Spot Reviews 11/10/23
Nov 10 2023
Mila in the Multiverse (2023) [/] An eight-episode half hour Brazilian science fiction drama. Mila (Laura Luz) is accidentally zapped into an alternate universe where she and her friends attend an alchemical high school. She laters discovers her mom knows how to travel between multiverses and there is an organization, the Operators, trying to destroy the various multiverses. She and her alt-universe friends have to stop the Operators from destroying the alchemical universe and I assume next season it’ll be another universe… I watched four episodes and it’s ok. A bit of a MCU feel and fairly good production quality. Still, didn’t find it quite interesting enough to keep watching — a bit too teenagers-doing-stuff which I’m not really into.
Stay Tuned! (2019) [-] Japanese 5-episode drama/comedy tv series based on a manga (Channel wa Sonomama!). The setting is a small television station and the five new employees. Each episode showcases a different area of the tv station production (this series was made to celebrate a real tv station’s 50th anniversary). The central character is new news reporter Hanako Yukimaru (Kyoko Yoshine) who is quite incompetent but well meaning and tries hard and somehow her antics somehow end up helping her coworkers in the end… I managed watching two episodes but I don’t really like watching incompetence.
The Good Crisp Company - Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps [/] TGCP apparently makes Pringles-like potato chips (well not sliced potatoes but slices form formed potato flakes). I guess these are supposed to be healthier than Pringles. Tastes and feels mostly the same or close enough you won’t notice the difference. I don’t particularly like Sour Cream & Onion flavor but this was still good.
Space Station Down (2020) [-] Contemporary thriller novel by Ben Bova and Doug Beason. Two terrorists manage to seize the International Space Station (ISS) and murder the crew except for one survivor who has to somehow stop the terrorists from plunging the ISS into New York City… It’s fast paced with short chapters and a writing style aimed at younger teenagers I guess. I read about 50 pages and didn’t like the storytelling style though the concept is cool.
Stay Tuned! (2019) [-] Japanese 5-episode drama/comedy tv series based on a manga (Channel wa Sonomama!). The setting is a small television station and the five new employees. Each episode showcases a different area of the tv station production (this series was made to celebrate a real tv station’s 50th anniversary). The central character is new news reporter Hanako Yukimaru (Kyoko Yoshine) who is quite incompetent but well meaning and tries hard and somehow her antics somehow end up helping her coworkers in the end… I managed watching two episodes but I don’t really like watching incompetence.
The Good Crisp Company - Sour Cream & Onion Potato Crisps [/] TGCP apparently makes Pringles-like potato chips (well not sliced potatoes but slices form formed potato flakes). I guess these are supposed to be healthier than Pringles. Tastes and feels mostly the same or close enough you won’t notice the difference. I don’t particularly like Sour Cream & Onion flavor but this was still good.
Space Station Down (2020) [-] Contemporary thriller novel by Ben Bova and Doug Beason. Two terrorists manage to seize the International Space Station (ISS) and murder the crew except for one survivor who has to somehow stop the terrorists from plunging the ISS into New York City… It’s fast paced with short chapters and a writing style aimed at younger teenagers I guess. I read about 50 pages and didn’t like the storytelling style though the concept is cool.