Media Diet: February 2023

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Media Diet

Books

Ghost Pirate Gambit by Jessie Kwak – A fun space heist book. Nothing terribly surprising or disappointing, just a nice easy reading adventure.

Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan – I suffered through this one in service of trying to complete the series. Way too many characters and way too little story.

Movies

Ant-Man: Quantumania – OK

Bullet Train – A hyperviolent but well-built and fun “on a train” movie.

Games

Stacklands – A great little village builder for only $5. It lets you play enough cards that it gets unwieldy, but I suspect that’s not an accident and wants you to adapt your play style to desired tidiness.

Sons of the Forest – A popular survival craft game that just couldn’t get me interested enough to deal with the lack of guidance. Personally I find games that think it’s fun to figure out how to play rarely deliver, so I returned it after 2 hours.

Television

1923, Season 1 – A stunted epic that lacks the grace of 1888 and the spirit of Yellowstone. For a show with a scheduled two season run, it also didn’t end as far a long as I’d hoped, so the next season will likely feel a little rushed and end in a violent spectacle.

Ted Lasso, Season 1 – A good show that is trying to do a “meaningful” comedy but just missing the mark. The foundation is good though, and it is pleasantly more like a tightly-edited hour-long show than a half-hour show.

Upcoming

Some things I’m hoping to read/watch/play soon:

Mandalorian, Season 3
Children of Time
Succession, Season 3

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