With Hollywood’s writers and actors still out on strike, and with no resolution in sight, you may be wondering when you’ll be getting new episodes of NCIS: Des Moines or Peoria Fire. Well, even if these shows existed, who really cares? As someone who watches exactly zero network drama series, I frankly don’t care when
In this edition of Under the Radar, I have a miniseries that works, a movie that does not, and a documentary that cleans up the mess left by the movie. The Watergate scandal, which brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon, forever altered America’s opinion of politics and saddled us with thousands of cheap ‘Scandalgate’
Recommending comedy is always a risky business. A comedy that might leave one person rolling on the floor in a puddle of laughing tears may leave the other person stone cold. But I’m willing to take that risk. I can’t guarantee you’ll find these three recommendations funny, but if you don’t, well, that’s your loss.
The last time we met, I recommended a sweet series called Schmigadoon. Lest you think that I’m just an old softie, this time around I’d like to recommend a couple of hidden gems that are distinctly un-sweet. First, whether you’re a wrestling fan or see the whole sham sport as a sign of the decline
According to a number of sources, the average person spends almost 18 minutes a day trying to figure out what to watch on Netflix. That’s a lot of wasted time, and it doesn’t take into account searching the seemingly bottomless catalogs of Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Crave, Disney, etc. Despite the fact we have reached
When we left off this TV purchasing epic, all the pieces were in place. I had my TV – a 65-inch Samsung which came in an even larger box, and a ready-to-assemble TV stand to accommodate said TV. Now all I needed was someone to help me put it all together. Who ya gonna call,
And so, the decision has been made. I have purchased a new TV. I surrendered to the siren song of modern technology, and the incessant ‘buy a new TV’ chant from my sons. And I went all-in with a 65-inch screen. OK, technically that’s not ALL in; I could have gone much, much larger. But
I’ve recently come into a bit of money via inheritance. Not ‘villa in the south of France’ money. More like ‘I can buy myself something nice’ money. As an old man, I find that there’s not really a lot of stuff I need or want to buy. If anything, I’m at the stage of life