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...

        Wow. So, it's December already.          A busy, off-balance week for me, which I suppose makes it fairly typical. Unwanted distractions of all sorts enhanced my time mismanagement, and additional problems now find me rushing through buttoning down this likely Netflix-heavy entry.       Oh, with this sort of weekly column I'd be remiss if I didn't at least mention the relative bombshell that just dropped, as Amazon Prime essentially poached Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy ( The Haunting , Midnight Mass , etc.) from Netflix, signing them to a multi-year series development deal for Amazon. This naturally flowed into Netflix's announcement just a few hours later that their most recent series creation for Netflix, The Midnight Club , has been canceled after its debut season. Prime's overall financial situation is stronger than Netflix's, and they've recently been ramping their spending up much as Netflix had...