Consortium of Seven: Year 4

        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...

     My stress-out continues, reminding me that age does not automatically bring wisdom. I live in the small hope that one day I will learn to not let bad elements ruin everything else in life, awaiting a time (that will never come) when all is both well and somehow within my control. Regardless, I'm feeling wrung out and am not at all sure what will be included in this week's piece.       On a related note, a compromised credit card has led to so many accounts - including streaming ones - needing payment info updates. Many frustrations to be found there. This layered on top of my Appletv+ problems (it simply never worked even remotely smoothly with my smart tv, and their account login and management process remains unfriendly), led to me canceled that sub for now. (I'll believe it once the billing date's passed and there's no charge.) I'm sure I'll give it another try some later day, likely as part of a firestick setup... but that's for ...