Sapphire & Steel (1979) [+] British children's show (I assume as it's half-hour episodes) that ran four seasons although only six stories (2 each in s1 and s2, 1 each in s3 and s4). Cosmic agents Sapphire (Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum) are sent to Earth to stop supernatural entities that threaten the planet and it's more apparent in s2 and on that they are sent to stop time catastrophes that would destroy history. It's a lot of talking and low budget with a few sets, a few guests, and rudimentary special effects. I watched s1 before and found it boring but this year I watched the whole series and found rather interesting. Very atmospheric and slow-paced buildup to the finale of each story.

Veil of Shadows (2026) [-] Two Formless Moon nine-tailed foxes -- Wu Wangyan (Chen Duling) and her younger "sister" Lu Wuyi (Ju Jingyi -- The Legend of White Snake, 2019) -- team up with a young Shilin Sect demon hunter -- Ji Ling (Tian Jiarui) -- and a rogue demon hunter -- Wu Shiguang (Zeng Shunxi) -- on a murder mystery case which then segues into trying to stop the evil Jiu Ying (various people as he keeps taking over bodies) from full resurrection.

On the positive side a really attractive cast and nice CGI effects and I liked the beginning story as all the main characters have secrets. On the negative side over-reliance on CGI means it's often a character doing a cool stance or hand gesture and then lots of CGI "magic powers manifesting". Also the story is fairly convoluted because lots of time travel and lots of bad endings that are reversed because, guess what, time travel.

Overall the last third of the series was fairly confusing so what started out as a promising story ended up disappointing.

Punch Kick Duck+ (2024) [/] A simple fighting game where you play a duck and have three actions: punch, kick or duck. Each of the animal enemies is countered by a specific action so this is mainly just a timing game which gets frenetic as more and more enemies appear.

Rabbids Multiverse (2024) [/] Apple Arcade move-forward combat game based on Rabbids IP. In each level you use gold to place units, which then constantly move to the right and automatically battle enemies until you reach the level boss and defeat him. Units get upgraded and they have special abilities you can trigger manually. I've seen many games like this and nothing different here except the IP characters and dialogue.