I feel discomfited posting in the 'what's on TV tonight' thread, I've thrown off the shackles of contemporaneity, and decoupled myself from the throes of broadcast television. I'm netflixen and all that, like a proper modern boy. I'm streaming my reality. Watching BBC is so olde, daddy-o. You are like watching yesterday on betamax.
Anyway, I like to wade through box sets like a man with a obscure enthusiasm for shallow water (oh, don't start that isn't-it-boxed-set nonsense, not unless you want to wake up to a shark in your bathtub, and before you worry about that, you might want to consider just why you're sleeping in the bathtub in the first place).
Currently on The Punisher. Yet another Netflix Marvel gig. I sort of struggle with the pacing of many of these programmes, though Defenders worked well – it made for a pacy mini-series because they crammed it into not-very-many episodes (I still had fingers left). Episode 1 proved as ponderous as I feared. Took him what felt like two hours to get down to any punishing. That's a bit like being called The Emailer and then not sending anything till after lunch. Too many moody flashbacks and oh-I'm-so-broken. I hope it perks up. Come to think of it, maybe I should pitch The Emailer to the networks. She's a lowly office drone by day, but at night she opens spreadsheets. Evil spreadsheets.
We just finished Season 4 of Agents of SHEILD, which was about as awesome as it gets. Sexy evil robot lady! Ghostrider! Phil! And a book you can't get from the local library (I checked, you can't order Darkhold through ILL, which is a shame). Maybe there's a =darkhold() function in Excel. By day she's a lowly office day, by night, she fights the forces of evil brought forth by a spreadsheet from another dimension.
I'm travelling for a few weeks on another tour de tidy-hared thought leadership but I'm thinking of a megabinge of Fringe when I get back. And maybe Alias. Admittedly that might see me through to 2022 and this might be a very brief topic.