So, Dexter is coming back from the dead. Starved for content, Showtime is apparently turning the Dexter franchise into Power or FBI with tons of spinoffs to keep the series going. I was already aware of a series in the works that explores Dexter’s younger years, with a new actor playing a young Dexter, as well as a Trinity killer prequel series in the works, but now they’ve just flat out brought Dexter back from the dead in dexter: Resurrection, where Michael C. Hall will reprise his role. There were rumors they were planning multiple Billions spinoffs, but I haven’t heard anything about those.
A dentist Appointment took a chunk out of my day. Probably still a lot more content than most people, but still.
TV Shows: The Umbrella Academy: S4E2 (Netflix) with audio description, Lady In The Lake: S1E5 (Apple Plus) with audio description, and Tales of The teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: S1E1 and S1E2 (Paramount Plus) with audio description.
Podcasts (all through Apple Podcasts with speed modification): Zoey Science and Nutrition (The Pros and Cons of Dairy), Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard (Jack Black- this thing was way too long, and I definitely did not finish it), and Up First (Daily News)
YouTube: The Awards Contender (Top 10 Actors Never Nominated for An Oscar)
Movies: The Bike Riders (Peacock)
Feature Presentation:
This is tough, because I kind of want to marinate a bit more on The Umbrella Academy, and I’d prefer to do the same with the new Turtles show which dropped 12 episodes. There’s just more specificity with both, since one is in its fourth season, and really has very little new characters, while the other is a TV adaptation of the Turtles as we last saw them in Mutant Mayhem, as the show is produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
What I will say, is that I did notice in Episode 2 of The Umbrella Academy that we were introduced to a new character, who got some representation, as she is described as Filipino. It is important, when you consider a character introduction from the first episode, and I think is meant to be something the Umbrella Academy didn’t pick up on.Meanwhile, I will admit that the fight that Natalie Portman gets into toward the end of the 5th episode disoriented me, and then I couldn’t figure out the whole closing the door, and then opening the door again to drag herself into the hallway. i guess, i wasn’t really sure what door she shut the first time, and then did she go out the same door, and if so why wasn’t anyone there? Like I said, just disoriented in a very disorienting fight involving rooms and doors.