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Heard a lot about it. Let us know how that goes.

The Light in Your Eyes / Dazzling

Story of a young woman and her family. Neither she nor her brother were able to land jobs after graduation. The brother lazed around all day while the young woman did at least try to find jobs. However, she's unlucky in whatever she tried. When things go wrong, she tried to make it better by turning back time using a special watch she found as a young girl along the beach. She found that if she used it too often, time speed up for her and her alone. She decided not to use it any more and locked it away. However, as an adult, she couldn't help but used it. It went awry for her one day and she turned into an old lady in her 70s.

I found the actress who played the older role fascinating. She's 79 but she looks to be around 60 and she's sprightly during the table rehearsal. She aged gracefully and well!

Episode 3 of The Nevers;

Much better. Still only 'good', but an improvement from 'ok'.

The world opened up a bit more and a few characters got fleshed out. There was a tragedy which - I should have seen coming and - will likely be the inciting event of the seasons story.

So, an increase in quality means I'll keep at it, for at least one more episode. No idea how many there are in total, though.

Will try and find some time this weekend to give it a look see.

Mr Queen

Oh this is definitely a mad caper I like. The story and characters are entertaining and funny. Moreover, I like that costume authenticity is maintained. What do I mean? Each Imperium era had its own fashion but sometimes, producers of South Korean period dramas would mix modern with the old, rendering the costumes unauthentic and ridiculous. I give them a miss because I don't want to get upset by the nonsense. Since this drama is set in the Joseon Dynasty, I'm glad to see costumes and setting are authentic.

Edit. Wacky. I'm having a lot of fun watching this.

I did some research too as there're comments on controversies. It turned out viewers are not happy the writers based the characters on real people. The King in the period drama was the second last King of Joseon. He reigned for only 13 years before he died, presumably poisoned by the infamous Andong Kim clan. The Joseon Kingdom was in its dying throes during this period. It's not a happy timeline to visit so it's weird the writers chose to write their comedy using this timeline and people. It would have been better if they had made up fake characters or choose another Joseon timeline. But if they chose to ignore the unhappy facts of the time period and made their own ending, it's fine with me. It's a comedy so I expect the ending to be good rather than a rain of tears.

Well, I finished Shadow & Bone. I can honestly say, though the first episode was a hot mess....once it got going, I quite enjoyed it. Sadly Season 2 won't be out till probably 2023, if at all.

I was feeling a bit nostalgic today so I decided to watch the original X-Men cartoon from 1992. As good as the movies were (up till Apocolypse and Dark Phoenix)....when I think of the X-Men, I think of the cartoon.

Robin Wright would be my choice for Samara, if we do get a ME movie. She's absolutely regal.

Made for love.



We tried it because it popped up in our 'recommended' viewing feed and was only 8 25 minute (including credits and a short "previously on") episodes. Knocked out the first 5 last night.

Cool concept, right?  Just...lacking a little...something.

Not yet - I think it's being released weekly?  Or at least, it is here.  We've done three episodes and - I think - there should be another one available tonight, if I don't decide to game instead.