9.30.2025

In the interest of forcing myself to cheer up and think positively I'm going to focus on some things I like. Here's a thing I liked recently. I enjoyed the show Alien: Earth. I liked that they introduced some new species of aliens into the franchise, and how all the themes from that universe (Blade Runner included) intersect and accumulate without losing any of the creepy horror feeling of the original movies. I enjoy Timothy Olyphant in just about anything, and have since I first watched Deadwood twenty years ago, and I like that the actor who played young Alan Turing and the brainy kid who wrote the manifesto for the Rebellion in Andor was in it. And I liked that all the damage and chaos of the story could have been avoided if two of the world's four richest trillionaires or whatever weren't so hell bent on dominating each other. I like how Noah Hawley is making an awesome career out of finding new life in movies he likes and I hope he keeps doing it.