Consortium of Seven: Year 4

     Wednesday, or so we were told, was the official start of summer. Save for this past Monday, and a couple of brief patches of direct sunlight since, here in Eastern PA we've been under clouds, and we're told to expect clouds and frequent thunderstorms through next Wednesday. Gah. That this gives me another extended "out" for desperately overdue yard work is the bright side of that, and I'll take it.         For this week's post, it's a small scatter of items.  As ever, I invite you to look back through previous Friday posts for an array of streaming material options, as there are many items even I haven't gotten around to doing more than preview, and I watch far more video than anyone should.        Despite the much-derided (and deservedly-so, even just at the conceptual and aesthetic levels) move to use AI to generate images for the title sequence for the new MCU series Secret Invasion , I otherwise enjoyed...

      The final days of April this weekend, here in Eastern PA nature seems intent on holding to those showers. Trying to keep a glass half full perspective on another damp weekend, I've plenty to do indoors and it appears I'll be given another weekend's excuse for not starting on those yard chores. If I want the glass to be full, I can just leave it on a windowsill.       Arriving yesterday on Netflix, just under two years since season one, is the eight-episode second season of Sweet Tooth . ( I'd first mentioned the series back in early June of 2021. )       An adaptation of a 40-issue comics series of the same name, written and drawn by Jeff Lemire back in 2009-12. It tells of an event that comes to be known as The Great Crumble, a decade before the main events of this series, where a pandemic comes close to wiping out mankind, while at the same time some children begin to be born as human-animal hybrids. These t...