The Nerdstream Era

  Prequels are a popular genre, especially in Hollywood. They build on an established IP and bring the coveted "brand recognition"...

 My friend Marcus Roberts wrote this obituary, and I wholeheartedly agree with everything he says here.  My friend Stefan Sasse sent me the ...

  One of the big surprises of the TV year 2023 was the Apple series "Silo". As I discussed in detail with Sean T. Collins on the p...

I finally managed to watch the final season of Ted Lasso. Of course, I would be in dereliction of my duties if I did not tell you what I tho...

The year is 2000. Planet Moon Studios published their first game, "Giants: Citizen Kabuto". It wasn't the first game for the d...

The 90s were a weird time for representation in movies. We can pin the start of the trend to include a black side character in big movies to...

We return to the House of the Dragon after another time jump. More than two years have passed since the last episode and establishing thes...

I got into a discussion about the quality of lightsaber duels in Star Wars, so naturally I decided to provide a definitive and 100% objectiv...

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...