House Of The Dragon (MAX) took a beat and didn’t have a back-to-back massive battle, slowing things down with character development of the best variety. We touched on basically every character, and some hot takes include, but are not limited to:

1) holy Shit. Avon survived that? I mean, I wouldn’t call him “surviving”, but he is technically, in the legal term, alive. Breathing.

2) Allicent is learning that she’s on the wrong political side. After volunteering to be Regent in her son’s stead, she is shocked to find the council has zero interest, and wants Amen to lead, despite the fact that he is clearly someone who makes rash decisions. The best moment was Allicent disassociating and the sound dropping out as she contemplated life.

3) Christian is a little bitch. he comes back, super cold to Allicent, and decides after his war experience that he shouldn’t tell anyone what Amen did to Avon and instead just pretend like everyone was a hero. Allicent’s social climbing lover is done needing Allicent.

4) Raynera has a much better relationship with her frustrated son than Allicent does with either of hers. the take away here is to not be a shitty absentee mother and let someone else raise your kids, or one will grow up to kill the other.

5) What on earth is going on with Damon? He’s been hallucinating for episodes now, and it is clearly not working for him. He loses his train of thought during conversations. Plus, he’s awful at giving people those “wink wink nudge nudge” type orders, and leaving people to interpret that as they see fit.

In short. Another excellent episode with excellent audio description. Connor DeWolfe/Roy Samuelson knocked it out in all the gory details, from cutting down the rotting Ratcatchers, to how the dead dragon looks, and the injuries sustained by Agon.

I made it through another episode of Geek Girl (Netflix), and I like where this series could go, but it just seems to meander. At this big photo shoot, the other bitchy model takes a photo of another model kissing her in the context of the photo shoot but trying to make it seem like those two are dating (was his name Rain?) and she reacts by posting a very appropriate response, explaining she’s doing a shoot, which somehow becomes like leaking national security secrets.

And, I had no idea it was picked up for a second season, but I got through the first four episodes of Marvel’s Hit Monkey (Hulu), which is back for another season. Jason Sudekis still plays the human counterpart in this duo, except he’s dead, and is an apparition that only the monkey can see (at first). There’s this new plot, Monkey is given Blake’s old apartment, and works for his old boss (voiced by Leslie Jones), and starts trying to finish what he started. It is a very weird story this season, and so hard to describe. Every episode is connected, but also feels very different. Like, most of the show is grounded in reality, but in one episode they had to take out a giant. Also, when Blake figures out how to be seen, he materializes so he can apologize to his daughter for being an awful absentee father. A lot of ideas going around in this and all i can say is… did we also secretly make a second season of MODOK?