Spot Reviews 01/12/24
Jan 12 2024
Hannah Waddingham Home for Christmas (2023) [/] I’ve only seen her in Ted Lasso but turns out Waddingham is a stage singer and this special has her singing Christmas songs by herself and with guests and also has Ted Lasso co-starts making appearances. Not the usual Christmas songs you hear in America but maybe they’re traditional UK Christmas songs. It’s a nice holiday program.
Fingernails (2023) [-] Indie science fiction romance drama movie streaming on Apple TV+. Set in the near future when there’s a scientific fingernail test that can determine if two people love each other (or one loves and the other does not). Anna (Jessie Buckley) and Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) are a happy couple who say they don’t need the test to tell if they’re in love. But Anna has doubts and she starts working at a love institute that teaches couples how to fall in love and she uses those techniques on Ryan. But meanwhile she starts to fall for coworker Amir (Riz Ahmed) who seems to be more of a personality match for her… I think I watched about half an hour. It’s an interesting concept but the characters were a bit dull to me.
Snapdragon Thai Basil Chicken [/] - This is premade and comes in two packets, each with seven servings (more like 4 servings each). Not a bad amount of chicken and the sauce is fine. Not what I’ call especially tasty but serviceable enough.
Itty Bitty Hellboy (2014) [/] This 5-issue comic book series presents Hellboy and company as newspaper syndicated comic strip-style kid characters doing kid things and a humor level to match. Good presentation though the material is for a much younger audience (that somehow knows Hellboy mythology since the characters are not explained, they are just there) or the older dad crowd that appreciates kid humor.
Fingernails (2023) [-] Indie science fiction romance drama movie streaming on Apple TV+. Set in the near future when there’s a scientific fingernail test that can determine if two people love each other (or one loves and the other does not). Anna (Jessie Buckley) and Ryan (Jeremy Allen White) are a happy couple who say they don’t need the test to tell if they’re in love. But Anna has doubts and she starts working at a love institute that teaches couples how to fall in love and she uses those techniques on Ryan. But meanwhile she starts to fall for coworker Amir (Riz Ahmed) who seems to be more of a personality match for her… I think I watched about half an hour. It’s an interesting concept but the characters were a bit dull to me.
Snapdragon Thai Basil Chicken [/] - This is premade and comes in two packets, each with seven servings (more like 4 servings each). Not a bad amount of chicken and the sauce is fine. Not what I’ call especially tasty but serviceable enough.
Itty Bitty Hellboy (2014) [/] This 5-issue comic book series presents Hellboy and company as newspaper syndicated comic strip-style kid characters doing kid things and a humor level to match. Good presentation though the material is for a much younger audience (that somehow knows Hellboy mythology since the characters are not explained, they are just there) or the older dad crowd that appreciates kid humor.