Consortium of Seven: Year 4

       August rolls on, and it's steamrolling me!       An interesting, frequently entertaining, sometimes off-putting season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+) did the expected season-ending shift, though about two episodes later than I'd expected early in the season. It also ends on a cliffhanger, which I'm hoping no one will see as a spoiler. It's more meant to manage expectations.       I've saved this week's Reservation Dogs (Hulu) for when I'm rolling into the weekend, in part because I enjoy the characters' company, and am in need of a little comfort.       Arriving today on Netflix is an action spy thriller starring Gal Gadot, Irish star Jamie Dornan, and Bollywood star Alia Bhatt. Gadot stars as Rachel Stone, an international intelligence agent tasked with protecting a mysterious borderline all-powerful MacGuffin known as "The Heart", keeping it from falling into enemy h...

      As this week rolled out, I was expecting to be kept busy enough, including a medical issue for Friday, that I wanted to get Friday's piece together ahead of time.       I'll note that the second season of Sweet Tooth (Netflix) not only ended on interesting notes, but let us know that a final, third season is already in the works.     Also, the sci-fi, female empowerment series The Power wrapped its first season on Amazon Prime this past Friday, and I'm hoping in the near future we'll receive word that a second season has been approved. I'm unsure how much the writers' strike may slow down even this process. I'm well enough invested in several of the characters, and in the overall narrative arc, to want that second season to happen.     Adding something, in large part because of it being time-sensitive:       From is a science fiction horror series created for the former EPIX chann...