Media Consumption November, on a Wednesday

Audiobooks:

• Down The River Unto The Sea by Walter Mosley. Narrated by Dion Graham. One-shot noir detective story about a former cop who was framed and sent to prison. 10 years later he has PTSD and is trying to find out who framed him. Mosley's detective fiction really delivers. I enjoyed it except for the misogyny, and the plot was a little too complicated for me to follow on audio.
  
• Doctor Who: "The Nightmare Fair" (Lost Stories Series 1 #1) - Big Finish audio, published in 2010, with Colin Baker. Done with loads of sound effects that sounded absolutely terrible and overwhelmed the dialogue a lot of the time. I finished it and it was OK, but I'm skipping the rest.
  
• The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett (Continental Op #2) - Narrated by Richard Ferrone, a bit too blandly. I never really ended up caring about any of the characters in this story.
  
• Our Harlem: Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster - Audible Original. Marcus Samuelsson, the Swedish/Ethiopian owner of Harlem's Red Rooster restaurant, hosts seven podcast-like episodes in which he meets with other chefs, experts on Black history and Harlem, and people important to the history of Harlem. Each episode has an entree recipe and a cocktail recipe and conversation and music. It comes with a PDF of the recipes and cocktails. I really enjoyed it. It was like sitting in on a party. The recipes sound really delicious.
• Outlander by Diane Gabaldon. Finished it. Liked it, but not enough to immediately start the next one, because it was so long (32.5 hours)...and Outlander is the shortest book in the series. The books in the rest of the series range between 39 and 58 hours each. As a comparison, the version of War and Peace I listened to was 61 hours.

Music:
This played in episode 4 of Lupin, at a tragic juncture. Both the music and words are beautifully haunting.

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TV:

• Homecoming (Amazon) - I finished this and really enjoyed it. I watched the second season first, then the first season, but I'm sure it's even better watching them in the correct order. Great casting: Joan Cusadck, Janelle Monáe, Julia Roberts, Sissy Spacek. And I haven't seen Bobby Cannavale in anything else but he plays an absolutely hateful villain; I love him.
  
• Katla (Netflix) - This is a dour fantasy-mystery set in Iceland, in which a volcano and weather are characters in themselves. It's a bit soap-opera-y (as in, I'm more curious about the interpersonal drama among the characters than I am about the mystery, although that's intriguing too).
  DC's Legends of Tomorrow (Netflix) - {*sigh*} I started watching it because I'm thirsty for more John Constantine content. I liked the eps he was in in season 3, and I liked Season 4 ep 1, but I gave up after ep 6 because the rest of the show is too cheesy for me, and Constantine became too much of a cliché of himself. (And I like that Constantine is a cliché of himself! But there are limits!) If you know what I'm talking about and think the show gets better, please let me know. I don't wanna have to actually start reading comics to get Constantine content! (Nothing wrong with comics per se. I just like to limit my media types for some reason.)
  
• Locke & Key (Netflix) - I like seeing Abby from Scandal and Johnny Jaqobis from Killjoys playing family members. Yeah it still feels like that even halfway into season 2; I can't quite separate them from the characters I originally saw them playing. Oh yeah, and Gabe is a fun villain.
  
• Lupin (Netflix) - I'm rewatching it; it's better the second time around.
  
• Star Trek: The Original Series, "Space Seed" (Amazon, Hulu) - This was a great story but I'm mad that somewhere along the line the perfectly good D/s got adulterated with misogyny.
  
• Torchwood - Rewatch. Cheesy, but there are compassion and lust for life themes in it that really grab at me. Although Barrowman isn't the greatest actor, he pulls those parts off. And Burn Gorman is amazing; I would watch him reading the, hm, phone books don't exist any more, what's an equivalent?

Movies:

• The Good Thief - 2002 heist film directed by Neil Jordan, starring Nick Nolte as a jaded, semi-retired, drug-addicted thief, who is absolutely pitch-perfect. This movie will always have a place in my heart because it introduced me to "A Thousand Kisses Deep" by Leonard Cohen. (Prior to this I had not been a Cohen fan, and that was the first time I heard his middle-aged-and-later voice, which I love.) I had to actually buy a DVD of this, it's not streaming anywhere, and that's a darned shame.
  
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Disney+) - This was a fun romp, especially combined with the Muni bus driver's Twitter commentary (https://twitter.com/that_mc/status/1459613123590066180?s=10)
  
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount+) - Ricardo Montalban <3 <3 <3 Spock death scene <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 (I'm still angry about what Star Trek Into Darkness tried to do with this movie).