Episodes
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Patriot S1:E1 ”Milwaukee, America” Rewatch and Commentary
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
This is the second time I've seen each episode. Spoilers are ahead for not only the episode but the whole series.
-One of the best shows ever made
-Non Official Cover and the definition before an episode
-John's interview
-Kurtwood Smith
-Jargon is poetry
-John will do anything
-No witnesses?
-Opening song and montage
-The soundtrack
-Steven Conrad
-What makes this show so great
-Tom Tavner
-John's songs
-Conflict of interest?
-Amsterdam
-Michael Dorman
-Coping with trauma
-Series of errors
-Michael Chernus
-Cool Rick
-Alice
-Intro
-Charles Grodin and self-destruction
-Tom, John, and Ed Tavner dynamic
-Tom's test (Eddie protecting John)
-Father and son relationships
-Efram
-Giving John another mission
-Mechanical bull
-Amsterdam
-Impotence
-How the Tavner family gets along
-Explaining the mission
-Playing the guitar
-2012
-Birdbath
-Drug testing
-Dennis
-Making friends
-Persuading Dennis
-Finding purpose
-Birdbath and the terrible blackmail
-Birdbath's arc and the show taking its time
-Edward's title and badge
-Never from A to B
-Parallel between the money, oil, and piping
-The stress begins
-Dennis and purpose
-John fighting Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners
-Violence
-Physical trauma
-A song not on the soundtrack
-Attache badge
-Cool Rick's loyalty
-Agathe
-Misogyny
-Money to the wrong guy
-Back to fathers and sons
-Introduction of Cool Rick
-Politics and Efram
-Stressors
-John's face
-End of episode
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Monday Jun 13, 2022
This Is Us Review (Spoilers)
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
I review the whole series as well as analyze the main and supporting characters. I was also on a walk so please enjoy the relaxing sounds of cars passing #Multitasking
Show notes:
-How it ended
-I cried after every episode (except one)
-Rebecca and Jack
-Miguel
-I’m walking home
CHARACTER ANALYSIS
JACK
-A fixer
-Relationship with Nicky
-Jack’s death
-Kate’s guilt
-Idealizing Jack
-Jack’s pain
-REBECCA
-What she wanted at first
-The anchor of the family
-The cast revolved around her
-MIGUEL
-Loyal
-His relationship with Rebecca
-“His favorite person”
-Another fixer
-Reconciling and closure
-RANDALL
-Sterling K. Brown’s performance
-Randall’s arc and identity
-Adoption and grief
-Beth and the worst case scenario game
-WILLIAM
-Substance abuse
-Guilt
-Redemption
-Randall and fixing
-The good and bad of fixing
-Closure
-William’s life
-KATE
-Kate’s arc
-Jack
-Body image
-Finding purpose
-Marriage, kids, money
-Her life at the finale
-The Pearsons and their issues
-Madison
-Eating disorders (Kate, Madison, and Kevin)
-KEVIN
-My least favorite character
-Things usually just worked out
-What would have been a better arc
-Sophie
-Group therapy scene - Watch it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD7CqBYEq8Q
-Tension with Randall
-TOBY
-Chris Sullivan and The Knick
-Geek and nerdy in adulthood
-My apartment
-My nephew
-Depression
-Pressure
-Tension with Kevin and Randall
-“Being Jack”
-Idealizing someone after death
-Still loving Kate
-Toby’s relationship status?
BETH
-R&B!
-Relationship with Randall
-Relationship with her mother
-Jobs
-Strong character
-Using humor
-Anxiety and pressure
NICKY
-His personality compared to Jack’s
-Drafted to Vietnam
-Recovering from Vietnam
-Griffin Dunne and Johnny Dangerously
-Void, non-support, substance, abuse, PTSD
-Kevin and Nicky
-Kevin’s resources and easier writing
-Kevin and Toby
-Using humor
-The writing
TANGENT
-Why I turn to music, movies, and TV
-Expressing feelings
-Growing up in the 80s and 90s and “acceptable” emotions
-Destructive and constructive coping mechanisms
-Seeking therapy
END TANGENT
-Great overall
-Ran its course
-Rebecca and Alzheimers
-Respecting the kind moments for people with Alzheimers
-Jack’s speech to Kevin and Randall
-Going back
-Appreciating the moment
-Healthy fondness of the past without overly nostalgic
-Goals
-Plugs!
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Wednesday May 25, 2022
Picard Season Two Review (Spoilers)
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
I made it so and reviewed season two of Picard. Spoilers are inevitable.
Show notes:
-Holding back tears
-This season of Picard
-One long story
-TNG and Missions on the Week
-Best of Both Worlds and Chain of Command
-Time travel
-The season finale and cramming
-Wesley Crusher
-Nemesis
-Planting seeds
-Picard as a tragic figure
-Picard and relationships
-Picard and therapy
-The stakes
-Elnor
-Rios
-Season 3
-Characters and comfort
-Shadows of the Night
-Pat Benatar
-Sound of Thunder
-Guinan
-Q, his lessons, and abuse
-The Q Continuum
-Reconciling with the past
-James Callis
-Memory playing tricks
-Trauma
-How it ended
-The Borg
-Season three
-Back to Wesley
-Q doing damage
-John DeLancie
-Spock vs. Q
-Plugs!
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Thursday May 05, 2022
The Batman Review (Spoilers)
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
Recorded April 26, 2022 from my Batcave.
Show notes:
-I finally saw it
-What I thought
-What made this different than the others
-Robert Pattison’s Bruce Wayne
-The villains
-The dialogue
-Seven
-The Riddler
-Defensive Batman
-The riddles
-The Penguin
-Makeup and acting one’s age
-Colin Farrell
-Falcone
-Jeffrey Wright
-Andy Serkis
-Alfred
-Zoë Kravitz and Catwoman
-Michelle Pfeiffer and Julie Newmar
-Married to your job
-Bruce Wayne as a recluse
-Being an orphan
-Extreme inequality
-A more effective Bruce Wayne
-Changing systems and environment
-Batman and Police
-The Boys and Watchmen
-Power
-My hopes
-The Joker (Barry Keoghan)
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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Hotel Song (Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers) Review
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
I talk about the song while I watch its video
Recorded April 6, 2022
-Ear worm
-I always have a song in my fan
-Against Me!
-I’ll also watch the video
-Vocal phrasing
-Encapsulates the anxiety
-“Always be preparing to leave…”
-Laura Jane Grace and her lyrics
-Hotel room metaphors
-Self destruction
-Future tripping
-The video
-More self destruction
-Self fulfilling prophecy, pattern and habit
-Chaos
-Cigarettes?
-My favorite part of the song
-Laura’s rage
-Early Against Me!
-Laura’s voice evolution
-Sleeping in my jeans
-Sleep
-Metaphorical death
-Life on the road
-Back to the rage
-It builds
-Back to the video
-A flood
-Short and powerful
-All kinds of music
-Hits you hard and then she leaves
-Grace’s work
-Supposed to see Against Me! in March of 2020
-Seeing Against Me! Live
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Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Hard Times by Miko Marks and the Resurrectors
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
I listen to and comment on the song Hard Times from the EP Race Records
Show notes:
-I just found out it’s a cover
-Race Records and Our Country
-The history of Hard Times
-Reclaiming through her own voice
-The term Race Records
-The music
-Money and happiness
-I’m rambling
-Helping people
-The build
-Her voice
-Relaxing, uplifting, and validating
-The Resurrectors
-Live
-Taking back the song
-Reaching a peak
-What music does
-The lyrics
-Taking stock in the pleasures and tears
-Feeling your feelings
-Solidarity
-Pause
-Drinking while sad
-Anxiety, future tripping, anticipation
-Game face
-Expressing instead of bottling up
-Constructive ways to express yourself
-Ways that don’t help
-Find a safe space
-Whiskey River
-When Race Records ended…
-Goodnight America
-I hope to see them live
-Concerts
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Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Book of Boba Fett: Stranger in a Strange Land (S1:E1)
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
I had a running commentary during the first episode of The Book of Boba Fett: Stranger in a Strange Land. There are spoilers.
Recorded December 30, 2021
Commentary notes:
-Second time I’m watching
-Fighting sleep
Commentary notes:
-Intro montage
-Seeing Return of the Jedi in the theater in 1983
-Jabba’s Palace play set
-Bacta
-Boba’s physical trials
-PTSD as a child and adult
-The Sarlacc Pit
-Cleanliness of Book of Boba Fett
-Jawas
-Hero’s Journey
-Motivation of the Sand People
-The Mandalorian and the Sand People
-How did Boba survive?
-Score (yes, it’s the same composer as Mandalorian)
-Conan the Barbarian
-Temuera Morrison
-Stranger in a Strange Land is an excellent Iron Maiden song
-Child Tusken Raider
-Is this an initiation?
-Sand Peoples’ faces
-Boba’s childhood
-Fighting sleep
-Chewing gum
-Massiff and subtitles
-Rodian
-Projecting emotions
-Too much like a set
-Dangerous desert
-Another trial
-Brain damage in Star Wars?
-The Tusken Raider language
-Back to the batch
-Ming-Na Wen
-ER and Must See TV
-The Godfather
-Getting ready for work
-Difference between Boba and The Mandalorian
-Getting protection money
-Trandoshan
-Bossk
-Subtext
-The mayor
-Claiming the throne versus keeping the throne
-Physical and mental acumen
-Fett’s code and morals
-Mos Espa and cleanliness
-Not extravagant
-A cantina scene
-Jennifer Beals
-Parkour
-A little too choreographed
-Gamorrean guards
-Marauders
-Water
-Reading action subtitles=
-The Kraken
-Clash of the Titans
-Looks like hybrid of practical and digital effects
-Rodian
-Centaur/Kraken
-Fett and the Tusken Raider child
-Color of outfits
-Robert Rodriguez, Jon Favreau, and Dave Filoni
-The Last Jedi is still the best
-The Mandalorian
-Something new while being grounded in the original trilogy
-The artwork
-Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett
-Fully awake
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-Knowledge is Power
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Don’t Look Up Review (spoilers)
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Recorded 12/30/21 - Happy New Year
-Horror movies
-What this movie was
-Climate change and COVID
-Listening to the scientists
-Evidence
-Hope and consequences
-Meryl Streep
-Hedging bets
-Tax the rich
-There’s always something we can do (it’s the fight that keeps us going)
-Realism of 2021
-Social media
-Bothsideism
-The performances
-The coolest part
-Being informed versus being over informed
-What despair brings
-Funny and terrifying
-2+2=4
-Increasing the chances for change (personally and politically)
-What the movie evokes
-I meant 2021, not 2020
-What I thought of the movie
-What’s hopeful now
-Climate change affecting New York
-Adapting
-If there really is a comet…
-Ways to increase our chances to stay alive
-I just moved
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Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Book of Boba Fett Trailer and Teaser Reaction and Review
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
I react and comment with no dead air.
Recorded on November 29, 2021
-The first trailer
-I’ll edit this?
-Reaction videos
-Spider
-Western motif
-The Godfather (spoiler alert for I and II)
-What I expect
-Teaser
-YouTube commercial
-He is Boba Fett
-What I’m not going to do
-Not completed excited but…
-My expectations
-The Mandalorian
-Crime, drama
-Outer rim
-The throne
-What I hope
-Sarlacc pit
-Boba’s identity
-Jango
-A mother figure?
-Human element
-All the Star Wars
-The only really bad Star Wars (aside from the Holiday Special)
-Plugs!
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Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Dune Review (spoilers)
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
The review is much shorter than the movie
Recorded October 21, 2021
-What I thought
-It’s length
-The trailer
-My history with Dune (the books and the David Lynch movie)
-My quick review of the Lynch movie
-I butcher the pronunciation of Denis Villeneuve
-Left me wanting more
-Some tastes (even though it was a long movie)
-Soundtrack, effects, acting, storyline
-What the Star Wars prequels could have been
-Father/son, mother/son
-Supernatural, politics, messiah
-The fighting
-Lynch and the Weirding Way (ugh)
-I yawned
-Part II needs to be released tomorrow
-Things get weirder
-I’ll leave you wanting more
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