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Put on your headbands: Cobra Kai will be back this summer!

Karate Kid spin-off series Cobra Kai will premiere on Netflix on July 18, continue on November 28, and conclude in 2025

Decided to give series 1 a try after noticing all the series up on Amazon prime. Stayed away from it for years because I wasn't a fan of the British series but actually ended up really enjoying the American version and love Steve Carell in it.

I loved the original so much I never could watch this version.

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Quite bland in the way it sets up. Doesn't give enough insight into the killer.
But with only 4 episodes, it didn't seem long.

The Bear will be back on June 27! Here's the expectedly stylish teaser trailer:

I know. So exciting.

Tuned in to watch this years Eurovision. Israel, despite all the people 'boycotting' and protesting received nearly 400 points. More than the UK, who got about 46 points and zero points from the audience voting.

Just finished up the seven episode run of Bodkin on Netflix. It caught my eye because Will Forte was in it and I hadn't really seen him in anything since The Last Man On Earth was canceled abruptly. But he actually doesn't star in it. He gets a "and Will Forte" with a fourth billing which makes sense since he's basically a supporting character. The real star is Siobhán Cullen as Dove Maloney, followed by Robyn Cara as Emmy Sizergh and David Wilmot as Seamus Gallagher. It's about podcaster Gilbert Power (Forte) who journeys to the Irish coastal town of Bodkin to research the disappearance of three people during the Samhain festival 25 years before.

Cullen plays an investigative journalist from Dublin who's trying to distance herself from her own indiscretions. Cara is Gilbert's assistant and an aspiring journalist and Wilmot has the meatiest role as a fisherman with lots and lots of things to hide. I loved him in The Guard where he played the self described "sociopath not a psychopath" Liam O'Leary. It starts out well enough then gets better and draws you in. But then it goes on a little too long and the ending sort of sputters and fizzles. It's still worth a watch though.

Still can’t believe this actually still exists.

It does and it's great.

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Just finished up Fallout on Prime. It started out kind of slow (at least to me). But I just figured it was because I don't play video games so I had zero familiarity with the story outside of it being post apocalyptic. But it certainly got better at least to the point where I kept starting additional episodes. A lot of that had to with the way they set up the S1 arc. With numerous mysteries to be delved into and sussed out.

What happened in Vault 32 and what's going on with the Overseers? The origins of the Ghoul (Walton Goggins refuses to disappoint you no matter what the role). Vault-Tec Corporation and the Enclave and the New Republic of California. They crammed a lot in but it didn't feel overstuffed (at least to me). They did set up a S2 and I looked up enough about the game to assume it'll be based on Fallout: New Vegas. I'll definitely check it out.

I also just finished up S2 of Sweet Tooth after rewatching S1 in preparation for Thursday's release of the third and final season. It was kind of weird watching two distinctly different post apocalyptic shows at the same time. I watched Fallout by myself and Sweet Tooth with my family. ST being the more family friendly show. It's okay. Some of it was a little cloying and I thought the villain, General Douglas Abbott, was missing whatever it is that makes for a compelling bad guy. From the looks of the S3 trailer they shed excess baggage by wrapping up numerous storylines and kept the more interesting characters. I'll be watching day after tomorrow.