Tag: TV

The Mighty Nein – live at Wembley

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Well, here we are again. This time about 3 weeks late. I finally got the chance to sit down, and devote 4.5 hours of a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors playing D&D. It. Was. Amazing.

It truly felt like slipping into your most comfortable pair of pants. I don’t want to be one of those stereotypical “critters” that say this campaign helped me through a tough time. But it really did. After I moved out of my parents house … I was pretty much alone. Not pretty much,

Totally alone.

So I started watching campaign one. If anyone watched that. The first 20 or so episodes are plagued with audio problems, and the fact that it starts in the middle of the campaign, didn’t really gel with me, so I did the next best thing – shut off campaign 1, and really dove into campaign 2.

My review of campaign 2 is right here for you.

The thing that I said about these one shots are like slipping into your favorite pair of pants, is exactly true. As soon as the first words of this live (first time since 2020) show were uttered, it was like watching the whole campaign over again.

It was amazing. From the ad read to the call and response to the final standing ovation, I was on the edge of my seat, laughing, tearing up, laughing again. What a ride. I could watch these nerds in these characters over and over again.

I’ll keep watching them until they don’t want to do it again. And I’m pretty sure Travis just pushed Matt to do another one when his character asked his wife’s character to marry him. You could tell Matt, along with the rest of the cast was blown away by it.

Thank you again for these characters. For the fun, the sadness, and for the giant kaiju battle. Long live The Might Nein!

Thank you.

Lockup Library: Star Trek: Picard Season 1

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So today while Crystal was sick, and sleeping in the bedroom I watched Star Trek: Picard. It’s part of the library on Paramount+

I shouldn’t say I watched it. I binged the entire season. I’d still be watching it, but the stupid ass licensing here in Canada means that the company that originally produced and made the show, only the first season is available on Paramount+

I really enjoyed the first season. Great mystery. The only thing that I thought of through all 10 episodes is that the TNG cast is so old. I remember them in their prime from TNG.

And you know if they’re old, that means I’m very old.

That was depressing.

But other than that, I really enjoyed the show, and I’m eagerly awaiting if and when the next season becomes available on the service.

It was really really nice to see some of the old cast reunited again. They fell right back into their comfortable roles. You could tell that they were having fun being back together.

Movie review: RRR

Posted on by Shawshank

So last night, I took the chance on turning on a movie, that we only watched the trailer to on Netflix. It was fantastical – a man running from a tiger for around a minute. I was kind of hooked. So yesterday, just for the fun of it, half expecting to shut it off minutes in, we sat down to watch RRR.

What a good movie. Don’t let the three hour run time daunt you. It’s a cinematic masterpiece. But don’t call it a Bollywood film. According to the director, it’s a Telugu film.

To me, it’s an action/adventure movie. It’s a buddy film. If it was an American film, it would probably be a buddy-cop film. But thankfully it’s not an American movie. I don’t think an American film studio could make an epic movie like this, and I hope that they never try.

From the slowmo action shots to the 47 minute dance off, it’s exactly what we needed to see last night. This was our first Indian movie that we’ve watched (except the snippets of Indian movies playing at India Restaurant).

So give this movie a chance. Open up your Netflix, and turn it on. You won’t be disappointed.

My only thought is our first Indian movie has set the bar very high. We’re worried that all the other movies will fail to hold a candle to watch we just watched.

Do you guys have any suggestions for other movies to check out?

Season one review: 1899

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It’s been a while since I’ve done a TV review. And it’s not because I’ve only been watching Critical Role. I’m still watching that, but since I’ve finished Campaign 2, I’ve really only been watching it once a week now. I don’t really have an interest in watching Campaign 1.

So aside from Critical Role, we have been watching a smattering of other shows, but mostly Law & Order. We discovered that Amazon Prime has like 16 seasons – so to wind down at the end of the night, we’ll watch a couple of episodes, then head off to bed.

Pitter patter…

I’ll try and review this awesome show – even though I’ve only watched it once all the way through. I probably should watch it through again.

From the creators of Dark, they bring us the next instalment of weird.

1899

The Ship.

The show started out in 1899, on a boat making its way from England to New York. It’s a boat full of immigrants.

It truly starts out as a period piece, and slowly morphs into something strange and wonderful.

And now as I try to write this, I cannot do a review. I’ll end up spoiling it. And you can only watch a show like this once – for the first time. So do me a favour, open up Netflix, and find 1899. Watch it. Binge it, then watch it again, and see if you can write a review.

Go. Now.