Saturday, 21 March 2026

TV

Saturday Night Live UK
1x01 Tina Fey
Didn't expect much of this, but I mostly enjoyed it. It's a sketch show, so of course it could be hit and miss, but the gags landed more often than they failed.

The Wheel
6x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
[#12 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

Fiction

Redwall by Brian Jacques
Book Three, Chapters 4–8

Video Games

Upstairs
Short (I completed it in 1¾ hours, and I look at everything and explore every dialogue tree; though somehow I didn't collect two achievements, so there must be options I missed) point-and-click adventure game that was just released by an independent dev. It's a lot of fun, with good puzzles (logical but you don't feel like everything's just handed to you) and a number of gags that made me laugh. Technically the story is horror, and rather dark at that, but the pixel art and humorous tone nonetheless make it feel close to the style of classic LucasArts games... though they'd surely never have done anything this bloody. Definitely worth a look on Steam or Itch.io if it seems your kind of thing.

Collection Count

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

Six new additions this week, and all nice straightforward ones that just make numbers go up.

Number of titles in collection: 3,673 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 966 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,707 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 515 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 8,818 [up 8]
Number of films: 4,720 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 487 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,132 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,293 [up 9]

See you next week, faithful reader.