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Spirit Of Canada - Home For A Rest🇨🇦

Rush - Freewill (Snakes & Arrows - Live) 🇨🇦

If a potato grows this many eyes, you shouldn't eat it.

Ooh, Rare drops

Feels like a half-series order. Which isn't generally speaking good news. The House of Mouse has been cutting back a bit on spending, Andor aside - which was already committed budget and should have a lot of longterm value. A lot of the cuts are going to be around the ESPN restructure and ABC, Freeform and FX. But if the Dr Who deal isn't yielding results - and the streaming algos have a merciless ream of data these days - they're not going to commit. TBH, if they'd known there was a risk of that kind of thing, The Well should have been episode two. Lux got a little bit too meta for me, even though I love Alan Cumming and Fleischer movies. (And some of it did feel like a bit of a lift from Joe Dante's Twilight Zone segment, which still scares the hell out of me to this day).

Happy April 25th from a happy resident of Paragon City, Rhode Island.

On to Episode 2: Thoughts: Tonally, the jarring light-heartedness of Ep1 - fun with bureaucracy and Rock/Scissors/Paper/Lizard/Spock bit aside - is gradually dimmed in favour of Impending Dread. We have at least three nasty problems ready to pay off next episode, probably more. More gorgeous shots, music and outfits. $30m per episode well spent, in my opinion.

I think the Carol Kane version is the one I remember the best ("...oh, just a curse. Have a nice day.") This version of Hester is... somewhat different.

Not quite, but good call: Grandmama (Joanna Lumley) is Hester Frump, Tish’s mum. Also, Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) joins the full cast at Nevermore this season, but struggles to fit in - “an outcast even among outcasts”…

Well, tranche 1 of the new season has arrived. Let's roll Episode 1: Thoughts: Very solid opening episode. Lots of new plot threads. And absolutely nobody is going to be complaining about lack of action. Gorgeous, gorgeous shots and pacing. Cassian's flexing between confidence and chaos is great. Dedra being given a lot more to do. And yay, more Luthen. If I had a slight problem, the light-hearted moments jar a bit in the context of what's gone before in the show.

Ah, of course, yes, that was why the piranha. Probably need a rewatch.

Not yet. S1 was centred squarely around the characters of Nevermore Academy, and Gomez and Tish were only in it for two eps. (Don't even remember if Pugsley was in it at all). S2 promotes them to series regulars, and will include some new Addams - notably Joanna Lumley as a fabulous take on Grandmama, and Christopher Lloyd making a return alongside Ricci in an as-yet undisclosed role. Steve Buscemi takes over as Nevermore's headmaster, and even a Gaga appearance as well. (Given the whole Bloody Mary meme thing, it's only fair...)

Season 2 is here to sadden* this old goth's black and twisted heart... *gladden. Ortega was already on the up before this, but Season 1 was an absolute breakthrough role. And add a fine supporting cast - particularly the indefatigable Emma Myers as Enid, CZJ nailing Morticia, Luis Guzman as the most screen-accurate Gomez to date, plus Gwen Christie, Christina Ricci and more... Curious, though. The Addams have always struck me as a family in which everything is open, perhaps a little too unfiltered. What secret could be too dark for even Tish to share? Something that threatened her children? Some way she'd betrayed the family? A secret stash of Billy Ray Cyrus albums? Yeah, not sure that trope fits their brief 100%. But looks like an awful lot of fun still...

Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (Live)

Dearly beloved… we are gathered here today to get through this thing called… life. 💜🎸 Prince & The Revolution - Let’s Go Crazy

The Doctor Exx Band - Superman

Mark started his career off with Reece and Steve on The League Of Gentlemen, a sorta-sitcom set in the thankfully fictional town of Royston Vasey, filled with extremely strange and unsettling characters and instantly memorable catchphrases (“THIS IS A LOCAL SHOP FOR LOCAL PEOPLE! We want none of you outsiders here!”). He also guest stars/writes on their followup, Twilight Zone-ish Inside Number 9, which will alternately make you laugh, mess with your head and scare the hell out of you. (They have a stage show in London at the moment. If it happens to head your way, go see but don’t say I didn’t warn you.) There’s a LOT of sci-fi and horror to his credit, particularly for BBC Radio: on TV, he worked with Moffat on a modern Dracula adaptation, and went solo on The Ghosts (not the comedy series). On top of all that and all the film, stage and radio work, he has documentaries and books about horror, plus several original Dr. Who books. If you can find it, there’s an authoritative 3-part History Of Horror, and one on British horror legend M.R. James, to whom he owes a lot…

Good to see. Given he's the co-creator of Sherlock, it's about time the Benadryl Clumberspaniel connection paid off with an MCU turn. Come to think of it, I'm wondering what Gatiss/Shearsmith/Pemberton's brand of comedy/scifi/horror might bring to the table, if ever they were unleashed with a bigger budget...

Full trailer is up: If DOOM is in this, he’s still fully under wraps (or armour)…

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.OhXe.NLO71XuZkomS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p

It's worth keeping an eye out during these major events for those beautiful glows in the sky. Scotland and the Islands are better in the UK for aurorae, but I've had one event where it got to 1500 nanoTeslas (unit of atmospheric disturbance, not very small cars) and I saw it with the naked eye. Although do make sure that IS what you're seeing... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04348v8r9eo

An occasional thread for those interested in space news. If you're looking to see the Bifrost, and/or get those mutant powers you've been dreaming about, one of the strongest Coronal Mass Ejections of recent times is heading towards Earth, landing between 1800 UTC 15th and 1800 UTC 16th April. This might play merry hob with some satellites and electrical systems, but mostly - thanks to the wondrous magnetosphere shield - will just give you pretty lights. This big one should give aurorae much farther south than usual. And they're getting stronger every day... You can get Space Weather from the Met Office at: https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/specialist-forecasts/space-weather ...and the rather nerdier NOAA at: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ ...and it's worth getting the AuroraWatch UK or SpaceWeatherLive app for alerts. Also, get yourself a long-exposure camera app like NightCap: they come up a lot clearer on phone screens than with the naked eye. And no, CMEs are not causing global warming. Or, and I say this advisedly, mutating the neutrinos.

Apple TV has always been a magnificent loss leader for the devices and gift cards and whatnot. But even the mystic gnomes of Cupertino can’t keep losing over $1bn per year off a $5bn budget. Rumours are that they’re going to trim back to a mere $4.5bn and look for more commercial partnerships, so the crazy-inventive stuff that no-one but Apple or the BBC would have backed might not fly from now on.

Nope. None of the ZAZ crew involved beyond production credits, Neeson doesn’t pull off the deadpan as convincingly as Nielsen. Oh, and this is a Seth McFarlane joint.