My journey with The Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski’s super-popular fantasy series, got off to a bumpy start when I read The Blood of Elves. I understood it to be the first book of the series and assumed that the short story collections (including The Last Wish) were extra, optional prequel stories. Boy, was I wrong! Without…
Category: TV
The Residence – TV Mini-Series Review
While I do love a clever murder mystery, I can’t say that I watch a lot of them. I grew up in the 80s with the likes of Remington Steel, Murder She Wrote, and Moonlighting, where solving a mysterious murder was a fun way to spend an evening each week. Now victims seem to die…
Catching up with genre TV: Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Doctor Who, and more
It has been a long minute since I last posted, but I admit I’ve been feeling a bit of entertainment ennui. Most of my favourite franchises have been so mediocre and underwhelming. A lot of hype in the fandoms has been around how they appear to have gone “woke”, and that being the problem. I…
Wheel of Time, One Piece, Ahsoka, Ragnarok, Mech Cadets & Lower Decks: Fun genre TV is back! (Fall 2023)
The rush of having these six genre (aka nerd-friendly) series release within a couple of weeks brings me back to the days of watching dozens of new series whenever the fall season kicked off on network TV. Nevertheless, I now relish the flexibility of being able to watch them at my own pace (and savour…
Animation is awesome: 10 new and returning shows to prove it
Ever since I grew up in the 80s watching Saturday Morning Cartoons, I have loved watching animation. When done well, there is a dynamic fun and imaginative freedom to animation that even the most CGI-heavy live action cannot reproduce. With the streaming channels there are a lot of animated series floating around (most of them…
Summer TV 2023
Now that summer has become a legitimate TV season (thanks to streaming), it’s exciting to be able to watch series that I enjoy (along with a few new shows) during a period when everything used to be on hiatus or reruns. The new seasons of Black Mirror and the debut of Marvel’s Secret Invasion really…
Spring TV 2023 – Apple Edition
I know it’s been a while, but I have been watching stuff even though I haven’t been writing about it all. Colour me surprised when I renewed my Apple TV+ subscription in order to catch the latest and final season of Ted Lasso, only to end up watching several more series (and one documentary film)….
Must-See Winter TV 2023
I am normally the last person to say anything is “must-see”, not because I don’t believe in great TV and movies, but because I am a firm believer in the diversity of tastes and “to each his own”. However, it’s been a while since I’ve posted about TV shows, sadly because I haven’t been super-excited…
Fantasy TV for Fall 2022
As a fan of fantasy stories, I am loving that this post-Game of Thrones resurgence of the genre is making a big-budget run at streaming success. Previous seasons already gave us The Witcher and The Wheel of Time (sadly neither have become my favourites), and now we have a few more series bringing their tales…
