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It's not just the fact that those social issues were addressed, but how they were addressed that stands out to me. How Bob's bipolar...

To be fair he used to run a highly questionable special forces unit slash death squad and his entire country was destroyed by...

Yes, that was great. It’s a pity they didn’t keep the name. That’s was a pretty great film, doing some really good work around...

Really? Did people not like it? Which book would people prefer to win this year, do you think? My ranking would be: The Ministry of...

Yeah, my money's on The Ministry of Time, as well, though my opinion of it was very much at odds with the overall zeitgeist.

Have finished Someone to Make a Nest In by John Wiswell, mostly because it was the only Hugo novel nominee this year I hadn’t read, and...

Older mystery shows: Well, there are the classics, aren’t there? They’ve mostly been mentioned already. I have a weakness for Columbo...

Yeah, Jim Caviezel is an idiot. He’s a major reason I’ve never gone back to the show.

You’re right, those are what we used to watch them in Canada (and probably the UK if we were there). You’d use Hulu and Peacock in the...

Both of these are excellent recent mystery series. Only Murders in the Building (Disney Plus) does very well with its charming core...

Only Murders in the Building does good season-long mysteries. Poker Face does a nice twist on the standard mystery procedurals.

Will echo some: Only Murders in the Building, Slow Horse, Poker Face, Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries. Would say that Elementary is far...

Two books with the same title I’ve read recently: Careless People by Sarah Churchwell is a delightful telling of the writing of The...

Two parallel books I’ve been reading recently: My Mother’s House by Shari Franke is a memoir of growing up in a house dominated by her...

This was one of my favorite RPG games ever made. Loved it. I never played the original on the Sega CD, but I have the Sega Saturn...