Tag Archives: Grown-ish

May 28, 2024

TV Tuesday 5/28/24

Bye-bye, TARDIS, bye-bye!

It’s TV Tuesday and time for another episode of channel surfing over what I’ve been watching on the TV machine. Speaking of which, I kind of miss channel surfing. It was fun seeing what else is on. (It’s how I stumbled on Little Big Town, now a favorite band.)

People with my (take your pick) interests, background, point of view, do not find most modern fare favorable. I’ve gone on about that plenty in the pages and years of this blog.

And that’s mostly what this post is, so caveat lector.

6 Comments | tags: Doctor Who, Grown-ish, Jack Reacher, Leverage (TV series), Netflix, Star Trek, three-body problem | posted in TV Tuesday

May 31, 2022

TV Tuesday 5/31/22

By Wyrd Smythe

As an intro with nothing to do with the post, yesterday I started reading The Big U (1984), by Neal Stephenson (one of my favorite authors). It’s his first novel and one I’ve been meaning to read for a while. As with his second novel, Zodiac (1988), his first is a social satire with a distinct technological flavor. Unlike most of his later work, these aren’t science fiction. That began with novel #3, Snow Crash (1992), still one of my favorites.

I mention this because I’m eager to get back to it, but it’s TV Tuesday, and I want to commemorate the ending of not one, not two, (…etc.), but four TV shows that recently aired their last episodes.

Two I was glad to see go, but I am in mourning over one of them.

5 Comments | tags: Black-ish, Bull (TV series), Grace and Frankie, Grown-ish, Kenya Barris, Mr. Mayor (TV series) | posted in TV Tuesday

August 10, 2021

Babylon (Anime)

By Wyrd Smythe

History, location, and religion aside, the Wikipedia disambiguation page for “Babylon“ has 52 entries under “Arts and entertainment” — 26 of which are songs (including one by David Gray that I rather like). Two entries, a novel series and an anime series (which I binged last night), link to the same page because they refer to the same very interesting (very dark) story.

By interesting (and dark) I mean it’s about good, evil, and whether the right to suicide is a good thing. The battles here are mainly intellectual and spiritual. A key point for the characters is the question: what is good; what is evil?

I also recently watched Jupiter’s Legacy on Netflix (Meh!), and I want to offer props to the most recent episode of Grown-ish, which I thought was compelling, well-done, and worth seeing.

24 Comments | tags: anime, Grown-ish, Japanese anime, Netflix | posted in TV, TV Tuesday