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If you need something to watch for a few hours, do yourself a favor and watched Netflix new show, Nailed It. I'm not a huge fan of baking or cooking shows, but there really needs to be more than six episodes of Nailed It. Or at least there's a promise for a second season. Nailed It is a baking show for home bakers who... aren't really very good, or experienced. There are three challengers in each show, and two challenges. The first challenge, Baker's Choice, gives the baker's a chance to pick from one of three similarly decorated treats to try and recreate. They're given between 45-50 minutes to attempt the recreation and then judged on both sight and taste. The winner of Baker's Choice gets a prize (a stand mixer in several episodes) and the chance to wear a bright gold chef's hat for the second round signifying that they're the one to beat. In the second round, they start from scratch and all three are tasked with recreating an amazing cake ...

I managed to finish Jessica Jones Season 2 tonight and as the title might suggest, I'm not really sure how I feel about it. I didn't watch The Defenders (maybe I'll get back to it, but it's not a priority) so I'm not sure how well any of it ties in, or doesn't, to what happened there. Although I feel like it's probably pretty stand-alone from it, given that the only real ties I saw/heard in season two related to Jeri. For a pretty spoiler-free review I can say that I both enjoyed Jessica's progression in this season and what the focus was for her with Kilgrave out of the picture. I can also say that it's pretty freaking cool that they employed female-only directors for Season 2, however there was also a long way they could've gone to improve some of their diversity issues. Black women specifically got an unfair shake on screen and in ways that absolutely could've gone any direction. It's not enough to cast black actors, there's no ...

I had some friends in town overnight who had never seen The Good Place. However we started it pretty late in the night so they didn't make it very many episodes into the first season before everyone crashed. But as someone that doesn't rewatch very many shows, just getting a few episodes in to season one made me watch to continue. It's also really entertaining to watch the show with people who haven't seen it before, knowing exactly what they have to look forward to by the end of the first season. Even my expectations feel different despite knowing what's coming. There's so much about that first season I'd forgotten, especially about those first few episodes the prevalence of Michael's neurosis even before the reveal. (This won't be long, and I'm doing my best not to spoil anything specific, or the specifics about the end of Season One.) There's something about a show like this one where the end of Season One changes the show fundament...

Drunk History is almost always a good time, but this video of Nichelle Nichols (as played by Raven Simone) time on Star Trek and her work with NASA is short, but awesome. It also includes the line from drunk narrator, Ashley Nicole Black, speaking as Martin Luther King Jr. (as played by Jaleel White), "No I'm Martin Luther King, I have no chill." Seriously everything about this is wonderful and funny. And because it's Drunk History, this exchange also happens: Ashley: So you know, they're filming Star Wars and it's great. Derek: Is that true? Ashley: Oh, my God. Also very good.  Ashley: So they're doing Star Trek. It's great. People love it.

I know I'm behind on this, but I just finished binging the first season of Supergirl. I've been a Superman fan since I was a little kid watching old black and white George Reeves' Superman reruns with my dad. I grew up with reruns of Helen Slater's Supergirl. I had a poster for Superman IX on my wall; I pretty much loved everything about Christopher Reeves' Superman -- still do. I loved Lois & Clark, but didn't like Smallville. Really, I've seen all the Superman stuff because I love him as a character so much. Sure, in the comics he was often a dick but he was also kind and friendly and humorous.  Supergirl, specifically the way Melissa Benoist plays her, reminds me a great deal of the Christopher Reeves movies. Reminds me of why I like Superman so much. They're not perfect people. They sure aren't perfect humans. Not perfect heroes. But they take joy in saving people and not as some god-complexed savior of mankind (although I'll admit Sup...