Consortium of Seven: Year 4

        A firm, full seven days into October already! The greatest, truest horror is the speed of it all, as  we try to recover and rejuvenate from the press of obligations, only to find that the rest period's over and it's time to go give some more. At least the local weather's finally cleared - it was all clouds, rain and gloom hereabouts the first five days of the month! The first Thursday of the month was the first direct sunshine we'd seen since late September.       Oh! Not something that's imminent, but definitely something I'm looking forward to and had to note: Official word came through recently that Peacock has greenlit the the long-awaited movie for the NBC (and then Sony) comedy series Community . It's been an in-joke for fans of the series that it would have "six seasons and a movie" - a line from Danny Pudi's obsessive-compulsive character Abed Nadir, who at the time was talking about a doomed NBC superhero d...

        Very busy on the work front for me, so I cut out an in-progress section so this could go live Friday morning. If I get back to it as planned Friday evening I'll finish that and add it in --  and maybe one or two other timely things I've momentarily forgotten about -- adding it in Blue text so they'll be easier to find if you've already been through this once.       Before getting to the themed bulk of this week's piece, I want to follow up one of last week's tips: The second season of Reservation Dogs (on Hulu) wrapped this week, and remains both funny and touching. While I like aspects of most of the characters, I emerge from the second season with Cheese (more formally Chester, played by Lane Factor) as my favorite character. At first they played him in a more forced way, with a formulaic introduction in which he identifies himself, including his pronouns, which seemed a little programmed. While part of the core gro...