Angel Cop (1989) [+] Six-part OVA of half an hour each released over five years. In a near future Japan the Special Security Force combats the terrorist group Red May who start turning up dead due to a mysterious third group with super-power. Angel Mikawa (Sharon Holm) is the newest member of the SSF though she doesn't work well in teams. Though I'd say this isn't a story about Angel but about the SSF. It's a bloody and rather adult language series that is one self-contained story. It's fairly good.

Trigger Warning (2024) [/] CIA combat field agent Parker (Jessica Alba) returns home after her father dies mysteriously. Her investigation leads her to a local arms smuggler whose brother is town sheriff and her old boyfriend. It's an action film so that's about it for characterization. Kind of like that she's mostly a knife fighter, using the knife her father gave her. But still, an average action movie released on Netflix, though I'm not sure where it fails.

On Your Wedding Day (2018) [-] South Korean, uhm, romantic comedy film? The story covers the relationship between Hwang Woo-yeon (Kim Young-kwang) and Hwan Seung-hee (Park Bo-young). They meet in high school where Woo-yeon convinces Seung-hee to date him. But after a few months she has to leave abruptly and they don't see each other again until college where she has a boyfriend. Then a few years later after he's back from military duty he has a girlfriend and she's single. But they do end up dating and in a relationship that unfortunately does not last. A few years later she's getting married and he finally realizes they are not mean to be together… I found this to be a bit dreary. The characters have no chemistry especially when they were in a relationship (and I guess that's intentional to show they weren't that compatible). This is not a story where I was at any point wanting these two characters to end up together. The comedy is very light, the romance is not, and I was glad when the movie finally ended.

Tugboat Fish and Chips, Pleasant Hill [/] We got takeout of the 9 piece family meal plus a corn dog and lumpia for $85 or so. Fish was ok (and their old menu had catfish strips but they don't currently offer it). Fries were good and lumpia was good (though the lumpia looked like premade not made there). Corn dog is frozen food corn dog. Overall probably would not recommend though it was ok food.

Crazy Love is a Korean romantic comedy tv series running sixteen 70-minute episodes. Lee Sinah (Krystal Jung) is the long suffering secretary of Noh Gojin (Kim Jae-wook). After making it a year she is told she's suffering from brain cancer, probably caused by the stress of her job. Sinah decides to take revenge on Gojin and as luck would have it he is the victim of a hit-and-run and when he wakes up with amnesia Sinah declares she's his fiancee.

The next part is Sinah making Gojin's life hell by making eat all the foods he hates and doing activities he hates and being nice to the employees of his company. (Gojin runs a college-prep education company and Sinah wants to be a teacher but failed her audition. There's also rival education companies and a bit of behind the scenes of the teachers doing stuff — it's an unusual work topic.)

The tables turn when Gojin reveals he's never had amnesia and has been pretending in order to catch who tried to have him murdered. Sinah is blackmailed into keeping up pretenses while Gojin investigates. And now is the point when they start to other has positive qualities…

Fairly standard K romance. Kim Jae-wook was also the lead in Her Private Life which I kind of like a bit more than this series. I think partly is that they're both portrayed negatively so you have two characters to redeem. On the other hand there is Baek Sooyoung (Yoo in-young) as Gojiin's first love and Oh Segi (Ha Jun) as the company VP and both of them have villain arcs that are resolved amicably by the end so it's nice that everyone ends up as a better person at the end.

I saw this on Disney+ though I guess it's actually on Hulu. It's a perfectly fine series though I guess more average than good.

Rakuten Viki is a streaming service for Asian movies and tv shows which relies on community translations. They have a free tier (limited selection with ads, 480p), standard tier ($8/month no ads, 720p), and plus tier ($12, 50% more content than standard, 1080p). I've been using the free tier for a month.

In terms of video quality 480p is not great watching on my 10" iPad screen. You can have good 480p video with the right compression but I guess Viki uses a lesser compressor with lower bit rates. Start/stop responsiveness is average for streaming (Netflix being the best). Controls don't show up for about 20 seconds at start so you have to watch a bit of the beginning of a video.

Ads are fairly standard. They tend not to play on my older iPad so the main video stops for a minute and then continues. In general more ads than Prime Video free tier.

Translations are very good, often translating pertinent text that's on screen (like signage) and sometimes adding a bit of commentary (e.g. why are some references relevant to Asian viewers).

Content is fine even on free tier. I've found entertaining shows and movies. I like that the browse interface labels free/standard/plus content so even though you can't filter for just free content it's still easy to find.

Overall given I currently love Asian romance movies and tv shows this is a service to keep around though maybe 4th on the list (Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Viki) because of the video quality.

Pixel Perfect (2004) [/] Disney Channel movie. After their band is rejected by a music label — because their lead singer Samantha (Leah Pipes) is not charismatic enough — high schooler Roscoe (Ricky Ullman) uses his father's tech to create Loretta (Spencer Redford) a holographic singer. But as the band's success grows Roscoe and Samantha's friendship deteriorates while Loretta starts to yearn to be more than just someone who exists in the confined spaces of a stage. Also a corporation wants to buy Loretta's tech, and Loretta… It's an ok movie with some song numbers while not being a musical.

Goodbye Dear Wife (2012) [-] South Korean romance drama running 20 episodes. After three years of marriage Cha Seung-hyuk (Ryu Si-won) and his wife Kang Sun-ah (Hong Soo-hyun) have grown apart. He longs to find his first love Oh Hyang-gi (Park Ji-yoon) and when he does is determined to divorce Sun-ah though because she's a devout Catholic is going to be hard. But the more he tries the more realizes he loves her… My two big criticisms is that they never really establish why they fell in love in the first place (there are flashbacks that explain it but they're not convincing) nor why they love each other now. Also the ending is not great — it takes the shortcut of "let's not show the actual resolution and skip ahead 18 months". Overall although watchable it's a low quality story.

Oddmar+ (2019) [/] Oddmar is an Apple Arcade Viking-themed side-view platformer that works well with a controller. Collect triangles (you have a minimum to pass each level) and find three optional secrets. You have the standard move left and right, jump, jump on wall then jump again, axe slash, climb ropes, jump on switches. If you die you restart at the last checkpoint so I suppose eventually you can beat any level. It's kind of an average platformer so not much to recommend it specifically.

Yea Foods Mini Soupy Pork Bun with Crab Meat [/] Xiao Long Bao which are dumplings with soup. These come frozen and you need to steam them from frozen. I have a steamer thing from my old rice cooker and just used a regular pot to steam them (make sure to cover pot so it gets hot). They still came out only ok so it's harder to cook than it looks (and also a couple of years past expire date). Think I'll stick with something simpler like frozen potstickers.

New Amsterdam is a medical drama tv show. Dr Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) is the new Medical Director of New Amsterdam, the largest public hospital in New York. As he battles throat cancer he turns the hospital upside down remaking all the procedures and focusing everything on helping people over any sort of budgetary restrictions.

With Freema Agyeman as Dr Helen Sharpe, possible love interest which finally happens in season 4; Janet Montgomery as Dr Lauren Bloom, who battles addiction throughout the series; Jocko Sims as Dr Floyd Reynolds, handsome surgeon who can't seem to find the right woman for him that would also get his mom's approval; Tyler Labine as Dr Iggy Frome, psychiatrist who eventually suffers PTSD from treating his patients; Anupam Kher as Dr Vijay Kapoor, a doctor who is often exasperatingly holistic about his methods; Dr Elizabeth Wilder (Sandra Mae Frank), who comes in season 4 as a brilliant (and deaf) surgeon.

Season 1 is great, 2 is ok, 3 is getting old with Max's antics, 4 turns it upside down with a new Medical Director (played by Michelle Forbes) who wants to return to profits over patient care, 5 is a bit more normal hospital drama though some good high concept episodes like how they tried to help after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Adding Sandra Mae Frank was great as her character has Max's dynamism while showing how a deaf surgeon could work at a major hospital.

The season finale was well done. In Max's final day before leaving for his new job in Europe a patient requires a prolonged surgery that will require 51 doctors. Meanwhile we get shots of New Amsterdam's new Medical Director. It's only at the end that we realize the B plot is a couple of decades in the future and the new Medical Director is Max's daughter Luna Goodwin (played by Nora and Opal Clow throughout the series and as an adult by Molly Griggs).

Overall a pretty good American tv series.

I bought a 14" MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip (12-core CPU, 16-core GPU), 24 GB Memory, 512 GB SSD fro $1750 ($250 off) + tax and have been using it for about 4 months. My previous MBP was a 16" Intel (the last Intel version before M1 MBP was released) with 64 GB RAM, 8 GB Video RAM, 8 TB SSD for over $6k.

First off it's really fast. MacWhisper was transcription at about 1/2 real-time speed (6 hour recording taking 12+ hours to create a transcript) and now it's more like 8x real-time speed. AI transcription taking advantage of the M4 AI cores. Handbrake (video encoding which I use to re-encode Twitch VODs to a smaller format) is about 3x as fast.

I was worried about memory but it has not been a problem. Like right now it's:

20 GB used (App memory 7.4 GB, Wired 3.6 GB, Compressed 7.4 GB)
5 GB cached files
3.8 GB swap used

And I have lots of apps open including Xcode. Whenever I check it's about 18 GB used even running DDO or Tiny Tina's Wonderlands via CrossOver. Which coming back to speed DDO runs great with graphics on medium or high and two instances running where before two instances could lag with low graphics (especially on warm days). Tiny Tina's on medium graphics runs great and before I had to keep it on low. Mind you CrossOver is not Silicon-native so it's going through Rosetta 2 translation.

I haven't tried running Windows via VMWare Fusion, mostly because I haven't been able to get one of the free personal licenses. At this point I'm back to "avoid running Windows at all and depend on CrossOver", though CrossOver didn't work with Red Dead Redemption 2 and that runs ok on the Intel MBP Bootcamp-ing into Windows 10.

As regards to performance the fan is usually off and when on much quieter than on my Intel MBP. It comes on for MacWhisper and Handbrake. Sometimes for CrossOver DDO and always for Tiny Tina's.

512 GB SSD is rather small. I bought Samsung T7 Portable SSD, 4 TB size for less than $300 and I don't notice it's any slower than the internal SSD (though I suppose if I had to run macOS from the external SSD I'd notice). Moving everything off I could (you can set Music, Photos, TV, Steam, CrossOver to use an external drive; App Store install too but only for applications bigger than 1 GB) I have 300 GB free on the internal SSD.

Still, an external drive is not the most seamless solution. macOS doesn't really support user home folders on external drive (you can set it in advanced options but in my experience login would have issues like some dock icons being blank because external drive doesn't mount until later in the login process). User Library folder is still on internal drive. Download file option in Safari (e.g. when you look at a PDF and then cursor to bottom a download button shows up) goes to downloads folder you set. Mail though will download to user Download folder if you use one way to one-click download and will use the download folder you set in settings if you use the other way to download. And recently I can't set a file type default app to an application on external drive.

External SSD uses a USB-C port and MBP M4 has only three of those. Luckily it has a dedicated MagSafe 3 port for power and an HDMI port for a monitor so turns out I didn't have to buy a dock for extra ports. I use MagSafe for power; USB-C for external SSD, 27" monitor, USB hub on the monitor; HDMI for 24" monitor; audio out for headphones. That leaves the SDXC card slot which I guess can also be an external drive although looking it up its max 2 TB and USB 2 transfer speed.

14" monitor is a bit smaller than my Intel MBP 16". You can set it on max space and with good eyesight it's fine and for me usable if I keep close to the monitor. When I visit my parents it's usable and I can play DDO or other games fine. But even the 16" was kind of small and much prefer a 27"+ monitor.

I haven't really tested battery life. Seems to last longer but I'm rarely on battery. WiFi 6 is a bit faster connected to a WiFI 6 router like I now have. Running Intel apps I don't notice any difference as Rosetta 2 is really good and the M4 is really fast.

Overall I find that this is a great machine that is not limiting, other than SSD space. This plus the external SSD were both less than $2500 including tax but no extended warranties. I feel like 24 GB memory is good though I'd benefit from 32 GB to eliminate swap space usage (just noticed 4K Video Downloader+ is using 5.7 GB memory but it's not doing anything, yikes).

King (2011 TV Series) [+] Canadian police procedural that ran for two seasons. Toronto Detective Staff Sergeant Jessica King (Amy Price-Francis) is put in charge of the Major Crimes Task Force after it's former head, Detective Sergeant Derek Spears (Alan van Sprang, the recurring main bad guy in Shadow Hunters), blows it on television news. Every episode is one case which King solves by being better at noticing things, reading people, and following hunches. There's also a bit of a love triangle with King in a troubled third marriage to officer Danny Sless (Gabriel Hogan) and a former romance with Spears who is also married but separating from his wife. I liked this show because King has a brash attitude but also loves her nice clothes and designer heels.

Star Wars Forces of Destiny (2017) [/] A series of 32 3-minute animated shorts of scattered little vignettes, mostly featuring female characters of the Star Wars universe. I like the shorts featuring Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Princess Leia (Shelby Young) since those characters are not seen outside the movies — even Padmé Amidala (Catherine Taber) often appears in Clone Wars animated series.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) [-] Second of the reboot where the main Ghostbusters team is the Spengler family: mom Callie (Carrie Coon) — Egon Spengler's daughter — son Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), daughter Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and boyfriend Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd). While the Mayor wants them shut down for their reckless behavior a demon is accidentally released — Garraka the Frozen Lord. In the end he's defeated by a Deus ex machina and even having small roles for the original (surviving) Ghostbusters doesn't save this story… Looking back now I don't think I like any of the Ghostbuster stories. The original movie was the best but that's because of the comedians playing the characters and not the story.

Kirkland Signature Beef Lasagna [/] Perfectly passable lasagna. Takes over an hour to cook from frozen though was a bit watery so maybe I undercooked it a bit or didn't let it sit long enough. When it's hot it's fairly tasty and once it cools less so. A whole lot of calories though so I'm fine passing on this. Actually about as good (and watery) as their Giovanni Rana Beef & Short Rib Lasagna though the latter has less meat but maybe tastier meat.

Alien: Romulus is set between the first two Alien movies. A group of young adults living on a Weyland-Yutani company world want to be free from their indentured lives and escape to a better colony world. To do that they need to loot the abandoned space station Romulus for the cryogenic components they need for an interstellar trip (it's both interesting and yet not really explored how Alien has maybe a slow FTL tech that requires cryogenic suspension for humans so interstellar travel is possible but sending a platoon of Colonial Marines to rescue a colony world seems like they'd be too late to do any good).

Anyway, they get to the space station, explore, find that the station was doing bio-weapon experiments, and run into various Alien creatures that offs them off one by one.

Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny) - main protagonist

Andy (David Jonsson) - damaged android modified by Rain's father and whom she treats as her brother, he has an interesting arc starting out like he has mental disabilities then getting upgraded on the station to his normal self but with company-first directives.

Tyler (Archie Renaux) - Rain's ex-boyfriend
Kay (Isabela Merced) - Tyler's sister, pregnant
Bjorn (Spike Fearn) - Tyler and Kay's cousin, hates androids so he hates Andy
Navarro (Aileen Wu) - ship pilot and Bjorn's sister
Rook (Daniel Betts) - damaged science android on the Romulus who wants to save some Alien bio form from the station's destruction.

This movie has a very Alien the original movie vibe. Big empty structure, eerie noises, savage Alien attacks. On a big screen it looks great. I did find the part where the station crashes into the colony world's rings rather funny since the rings are crazily dense.

Overall an entertaining Alien scary movie.

The Last Watch is a science fiction novel by JS Dewes and the first novel of The Divide series.

In the far future Augustus Mercer aka Cavalon, disgraced scion and heir of the largest ruling house of the System Collective, is exiled into the Legion and assigned to the Sentinels where all the misfits Legionnaires go. The Sentinels are stationed at the edge of the Universe which is a measurable dividing line and any matter that crosses that line is de-rezzed into nothingness. Which is strange since the Viators came across the Divide to destroy the Human race and almost succeeded with a depopulated humanity still recovering and still fearful of a new invasion.

Mercer meets Excubitor Adequin Rake, commander of the Sentinel battleship SCS Argus, though after a couple hundred years of sentry duty with few supplies it's less of a space-going ship than a barely mobile base. As an aside it's kind of neat that the Legion uses Roman Empire-reminiscent rankings: Optio are high rankers, Circitors are sergeants or lieutenants, Oculus are the privates. Anyway, Rake is a hero of the last Viator incursion and she personally wiped out the last Viator mother and yet now she's also exiled to the Sentinels. As another aside Rake is also a Titan, which is the elite first-response unit of the Legion.

The main plot is that something is happening with the Divide, it's moving inwards which could signal the contraction of the Universe. As SCS Argus is in peril because her star drive is non-functional Mercer is part of a team sent to the Kharon Gate — old Viator gates are used for I assume instantaneous FTL travel though ships can also travel FTL at a slower pace — where they find it abandoned and are attacked by Drudgers, a warrior race developed by the Viators. Meanwhile the Divide catches up to SCS Argus and Rake is forced to abandon ship with a few survivors…

I like that Dewes does not go into long explanations. Things and terms are introduced and maybe briefly described but it's basically bits and pieces until you get a clearer picture. So for example the Titan stuff and what it means to be a Titan takes a bit to figure out.

Also it's nice that there is no romance subplot between Mercer and Rake, and no real hint of it either in this book. In this story Rake has a romance subplot with a long-time friend.

There is not a huge big battle or even big events in this novel. Sure SCS Argus is destroyed, the Divide is contracting, and the Viators seem to be back. But it's more like things are starting rather than being resolved and the novel ends at an interlude. It's a novel designed to be the start of a series.

The writing style is good. It's more conversational and literally lots of dialog between the characters and not that much of their thinking (or maybe average compared to their talking). It is kind of a slow-moving story and sometimes it was getting close to being a bit boring, though I did read it 50 pages at a time alternating with other reading material.

Characters are still a bit mysterious. Some of their background is revealed but even the two main protagonists have lots of stuff left unsaid since there are more books in the series. Mercer starts out a bit spoiled and sarcastic but grows once he's in the military while Rake is kind of disillusioned though still believes in the Legion and her growth is letting that blind faith go.

Overall I liked this novel more than the last couple of science fiction multi-book properties I've read. Could make a good RPG setting.

Christmas with a View (2018) [/] Clara Garrison (Kaitlyn Leeb) is a restaurant manager at a winter resort. Shane (Scott Anthony Cavalheiro) is a celebrity chef hired to be head chef. He's immediately attracted to her. She thinks he's a shallow celebrity… A pleasant romantic winter movie.

Candy Cane Candidate (2021) [+] After a failed run for Boston city council Julia (Jacky Lai) returns to her hometown to recharge over the holidays to find that her former high school rival Parker (Jake Epstein) is running for mayor unopposed. She can't stand that so Julia also joins the race and the short two week campaign throws them together over and over until sparks fly… I like this one better as the characters are more dynamic.

Under the Christmas Tree (2021) [/] Charlie (Tattiawna Jones) arrives at a small Maine town looking for and finding the perfect tree for use as the capitol's Christmas tree. But that tree holds sentimental value to Alma (Elise Bauman), set to take over her parents' Christmas stuff mail-order store. Charlie's strategy is to go on a charm offensive and it helps that they're both attracted to each other… Nice LGBT romantic winter movie though it's kind of an average story on par with Christmas with a View.

An Unexpected Love (2003) [-] Not a Christmas movie. Television drama about a woman, Kate (Leslie Hope), who divorces her husband, gets a job at small real estate company, and falls for the owner Mac (Wendy Crewson). The drama is when Kate's family and friends finds out and criticize her lesbian turn… It's a bit too tv movie quality and maybe heavy handed. It tries to be serious which also makes it a bit dreary.

Tacoma FD is a sitcom revolving around A-shift of a Tacoma, Washington fire station.

Fire Chief Terrance Leslie McConky (Kevin Heffernan) - recently promoted, easy-going big man
Captain Edward Penisi Jr (Steve Lemme) - McConky's brother-in-law, loves to pull pranks
Lucy McConky (Hassie Harrison) - the teams new recruit, Chief McConky's daughter

The rest of A-shift is Granny Smith (Marcus Henderson), Andy Myawani (Eugene Cordero), and Ike Crystal (Gabriel Hogan) — who moonlights as an exotic dancer.

The first season is the best since it's new. The 4th season replaces Andy with new recruit Andy Mickleberry (Christopher Avila).

It's a rather humorous show with lots of off-color jokes and I appreciate that they didn't sexualize Lucy McConky.

The Navy is a history of the United States Navy from the American Revolution onwards.

It has captains and above and juniors who became captains. It describes the various ships and in battles lists all the ships and their number of guns. It also goes over the various struggles during interwar years as the Navy was often downsized and neglected.

The writing is story style with events unfolding and quotes and near quotes and gossip thrown in. Naval battles are described in good format for a history book and I suppose you shouldn't expect modern-day diagrams showing the plots of each ship as there might not be that much detail in the historical records.

The book was written in 1938 so it does have the years of armistice navies then naval buildup. A chapter or two were added in 1941 sort of giving the state of the fleet vs Japan and key territories that each side will want to control.

There are appendices listing all armed ships built with some details plus end notes and an index.

As a history I guess it's fairly good as it's a 400+ page book with lots of text and there are illustrations — ships in battle paintings with a few photographs towards the end. Even though it has a story style and sometimes has people saying things it's still mostly a dry read of things happening and details of battle with not that much of the human element.

Anyway, I read this as someone who likes military history and as such it's a book that will be in my library though I wish there were a better book.

Appleseed Alpha (2014) [/] Japanese/American OVA prequel to Appleseed. In post-apocalyptic Earth the full-human Deunan (Luci Christian) and mostly-cyborg Briareos (David Matranga) team up with two agents from the mythical Olympus in order to destroy a giant prototype walker 'mech before Talos (Josh Sheltz), a rogue Olympian, seizes it and uses it to conquer the New York area… I liked Appleseed and it had great CGI which did not come through as I watched this on YouTube.

The Greatest Hits (2024) [/] Starts in media res. By listening to songs Harriet (Lucy Boynton) can travel back in time (for the duration of the song) to when the song was playing in her past when her boyfriend was present. She's trying to save him but always fails. And then she meets David (Justin H Min) and a new romance is not what she needs when she has this mission… Interesting concept competently executed.

Cruise (2018) [-] Set in 1980's New York. Italian-American Gio (Spencer Boldman) spends his time drag racing, stealing car radios and cruising for girls. He meets "Francesca" (Emily Ratajkowski) and immediately falls for her. She in turns wants a little adventure for her this is a Summer fling. Things get a little heated when they break into a car and find a brick of cocaine… Small budget film, not all that interesting, not sure the cocaine subplot adds to the movie.

Alignable [-] Based on the invite link I thought this was a site for vendors to get customer references and recommendations. No it's more like a typical B2B connections site and they're pretty aggressive about connecting you to vendors that then want to sell to you. I was trying to be nice to our vendor but this was a mistake.

Find Yourself is a Chinese romance drama tv show running 41 40-minute episodes.

At the small interior design company Amazing Decorations He Fanxing (Victoria Song) is a 32-year old administrator/manager who's been patiently waiting for her first love to come back and maybe kindle a relationship but it turns out he's getting married. Now on the wrong side of 30 she doesn't know if she'll ever find love.

At that point He Fanxing comes to the attention of two men. Yuan Song (Song Weilong) is a college intern at Amazing Decorations whose always though of her as cold and distant but a couple of incidents causes him to re-evaluate her and he starts to become attracted. He does eventually convince her to start dating him though she makes the stipulation that it must be secret for three months.

After they start dating comes the second suitor, Ye Luming (Wang Yaoqing), head of a small advertising firm that has business with Amazing Decorations. He's 37, career driven, and after many blind dates hasn't found anyone interesting. Once again a couple of incidents has He Fanxing starting out as someone unappealing but later incidents also make him realize she's quite different privately.

The series follows He Fanxing and Yuan Song as they navigate their secret relationship. Meanwhile Yu Luming becomes He Fanxing's platonic friend because he has a "secret love" that is taken by another man. Ye Luming uses his "I'm a friend" advantage to undermine Fanxing and Song's relationship until they break up and he sweeps in for the second half of the series…

There are a couple of other romantic subplots. The ending is an episode or two too long as He Fanxing inexpertly tries to win back Yuan Song. Everyone in the cast is very attractive.

Once again I'll contrast this story with The Rational Life, another Chinese romance where the older manager woman is pursued by a younger underling. That one I like more because there aren't extra romance subplots and the story concentrates on the two. Find Yourself is still better than average but it seemed to have more filler episodes where nothing advances. Still, I did quite enjoy watching Find Yourself.