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Doom Patrol Season 1

Doom Patrol Season 1

Doom Patrol;  Originally a DC Comics series that has been booted, rebooted, re-rebooted, well, you get the idea. Finally a version of it makes it to TV. Very quirky, very (Grant) Morrisoney.  Which is to say, wrap your head tightly,...

Dracula

Dracula

Dracula; New TV series produced with the BBC, written by Mark Gatis and Steve Moffat. Basically, take the original story, break it into three parts (life in the castle, boat trip, arrival in a new country) If you've read the book, or...

Flavor Bombs

Flavor Bombs

In my youth, the one thing I could depend on was, every year my  mom would have a backyard garden.  Said garden would (by the end of summer) have an over abundance of tomatoes.  Memories of those, compared to what you can get in the...

Bad Boys For Life

Bad Boys For Life

Basic Premise:  Third in the series, two cops;  Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, who self proclaim themselves to be "Bad boys... Bad boys...wutcha gonna do...".  They're getting older, Lawrence wants to retire, Smith wants to... well,...

Umbrella Academy

Umbrella Academy

Basic premise, there was an incident, bunch of women dropped kids on the same day. Billionaire type manages to adopt seven of them for his "family". In turn they seem to be special, have some bizarre talents, some more useful /...

Knives Out

Knives Out

Though to my mind (and granted, I'm old school), one of the major plot progression devices in this thing is the "hurling of chunks". Gotta think that a better...

Another Life

Another Life

Another Life is a Sci-fi-horrory sort of series that has been created by Netflix. On the good side, the design for the ship (when it is a single unit is nice), landing ship is highly reminiscent of Space 1999's shuttles. That's the...

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