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Aug 14 2023
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Movie Review – The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Hey 3.5 readers.

This is going to be a quick, basic review because this is a quick, basic movie.

Perhaps you horror buffs will remember that in the novel, Dracula, there is some mention of how the titular villain shipped himself to England from Transylvania aboard the ship the Demeter in a box of dirt, said vessel was found run a ground off the coast of England a wreck, the crew all dead and no Dracula to be found.

This is the story of how that happened, how the crew discovered that their cargo was noneother that the world’s most infamous vampire and how they fought bravely (spoiler alert to no avail) to keep him from reaching shore).

All you aspiring writers out there be inspired by public domain fiction for there are all sorts of little tidbits like this to build on.

Liam Cunningham of Game of Thrones fame, David Dastmalchian and Corey Hawkins lead a crew of ne’er-do-wells against the Drac attack. Unfortunately, if you’re familiar with the novel then you already know the ending going into it, and the story is largely confined to the ship. There’s not a lot of room for character development, growth, romance or what have you. They set sail. They discover a vamp in a box. They fight it. They lose. The end.

Still worth a watch. If you feel like the trip to the cinema you could do worse than this but otherwise I’d wait to stream.

STATUS: Shelf-worthy. Some movies are steaks and some movies are moldy tuna fish sandwiches. This is a solid peanut butter and jelly sammy that will get you through but you’ll forget it tomorrow.

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Aug 06 2023
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Movie Review – Oppenheimer (2023)

Well, that movie bombed. :::rimshot:::

BQB here with a review of Christopher Nolan’s epic historical drama.

The atomic bomb. It was a terrible invention and yet, once science progressed to the point where its invention was inevitable, it became a necessary evil for America to invent it before a more evil power, say, the Nazis, invented it first.

Christopher Nolan, who has often wowed us with his mysterious, edgy, cliffhanger music style brings his usual schtick to this drama. If you came for action, you’ll be disappointed, except for the end where SPOILER ALERT the bomb goes off. I mean, that really shouldn’t have been a spoiler in a movie about the bomb, but there you go. The rest of the movie is a lot of talking – about how to invent the bomb, whether it can be done, whether it should be done, what will happen if the Nazis invent it first and so on. It’s heavy on the dialogue and Nolan makes very liberal use of dramatic music, such that it almost feels like this movie is a historic rock video set to a beat. At various points, you have prominent historic figures debating esoteric points and the heavy music kicks in just in time to remind you to be afraid, very, very afraid.

Cillian Murphy, a frequent star of Nolan flicks, plays the titular scientist – brilliant but flawed, as many geniuses are. So focused on the pursuit of knowledge that he allows his personal life to fall into disarray, chain smoking constantly while cheating on his wife Kitty (Emily Blunt) with his longtime paramour Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh). To be honest, the film spends a lot of time trying to explain bomb science (we’re all too dumb to figure it out) and even more time on Oppenheimer’s battles with opponents who disapproved of his communist ties (interesting, but eventually the ground was more than covered) – it would have been interesting if the film could have explored what screw in Oppenheimer’s brain went loose that made him become a womanizing sex fiend. Ultimately, the affair makes him, his wife, and his girlfriend sad so why carry it on? Why start it in the first place? What was broken in him that he needed it? If that was explained, I missed it. We do get the general sense that from his early student days, he was very weird and eccentric, that his mind was essentially a glass and when all the milk of physics was poured into it, there was no room left for basic life skills.

Like Nolan’s unintelligible Tenet, time is not linear in Oppenheimer though unlike Tenet, the timeframe is understandable. Jumps are made forward and backward, from committee hearings on the nomination of Oppenheimer’s colleague turned rival Lewis Straus (Robert Downey Jr.) to various points in time in the race to build the bomb.

Oddly, its a three hour movie with a lot of talking but it goes by quick. If you don’t like dialog based flicks, this probably isn’t for you. There’s a lot of meditation on the bomb itself, its significance, how horrible it was yet sadly how once its invention became inevitable, America had to be the first to invent it, how Oppenheimer was torn between the love of the science behind it but the sadness of being responsible of unleashing the nuclear age upon the world.

STATUS: Shelf-worthy

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Jul 31 2023
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The Shield – 21 Years Later

Hey 3.5 readers.

Went on a stroll down memory lane this weekend, way back to the early 2000s, when I was a huge fan of the Shield. FX was new back then, and this was one of the shows that built that network. Tough, gritty, all about the anti-hero who you partially rooted for and partially wanted to fail.

In the first episode, the clock is ticking when a young girl has been kidnapped and every second counts when it comes to her safe return because God only knows where she’s being kept or what condition she’s in.

When a pervert suspect demands a lawyer, all the by the book cops are stymied by procedure, but fear this scumbag will walk while the girl dies in whatever secret dungeon she’s being held in.

Enter Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) who turns the camera off, lays out his torture tools, and proceeds to beat a full confession out of the pervert. The girl’s location is revealed within minutes and she’s returned home safely.

Good Vic.

However, by the end of the episode, Vic suspects a new member of his strike team detective unit is working undercover for his captain, trying to dig up dirt, and so during a raid of a drug dealer’s hideout, Vic shoots said dealer, then shoots said informant in cold blood, then plants the gun on the dealer. Doing so allows Vic and the boys to continue with their long running scam of stealing drugs from crime scenes and selling them to a drug dealer on their take.

Bad Vic.

And thus is the conundrum of Vic Mackey that lasts for nearly a decade of great TV. Vic has a super power in that he’ll bend, break and completely ignore laws that most cops won’t. Many times he does this for good – to save lives, particularly innocent lives – we cheer when he brutalizes psychos and scumbags, murderers and killers and saves innocents but then we are aghast when he commits crimes and murders witnesses in the name of being able to line his pockets with illegal drug money for another day.

Have you ever seen it, 3.5 readers? What say you?

Jul 27 2023
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TV Review – The Bear

Food! Angst! Chaos!

Let’s get this review started, 3.5 chefs.

There is a lot going on in this show, so I’ll begin with the premise. Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto” (Jeremy Allen White) has spent years working as a high-level chef at some of the best restaurants in the world, but when his older, alcoholic brother Michael (Jon Bernthal) commits suicide, Carmy trades glamor for grease when he returns home to Chicago to run the family business Michael left behind – a dirty old dive of a sandwich shop called the Original Beef.

OK, BUT WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Your guess is as good as mine. In many ways, it’s like your own personal Rorshach test and what you see isn’t necessarily wrong. My initial thought is it’s about the dark side of the American dream. For many, business ownership is seen as the pinnacle of success, true freedom, the ability to know that money will come in yet if you want a day off, you can have it. While you’ll never have to worry about answering to a sucky boss, you’ll damn near answer to everything else. If something breaks, you’ll fix it. If a bill is overdue, you’ll pay it. If a government inspector wants a word, you’re the one getting an earful. When profits run short, you’ll go without pay to keep your staff in the black. And when disaster strikes, you’re the one up all night, picking up the pieces.

Carmy exemplifies this lifestyle as the living embodiment of a walking, talking human panic attack. The poor kid says very little or does very little outside of work and constantly looks like his head is about to explode. If owning your own business is supposed to be fun, someone needs to remind him.

Maybe it’s about family, or how the people we love drive us nuts, and that insanity can be magnified times a million when money is involved. Petty rivalries, jealousies and infighting abound as Carmy deals with Cousin Richie (Ebon Moss Bachrach) and sister Sugar (Abby Elliott.) (An SNL alum, Elliott really shines here.)

At the start of season 1, Richie is miffed that Michael didn’t leave the joint to him and undermines Carmy at every turn, while Sugar sees the shop as an insufferable money pit/giant ball of stress that should be sold and forgotten posthaste. Carmy knows he’s better than this greasy spoon, but he just can’t bring himself to let this place, wrapped up with so many family memories, go.

Maybe it’s a show about perfection, about being the best at something and all the time and stress that goes into being the best at a trade. You may not know it but the chefs behind the scenes at your favorite restaurant really do toil away to bring you exquisite dishes in a timely manner and make it look so easy you probably never thought about all the skill that goes into it. Here, we get a constant look at this labor of love, kitchen workers hustling about putting the finishing touches on their masterpieces.

At the start of the show, Carmy wants to turn the Beef into something better. He’s well versed in French kitchen style – the ranks and customs and so on – militaristic rituals that turn cuisine into a science and get food ingredients out of the fridge, into the fryer, onto your plate and into your mouth in record time without you ever knowing about any of the fuss that went into it. Speed. Timing. Precision. Respect. Calling each other Chef. And dang it, keeping the kitchen clean.

But the Beef crew are more or less fast food minimum wage schmucks at the start of the show. With the help of his right hand woman/sous chef Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri), a fellow culinary school grad, Carmy whips the crew into shape in an arc similar to any down on their luck sports team movie. You know the movies I’m talking about. First they’re idiots who think trying is for chumps but when they try, they start to win and they start to like it so they try harder and win more?

Chaos is the name of the game. Episodes are loud, obnoxious, fast paced, and crazy, all meant to mimic the frenzied pace of a busy kitchen. It’s hard to keep track of what’s happening when the characters are screaming at each other while having secondary and tertiary side arguments with others. Richie is the loudest and most obnoxious of them all and one wonders when someone will just knock him the eff out but he eventually redeems himself and grows on you.

Season 2 changes things up a bit as Carmy closes the Beef and goes on a quest to reopen it as the Bear – a fine dining restaurant “bearing” his family nickname. Apparently, the show became very popular between last year and this year because it’s a star studded cameo fest this year- Jamie Lee Curtis, John Mulaney, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Olivia Colman, just to name a few.

Yes, to be the best, you really have to put in the time. Morning. Noon. Night. No time for a life. No time for love. No time for hobbies. No time for fun. No time for anything. Our intrepid food slingers often wonder whether or not it is worth it but then again, they love food so much they can’t imagine doing anything else. Further complicating matters, they love each other, but drive each other insane.

STATUS: Shelf-worthy. With so many cooking shows like Gordon Ramsey’s Hell’s Kitchen gaining popularity, it was only a matter of time before someone figured out away to dramatize food production, raise the stakes, and make us realize that behind every cheeseburger we scarf, there’s some poor bastard of a restauranteur sweating it out over whether he’ll be able to keep the lights on for another month. It’s almost enough to make you want to go on a diet, and you should, because let’s face it, we’re all fat.

Watch on Hulu.

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May 21 2023
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Movie Review – Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 (2023)

Genetic experiments most foul dominate the latest adventure for the galaxy’s favorite collection of super schmucks.

BQB here with a review.

My initial observation: it’s not their best, but it’s still worth the price of admission.

Why?

Well, the GotG movies have always depended on humor but quite understandably, the plot leaves our heroes rather sullen and depressed. This is Rocket Racoon’s (Bradley Cooper) movie, but he’s far from the lovable trash talking, wisecracking comedy fodder who carries the previous films. An attack orchestrated by the evil High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji) takes Rocket out of commission, though through a series of flasohbacks, we learn how Rocket began his life as a hyper intelligent experiment, one in which the HE has taken animals and tinkered with their DNA to give them human traits like speech and higher intelligence. Much to the evildoer’s dismay, Rocket is smarter than his creator, his brain holds the key to making the experiments work, and the Evolutionary has been hunting Rocket for years ever since his escape.

It’s up to the Guardians to save their furry little buddy’s life but if you expect them to fill in with the funny…eh, I mean they do here and there but it’s nothing compared to previous films. Starlord/Quill (Chris Pratt) is depressed, having turned to alcoholism to dampen the loss of his GF Gamora (Zoe Saldana) who died in one of the previous films. There’s an alternate reality version of Gamora in this one because multi-verse theory has ushered in a new era of deaths in Marvel movies having little to no consequences, except the main consequence is this Gamora has no idea who Quill is and has no interest in dating him, which makes Quill sad and not the comedian we’re used to. Without his furry sidekick to bounce jokes off of, it’s like watching an uber depressing Daron Aronofsky movie with occasional quips and a space theme.

Don’t get me wrong. The special effects are there and then some, all best seen on the big screen. And while it lacks the joke a minute pace of previous films, there are still a few big laughs. The overall look of the film is a bit gross as many of the High Evolutionary’s genetic experiments will make you want to puke, thus bringing an overall message against tinkering with nature.

My main complaint: swearing. An f bomb is dropped an someone’s called an asshole. I will admit that sometimes it is possible to craft jokes that depend on swears that are so funny that the swearing can be forgiven but the problems are a) this is a Disney movie and b) it’s primary audience is children so…though I laughed (the only laughs of the movie) I still thought it was a bit much.

STATUS: Shelf-worthy. You might want to watch the Guardians Holiday Special before you watch this as it sets a lot of stuff up. The plot gave us a lot of character development and the lack of laughs is understandable, but I hope they remember their comedic routes in the next one.

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Mar 14 2023
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9 Years of this Exceptional Blog

This week marks my 9th anniversary as a blogger on this exceptional blog. In that time, WordPress has changed its blogging controls no less than 1,000,000,000 times. Joke’s on them because I never bother learning the updates anyway because I figure by the time I figure it out, they’ll change it.

I kid, I kid. Thank you WordPress for helping my voice reach out to no more and no less than exactly 3.5 readers.

Feb 25 2023
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Healthy Eating

Hey 3.5 readers.

Your old pal BQB here.

So, the past several months I have really gotten into healthy eating, such that I have seen a good amount of weight lost. My pants are actually loose and I’m at the point where I’m going to have to buy one size down. Hooray for healthy eating

It’s been a long learning process, and I’m still learning. My entire life, I was a dude who despised vegetables. I can’t say that I love them more than pizza, but I am becoming an adultier adult who understands pizza is bad and all foods like it must be verboten.

I have been trying new things. I bought a spiralizer, a device that you can stick a vegetable into it and it spits out “veggie noodles.” These aren’t really noodles, but a little bit of sauce…well I’d say it tricks you into thinking you’re eating spaghetti but it really doesn’t but cooked in noodle-like strips with a little light sauce is an easier way to get said veggies down.

I also bought a juicer. It’s a small, cheap one and did well for the low price. The good news is I made three little bottles of juice to drink throughout the week. The bad news is it took me all morning and by the time I was done my kitchen looked like a war zone. I am debating whether or not it is worth it and reading that good and bad things about juicing. The good is that it is a way to get those vegetables down. The bad is that it removes the fiber and while veggies don’t have sugar, they do have some, so you’re putting sugar into your body without the fiber that slows it down.

Speaking of sugar, I have learned to treat sugar and carbs as though they were those twin villains, Hitler and Stalin. Whenever I go into a grocery store, I hiss like a vampire when I see the bread aisle and walk away. Whenever I walk past the ice cream section, I entertain a fantasy in my mind to run around and karate punch every single last pint of these evil frozen sugar death traps.

Meanwhile, there was a time, and honestly, that time is still fairly recent, where I was a fast food junkie, such that when I pulled up to the drive-thru, the low paid minimum wage slaves would already know my order and knew me by name and shared their friggin life stories with me cuz holy shit I was at the fast food joints so much they all considered me their fat BFF. Hell, I probably put their kids through college…well, discount community college annex anyway because it’s not the 1970s anymore and a McD’s salary ain’t going to pay for higher education.

BTW, if sugar = Stalin and carbs = Hitler, then soda is definitely Pol Pot. Never heard of him? Oh sorry, your history teacher was probably one of those too hard to fire due to union rules types who just played movies for the class while he napped and fumed about how his wife ran away with the mail man and so cruel was she that she even took the remote, the cuisinart and the dog, Fido.

Pol Pot was a Cambodian psycho who became a commie dictator and convinced his devotees that in order to implement communism, they had to murder everyone who thought earning an honest buck via honest work was a rad idea…but then as violent regimes go, that moved from murdering capitalists to murdering everyone who looked at Pol Pot cock eyed, to anyone who might have thought about doing so, to murdering the guy who keeps leaving the seat up on the toilet, to murdering the guy who put a tin can in the paper only recycling bin, to murdering Grandma for baking stale cookies, and so on. But I’m not here to educate you on the evils of the Khmer Rouge. That’s what that movie “The Killing Fields” is for.

I’m here to tell you why soda is Pol Pot.

According to data I gleamed from the internet but am going to pretend like I figured it all on my own in a science lab, ladies should only eat 24 grams of sugar a day and men should only eat 36 grams of sugar a day. I don’t know the science of how much sugar you should eat if you are a dude who identifies as a lady or a lady who identifies as a dude other than to say that if your bodies don’t allow you to consume the requisite amount of sugar of the gender you identify as then your bodies are bigoted AF.

Long story short, I was in a store the other day and saw a display for, get this, Marshmallow Peep Flavored Pepsi.

Not gonna lie. The old me would have injected that shit straight into my veins. You think I’m joking but I’m serious, y’all. I would have taken that bottle home, spiked it up, then passed out with a record playing that “Hello Darkness My Old Friend” song in the background.

What? No it can’t be played on a phone. It has to be played on an old, scratchy AF record player that was made in 1935 for ambience. I know no questions are stupid, but damn.

OK here’s the kicker. That bottle of Peep Pepsi contain 68 GRAMS OF SUGAR!

And thus it all made sense, like I had suddenly become Neo and learned how to defeat the fat matrix by flipping the fat script and turning the fat rules against its fat self.

Seriously. Sugar = Stalin. Carbs = Hitler. Soda = Pol Pot. Don’t even get me started on Sodium. Sodium is Chairman Mao and if you think I’m being hard on communism and bad food, I am because both only survive on the back of the lie that everyone can do stupid shit forever and everything will be ok, whether it be thinking that people will work and do a good job for no profit or that you can consume a beverage that has 32 more grams of sugar that a dude should be drinking in a day. Ladies, I’m sorry, I didn’t do that math for you because I’m not sexist and I know you can work a calculator like an MF.

Anyway, such has been my journey and I am giving some serious thought to starting a second blog. What? No, I would continue to run this fine blog you’re reading right now. I’m just saying my second blog would be all about healthy eating but with my humorous take on it all.

Let me know what you think in the comments of this fine blog.

SIDE NOTE:

Other things I have done in the past few months I never thought I would ever do:

#1 – Eggplant steaks and eggplant fries

#2 – Veggie burgers

#3 – Saying and using the word “Keto” regularly for real and not as a goof.

#4 – Salads, to the point where I bought plastic salad bowls and dressing on the side cups and I make my own to take with me. Yes, always dressing that is low carb and low sugar.

#5 – Veggie burgers…which weren’t horrible.

#6 – Quinoa burgers…which weren’t horrible.

#7 – Quinoa itself which was the worst and I’m rethinking it because I believe it has lots of carbs.

#8 – Kale. So much kale. And spinach.

#9 – Cauliflower. Yeah, I know everyone is trying to pretend it is pizza and mac and cheese but it is not but that’s ok. Keto Ninjas like myself understand the ways of the keto force.

#10 – Not buying a bottle of that Peep Pepsi then using it to wash down a pizza. I used to do crap like that all the time. Imagine how much Stalin/Hitler/Pol Pot/Mao evil was mixed into all of that.

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Jan 28 2023
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Happy New Year!

Happy new year, beloved 3.5 readers.

I hope there is still 3.5 of you after my holiday hiatus.

I took most of December and January off from bloggery but I am back. I took some time out in December to work on health and life improvement. I did great in December. Hit a bit of a wall in January but still doing better than usual. Here’s to making February much, much better. I’m doing that thing where I make an effort to think about how lousy I felt this past Christmas about all my problems, how next Christmas is but a year away (actually only about 11 months now) and how much better I’ll feel at the end of this year if I put in the work and sacrifice short term gratification in the name of long term gains at the end of this year.

Hate to say it but when I get in that self-improvement zone, blogging and social media tend to go because I start to think, really, what does my opinion matter? Why am I wasting time shouting my meaningless opinion into the void with no credit to back it up?

But in nearly 9 years of bloggery, I haven’t let one month go by without posting at least once, so here’s my January post.

What is new with you, 3.5 readers?

Dec 04 2022
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TV Review – Tulsa King (2022)

The mob in Tulsa? How outrageous!

BQB here with a review.

Here’s a conundrum.

This show kinda stinks. I say kinda because it has some fun moments, some good characters, even a decent premise, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Frankly, if it weren’t for Sylvester Stallone playing the main character, I would have passed by now.

Therein lies the rub. As a former 1980s kid, I was fed a steady diet of Arnie and Sly action flicks, so I want this show to do good and I am hoping that Paramount will recognize a lot of fans are coming for the Sly and they’ll stay if they kick things up a notch, be it with better writing, bigger budget or what have you.

The plot sounds good on paper. A New York mafia captain goes to jail for 25 years. He refuses to rat on his degenerate colleagues, seeing the “bid” as the cost of doing a depraved business. A life of organized crime can lead to big money, but if you want to rake in the big money, you have to take the punishment that goes with it. So-called protection is the name of the illicit game, with crooks sworn to watch each other’s backs, so, well, at least in the movies anyway, a convicted mafioso would rather rot in jail than snitch on a compatriot in crime.

A quarter century later, Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone) is released, but the mob family he once served has moved on without him. Being their man on the street in Tulsa, Oklahoma is the best job they can offer Dwight, a seemingly lousy job that he begrudgingly accepts.

From there on, it’s a fish out of water story as Dwight takes Tulsa by storm, forming an unlikely crew of redneck hillbillies, pot dealing hippies and others you wouldn’t normally see at a NYC mob boss’s table.

It sounds great, doesn’t it? A washed up mobster takes a lousy assignment and spins gold out of lead? Eh, the problem is, and I mean no offense because who am I to criticize when I have no TV show to call my own, but IMO, the writing is blah. I say that with love in that with some tweaks, this could turn out to be a great show, and also that perhaps the writers, producers etc have done the best they could with what they were given. Perhaps if fans show the show enough love, Paramount will invest more buckaroos. There have been past shows that struggled the first season or two only to hit home runs in later seasons and this has that potential.

What do I mean by bad writing? The most important rule for a writer is show, don’t tell. You want your reader to know your character is sick? Don’t just start your chapter with the sentence, “Burt was sick.” Start it with Burt on his knees, puking his guts out into a toilet bowl, his forehead hot and sweaty, his eyes rolling into the back of his head before he passes out on the cold tile.

Tulsa King is all tell and little show. The mobsters just tell Dwight to head to Tulsa. There’s very little explanation of the decision other than according to the NYC mob, there’s no organized crime there so it is a city ripe for the taking. Personally, I have a hard time thinking that NYC mobsters are sitting around thinking about how to conquer Tulsa all day. Had I been in the writer’s room, here’s how I would have approached it:

MOBSTER 1: Yo, Dwight did 25 years for the family ova heah. We gotta take care of him and get him a job already, capiche?

MOBSTER 2: Yeah, but all our big jobs are filled so fahgeddaboudit.

MOBSTER 1: What if we send him out of NYC?

MOBSTER 2: Where? We already got Vinny the Snake runnin’ things in LA and Tommy the Tuna on the street in Chicago. Freddy the Mackerel is our man in Miami and Bobby Blue Shoes is our guy in Detroit.

MOBSTER 1: Throw a friggin dart at a map already!

(Dart is thrown at a map of the US. Lands perfectly on Tulsa. Dwight is on the next plane to Oklahoma.)

Meh. When I don’t hear my phone ringing, I’ll assume that’s Paramount not calling me with a consultant deal. Oh well. Moving on.

With network formulaic precision, Dwight just does stuff and things just happen instantly. He gets to Oklahoma. He takes an Uber. Suddenly his Uber driver is his right hand man. Dwight takes over a pot store, offering his protection for a fee. Dwight goes to a bar and meets two rednecks who want in on his mob game. He goes to another bar and has a lady love interest who just happens to be an ATF agent. All this in the first episode.

Part of me gets it. TV moves fast. Network style TV moves faster. There isn’t time to develop, unless the show gets picked up a second season, then maybe you can get to know everyone.

To the show’s credit, attempts are at least made to cover up bad writing. Dwight is 75 and has been cut off from society for 25 years, so he’s learning everything for the first time. He’s surprised cabs are a rarity and that one must hire an Uber on a smart phone and by the way, WTF is a smart phone? And wow, weed is legal? Humor is rampant as Dwight demands money for protection from the pot store owner, with it being fairly obvious that in this dusty town the only one the pot store owner needs protection from is Dwight. Dwight’s young driver turned protege is interesting, a 25 year old who still has time to go to college, get a career going and be a success, but he falls in love with the promise of quick cash and Dwight is uneasy about getting a young man into “the life” as he has his own regrets.

So yeah, maybe the show is deeper than I give it credit for. But the big problem is we are often spoon fed key details, character backgrounds and plot info. Stallone is a big draw and is charming but hopefully the show will be given time to expand and fix some problems.

STATUS: Shelf-worthy. Give it time. Minus one gold star because Paramount Plus needs to fix its platform so you can do crazy things like not have to fast forward the show if you switch TVs. It should just pick up where you left off and you definitely shouldn’t have to have it stop and bombard you with commercials when you are fast forwarding.

Nov 24 2022
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Happy Thanksgiving 3.5 Readers

I am thankful for all 3.5 of you though sometimes I wish you would be fruitful and multiply and give my 7 readers.

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