STUFF I’VE WATCHED RECENTLY
Chihayafuru season 3: This is my favorite “sports” anime, about the Japanese card game karuta. It feels really weird that most of this season is about some matches that none of the main characters are actually participating in. New characters include a five-time Master who’s kind of a dirtbag everybody hates because he doesn’t love the cards in the same way they do, and a former Queen whose main characteristic is “Has Children.”
Emmy Awards: The joke is on me for watching awards shows in the first place, but I thought it was especially bad this year. Very sweaty joke in the opening about how Eugene Levy mistakenly thinks the plus in Apple TV+ is related to the LGBTQ+ community. I’m happy the shows I watched and liked (Hacks, Shogun) won though.
English Teacher: Pretty good so far! The coach character might be written a little too Ron Swanson-y in that he is a right-wing buffoon but he also has sage wisdom and you should Respect him.
Batman & Robin: It very much feels like a fake movie that you’d see in a TV show.
Frasier (2023): The characters frequent a bar named Mahoney’s (named after the late actor John Mahoney) and in a recent episode Frasier wants to eat at a fancy restaurant named Les Charles (named after the co-creator of Cheers). It reminds me of comic book media where characters are constantly going “meet me at the intersection of Perez and Wolfman!!!”