Time for a Fantasy

Well, here we are…all not dressed up and nowhere to go!  I, for one, don’t mind the restrictions of the virus too much.  I don’t like the illness or the death, for sure, but being at home?  It’s okay.  I am used to it and am making due.  I blog, at times (though not enough), and write some (less than blogging, truth be told), help Mom, email, Facebook, play video games, Scrabble, and… ta da binge Netflix.

I have come across some well-known and not-so-well-known shows and movies that have helped to bide my time and make my days.  I thought a brief, but good old-fashioned review of some of them might be in order: I love the scary-ish, dramatic, sci-fi genres most of all, so that may influence me, but not all…

1. Cursed (1 season) Fey Girl (think fairies) who thinks she is cursed may just save the world.
2. Supergirl (5 Seasons) – self-explan for most, I think
3. Sherlock (4 Seasons) – Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson now
4. In the Dark – (1 season) – Blind girl goes through a lot of changes when best friend is murdered
5. Star Trek Voyager (7 seasons) I I have watched this series 2 1/2 times so far plus the one-at-a-time deal when it first came out.
6. The Shannara Chronicles (2 seasons) A great book trilogy (The Sword of Shannara, etc…). Sword and Sorcery, romance and all the rest.
7. Homemade (1 season) short films made by people during this virus quarantine while in quarantine.
8. Star Trek Enterprise (2 seasons) The prequel to Star Trek.
9. Better Than Us (1 season) about what happens when you remove the Asimov Rules of Robotics from a robot.
10. Locke and Key (1 season) A family (Mom plus 3) move back home to a magical house and danger.
11. Black Mirror (4 seasons, I think) British-based strange, usually horror stories (don’t bother with the first episode)
12. Warrior Nun (1 season) a non-nun becomes part of a world-saving Catholic group of nuns when she dies and has an angel halo put into her.
13. The Old Guard (movie)  Charlize Theron – a nearly immortal group who helps keep the world peace.
14. Daybreak (1 or 2 seasons) An off-beat zombie-kinda show about a time when only kids are left to run the world.  A lot of vocal documentary added with the show (worth the listen, too)
15. Penny Dreadful (3 seasons) Penny Dreadfuls were the dime store horror stories (think Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula, Jeckle and Hyde) put together in one show – scary, interesting and good.
16. Lost in Space (2 seasons) The old 60s show updated and really good.
17. Z Nation (5 seasons) a fun, scary, dramatic, good, though gory-at-times zombie series in which a group of “heroes” tries to get a possible cure of a virus from East to West coast.
18. I Zombie (4 seasons?) zombie show in which not all become crazed killers.  This one is about a girl who works in a forensic morgue is bitten and infected.
19. Travelers (3 seasons) Group of people sent back, mostly 1 at a time, back to stock an upcoming apocalypse by changing key events in the past.
20. Flash (6 seasons) the Scarlet Speedster from the comics.

Okay, hopefully, just the first installment. Enjoy!  Let me know what you think and would you like other types of movies and shows from my past included?

Namaste,

Scott