Stranger Things splashed down last year on Netflix and made all sorts of waves. It’s an impressive mix of nostalgic throw-back to a simpler time when life was spent nerding out in the basement with a handful of close buddies, coupled with the sort of paranormal horror story you can only truly achieve when the…

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It’s rare I get hooked on a television show these days. The episodic nature depends so heavily on the intriguing interplay between micro and macro story arcs that all too often, at  some point, the plot-ball gets dropped and I lose interest. Conversely, I have a hard time getting into movies because they focus so…

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In an ironic twist, this trailer just blipped across my radar because the group One Million Moms is petitioning Fox to drop it. Lucifer is based on a fairly popular comic series, and I’m sure–true to Fox form–they’ll ruin this show, but I got to admit, I really want to see this. Partly because the…

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Whew, the last couple days have been busy, busy, busy. I finished up the first draft of the novella I’m tentatively calling Nemesis and now I’m about elbows deep in the second draft. Coupled on top of that are the ongoing edits and redrafts of Infinity Lost and Mind Breach (books 1.5 and 2 in the…

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Agent Carter, if you don’t know, follows Peggy Carter, Captain America’s Best Girl (when did we stop referring to people as the best girl? I like the ranking system this label implies), as she works for SSR which is some branch of the United States Intelligence community, maybe similar to the CIA? The show itself…

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Let’s lead with this: I love superhero stories, even when they’re really bad. I’m thinking Superman Spiderman (d’oh!) 2 and 3 with Tobey Maguire bad. Or Batman & Robin with Arnold Schwarzennegger roaming around as Mr. Freeze bad. Call it a weakness, I just have a soft spot for them. I admit, the Polar Bear slippers…

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The other day I did a real quick write up on James Corey’s Leviathan Wakes (which was a great little space opera, if that’s your thing) and lo and behold today I come across a trailer for a 10 episode series SyFy is doing called The Expanse (based on Leviathan Wakes). I’m interested to see what…

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