Leila Hamm 12/21/21 Leila Hamm 12/21/21

Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past” (continued unto the conclusion)

Raven is the best. I really hope that Kovacs stays in that hotel in the semi-long term, so that Raven isn't just a one episode wonder. Hell, I want Raven to be the Cortana to Kovacs' Master Chief and play adjutant/dispatch for him over neural commlink. It's not like that would be much sillier than the baseline for this show. Yeah, I'll say it: I fucking ship it.

Leila Hamm 12/19/21 Leila Hamm 12/19/21

Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past” (continued)

Kovacs is so much better written than any of the other characters that he actually feels out of place in this show.

Leila Hamm 12/17/21 Leila Hamm 12/17/21

Altered Carbon S1E1: “Out of the Past”

Industrial commodification of human minds and bodies. It's almost like this is cyberpunk or something.

Leila Hamm 8/17/21 Leila Hamm 8/17/21

“The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals” (part four)

It's good. It could be really, really good with better production values, a bigger cast, and maybe a liiiittle bit of trimming and moving things around here and there. It might come close to greatness, but there are too many really fundamental flaws (the mostly so-so music being the biggest) for it to get all the way there in my opinion.

Leila Hamm 7/21/21 Leila Hamm 7/21/21

“The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals” (part three)

His name is Bill, not Tim. Wonder how I could have misheard that?

Leila Hamm 7/17/21 Leila Hamm 7/17/21

“The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals” (part two)

Once again, the faux-horror movie dialogue scenes here are gold, and it isn't just thanks to the script.

Leila Hamm 7/5/21 Leila Hamm 7/5/21

“The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals” (part one)

Musical-hating guy is going to have to fight musical mind control aliens.

Leila Hamm 3/7/20 Leila Hamm 3/7/20

30 Rock S6E9: Leap Day

This review was commissioned by @Aris Katsaris. It was supposed to go up on leap day, almost exactly a week ago, but I've spent the last couple of weeks traveling a lot and having only intermittent internet access, so this was the best I could do.

...which is kind of funny in retrospect, because this episode itself only exists because the 30 Rock writers missed their chance to do a Christmas or New Years episode, and had to settle for doing a leap day special of all things instead. So, in that way maybe I'm just doing justice to the spirit of the episode. And of 30 Rock as a whole, really.