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Vistas Great and Small
I have to confess, it was a little different watching a show with a relatively humane sense of humor and a low rating on violence. But there was something very good about the first episode of All Creatures Great and … Continue reading
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Go for the Landscape, Stay for the Landscape
One of the side-effects of lockdown has been the transformation of my Twitter feed into a running journal of hiking through the Lake District and the highlands of Scotland. Which means I’m pretty excited about All Creatures Great and Small … Continue reading
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End-of-Month Double-Whammy
In all of the hubbub about the return of The Mandalorian to Disney+ this weekend, I almost missed the planned release of Truth Seekers on Amazon Prime. The big draw, of course, is that it’s a Simon Pegg/Nick Frost series. … Continue reading
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Returning to the Way
It’s difficult to believe that it was just under a year ago that we were finally introduced to The Mandalorian on Disney+. And now we’re just a couple of weeks (or less!) away from the beginning of the show’s second … Continue reading
Interrogation Time
My afternoon television comfort food these last few months has been Brooklyn 99. It’s got some great one-liners but doesn’t necessarily have as much “character evolution” as other sitcoms (which is a weird metric, I know). I think I’ve shared … Continue reading
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Race Starting and Stopping
There’s a certain kind of dread that you feel when watching The Amazing Race on CBS. Unlike other “reality” shows, there’s a real sense that any of us could be on the show and that any of a number of … Continue reading
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Resuming the Race
After twenty-two months since filming completed, the newest season of The Amazing Race is almost ready to air. Good grief! But better late than never. After having a number of two-cycles-a-season years and being moved to one-cycle-a-season, the show’s 32nd … Continue reading
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Second Season Sensation?
At this point, there will only be two new television shows for me as the “fall season” begins. And one of those, the latest season of The Amazing Race, has been in the can for at least a year. The … Continue reading
The Lesson of Enoch’s Ending
I’m about two-thirds of the way through the rough draft of my chapel talk for next week (which I hope to record tomorrow). We’ve spent the last two weeks talking about friendship with God. I’ve done a little more personal-anecdote … Continue reading
SHIELD at the End
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD wrapped up its seven-season run tonight doing what it’s done best: playing by its own rules. While there was one big nod to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was more about science than characters. Still, the … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 