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“Fallout” is one of the best series of the last years. It doesn’t reach the level of “Warrior” or even that of “Yellowstone”, but I find it much better that any Mandalorian or The Last of Us.

The screenplay, the special effects and the post-apocalyptic atmosphere are great, but I found the dialogues and especially the music were very often boring and sometimes even annoying.

Sure the choice of actors in the lead roles is odd (not to say uninspired!), but I’m aware of the world we live in and…that´s it. Besides, after seeing the two lead heroines in The Last of Us and Justified 2.0, nothing seems ridiculous anymore.

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I really enjoyed Fallout, too. Went by too fast. Right up my alley with dystopian/apocalyptic world with hints at previous history that aren’t clear yet what happened and why. This was the Dark Tower book series formula, and the backdrop for the Zork games as a kid, for example.

Thought the acting was great, solid special effects, great storyline. Can’t wait for future seasons!

Other recent shows:
3-body problem - started a bit odd, but once the plot became clearer, I got more into the story. A bit aggravating in the sense of how cults are irrational…reminds me of the university protests right now, where a bunch of liberals are aligning with terrorists and cultures that (in general) restrict the rights of women.

Rebel Moon parts 1 & 2. Barely got thru the first one, and fast-forwarded majority of part two. It was almost like someone gave some amateur unlimited access to a big budget and he made an unpolished, cheesy, poorly written, overly predictable storyline. Acting talent wasn’t bad, but they didn’t have anything to work with here. Star Wars ripoff on so many levels too. (evil empire shows up, simple farmers go to “cantina” to find help, swashbuckling dude gives them a ride in his ship, it is seemingly easy to sneak aboard whatever world/ship you want to…they even had a fighter with what sure looks like lightsabers. Sigh.)

Movie: I watched The Iron Claw movie about Von Erich wrestling family. I watched WCCW as a kid and was familiar with the whole background. It was still interesting but perhaps less surprising/shocking to me what happens. There was actually one more (youngest) brother that wasn’t included in the movie, and the director basically said the movie would just be too depressing and there was already enough grief, so he just left that part out of story. I like actor Jeremy that played Kerry, but Kerry was jacked and looked like bodybuilder, whereas Kevin was always lean/muscular and so Efron was ironically too big. Minor quibbles. David and Mike brothers were cast pretty well, and in general they got the mood, the background music, and even the Freebirds correct, which I appreciated. Their father was such a selfish and misguided guy.

Dreamer

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This could have been the best intro E V E R for Fallout:

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very cool steampunk/dystopian looking video

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ok boys and girls…when you get the chance today, play Real American, and play it loud.

IYKYK…

Dreamer

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recent good tv shows:

Slow Horses - latest season on Apple

Severance - I had left off in early season 2 when it dragged a bit. Has picked up!

Plur1bus - my new favorite show…breaking bad/BCS style filming mixed with SciFi…win win!

Landman - season 2 on Paramount plus. generally entertaining, although BBT’s character is too consistently grouchy. Ali Larter…oh my word, what a woman.

Curse of Oak Island - season 432 or something…treasure any minute now!!!

Audible books:

continuing JD Kirk’s series of DCI Logan and it is consistently good. Detective mysteries with great characters and good humor (lot’s of Scottish swearing and putdowns)

A Soldier’s Life series by author Always Rolls a One (seriously…that is their pen name)

Breeds by Keith C Blackmore. Blackmore has yet to have a novel I didn’t enjoy.

131 Days series by Keith C Blackmore. This is like being in the world of Spartacus…great!

Movies

Watched the new Superman and new Fantastic 4. Both entertaining, but neither blew me away either. I really really really hope Marvel doesn’t mess up Doctor Doom…he is my all time favorite villian from the comics.

Eagerly awaiting audiobooks:

Pendergast - by Douglas Preston

A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman (lastest in Dungeon Crawler Carl series)

Delio - Phase Two - by RR Haywood

God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines

and I guess for future movies, besides Doomsday, I had already gone thru Hail Mary as an audiobook, so looking forward to how the movie turns out.

Enjoy the holidays all!

Dreamer

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Slow Horses is a great show. I started it over to watch with my wife so haven’t made it to the last season yet.

I took my girls to Superman and Fantastic Four. They both loved it. I thought Superman was really good, FF just pretty good.

I recently watched a couple of older Netflix shows that i liked a lot -

Mindhunter is set in the 1970s with FBI agents creating the process to track serial killers. The story line is based on actual serial killers like BTK. That was really good but maybe not for everyone.

Bodyguard (with Robb Stark actor as main character), a short British series was really good. I’d highly recommend that one.

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