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I looked on that list for Umbrella Academy, which is supposed to have a season drop next month, but I don't see it listed there.
Also, kind of bummed that The Expanse will end without going as far as the books. Now I'll have to tell the guys how it goes forward, instead of just boring them with pointing out the differences.
Has anyone watched Slow Horses on Apple? It's a British spy thriller based on the 2010 Mick Herron novel (which I haven't read). Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas star. It's a 6-episode season, the whole thing has already dropped.
We've inhaled it the last couple of nights. I might have to watch it a second time, because when I binge, I don't retain.
We've also been watching the FX-on-Hulu true crime drama mini-series, Under the Banner of Heaven, based on the Jon Krakauer book of the same name. It's release week-by-week. Andrew Garfield stars. I've got the book sitting next to me, tempting me to inhale it before the rest of the episodes drop.
I just found out that another season of Bosch is available on Amazon. The title is Bosch: Legacy and I think there are six episodes.
Oh, this review of OFMD in Australia's The Saturday Paper is rather exquisite. The show just keeps gnawing at me and hitting me in a lot of the same spots as The Good Place and Ted Lasso, also comedies that reflect on identity, meaning, all the big difficult questions seen through small specific personal lenses; this review delves into all of that.
The trailer for Diego Luna's Andor show dropped today, and it looks... good? My expectations have been very low since BoBF. But this looks like a Star War about ordinary non-destiny-having people fighting a fascist regime:
That does look good.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is even more fanservicey than I expected it to be, and yet it is way better than it has any right to be.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is even more fanservicey than I expected it to be, and yet it is way better than it has any right to be.
My feeling about Star Wars fandom is that they don't deserve any servicing and they get toxic when they don't get what they want.
I don’t want to let the toxic elements of the fandom (and they are loud and horrible) color my enjoyment of the franchise too much. Anyway, not sure how I feel about Obi Wan Kenobi. The show, I mean, but now that I think about it perhaps also the character. Nice to be in a hive of villainy not on Tattooine. The Inquisitors just don’t make sense to me, I don’t get what they are all about, but Jedi on the run is potentially fun.
The thing with the Inquisitors is that they work for Vader (or the Emperor) tracking down Jedi (and potential baby Jedi). They, or some of them, might be former Jedi who were tortured/brainwashed into falling to the Dark Side and working for evil. They're not full-on Sith, but they're Dark.
As for the show, I enjoyed the hell out of that and was pleasantly surprised by several aspects.
However I suspect that the Grand Inquisitor isn't dead, because he is killed in S1 or S2 of Rebels by Kanan Jarrus. That's a major plot element of that show, and Dave Filoni would not have forgotten that.