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Another recommendation: Sharp Ends, a collection of short stories by Joe Abercrombie that are connected to his First Law series.

GRRM and Gardner Dozois have compiled a bunch of anthologies of some top-notch short fiction, using themes such as Rogues, Dark Sorcery, Magic and Epic. Edit: There are also Shawn Speakman's Unfettered and Unbound anthologies.

Early Will & Grace from the late-1990s, with a fax and "camera phones" and so on, compared with late Will & Grace from 2020.

Or running head first into a brick wall, I think the books suggest.

There was the recent Shardlake miniseries, based on Dissolution by CJ Sansom.

How about "The Medici"? S1 was pretty solid, with Dustin Hoffman and Richard Madden. Not as good as "The Borgias", but compelling and realistic. Then came S2, and it turned into one of those shows that pretends to be a historical drama but is essentially an American soap opera. The Duke of...

I dunno. Back in my office employment days, 19 years there and 19 years back was about average for a daily commute.

The Charlie Sheen years of "Two and a Half Men" might serve as a pretty close approximation.* * Suggestion intended for comedic purposes only.

Or we're not advanced enough to be interesting to anyone with the capacity to contact us. For a civilisation that advanced, we're essentially in the the primordial ooze stage of evolution.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o "Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life." Indirect evidence, but quite a bit of a big deal nonetheless.

The guy brings Peter, Peter's mum and Nightingale - and the dozens of others - to life as completely distinct characters, with just his voice. He's like the one man VA equivalent of Sgt Pepper.

KHS is one of my two favourite narrators, together with Steven Pacey, who narrates most of Joe Abercrombie's books (and used to play Tarrant in the last two series of Blake's 7). Anyway, KHS also narrated "A Wizard of Earthsea" and "The Farthest Shore", and does the incredible job you'd expect...

I recently listened to The Children of Hurin, read by Christopher Lee. It was as epic as you'd imagine. Now I'm on The Silmarillion, read by Andy Serkis. Different, but also excellent.

Have you read/listened to The Rivers of London, narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith? They're my favourites, together with The First Law. The Lies of Locke Lamora is also excellent, and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams.

Joe Abercrombie has some excellent names for the grimdark sword & sorcery genre. Names that you can actually imagine people being called as they scrape the dung from their boots. Logen Ninefingers, Caul Shivers, Shy South, Curnden Craw, Shev and Javre. Even Sand dan Glokta and Jezal dan Luthar...

Did anyone else have no clue what was happening in the last 20 minutes or so of Ep. 5? It was too dark to see what was going on.

My guilty pleasure used to be "Big Time Rush". No clue why.

As they grow, they probably flee the Nest.

Dual shielding, hehehe...

Based on his level of output over the past decade, I don't think there's much risk of that anyway.