{"id":965,"date":"2023-03-27T13:56:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:06:12","slug":"media-diet-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/media-diet-february-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Diet: February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-1093\" data-series-id=\"406\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/series\/media-diet\/\">Media Diet<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ghost Pirate Gambit<\/strong> by Jessie Kwak &#8211; A fun space heist book.  Nothing terribly surprising or disappointing, just a nice easy reading adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winter&#8217;s Heart<\/strong> by Robert Jordan &#8211; I suffered through this one in service of trying to complete the series.  Way too many characters and way too little story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Movies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/52-word-review-ant-man-quantumania\/\">Ant-Man: Quantumania<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; OK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bullet Train<\/strong> &#8211; A hyperviolent but well-built and fun &#8220;on a train&#8221; movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Games<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stacklands<\/strong> &#8211; A great little village builder for only $5. It lets you play enough cards that it gets unwieldy, but I suspect that&#8217;s not an accident and wants you to adapt your play style to desired tidiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sons of the Forest<\/strong> &#8211; A popular survival craft game that just couldn&#8217;t get me interested enough to deal with the lack of guidance. Personally I find games that think it&#8217;s fun to figure out how to play rarely deliver, so I returned it after 2 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Television<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1923, Season 1<\/strong> &#8211; 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&#8217;t end as far a long as I&#8217;d hoped, so the next season will likely feel a little rushed and end in a violent spectacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ted Lasso, Season 1<\/strong> &#8211; A good show that is trying to do a &#8220;meaningful&#8221; 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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Some things I&#8217;m hoping to read\/watch\/play soon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mandalorian, Season 3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children of Time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Succession, Season 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-1093 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"406\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/series\/media-diet\/\">Media Diet<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>Books Ghost Pirate Gambit by Jessie Kwak &#8211; A fun space heist book. Nothing terribly surprising or disappointing, just a nice easy reading adventure. Winter&#8217;s Heart by Robert Jordan &#8211; 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&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/media-diet-february-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media Diet: February 2023<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"series":[406],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-diet","series-media-diet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}