Media Diet for 1.21.25

I’m in the middle of another Stormlight Archive book, so nothing new that I’ve read this week. (Honestly, I think I deserve some credit for being 1,000 pages into Oathbringer in a week. I will definitely (definitely) be picking some shorter books after these 5.)

More things to report on the TV/Movie front:

Penguin 1–The HBO production was really well done, and a great example of how to make a bad character likable. (Just make them fight even worse characters.) Pretty dang dark, but some great acting performances, and very refreshing that they didn’t decide to just start throwing in Batman to spice things up.

The Fall Guy–This one I thoroughly enjoyed. The action sequences were great, the pacing was fast and fun, and the plot was very meta, which is always a good way to appeal to me. It’s on Amazon Prime right now, and I’d definitely recommend it.

Fly Me to the Moon–The Channing Tatum/Scarlett Johansson AppleTV production finally showed Denisa and me enough ads to convince us to give it a shot. Honestly, it was decent. It helps that we really like pretty much anything related to the space race.

Deathtrap–So, this one was a bit of a . . . surprise? It’s the remake of the movie Sleuth, which I had watched and remembered really liking. I couldn’t find the original to stream, but this one popped up with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve, so I sat the family down to watch it. And discovered they’d made some fairly significant changes to the original. Yes, it was still technically PG, but largely because PG-13 didn’t exist. It was still as twisty turny as the original, but I had a hard time rooting for any of the characters. Still enjoyed it, but wish I’d done more research ahead of time before blithely assuring MC it would be “fun.” (She was not a fan.)

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