Category Archives: watching

what would captain picard do – part 8

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Alexis Hall

And welcome back. I’m still doing this thing. Sporadically. But I’m still doing it, which is what counts. Let’s get on with assigning arbitrary numerical values to episodes of a TV show from thirty years ago. That is definitely a … Continue reading →

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what would captain picard do – part 7

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Alexis Hall

It is that time again that I rate five episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation by how bobbins they are. That’s it. No more introduction. Let’s go. The Schizoid Man There are two things that are unfortunate about this … Continue reading →

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what would captain picard do – part 6

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Alexis Hall

So, about … three years ago? I started reviewing episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and rating them all by how bobbins they were. Being me, I stopped doing this more or less without warning, more or less for … Continue reading →

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ctrl-z

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Alexis Hall

Something I might have hinted at before on this blog is that I am not at all precious about spoilers. I tend to respect them out of the same kind of nebulous social convention that makes the whole of western … Continue reading →

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pawn to yass queen four

Posted on November 27, 2020 by Alexis Hall

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged. It’s almost like there’s been a pandemic or something, although I am hoping to get back into it the moment things stop being so completely fucking terrible everywhere all the time. … Continue reading →

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jumping the shark

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Alexis Hall

So I’m behind on everything – and I’m aware I haven’t done a Things I Liked post for a while. Because, while I have continued to Like things, despite the pandemic, it’s been hard to keep track of time and … Continue reading →

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Love is … on Netflix

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Alexis Hall

So this was originally going to be the last entry on my recent “things I liked” post but the more I thought about it the less comfortable I was describing the show as something I actually liked. Which is to … Continue reading →

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Things I Liked – January 2020

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Alexis Hall

Oh my God I can’t believe it’s 2020. Like, I’m old enough to remember when politicians used ‘by 2020’ as a conveniently distant future date against which to set themselves targets they could never be held accountable for. I Liked … Continue reading →

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It’s not me, it’s You

Posted on January 25, 2020 by Alexis Hall

So I finally got around to watching You having heard the usual controversies about how it glamorises / fearlessly confronts toxic masculinity / incel culture / abusive relationships / whatever the reviewer wanted to read into it. I think my big … Continue reading →

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a final final take on game of thrones

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Alexis Hall

I was honestly intending for my last post on this topic to be, well, my last post on this topic. But then I realised I hadn’t actually talked about the political situation at the end of the series. Oh, but … Continue reading →

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