Tag: review
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by Michael McCarthy OK, you all know how much I love Netflix, right? But I am kind of annoyed with them. When they licensed Heels and High Town from Starz, they had to have known that both of those shows last season’s end with huge cliffhangers that were never resolved because the shows were prematurely…
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by Michael McCarthy Yesterday the German heavy metal band Helloween released their new album, Giants & Monsters. The fascinating thing about Helloween is that they had three different singers during different periods of the bands existence of roughly 40 years and now all THREE singers are in the band at the same exact time. Originally…
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by Michael McCarthy It is, perhaps, weird but once in a while an album in a language I don’t even know will somehow speak to my soul just as loudly as an album with moving English language lyrics. Right now I’m listening to a new album by a German artist I like. Anomalie Pt.1 by…
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by Michael McCarthy I’ve finished watching Rotten Legacy on Netflix. And I really can’t recommend it. For one thing, none of the characters are likable. They’re all self-centered, corrupt assholes, really. The show is centered around a family that owns a media empire. They’re kind of like The Murdochs of Spain. The show reminded me…
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by Michael McCarthy As I am sure you all must know, there was a popular Korean medical drama called Hospital Playlist. It was centered around these five doctors who went to school together and were all good friends. When they were younger, they were in a band together so one of the characters tells the…
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by Michael McCarthy [NOTE: I apologize for this review not having any photos from the show. My cellphone doesn’t have a very good camera so I didn’t take photos last night. Besides, I wanted to fully immerse myself in the show and if you spend half the time taking photos, you’re not enjoying it so…
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by Michael McCarthy Selena Gomez released an excellent new album last Friday. It’s billed as Selena Gomez and benny blanco (for some reason he refuses to capitalize his name), blanco being her producer boyfriend. The album is supposed to tell the story of their romance. Previously, the two collaborated on a track called “I Can’t…
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by Michael McCarthy As even a young child could tell you, songs have the ability to make people feel things. For example, maybe you cry every time you hear “Open Arms” by Journey or “Against All Odds” by Phil Collins. (Truth be told, these songs usually do make me cry.). On the other hand, there…
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by Michael McCarthy I watched the fourth season of Wrong Side of the Tracks (also known as Entrevias) on Netflix this weekend. It’s an excellent Spanish series about this small suburb where the elderly old guys who’ve lived there all of their lives clash with the drug dealers and other assorted thugs. Definitely a vigilante…
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by Michael McCarthy I finished watching the Korean zombie series Happiness today. It’s from 2021 but it only just arrived on Netflix. It wasn’t a very scary zombie series but one of the more realistic ones I’ve seen. I also liked the zombie origin part of the story, which is that it starts as a…
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by Michael McCarthy I have just finished watching the funniest series I have ever seen. It’s a Korean sitcom called The Sound of Your Heart. It focuses on an approximately 30 year old webtoon artist who lives with his parents and brother. And it’s just full of absolutely hilarious stuff. I could tell you about…
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by Michael McCarthy If you like violent movies, you have to see the Korean movie Project Wolf Hunting. Rated NC 17 just for violence. Basically, a bunch of criminals are being extradited from Korea and they’re sending them back via a cargo ship because another method was tried previously and there was a problem. So…
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by Michael McCarthy I am currently watching a Kdrama called Fix You. It’s another series starring Jung So Min, who’s become my favorite Korean actress. Like many Kdramas, it has another title for some reason, which is Soul Mechanics. I’m watching it on Viki but it’s also on Kocowa. In any case, Jung So Min…
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by Michael McCarthy What you’re about to read is a Facebook post that I found myself writing this morning after someone mentioned Metallica’s black album in a music community on there and most people had very negative things to say about it. ### I find it fascinating how so many people hate Metallica’s so-called black…
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by Michael McCarthy I finished watching the Kdrama D Day this week. It’s from 2015, but the production values are right up there with the production values of all the great stuff coming out these days. It takes place in Seoul after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake does severe damage to the city. In the show…
