Pluribus is currently the number one TV show streaming on Apple TV and is getting a lot of attention from science fiction fans. Vince Gilligan, the show runner, also created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. The main character, played by Rhea Seehorn, crushed it in Better Call Saul.
The show sucks. I just watched the season finale, and don’t get why my nerdling friends rave about this series.
Fox News: Gil Gerard, actor who played Buck Rogers, dies at 82
Back when science fiction could be sexy, Gil Gerard was Buck Rogers.
We’re watching Stranger Things. Sparky doesn’t like it so much.
The Wheel of Time was cancelled before I bothered to watch it.
At $15 million per episode, it was expensive to produce, but got quite a bit of buzz and has an IMDB rating of 7.2. Just look at that promotional poster. Why would I bother?
I tried The Rehearsal because I enjoyed the other recommendations on a “Best TV Shows of 2025” list. The summary didn’t say much beyond, “the less you know, the better”, and that’s probably right.
Since I’m a little bit sick and drowsy, I’m watching Prehistoric Planet 2.
David Attenborough is narrating as a more earnest version of his brother Richard Attenborough, who played the crazy old dinosaur enthusiast in Jurassic Park.
The production values are very good, and the prehistoric creatures seem lifelike and convincing, but I can’t help thinking that they are making up some shit.
Sparky hasn’t gotten a derogatory nickname in a while, so I’m calling him a ‘red belly’. Or maybe enhance his last insulting nickname. He can be a ‘red belly skunk pig’.
That’s better. Reminiscent of Biden calling some random guy, a “dog faced pony soldier”.
In Kanji, Sparky’s Japanese code name is written like this.
Practice writing those characters.
Everything to know about ‘Stargate’ from Amazon MGM Studios
The Stargate franchise never had the high profile of Star Trek or Star Wars, and there hasn’t been a new TV show or movie in 15 years, but it was inevitable that a studio would pick up this IP.
You’d have to be pretty dumb to get excited about any new adaptation until more is known, but I am cautiously optimistic.
It’s embarrassing to be watching a reality show. I watched the first season of Road Rules. That was the last, and maybe only, reality show that I followed for a whole season. That was thirty years ago.
I’ve got a big project to do today, but I’m watching Celebrity Traitors.
There is a lot going on in the world, but sometimes, you want to watch something good and dumb.
Mike Tyson’s Mysteries is easy to describe, but hard to explain why it’s so good.
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