The post-Christmas lull has really started, and typically continues until Valentine’s Day weekend.
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1983 Portland TV Yearbook Vol. 1 | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex: Collection of 11 matches from Pacific Northwest Wrestling in 1983. I admit I’m only mentioning this because I live in the Portland area. | ||||||||
Ace Attorney: Part One | |||||||||
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Along Came Jones | |||||||||
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | |||||||||
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Best of the Shiek Vol. 1 | |||||||||
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Casanova Brown | |||||||||
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Cloverfield | |||||||||
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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency | |||||||||
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Dog and Pony Show | |||||||||
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Earth: One Amazing Day | |||||||||
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Eclipse Series 45: Claude Autant-Lara Four Romantic Escapes from Occupied France | |||||||||
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Geostorm | |||||||||
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Girl Flu | |||||||||
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Goodbye Christopher Robin | |||||||||
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Hanging Tree (1959) | |||||||||
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In Search of Fellini | |||||||||
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Jigsaw | |||||||||
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Killing of a Sacred Deer | |||||||||
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Nero Wolfe | |||||||||
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Comments | This is the Italian TV series adapting the novels. | ||||||||
Paper Chase: The Final Season | |||||||||
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles | |||||||||
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Shakedown | |||||||||
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SubUrbia | |||||||||
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Super | |||||||||
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Super Stars Super Series Vol. 2 | |||||||||
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season | |||||||||
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Terra Formars | |||||||||
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Thank You For Your Service | |||||||||
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Typhoon Noruda | |||||||||
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Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “I loved the old Teen Titans series, and I’m glad to see this getting a Blu-Ray release.” Blaine says, “nothing in particular jumps out at me this week.”
I should be noted that Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is actually season 2 of that show.
The show itself was… well, I have some mixed feelings. It’s one of those “Based On The Books But Really Only Kinda” things. They made it way more supernatural than the books are, for one (and yes, one of the books involve the Norse pantheon). I almost want to call this show “X-Men Lite”.
That said, the whole point of the Dirk Gently books was the Holistic “Everything Is Connected” thing – and they did that fairly brilliantly, both in this season and the previous one. It was a very enjoyable show. It’s not consistently great, but enough of it is. If you do watch it, I highly recommend binge-watching it and not week-to-week. Not that that’s an issue right now, plus the odds of Season 3 have become rather low due to Max Landis being part of the Hollywood Purge.
I’d also like to mention there was a British version (simply called “Dirk Gently”) which was done very similarly to BBC’s Sherlock – that is, a series was basically three 1.5 hour TV movies. That one was a lot truer to the spirit of the books. And only had one series.
So the Dirk Gently series is only four and a half hours, total? I might have to watch that.
The BBC one is. The other one is twelve 1-hour episodes (or rather 42 minutes or whatever it is).
We’ve caught (and enjoyed) all of the new series, and I enjoyed Douglas Adams when I read him decades ago, (and his Whovian episodes), so for such a small time investment, it sounds like it’s worth it.