Irrelevant But Awesome

  The Brady Bunch is one of the staple classics of television. Despite the show never receiving much critical praise, or even being that big of a hit during it's five season run, in syndication, the show had become one of the most well known television series of all time. Today almost everybody has at least a passing familiarity of the story of a man with three sons and a woman with three daughters getting married and creating a blended family with six children. Several of the series episodes have gone on to rank among the top episodes of television of all time. It's no wonder that with the belated success of the series, people have tried time and time again to recapture the magic of The Brady Bunch . While the original show is still remembered fondly by many fans today, almost nobody remembers the many bizarre attempts at making a Brady Bunch successor.  The Brady Kids The first series actually aired while The Brady Bunch was still on the air. This was an animated series f...

We need to talk about what Brandon Sanderson just did.  For those who don’t know, Brandon Sanderson is a fantasy author. Primarily a writer of adult fantasy novels, he has also written middle grade and YA novels, as well as dabbled in the realm of graphic novels as well. He is probably best known for completing the Wheel of Time series after the death of author Robert Jordan, writing the last three novels of the series from Jordan’s extensive notes.  The other thing Sanderson is known for is writing a lot. Like, a LOT, a lot. In a genre of fiction where fans joke about the long wait for Game of Thrones books, and the final book in the Kingkiller trilogy, Sanderson is the opposite of that, usually putting out multiple books a year, with at least one of them being several hundred pages long. He schedules out his work far in advance, and keeps his audience well informed of what he’s working on. He posts weekly YouTube videos updating how far along he is in whatever project he’s w...

If you’ve had the desire to check out the Netflix Marvel series recently, (We’re talking about the ones that make up The Defenders : Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Luke Cage , Iron Fist , and The Punisher ) you may have seen a notification that states these shows will be removed from the service at the end of the month. This is likely to elicit one of two responses from you.  1. You might think “Of course. They’re Marvel series, and Marvel is owned by Disney, and Disney has their own streaming service. Why would Disney let Netflix keep these shows when they could be on Disney+ making money for the mouse? Especially with a revived interest in the characters with cameos that showed up in both Spider-Man: No Way Home , and the Hawkeye  TV show.  Or you might think… 2. Wait a minute, those shows were Netflix Originals. They were supposed to be on Netflix forever, no matter what. That’s the whole point of Netflix Originals. What gives? The answer, of course, lies somewhere in the...

  It’s been nine years since the last time we’ve heard the famous “XOXO” sign off from Kristen Bell’s voice. Nine years since the high school soap opera full of lying, cheating, rumor filled friends to enemies and enemies to lovers saga has been seen. So it’s time to crank up the reboot machine and bring back Gossip Girl. What does a new Gossip Girl mean in the year 2021? How have things changed? How have they stayed the same? And does the arrival of a new generation of a show that feels as recent as Gossip Girl make anyone else feel this old?  This new version of Gossip Girl takes place in the same continuity as the first one, nine years after the ending of the last series. (Technically four years after the ending of the last series since the final scene is a five year time jump, but I get what they’re saying.) Now we have a new group of elite students going to Constance, with the main cast being made up of seven lifelong friends, with their leader being Julien, the It Girl, ...

Chris:  First of all, playing “No Children” by The Mountain Goats was the perfect ending I didn’t know the show needed. You’re the Worst ended with in a more happy, optimistic way than I think anyone predicted but I think it was done so in a way that was appropriate to how the show had felt previous to Pancakes. Edgar is the best of the worst, I’ve decided. Yes, trying to convince the groom to not go through with the wedding so close to the ceremony is a very bad thing to do but it forced Edgar and Gretchen to not only really think about what they actually wanted but to do so by directly addressing it with each other for once. In the end, Jimmy and Gretchen stay together but don’t get married and, honestly, it makes way more sense this way. The one thought I’ve had creeping in the back of my head since the moment Jimmy proposed was how out of character it felt for either of them to want to get married with all of their commitment issues. Neither of them deal well with pressu...

Chris:  I’ll admit that I was really worried about the direction of the final season from a quality standpoint but every episode since the Sunday Funday episode has been better than the previous. For being a comedy, this episode has some really great dramatic moments, the best of which is Edgar giving Jimmy some harsh truth but it’s something he feels that needs to be said that no one else is saying even though it will cost him his friendship with Jimmy which is something Jimmy had just started to appreciate finally. I love the metaphor of the broken glass and even though it was a joke in the opening, it remained a poignant symbol in the end. A mess is a mess, no matter who it belongs to and whether it be an actual mess or an emotional one, it goes nowhere if no one cleans it up. And that’s the danger of Gretchen believing that Jimmy will always clean her mess up because it runs the risk of Jimmy either not being their to or simply unwilling to clean it up anymore. This was ...

Chris:  As if you needed more proof that this wedding is doomed, we have Gretchen in a flash forward saying that she’s single and “almost” got married however, I am taking that with a grain of salt because Gretchen is really good at lying usually for no other reason than her own enjoyment. However, the further proof of this doom that I got out of this episode was Jimmy’s reaction to Gretchen finally admitting everything that’s been going on with her lately. And it’s not only the reaction that was telling but it’s the fact that he had that reaction so she couldn’t see it and led her to believe that he’s fine with everything and they’ll work through it when clearly he’s uneasy and unsure. Also it’s good to see Killian once again, even if he’s now a Scientologist spreading the good news of Jack Reacher. And finally, Lindsey’s lesbianism lasted about half of two episodes but it does show that she’s eager for a real relationship but she’s not quite at the point where she becomes ...