Thoughts on TV

Reacher has gotten steadily worse since its excellent debut season, but this most recent one has been calamitous. Its penultimate episode this week was the worst of any in the series—just terrible. I’ll watch the finale, but I’ve seen enough to call this one: ★☆☆☆☆.

More reminiscing about The Shield and its finale….

I love this premise. For me, the first thing that came to mind when I thought of “a perfect finale” was the finale to The Shield. For a show that started really rough for me, it was a rare example of one that got better over the seasons. And that finale was, indeed, perfect.

Check out the awesome 3D models being created for a Blake’s 7 prequel/fan film, called Liberator Aftershock. The care that’s gone in to making not only a really impressive version of the exterior of the ship, there are really nice interiors, including some that weren’t in the show often.

Fun article by Jeopardy! champion Drew Goins that asserts, “To win on Jeopardy, you don’t need to learn everything. You just need to learn one thing about everything.”

This interview with Charlie Cox is longer and is a more open and insightful conversation, compared to most of the press interviews I’ve seen with him. There was a particularly good section where he discussed Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 and its challenges and rewrites. I also love the idle speculation on the part of host Josh Horowitz about how cool it would be to have a Secret Wars with both Cox and Affleck reprising their respective takes on Daredevil.

I’m apparently too old for Pop Culture Jeopardy!, because I was absolutely terrible at it the first time around. But I’m generally happy to see Jeopardy! trying new things.

Honestly, between the ever-increasing monthly prices and their complete refusal to be a good citizen on Apple platforms, let alone actively making their apps worse, Netflix makes me want to cancel so badly. (Recently my wife got logged out, and her first thought was that I had canceled.)

A couple years after cutting the cord, I finally fixed our flaky over-the-air TV and now have a reliable, free(ish) source for our nightly Jeopardy! habit. Hopefully this post can help anyone wanting to run their tuner on power-over-ethernet like I did.