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This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “We’ve been here before.” I’ve used the phrase “creative project”…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Surrender”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Fucking solids.” The gang’s all here, at last — whereas…
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My beloved marvels
Look, it sucks. For all the degree to which I’ve maintained — since Iron Man! — that the MCU films are intended, and absorbed on my end, as entertaining Saturday-morning confections, it still bums me out to watch the whole…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Dominion”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “So… I’ve been weighing the morality of something.” A funny…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Bounty”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Can someone explain why a 19th-century villain is guarding a…
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The fat of the land
Sometimes I’m loading up my pill organizer and I look at those jewel-bright yellow and pink capsules in my hand and I am once again flattened with joy that I live here, now, and not in the 99.975% of human…
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Blogging the Next Generation — Picard: “Imposters”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Oh, I have been rehearsing this conversation for thirty years.”…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “No Win Scenario”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “At some point, ‘asshole’ became a substitute for ‘charm.’” This…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Seventeen Seconds”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “You don’t get to condemn people before the fact.” Picard…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Disengage”
This entry was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the WGA strike hub and the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “If my…
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