Young Sheldon (season 7)

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of TV shows

{5/5} “‘Well, I’ll give you one thing. You got confidence.’ ‘Thank you.’ ‘You get a second thing, you’ll be unstoppable.’ ‘Sounds like I’m halfway there.’” — George & Georgie Young Sheldon season 7, aired in 2024 Mary thinks she and Sheldon should go back home because of the tornado, but Sheldon disagrees. Sheldon is stunned to […]

DaCapo Chamber Choir’s “Starry Night”

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of music

I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “Starry Night.” Here’s the program: Sven-David Sandström – Ah, Sunflower! Nicholas Kelly – Earthrise Leonard Enns – Nocturne Eriks Ešenvalds – Stars Morten Lauridsen – Sure on this Shining Night* Laura Hawley – Be Music, Night Eric Whitacre – Water Night Randal Thompson – Choose Something Like a […]

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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{5/5} “We believe apes built this as a refuge for humans… Perhaps here humans were cared for, fed, maybe even taught.” Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, released in 2024 Noa, Anaya, and Soona are out gathering eagle eggs for bonding day. They catch a glimpse of someone not ape in the forest. They […]

Captain America: Brave New World

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{4.5/5} “‘Sir, you invited me here to work together. So let’s work together.’ ‘I’m afraid that offer expired when your friend tried to kill me.’” Captain America: Brave New World, released in 2025 Thaddeus Ross is now President, and Sam Wilson is now Captain America. In Mexico Sam and the Falcon, along with a team, […]

Young Sheldon (Season 6)

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{5/5} “‘Where do you stand on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division?’ ‘I’m against it.’” — Sheldon & Billy Young Sheldon Season 6, aired in 2022-23 George and Dale drive down to the border to bail Connie and Georgie out of jail. Connie is feeling unwelcome at church so she decides to leave. Since George lost […]

Star Trek: Voyager — Echoes

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{5/5} “The statue’s expression was a gentle half-smile made strange by the disturbing filmy eyes. What this balding creature was doing, or what he represented, was beyond Janeway’s comprehension. But the entire feeling from the statue was one of a people Janeway felt she might have liked. So where had they gone? What had happened […]

The Gorge

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{4.5/5} “I’m telling you there have been 9 Soviet/Russian heads of state and 13 US presidents since the coalitions were formed. And not one of them has known about the Gorge.” The Gorge, released in 2025 Levi is a sniper who’s recruited and taken by plane to an unknown location — he parachutes out, walks […]

Young Sheldon (season 5)

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{5/5} “Ever since I read The Naked Sun. I’ll admit, I came for the ‘naked’ but I stayed for the interplanetary conspiracies.” — Dr. Grant Linkletter, regarding Asimov’s novel Young Sheldon season 5, aired in 2021-22 While having drinks with Brenda, George has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital. Georgie decides to […]

Starling House

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{5/5} “He doesn’t know why it would want her, of all people: a freckled scarecrow of a girl with crooked teeth and holes in the knees of her jeans, entirely unremarkable except for the steel in her eyes. And perhaps for the way she stood her ground against him. He is a ghost, a rumor, […]

Companion

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{4.5/5} “Yeah, it’s fake. Never happened. I just randomly picked it from a drop-down list of meet cutes.” Companion, released in 2025 Josh and Iris are visiting friends at a secluded house. They have a fun evening, but in the morning a disaster happens. When Sergei, the owner of the house, tries to force himself […]