Review Day

There are no major spoilers in these reviews.

Mythic Quest, Season Three:
This season was hit-or-miss. Some of the characters become too Flanderized and there's not a lot of forward progress in the plot. On AppleTV+.

Final Grade: B-

Schmigadoon, Season One:
This show is about two people in a failing relationship who magically stumble into a musical and cannot leave until they find true love. The songs are fine and the feeling of musicals from the 60s and 70s is captured perfectly, but it just isn't very gripping. Everything they try here was already done better (and with more edge) in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I gave it 5 episodes then gave up. On AppleTV+.

Final Grade: Not Rated

Drops of God:
This limited series based on a manga is about the death of a wine magnate and the competition between his daughter and his best student to claim the inheritance. The show bounces around between Japanese, French, and English, and has lots of fun wine-tasting imagery. It's a pleasant ride, and very different from the shows we usually watch. On AppleTV+.

Final Grade: B

Baldur's Gate 3:
Everyone is raving about this game based on Dungeons and Dragons, but I just didn't connect with it. I enjoyed the old-school fiddly nature of this game studio's previous games (the Divinity: Original Sin series) and can appreciate the high-quality voice acting and game style in Baldur's Gate 3. However, when a game offers you so much freedom that you can do anything, it paradoxically feels like nothing is worth doing. I would play for an hour or so and spend so much time fiddling with minutia that I made no forward progress -- it doesn't fit with my gaming pattern of wanting to complete everything before moving on. I shelved the game after about 6 hours. Maybe I'll come back to it someday when I'm retired and have hours of contiguous gaming time to devote.

Final Grade: Not Rated