Videos

Talks Machina
#144 'The Fancy and the Fooled'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Videos

Critical Role
2x97 The Fancy and the Fooled [2nd half]
I don't know if Matt adjusts his plans to make sure something major happens at live shows, but good golly, it's a fantastic payoff when that does happen — the energy brought by playing in front of (and playing up to) a live audience is something else.
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Videos

Critical Role
2x97 The Fancy and the Fooled [1st half]
Live show! Yay!
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

TV

Daredevil: Born Again
1x05 With Interest
1x06 Excessive Force
[Watch it (again) on Disney+.]

TV

Friends
6x13 The One with Rachel's Sister [5th or so watch]

Films

The Mermaid (1904)
aka La sirène — a Georges Méliès short, watched on YouTube here

TV

Friends
6x10 The One with the Routine [6th or so watch]
6x11 The One with the Apothecary Table [5th or so watch]
6x12 The One with the Joke [5th or so watch]

Unforgotten
6x03 Episode 3
6x04 Episode 4
6x05 Episode 5
6x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on ITVX.]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

It's a somewhat momentous week, as a flood of new titles (not a record-breaker, but still a big one) push my total collection past 3,500 titles. Eesh!

Number of titles in collection: 3,501 [up 11]
Of which DVDs: 987 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,513 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 450 [up 4]

That includes a real rarity nowadays: a DVD. Though calling it "a DVD" is an understandment: it's a 34-disc set; the complete series of The Saint, to be precise. So there's a huge boost to TV episode numbers, too — and at 118 episodes, it single-handedly pushes me past the 10,000 episodes mark!

But that's not all, because one of the Blu-rays I got is a box set of classic cinema serials, which I count as TV episodes (as discussed previously), so it's a mind-boggling TV episode increase — more than the whole of 2024! Whew! Maybe I should start counting "cinema serial episodes" as its own stat...

Number of discs in collection: 8,466 [up 58]
Number of films: 4,442 [up 17]
Number of additional cuts: 439 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,101 [up 218]
Number of short films: 1,225 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Friends
6x08 The One with Ross's Teeth [5th or so watch]
6x09 The One Where Ross Got High [5th or so watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x59 Week 12: Thursday
8x60 Week 12: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Unforgotten
6x01 Episode 1
6x02 Episode 2
[Watch the whole series (again) on ITVX.]