TV #33 of 2025: Reservation Dogs, season 3 I rated the first two seasons of this show as 4-out-of-5 stars apiece, and I’m tempted to lower my rating of this last one to a 3. Structurally, it’s kind of a mess, without nearly enough scenes of the kids all hanging out together as friends. Instead, …
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Book Review: The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
Book #101 of 2025: The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard (Lays of the Hearth-Fire #1) This is currently my very favorite book, which I’ve now read three times in as many years. (I’m not necessarily committing to maintaining an annual reread, but I’m not ruling it out, either.) Like Kip scribbling additions to …
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Book Review: No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris
Book #100 of 2025: No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris An absolutely infuriating read detailing a half-century of increasing malfeasance at the vaunted pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson. Author Gardiner Harris is an investigative journalist who’s spent years digging into these cases, but the most incredible part of …
TV Review: Babylon 5, season 5
TV #32 of 2025: Babylon 5, season 5 The last season of this 90s sci-fi show is somehow even weaker than the previous one, although there are enough saving elements here and there that I’ll still give it a three-star rating overall. (And it is better than some of the movies, at least.) The problem …
Movie Review: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
Movie #8 of 2025: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002) This TV movie aired four years after the end of Babylon 5, but I’ve chosen to watch it where it apparently falls in the continuity, sometime between the earlier film The River of Souls and the regular series finale. In truth, it could …
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Movie Review: Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
Movie #7 of 2025: Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998) I’ve been watching my way through the last season of Babylon 5, and the viewing guide that I’m following situates this film (and the later one The Legend of the Rangers) just before the finale. Plotwise, that checks out, as the events here do …
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Book Review: Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall
Book #99 of 2025: Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall This 2025 title is the debut novel of author Chris Chibnall, better known as the former showrunner behind Doctor Who and — more relevant here — Broadchurch. Like the latter show, it’s a murder mystery set in a coastal English village and investigated …
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Book Review: A Burning in the Bones by Scott Reintgen
Book #98 of 2025: A Burning in the Bones by Scott Reintgen (Waxways #3) This loose fantasy trilogy has offered diminishing returns for me as a reader, and this final volume again fails to reach the propulsive heights of its survival horror debut. Instead we have more of the generic political intrigues from the second …
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TV Review: Reservation Dogs, season 2
TV #31 of 2025: Reservation Dogs, season 2 Still looser in its plotting than I’d ideally prefer, which is especially a gamble with such a short season. Two episodes this year ditch the main cast almost entirely to develop peripheral figures in the ensemble, to somewhat mixed effect. (The rez aunties cutting loose at a …
Book Review: Doctor Who: Spectral Scream by Hannah Fergesen
Book #97 of 2025: Doctor Who: Spectral Scream by Hannah Fergesen This Doctor Who novel was released a few days before the end of the most recent season of the show, so as expected, it doesn’t take any events from the last few episodes into consideration. Instead it appears to be set sometime between 2×2 …
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