What are you watching in (late 2025 and) 2026?

Zaukrie · Mar 1, 2026

Daredevil and Shrinking and Start Fleet Academy. Daredevil is amazing.

Vael · Mar 2, 2026

I have seen Hundreds of Beavers (2024) movie. Highly recommend it, haven't laughed so hard for awhile.

jian · Friday at 6:32 PM

Now that we’ve got Netflix I’ve been watching the first few episodes of Magic Knight Rayearth, a CLAMP anime series from 1994 about three schoolgirls who are isekai’d to a fantasy world to save its princess and also learn elemental magic and pilot elemental mecha. It’s pretty great.

MKR has some sentimental significance for me because it was basically the first video game and JRPG I played on a home console that I owned (the Sega Saturn) back in 1998. It was the first JRPG I completed (now on 50+ and counting) and it was incredibly immersive and fun, not least because of the Working Designs localisation and of course all the anime cutscenes from the TV series. So yes, I know about the ending.

Here’s the OP from the game:

Despite the lyrics, I think it’s fair to say that our heroines do not share a bold daring dream, unless “getting home by levelling up” counts. And it’s not the bold who break free, it’s those willing to commit tragic regicide.

Umbran · Monday at 10:07 PM

Just started with Plur1bus, on AppleTV.

Just two episodes in, and so far it is the most thought-provoking sci-fi I've seen in a long time.

Note, that's not "best" - that's way too subjective. I mean that its premise provokes one to think.

Artamo · Monday at 10:29 PM

Started watching Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock on Prime and I’m really enjoying it so far (half way done). I’ll admit I’m a Holmes fan to begin with so even if it were terrible, I’d still have given this a go, but it definitely channels the Downey movies vibe, and the two main characters are quite good in their roles. Holmes is brash and confident but not as indestructibly so as he’s often portrayed in other movies. He is definitely a young adult who screws up - a lot.

So if you liked Ritchie’s Holmes movies, you will probably like these as well.

Paul Farquhar · Tuesday at 10:14 AM

Artamo said:
Started watching Guy Ritchie’s Young Sherlock on Prime and I’m really enjoying it so far (half way done). I’ll admit I’m a Holmes fan to begin with so even if it were terrible, I’d still have given this a go, but it definitely channels the Downey movies vibe, and the two main characters are quite good in their roles. Holmes is brash and confident but not as indestructibly so as he’s often portrayed in other movies. He is definitely a young adult who screws up - a lot.

So if you liked Ritchie’s Holmes movies, you will probably like these as well.

I felt it flagged a little in the second half, and was more Indiana Jones than Sherlock Holmes, but was entertaining old fashioned pulp fiction overall.

jian · 2026-03-12T03:36:53+0000

Finished Magic Knight Rayearth season 1 now and yup, it’s one hell of a tear-jerker. Plunging right into season 2, which I haven’t seen at all before.

Important meta tip: if your name is Lucy and you’re a HEMA expert who wears red, and you meet a fencing champion who wears blue and is called Lake, as well as an archery aficionado in green by the name of Ariel, RUN THE HELL AWAY. You may not survive the trauma.

I can’t help but feel that the Pillar System is completely broken, it must end in insanity and death by Magic Knight more often than not. Who created this stupid system? Get out here where we can give you a good kicking, Mokona.