Alexandrea Callaghan
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Certified nerd, super geek and very proud fangirl.
Stories (531/0)
9-1-1
So far the show is increasing in quality as we move through the seasons but the structural problems are most definitely still there. My biggest problem right now is that both season 2 and 3 have had really deep, emotional multi episode arcs that feel like they should end the season…but then they don’t and there are still several more episodes. The season finale then tries to shoehorn in something big at the end but it kind of robs the previous emotional arc of its impact. This problem roots in the fact that this show overuses multi-episode arcs. Like these writers have never heard of self contained stories. I am hoping that at some point in this series that horrible storytelling device goes away. We will see, at the end of season 3 Abby came back, but with a fiance. May graduates and starts working at the dispatch center and Maddy and Chim are having a baby!
By Alexandrea Callaghan2 days ago in Geeks
Sex and the City
Women led media in the 90s and early 2000s was iconic and influential. And one of those influential pieces was Sex and the City. Though some of the content did not age well there are still so many relevant parts of this show. So we are going to take this season by season discussing the good, the bad and, of course, the influential.
By Alexandrea Callaghan3 days ago in Geeks
MCU Rewatch
As a companion podcast to our An Idea of All Time podcast where we are starting off by watching Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings every week for 10 months, we have also decided to rewatch all of the current MCU movies in chronological order. We have now watched the first two Iron Man movies, because apparently we went from Iron Man 1 straight to Iron Man 2 and I think that was a poor decision for many reasons but lets go ahead and get into it.
By Alexandrea Callaghan6 days ago in Geeks
9-1-1
Season 2 of 9-1-1 definitely found its footing. Season 1 was so shaky I definitely didn’t have much hope for it. But luckily it looks like in season 2 they stabilized their writers room, this absolutely improved the quality of the writing and the viewing experience as a whole. I am fully convinced that Buck is super gay and no one can convince me otherwise. I am in fact not crazy because tumblr has validated all of my feelings. Now if Eddie isn’t gay I will riot because that is insane. Those two have more romantic chemistry with each other then they have ever had with any woman they interact with on screen. The season finale of season 2 was weird and kind of shoehorned in but it did end with our couples getting a happy ending. Maddy and Chim get together and Athena and Bobby get married.
By Alexandrea Callaghan12 days ago in Geeks
MCU Rewatch
As a companion series to An Idea of All Time my husband and I decided to rewatch all of the MCU movies in chronological order. This serves several purposes; 1) there is going to be a bit of an MCU drought for the next year as far as new releases go. 2) We want to properly place Shang-Chi in the MCU not just ranking it by quality but contextualizing it based on the existing universe. 3) We want to analyze how many of Shang-Chi’s problems are project specific and how many are MCU bred. So in addition to watching Shang-Chi every week we will be watching another MCU movie every week. We are of course starting with Iron Man.
By Alexandrea Callaghan12 days ago in Geeks
Game of Thrones
It has been 5 years since we were subjected to the shit show that was season 8 of Game of Thrones and still fans are bitter. What could have gone down as one of the greatest shows of all time instead concluded as one of the worst. It is impossible to watch season 8 and think that anyone’s ending was acceptable. The writers did a great job of assassinating every single character…even the ones I hated. So we are going to go ahead and list every single thing wrong with season 8.
By Alexandrea Callaghan13 days ago in Geeks
9-1-1
Season 1 of 9-1-1 is shaky at best. The show had no structure, no sense of organization, the character development was shoddy and none of the relationships were built up properly. Season 2 jumps right in and honestly the first episode of season 2 is about 1000X better then anything that was produced in season 1.
By Alexandrea Callaghan15 days ago in Geeks
An Idea of All Time
My husband and I decided that we would plan the next 4 and half or so years of quality time. He listens to a podcast called the worst idea of all time, the hosts watch a decidedly bad movie every week for a year. Now I am aware that I do not have that kind of will power. So our version is a tad more mild than that. We will be choosing a mediocre movie and to make it more interesting we will be choosing movies with numbers in the title. We are starting with Shang Chi: Legend of the 10 Rings. And we will be watching for as many months as there are numbers. We are almost done with our first month so here is a quick recap of what we have commented on as well links to the episode if you are interested.
By Alexandrea Callaghan15 days ago in Geeks
9-1-1
On a journey to writing a very long essay about queer representation in media I am throwing myself into very necessary research. So in light of recent events we will be starting 9-1-1. I have seen many clips of this show on TikTok but I have yet to actually watch a full episode. That said I will be taking my thoughts season by season, as I do, on my way to writing this much longer essay, also Angela Bassett is in it and that’s enough reason for me to watch anything. So here we go with the first season of 9-1-1.
By Alexandrea Callaghan20 days ago in Geeks
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
As a huge fan of Amy Palladino I have been meaning to watch The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for quite a while now and I just haven’t gotten a chance to do so yet. And by haven’t gotten a chance I mean I accidentally keep rewatching things I’ve already seen 12 times. Now I think anything Palladino does is gold and I have really only heard and seen good things about this show so I couldn’t wait to dive in.
By Alexandrea Callaghan27 days ago in Geeks
Ricky Stanicky
Amazon Prime has kind of been cranking out the original content lately and though not everyone is going see these hilarious and creative movies they are actually pretty good. Our latest endeavor includes Zac Efron and John Cena in the cast and quite honestly that is all I needed to know before deciding to watch this movie.
By Alexandrea Callaghan27 days ago in Geeks