television
- Sakamoto Days (Netflix)
- Medalist (Hulu, Disney+)
- Ameku MD Doctor Detective (Crunchyroll)
- OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Knew What She’s Saying (Crunchyroll)
- I Have a Crush at Work (Crunchyroll)
- Honey Lemon Soda (Crunchyroll)
- The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World (Crunchyroll)
- Flower and Asura (HiDive)
- From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated (HiDive)
- Zenshu (Crunchyroll)
- Tasokare Hotel (YouTube, Prime Video)
- Sora-Iro Utility (HiDive)
- I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time (Crunchyroll)
- Welcome to Japan, Miss Elf (Crunchyroll)
- Beheneko: The Elf Girl’s Pet Cat is Secretly an S-rank Monster (HiDive)
- Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You (Crunchyroll)
- Aquarion: Myth of Emotions (Crunchyroll)
Are you as sad as we are that #Apple’s #Silo season 2 just ended? Apple seems to get that and has apparently shared a 24-minute set walkthrough for all of us to enjoy (and to ramp up our anxiety of having to wait for seasons 3 and 4). #TV #scifi 9to5mac.com/2025/01/2…
#Polygon is having some fun with trying to figure out what the new “C” button is on the upcoming #Nintendo #Switch2’s right #joycon. One of them, as an old man, made me happy people still fondly remember Peter Falk :) #videogames #fun #tv www.polygon.com/nintendo-…
BEST Anime of Winter 2025 - Ones to Watch (Mother's Basement on YouTube)
The following is the complete list of shows mentioned in Geoff’s latest Best of Anime seasonal videos. Watch the linked YouTube video for details on each anime series –> www.youtube.com/watch
The Bargain Bin:
#animation #anime #TV #Winter2025
I’ve been a big fan of #Marvel’s #Daredevil for a long, long time, and the only live action version that was ever good was #Netflix’s which ran three seasons starting in 2015, but it was cancelled. Now #Disney+ is bringing it back with Daredevil: Born Again in March and it looks really good. #TV www.youtube.com/watch
Well, well, well! The wife and I loved #Grimm when it was on #TV, and now it looks like they might be making a reboot movie for #NBC’s #Peacock streamer. It would be very nice if David Giuntoli and Russel Hornsby were brought on. #fantasy www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/…
I suggest you just #read the #books. Don’t bother with the series. #Apple spent a tanker-full of money to make a terrible non-adaptation. They took some ideas, mixed it all up, cut out a bunch, and invented a lot of new crap that superficially resembles #IsaacAsimov’s seminal #scifi works. www.polygon.com/sci-fi/50…
My daughter and I have been watching #Defunctland on #Youtube for years now. Kevin Perjurer is a wonderfully thoughtful, detail oriented, and quietly snarky filmmaker that you can’t help but enjoy watching tales of dead amusement parks. Petrana @polygon.com found that out, too! #TV #disney www.polygon.com/yuletide-…
Just got done watching the first episode of #StarWars #SkeletonCrew and it’s definitely a banger. Great writing, casting, VFX, sound and music, and pacing. It’s nice to see some suburbia in a Star Wars property, as well, and the Goonies vibe is strong with this one. This will be the first new Star Wars I’ve been excited for since Rogue One. #TV
So, just watched all of Amazon’s Secret Level series and here’s my review: It’s not… great. At least with Love Death & Robots we got original stories. These are glossy, extended ads for #VideoGames or, in the case of Ep. 15, an ad for Sony. Don’t bother. Just rewatch LD&R on Netflix.
Despite being cancelled after the second season (apparently the bill for production has been upwards of $250 million and it shows) #Arcane on #Netflix is an absolute, unquestionable masterpiece of #storytelling, #animation, #television, and just plain ol' #artistic excellence, and all from a little know French animation studio called #Fortiche. Even if they got to finish it, you’d never want it to end, but I understand it wraps up rather well anyway.
How J.J. Abrams broke Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation 30th Anniversary Print by Dusty Abell, Copyright © 2017, Roddenberry Entertainment Inc. Reprinted with permission. All Rights Reserved. Dusty Abell is a comic artist who has pencilled countless comic books, is an illustrator, and has been involved in the animation industry as a character designer since 2000. He has worked on productions such as Batman: Return of the Caped Crusader, Batman vs. Two-Face, Young Justice, Mike Tyson Mysteries, King of the Hill, The Official Handbook of the Invincible Universe for Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead, and many, many others.
The first Star Trek television show, known colloquially as The Original Series, ran from 1966 to 1969. The series, produced by Paramount Television and both commissioned by and broadcast on NBC, had its moments with episodes that broke critical new ground, like the first inter-racial kisses in Season 1’s introduction to Khan Noonien-Singh, “Space Seed,” and the more frequently cited kiss between Kirk and Uhura in Season 3 episode “Plato’s Stepchildren.”
NBC's Grimm is freaking amazing
Peg me as a media nerd, and I'll nod and thank you for the compliment. I love media. The various types of media I consume are just different methods of telling stories. I love books and music and anime and comics and movies and television, but more specifically what I really love is a good story.
NBC's Grimm is a good story.
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In a nutshell, Grimm is a supernatural crime drama that is based on the simple premise that all of the monsters of worldwide myth are real and living among us. In the first seasons, Nick Burkhardt discovers from his aunt that he is an heir to the generations old mantle of monster hunters called Grimm. Yes, those Grimm, as in the Brothers Grimm, the real brothers who collected, wrote about, and popularized much of the folklore we know today. Cinderella is one such tale, but Grimm is not a Cinderella story. Grimm is dark, gritty, heartbreaking, funny at times, and exciting. Grimm is a really good story.
Now, a Grimm is a human who can see Wesen (pronounced 'vesin'). Traditionally, Grimm have accepted their fate and travel wherever needed to root out and kill Wesen. Wesen are creatures who appear to be human most of the time unless they Volga, a kind of shape-shift. There are two kinds of Volga, one which only Grimm can see and one that everyone can see, which is the implied source for various folklore. Wesen , for the most part, live like pretty much everyone else. In the course of his police duties, Nick starts to see people as Wesen, but instead of killing them, he does his best to spare those who aren't harming anyone. I'll just say this isn't an easy task.
Now, I'm not going to detail out summaries of each season. You'll just need to watch. As the seasons pass, Nick is joined by more and more people and many secrets are discovered, and later revealed. Grimm isn't just a Monster-of-the-Week series, it is a deeply complex tale with a number of interconnected story arcs and a bewildering array of Wesen, all portrayed by an excellent cast of characters. This isn't your average Good vs. Evil show and, while some of the drama can be quite soap opera-like, it does draw you in and make it easy to understand the motivations and emotions of the diverse and chaotic world of Portland, Oregon.
Grimm is a really GREAT story.
I just wrapped up Season 4, and it's an amazing twist machine. There were a large number of surprises in that season, and I am looking forward to getting into Season 5, which has a lot to work from. A lot of questions were answered in Season 4, but new questions were raised, and some goals weren't met.