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Television Review: The Last Airbender Season One

My family just finished the first season of the new live action The Last Airbender on Netflix, and I was super impressed. For context, I’ve watched some of the animated show, but I didn’t finish it. (I can’t remember why. I think I struggle to finish entire animated seasons. I haven’t thought too much about the reasons behind that.) Also, what I did watch of the anime was years ago, so I had almost no recollection of what was in it other than the basic elemental bending and flying bison. The live-action show was fantastic. The storyline was gripping, the

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Television Review: Community Season One

Hi, my name is Bryce, and I’ve lived under a rock for the past 15 years. True, I did watch the first few episodes of Community way back when it premiered in 2009, but I lost interest in them and just decided the show wasn’t for me. I stuck by that decision for the next 15 years, despite the fact that so many people talked about how much they liked the show, and how many accolades it got from critics. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when I was bored and just wanted to watch something I didn’t have

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Television Review: Percy Jackson Season One

We finished the new Disney adaptation of Percy Jackson over the weekend. The whole family enjoyed it for the most part (though the biggest fan was MC, who’s 10 and generally doesn’t like anything too intense.) Overall, I thought it was a solid family-friendly series, even if it had a few things that held it back from being really great. Honestly, my biggest gripe with it was that it was too dark. I don’t mean thematically. I mean literally. So many of the scenes were poorly lit to the point that I had no idea what was actually happening on

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Board Game Review: Decrypto

One of the new games we got for Christmas this year is Decrypto. It’s a game that is excellent for parties, though it’s kind of difficult to explain just what’s happens in it. Basically, imagine something like Codenames, where you’re divided onto two teams, and each team is trying to give clues to get their team to guess certain words. The twist in Decrypto is that your opponents are trying to guess your words at the same time, so you need to be careful just how you phrase your clues. To be a bit more specific, you’re presented with four

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Television Review: All the Light We Cannot See

I’d heard good things about the mini-series, All the Light We Cannot See, that went up on Netflix a while ago. I read the book back in 2016, which I enjoyed (gave it an 8/10), though honestly I couldn’t remember much of it other than that it was set in World War II. After watching it, my memories of the book didn’t exactly come flooding back, so I can’t evaluate it as a good or bad adaptation, though I can say I only gave it a 7.5/10, so that would seem to imply I thought the book was better. (Also,

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