Category: Television
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Netflix: Why People Are Leaving You… (The Unspoken Reason?)
I can be long-winded in my blogs, I know, and there is a lot to unpack here. I’ll try to keep it brief. Famous last words =) Any Netflix engineers reading, it will be worth your time even if you skim fast. In the last month there has been global news coverage about Netflix losing…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (April 2021)
[A summary of my movie and TV reviews from last month, posted to Attrition.org, mixed in with other reviews.] Bad Trip (2021)Medium: Movie (Netflix)Rating: 4.5/5 fingercuffs what?!Reviewer: jerichoReference(s): IMDB Listing || NetflixIf pranks aren’t your thing, move on now. If pranks are your thing, then this is your new jam. Eric Andrรฉ brings his physical…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (March 2021)
[A summary of my movie and TV reviews from last month, posted to Attrition.org, mixed in with other reviews.] Coming 2 America (2021)Medium: Movie (Amazon)Rating: 4/5 Zamunda Ministry of Propaganda approvesReviewer: jerichoReference(s): IMDB Listing || AmazonThirty years later, a sequel that was never supposed to happen according to Arsenio Hall. I’m glad they changed their mind!…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (February 2021)
[A summary of my movie and TV reviews from last month, posted to Attrition.org, mixed in with other reviews.] Outside the Wire (2021)Medium: Movie (Netflix)Rating: 1 / 5 Keep it outside your watch listReviewer: jerichoReference(s): IMDB Listing || NetflixI wanted to like this movie, I really did. But it just starts out absurd at so many…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (January 2021)
[A summary of my movie and TV reviews from last month, posted to Attrition.org, mixed in with other reviews.] Soul (2020)Medium: Movie (Disney)Rating: 5/5 movie and music magicReference(s): IMDB Listing || DisneyDisney knows how to do modern cartoons and this is no exception. The story follows Joe, a school band teacher who seems to have…
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The Misery (Index) Data
The Misery Index is a game on TBS hosted by Jameela Jamil, starring The Tenderloins, better known as the Impractical Jokers (Joe Gatto, Brian Quinn, James Murray, Sal Vulcano). You can read more about the format and style of the game on its Wikipedia page. They bring humor to the game to augment the humor…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (December 2020)
[A summary of my movie and TV reviews from last month, posted to Attrition.org, mixed in with other reviews.] The Queen’s Gambit (2020)Rating: 5/5 check it out mateReference(s): IMDB Listing || NetflixThis miniseries, based on a 1983 book with the same name, is a fictional story about a chess prodigy turned master. It has the…
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Altered Carbon Nudity Index
For those who know me, they are well aware that I have a slight ‘spreadsheet’ problem. More specifically, Google Sheets since they are collaborative and sync across devices. Not the point! I tend to make Sheets for more and more things and track many data points in my life around my health. I also have…
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When Reality TV Rears Its Ugly Head
I really do love the show COPS. I’ve seen 99% of the episodes over 28 seasons, and there are ~ 25+ episodes per season. The show is absolutely real, but they certainly cherry pick the scenes, and the officers they follow. Further, the TV show is built on a premise of formula of one violent…
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Shan Yu had a point.
BOOK: Have you ever read the works of Shan Yu? SIMON: Shan Yu, the psychotic dictator? BOOK: Yep. Fancied himself quite the warrior poet. Wrote volumes on war, torture… the limits of human endurance. SIMON: That’s nice… BOOK: He said “live with a man 40 years, share his house, his meals, speak on every subject.…