Consortium of Seven: Year 4

  Wow.     Four years ?      Doesn't feel like it, but I suppose it never does.      I meant to do something more with it, but my time-management skills are often crap, and there seemed to always be something hanging over me, stressing me out, at any given time. Me "just" waiting for that thing to be "over", and then, surely, time would be mine and energy would return. Dream on.       Part of me thought this might be something I'd be carrying with me through the planned transition in my personal life sometime in 2026, but nothing lasts forever.     When Garbo told me about the Consortium of Seven project back in 2019, inviting me to be take one of the seven days after someone (I'm not sure that I ever knew who), originally in the mix to handle tv and film, had to bow out, I was interested. In large part I found it attractive because back closer to the start of this century one of my main on...

        Oh, while there's plenty I've been watching in the past week - Reservation Dogs (FX, now down to its final three episodes), Dark Winds ' (AMC+, and I believe that as of this week it's also running on Max for two months as part of one of many, many content exchanges the various streamers have negotiated to use other services' content as "new" programming for their platforms) second season, and I really appreciated the people behind Matt Groening's fractious fairy tale Disenchanted giving us a set of happy endings with its final season over on Netflix - but I'm going to do a quick pivot this week. In large part it's the reflex of looking for a Fall Preview in a year where there really ain't one, due to the strike.       Those still primarily watching network tv will be seeing a mix of reality series, game shows, and where those networks are connected to a streaming platform, one or more previously streaming-only series beg...