#27.9.24

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Decent last episode, don't know if I like grandad also crossdressing, but I do like that Makoto's mother isn't like a solved issue, she's just like kind of opened her mind a little. And I mean yeah movie sequel, I actually will check it out. Decent show overall - solid exploration of the gender and sexuality conflicts it introduces, fleshed out main trio, really just held back by its visuals. Neat.

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Candidate for Crime

I've been slacking like crazy on Columbo recently. Felt it was time to check back in on the lieutenant. Kind of... okay episode today? I liked Hayward, he was well acted and enough of a cult of personality to where it made sense to me that he'd be a popular politician. Stone was good as well, I was able to more or less intuit why Hayward wanted him out of the picture. But then the episode sort of just drags its tail and muddies its water. Like it's a longer episode anyway but not a lot is done with that - we'll devote like a whole 5 minute scene to Columbo getting his car checked out and not really get much of anything from it, meanwhile surprisingly little of the runtime is spent on the Columbo and killer back and forth. Columbo does independent snooping that we don't see the purpose of or he'll do independent snooping that's completely off-screen but is a key component of the gotcha. The gotcha in general is really dull actually, the two key pieces of evidence being things that we only learn from Columbo in this very scene. Hayward's part of a failing marriage and an affair which is only really a thing to establish a motive but his wife and his mistress barely matter beyond that despite sticking around, the political game is barely explored so feels like surprisingly weak set dressing (suppose they didn't want to upset either real life party by painting one of them as having murderers?), Columbo's fun and likeable as always and there were some good jokes that gave me a little chuckle throughout, but yeah idk the more I think about this episode while writing here the more I think it just really wasn't all that. Didn't bother me in the same way as some of the outright weakest episodes, just kind of falls flat instead. Oh well.

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Jack on his IG 🩷

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Lottie on her IG story 🤍

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shoutouts to me for starting this manga on chapter 1 and following it through release until it finished today, that's literally the first time I've ever done that and I feel like such a gamer. Score could go up on a reread - these chapters are very short but very plot heavy such that I full on just forgot what was happening for a large portion of the runtime since I wasn't talking to anyone about it lol.

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I rarely have reason to bring it up but The Wicker Man is one of if not my outright favourite live action film, and it was only very recently that I learned about A) the "Final Cut" and B) the very well reviewed 4K release. And so I decided to buy it. I know there's a steelbook with some really nice art, but I cannot find that at a good price, and I mean I'm very much happy with this as well.