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So, while Ted Lasso continues to be my favourite show currently airing (and I may have watched t through from the first episode half a dozen times), I've started watching Cobra Kai, and I'm finding it's got a lot of heart, and I like the way it hits a lot of the same notes as the original movie while changing motivations and showing how the older generation have evolved.

I'm also enjoying TWD more than I expected, although I the highlights for me have been things like learning what happened in the subways during the Fall; I'm not particularly interested in the Commonwealth, but I'm delighted that the story's continuing to include Princess, and the casting choice was absolutely excellent.

While I wait for the new season of Lucifer to start, I've rewatched the Good Place, watched Black Summer S2, Kingdom S2, and started watching the Nanny for the first time since it aired here. I don't think I saw that many episodes when it was first airing, but the wasabi joke is one of the things I still remember after all this time. I'm not sure some of the jokes have aged particularly well, but it's still an entertaining show that's made me cackle more than once...

So, it's almost the end of October, and I'm very tired.

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So, more cheerful things. Something that does the rounds on twitter periodically that you may not have seen if you're not a twitter person is that the comic book author Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Red Sonja, Secret Six, etc) made some comments about how great it would be to have a crossover story starring Lara Croft and Wonder Woman. The comic book artist/author Sjepan Sejic (Death Vigil, Sunstone, etc) picked up on this and sketched together almost a dozen comic book scenes, as if he was illustrating that particular series, and they're rather excellent. If you haven't seen them, I recommend taking a look.

I recently watched the final episode of Elementary, a show I've been quietly enjoying since it first started airing. ( Vague Spoilers? )

I've been listening to the original Holmes stories through my local library's audiobook collection, as they have the edition narrated by Stephen Fry, but this does mean listening to them rather out of sequence, depending on the vagaries of what's available at any given time. It did prompt me to think of other reinterpretations of the Sherlock Holmes mythos I've enjoyed over the years. Sherlock seems to crop up in all sorts of things, but one that always springs to mind is the short comic book series Watson and Holmes, written by Karl Bollers. In this iteration, Watson and Holmes are African-American and living in Harlem, New York. Holmes is an eccentric - and, it must be said, very dapper - private investigator, and when Watson meets him, Watson's a war veteran who served in Afghanistan and is now working in a medical clinic. The series was funded as two short runs via Kickstarter, with the first six or so issues making up a single case, A Study in Black, while the second graphic novel is a mix of one short series and some assorted single pieces. I really liked it, and I'd recommend it to anyone who fancies seeing a nicely-done reintepretation set in the modern era.

I don't want to have to go to work tomorrow.

So, the last week at work has basically been a hellscape, but one of the good things that happened is that while working from home one day recently I mainlined the entire of Wu Assassins on Netflix. Wu Assassins first appeared on my radar because it was brought to my attention that Mark Dacascos was in it, which therefore means it must be watched. That's the law.

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I also watched all of Another Life, partly because Katee Sackhoff was the lead, but also because I was busy working and didn't notice Netflix had started autoplaying.

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