As you may or may not know I am a huge Columbo fan. I've see every episode of the original 7 seasons 4 or 5 times each. I'd consider it one of the best shows of all time. You can read more of such gushing here. So when I heard that there was a new …
Picard: Episode 1 – Dare I hope that this won’t be a complete embarrassment?
After the complete disaster of Star Trek: Discovery, in which no one trekked or discovered, but only waged war, I have not dared to hope for any enjoyable Star Trek experience again. This generation has come to know Star Trek as a war/action franchise, and so it seems highly unlikely that any show or movie …
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Finding Frances
The feature length finale of the Comedy Central series 'Nathan For You' takes an amazing melancholy turn, when Nathan decides to use the show's resources to find Bill Heath's (the Bill Gates impersonator from previous episodes) long lost love. Though still full of the same comedic flavor that Nathan is famous for, this is a …
The Orville, Episode 9
In another somewhat dull episode of The Orville, all the crew members fall in love with each other. This one was more focused on humor and relationship stuff than real adventure or thoughtful things. The blue alien that Kelly cheated on Ed with ends up on the ship as a forensic archaeologist, to determine which of …
Random Game of Thrones thoughts
I really wish Jon Snow would have stayed dead. All the rumors and articles and talk of him coming back made it into an expected, taken for granted event. There was no tension, no curiosity. And it undercut the power of his death, which was a nice mirror of his father's death. His coming back …