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  • Nightcrawler

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    Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my favorite actors, and I was quite looking forward to watching Nightcrawler (had been on my to-watch list for a while now). He’s deliciously creepy in this – playing a guy who stumbles into the job of filming accidents for local news – and the physical transformation he undergoes for…

  • Road to the Winter Classic

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    I’ve been watching this series for years – a 4-episode documentary series that follows the two teams that will meet at the Winter Classic – and I was especially interested this year since the Habs were part of it. Unfortunately, it sucks that the period that is covered in the series (December) was such a…

  • Doctor Who

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    Another series I find myself enjoying again is Doctor Who. I was a big fan of the series ever since its modern relaunch (with Christopher Eccleston), and stuck with it until the start of the season with Peter Capaldi (season 8). I didn’t have anything against Capaldi, it was more me finding myself enjoying the…

  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

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    This is another one of those series that I’ve been meaning to watch for what feels like forever, and I finally decided to go ahead and make the jump  – it’s a bit daunting, considering the series just started an 11th season. I’m almost through the first season (which is only 7 episodes long), and…

  • Maron

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    I’ve been watching season 3 of Maron on Netflix, and after what felt like a bit of a lackluster second season, I’m finding this one to be really great so far (I’m about half-way through it). I’m a long-time listener of his WTF podcast, and was really excited when this series first launched, so it’s…

  • Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

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    I’m finding that I’ve really fallen out of love with this series. I was really into it during the first couple of seasons, but then never managed to watch all 3 episodes in the 3rd one, and although I watched this special, I wasn’t particularly captivated by it. It offers up a neat idea –…

  • Halt and Catch Fire

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    I love this series so much, it’s ridiculous. There’s something about tech and computing in the 80s that I find so damn sexy, and this show is basically 80s computing porn, with a good cast and good storyline. Oh, and the music is fantastic too. I just recently watched the first season on Netflix –…

  • Best American

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    Over the years I’ve enjoyed quite a few of the “Best American” short story anthologies – especially the Comics one and the Nonrequired Reading one – and so the other day I was quite happy to catch a one-day sale on Amazon, with each Kindle edition of the 2015 series available for $2. I bought all…

  • The Vision

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    I read a lot of comics – and I mean, A LOT – but one thing that I noticed in 2015 is that I gradually started losing interest in pretty much all of the super-hero series being put out by the Big 2 (DC and Marvel). One exception is a series that is only on…

  • Berceuse Assassine

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    Following my enjoyment of the Undertaker series, I decided to try and find some more work from the creators of that book, and came across this 3-book series by the same artist, and written by Tome, whose work I’ve also enjoyed in the past (Spirou & Fantasio, Soda). Berceuse Assassine has a rather interesting concept,…