Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Review: The Sandman (Season 1)

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 I don't have a Netflix subscription so I didn't watch The Sandman when it debuted on Netflix. Between when it debuted and when I wa...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Review: Netflix's The Witcher

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I came to the Netflix series having read a number of the books and played The Witcher 3 all the way to the end.  The series essentially ada...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Review: Magicians Season 3

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Continuing on from Magicians Season 2 , Season 3 focuses on the restoration of magic. In the mean time, we get various subplots involving f...
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Review: Gatchaman Complete Collection

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I grew up in Singapore watching Gatchaman II  (in dubbed Taiwanese translation, with the opening and closing songs stripped!), but was proba...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Review: The Magicians Season 2

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The Magicians Season 2 keeps going where the cliff-hanger from season one ends. There are TV series that will drag the action out, but in ...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

How Alexa captured me as a customer and dragged me into the post smartphone era

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I can clearly remember when I knew I'd been captured by Garmin as a customer: it was when I bought their stupendously expensive Smart Sc...
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Monday, January 07, 2019

Review: Agent Carter Season 1

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Agent Carter got stellar reviews, and came up on Woot for $8 shipped. I figured it was a low risk, and at 8 episodes, wouldn't be an ex...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Review: Vizio Smartcast M70-E3

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The renter wanted a TV in the rental unit, and was willing to pay for it, so we gave them our old TV, and went shopping for a new one. Costc...
Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Review: Blue Planet II

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BBC's Natural History unit has a well deserved reputation for being the best in the business. I'd go so far as to say that their doc...
Wednesday, October 03, 2018

Review: Fire TV Cube

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For the living room, we  had an echo dot hooked up to the sound system and the harmony hub . It's great to be able to turn on everythin...
Monday, October 01, 2018

Review: The Magicians Season 1

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The Magicians was a fair-to-mediocre novel by Lev Grossman billed as "Harry Potter for Adults".  That actually meant that the TV ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Review: Netflix's Altered Carbon

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To say that I'm a fan of Richard K Morgan is an understatement. I've bought and read everything in the Takeshi Kovacs series, includ...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Review: Planet Earth II

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The original Planet Earth was the must-buy BluRay demo disk that heralded the world of 1080p high resolution screens. Planet Earth II look...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

Review: The Flash Season 1

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Modern TV series have state: in other words, you're expected to watch them from beginning to end in sequence (and that's a good thin...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

Review: Daredevil Season 1

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One of the challenges of a superhero series is the expectation built up over the years from having some really great stories. For Daredevil ...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Review: The Stinky and Dirty Show

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I don't usually review TV shows, but The Stinky and Dirty Show has captured Bowen, and I'm not horribly unhappy about that, so I fi...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Review: Mysteries of Modern Physics - Time

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I started auditing the Great Courses Physics series on Time by Sean Carroll on a whim. Carroll is a physics professor at Caltech, and a gr...
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Monday, March 02, 2015

Review: Macross

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Years ago, I wrote a review of the Macross TV series . I wanted to hyperlink to it recently while writing another review, but realized that ...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Review: Arrow Season 1

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Green Arrow is definitely one of the second tier heroes in the DC universe. This is both a good thing and a bad thing when you build a TV sh...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

First Impressions: Fire TV Stick

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As mentioned in the PS4 review , one advantage of the PS4 is that you can use a PS Vita to stream a game while someone else uses the TV to...