This Past Week in Entertainment...

For the past week, I feel like I've indulged a lot of my free time in watching some form of entertainment and I decided to share that with you guys. (Head’s up: I've included spoilers.)

For tv:

Last Sunday evening was great tv time for me. I watched the mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead. Spoilers! They totally tricked you. I thought the episode was opening up with Beth’s dead, but nope. They decided to kill off Tyreese in the opener.

I actually liked the episode. In the Talking Dead segment afterwards, Chad Coleman (the actor who plays Tyreese) said something like the episode reminded him of an art film and how this was the first time that we – the viewers – got to experience the subconscious of a character dying on the show. (At least, I’m pretty sure Coleman was the one who said this. I apologize if I’m misquoting.)

It’ll be interesting to see the dynamics of the group now. Two siblings are gone in back-to-back episodes. Beth was more of the upbeat one of the group and Tyreese was like the moral compass. Now they’re gone.

But immediately after that, Better Call Saul premiered, so guess who watched that too?

Of course, there have only been two episodes so far, but I’m liking it.

Spoilers! My mouth dropped when Tuco appeared in the last scene of the first episode. I definitely was not expecting him to make a presence. (I’m still loving Mike and the way he irritates Saul. He was always one of my favorite characters in Breaking Bad.)

My favorite line in episode two:

     Skateboarder: You’re the worst lawyer ever!

     Jimmy McGill: I just talked you down from a death sentence to six months’ probation. I’m the best lawyer ever.

For Youtube:

Yes, I watch all kinds of channels/webseries on youtube. And last week, I decided that I was going to re-watch The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice).

I subscribed to this series back when they were only 10 episodes in. One hundred episodes later plus multiple spin-offs on the LBD timeline, I haven’t watched it in almost the two years since it ended.

It took me six days, much longer than I anticipated (then again, I also watched the 33 Lydia Bennet videos and Gigi’s Pemberley demos), but I finished.

And it’s still just as wonderful.

The acting! The story! The drama! The fashion! It’s. So. Good.

I’m still amazed how the Bennet sisters and Darcy siblings look like they could pass for actual siblings.

And New Jane’s hard questions to Lizzie were some things that I needed to hear in my own life.

Although now I kinda want to re-watch the Emma Approved series…

Another video I watched was The Trail to Oregon! musical. It got released last night so I sat down to watch it. (Not like I had any plans for Valentine’s Day. Can’t go wrong with Starkid.)

It was hilarious. I loved all the little nods toward the actual game.

I’m still trying to decide which character death ending I liked the most. The daughter’s? Maybe the son’s?

For books:

Okay, so you can’t really watch a book, but I figured that it totally counts as a form of entertainment.

I just started reading Polaris by Mindee Arnett (the sequel to Avalon).

I’m only on page 75, so I can’t say too much about it.

However, Spoilers! I can’t believe that a character died in the second chapter. What!? I was not expecting that to happen so soon.



…Yeah, I need a life.