Spot Reviews 12/22/23
Dec 22 2023
I Hear You (2019) [/] Chinese romance drama with Riley Wang as a violinist and violin maker who is always stoic and doesn’t speak much and Zhao Lusi as an aspiring anime voice actress who wants to study Japanese in Japan. They’re thrown together on a couple dating reality series and to maintain the facade she moves in with him and eventually romance starts… The series has a real problem ending episodes almost mid-sentence. The last episode new drama a resolution is rather weak and maybe it should have ended one episode earlier (the series is 24 40-minute episodes). The best friends whoa are producers for the reality tv show and secretly attracted to each other but it ends badly is a rather sad subplot. After watching Hidden Love (2023) also starring Zhao Lusi I was expecting more from I Hear You but it was disappointing, though still pretty most of the time.
The Morning Show #3.1 to #3.5 (2023) [-] I watched half of season three but it was lackluster. Season one started well with their one big plot. Season two continued the main plot but it was getting stale so they killed it. Season three is chaos as the whole network might be going under and it lost the remaining appeal it had for me.
Shadowrun: The Forever Drug (1999) [/] A paperback novel by Lisa Smedman set in the Shadowrun RPG universe. This one is on the east coast of Canada in Halifax where Romulus — a werewolf, freelance agent for Lone Star, and kind of hated by regular humans and most of his co-workers for being a were — stumbles onto a new drug that leaves it’s victims dead but happy. Most of the plot involves him trying to rescue/protect/save perhaps the drug’s designer, an elven woman, called Jane because she’s an amnesiac… It’s a fairly fast moving story. Not too annoying. Told from Romulus’ POV. Not necessarily a happy ending but perhaps that’s Shadowrun. I haven’t read any other SR novels nor RPG materials so as a first exposure to the SR universe this novel tells a story without being confusing.
Mahatma Extra Long Enriched Rice [/] Seems ok for extra long rice but not my preference as it cooks a bit too dry and is worse when it’s old. Still prefer calrose rice which is bit more glutinous without being sticky rice and even a day or two old is ok.
The Morning Show #3.1 to #3.5 (2023) [-] I watched half of season three but it was lackluster. Season one started well with their one big plot. Season two continued the main plot but it was getting stale so they killed it. Season three is chaos as the whole network might be going under and it lost the remaining appeal it had for me.
Shadowrun: The Forever Drug (1999) [/] A paperback novel by Lisa Smedman set in the Shadowrun RPG universe. This one is on the east coast of Canada in Halifax where Romulus — a werewolf, freelance agent for Lone Star, and kind of hated by regular humans and most of his co-workers for being a were — stumbles onto a new drug that leaves it’s victims dead but happy. Most of the plot involves him trying to rescue/protect/save perhaps the drug’s designer, an elven woman, called Jane because she’s an amnesiac… It’s a fairly fast moving story. Not too annoying. Told from Romulus’ POV. Not necessarily a happy ending but perhaps that’s Shadowrun. I haven’t read any other SR novels nor RPG materials so as a first exposure to the SR universe this novel tells a story without being confusing.
Mahatma Extra Long Enriched Rice [/] Seems ok for extra long rice but not my preference as it cooks a bit too dry and is worse when it’s old. Still prefer calrose rice which is bit more glutinous without being sticky rice and even a day or two old is ok.