The Nerdstream Era

We’re back in the Red Keep, half a year later. From the beginning, this show is dealing in different time horizons than does “Game of Thro...

Game of Thrones is back! Or, at least its 172 year distant prequel is. House Targaryen is at the height of its power, and as the voiceover i...

Things have been going slower, but I since I received a diagnosis for Long Covid in the meantime, I guess "The Americans" for me ...

"Jupiter Ascending" is a sad story. Not because of the plot. That one is decidedly dark at its core, but the actual events unfoldi...

Things have been going slower, but I since I received a diagnosis for Long Covid in the meantime, I guess "The Americans" for me w...

  After four movies that turned out way, way better than I expected, would Channing Tatum's filmography hold for the one that actually p...

Thursday is theory day. This is the twenty-seventh article of the series. Since there are a lot of theories floating out there and I'...

In the newest anthology he edited, "Rogues", George R. R. Martin included the aptly named "The Rogue Prince". Like with...

I recently watched "Darkest Hour", the biopic about Winston Churchill in May 1940. I'm usually not a fan of biopics, which a...

Having finally moves past the worst of Covid, my pace in rewatching "The Americans" slowed down a bit. I was still on sick leave, ...

B ecause of my Covid-induced torpor, I was not able to do much but lay back on the couch and binge stuff. There was nothing of interest on...

Because of my Covid-induced torpor, I was not able to do much but lay back on the couch and binge stuff. There was nothing of interest on, a...

Because of my Covid-induced torpor, I was not able to do much but lay back on the couch and binge stuff. There was nothing of interest on, a...

T here was some mild buzz surrounding the Showtime series "Yellowjackets" that was sufficient for the network to immediately order...

I watched "The King's Man" yesterday, the prequel to the Matthew Vaughn vehicles Kingsman and Kingsman 2. In it, an impeccable...

For the first time ever, I watched “Born on the Fourth of July”, the 1989 feature by Oliver Stone. Tom Cruise is playing Vietnam veteran...

In the reviews of the previous three books I repeatedly mentioned, that while they are intricately and expertly plotted, the literary qualit...

Continuing my reread, I've now finished "A Storm of Swords", and once again, I won't assume you need any kind of synopsis ...

After I tackled "A Game of Thrones" in BLAP 58, concentrating on Early Installement Weirdness, I recently completed my reread of ...

  Valarr morghulis. Everything needs to come to an end, and so does the greatest series of all time, the popcultural phenomenon to end all...