed characters. Give me a reason to care. And that modern dialogue? It will date fast.