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Speak Up Saturday
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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We now get Lestat's POV, so another extremely unreliable narrator. With it comes a rather jarring change of style and pace. That's why I'm not 100% sure what to think yet, although I feel like the premiere was supposed to be as different as possible. When we get into more flashbacks (and I'm sure they'll come), it might feel a bit more like the previous two seasons again.
Daniel is awesome though. I love his interactions with Lestat. I hope we'll get much more of that.
I caught up on Widow's Bay just before episode 9. Unfortunately I was spoiled for the latest episode because by now a couple of people I follow on tumblr watch the show. It wasn't too bad though. How we arrived there was amusing enough ;)
I'll make sure to watch the finale a bit quicker though.
The show was renewed for a second season. Before I watched the show, and even throughout the first couple of episodes, I thought it was a miniseries. Now I'm happy we'll get more of it! I think you can make this premise work for a couple of seasons.
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But yeah, Widow's Bay is more comedic than horror, at least so far (I'm about 4 episodes in).
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In terms of new shows, I started season 2 of Criminal Record, and Widow's Bay. With regards to that last one, I wasn't going to bother with it because it didn't really sound like my sort of thing. But there was/is SO MUCH HYPE around Widow's Bay -- I mean the Guardian is just nuts about it -- so I figured I'd check it out. And alas, I fear it's a victim of the hype. I mean it's fine, nothing wrong with it, I was just expecting more? I'll probably finish it, but don't think it would end up on any "best TV of 2026" list for me (whereas the Guardian already has it on its list of best TV shows so far this year).
Other than that, this week's episodes of Welcome to Wrexham and Criminal Minds, and baseball, tennis and the World Cup. Which is pretty much what I'm looking forward to for the coming week...
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I quite like the series -- I don't feel there's anything quite like it out there, especially with so many women in lead roles. I find I have a preference for shows where alliances come and go and return, and whether this happens has a lot to do with plot development.
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We've been watching season 1 of Blocco 181, an Italian show about drug dealers, with an m/m/f central relationship (contains explicit sex scenes). It's very tense a lot of the time, and I'm looking forward to season 2.
Also, the Glaswegian sitcom Dinosaur, about an autistic woman and her sister. We've just started season 2 of that.
Continuing our rewatch of People of Earth. Such a good show. I'm pre-emptively mourning it's unresolved ending.
A bit more standup in the form of Night Train with Wyatt Cenac on Youtube.
And still going on Miraculous Brothers (Kdrama), where I'm finally getting a handle on who everyone is. The mystery is twisty and well-done, and the central character is morally wobbly but doing his best.
My sister and I appear to be watching White Collar from the beginning, plus a bit of Bluey.
And in solo watching, I'm trying a few things. I might have accidentally started a rewatch of m/f romance Cdrama Nothing But You (AKA Nothing But Love).
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I finished S3 of Star Wars Visions. I think it's an interesting project but have decided it is just not my thing. Ultimately, I don't care what something looks like, I care about whether the story grabs me. And while I've looked some better than others, none of them have.
By comparison I also finished Maul and quite liked it. By the third episode I was hooked and it had a great finish which, I should hope, will continue into another season.
I saw most of Heated Rivalry -- I watched part of Ep 1 but then skipped to 3 because I understood it was the standalone story. I quite liked that, and then watched the remaining episodes. I can see how it's ending was a resolution, but it also felt like just the beginning of a full relationship to me, so I'm glad there will be more.
We watched another episode of 1923, are onto a new season of Brokenwood, and finished Bookish. I liked the final story the best, both because it moved along Book's personal life and also had a pretty good mystery (though frankly the reason for the murder came out of nowhere). I would try a second season.
I also watched the Sea Lions of the Galapagos film. I have never liked AMSR but I can totally understand the relaxation part of it. Aside from the visuals, I found Brendan Fraser's narration very soothing.
I also watched the Pixar film Hoppers, which I wrote about.
I expect much of my viewing time in the coming month to be taken up by World Cup games, which I have also written about.
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After that we watched Prey, which is now my most favorite Predator movie ever. :D Watching a spacefarer get whacked by less technologically developed opponents was awesome. Plus a whole team of buffalo hunters got butchered, and that never gets old.
Tonight we watched the first episode of Starfleet Academy. I wasn't impressed. The tone was unappealing, the plot cluttered, and it didn't really feel like Star Trek to me. It had a few good moments, but honestly my favorite part was the admiral curled in the command chair reading a paper book. I'll give it another episode to see if it gets any better, though.
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