• Inside Entertainment,  Reviews

    Review: Cobra Kai ~ Season 3

    The date for Cobra Kai‘s season 4 just dropped in a new trailer (below), pitting Daniel and Johnny against Kreese and The Karate Kid III’s Terry Silver. I have to admit I’m wary about this season. I loved season one, and it set up season two perfectly. Season two was great, although it devolved a little too much into teenage relationship angst. I did also have some problems with the finale – not so much the big school fight, but the outcomes it contained. For me, season three was a misfire. It was still enjoyable, but juggling so many characters, it felt like some had to remain in holding patterns…

  • Inside Entertainment,  Media Rants

    Unhappily Ever After …

    I try not to watch shit. I’ll switch off. There are plenty of alternatives. But if it’s something I have an emotional connection to, then I persevere. I know I shouldn’t. But it’s become analogous to self-mutilation. I know it’s wrong, I know it’s bad for me, but I want to – need to – feel some new pain to validate the experience. Watching Star Trek: Picard (2020 – ), I can only think, What unholy shit is this? How can you get everything so wrong? How can you be so oblivious? But why am I surprised? The Disney Star Wars Trilogy is bad. The DC incarnations of Batman and…