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 these episodes (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: 2,514 [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.]

TV

Friends
6x06 The One on the Last Night [6th or so watch]
6x07 The One Where Phoebe Runs [5th or so watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x58 Week 12: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Videos

Talks Machina
#143 'Family Shatters'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Videos

Critical Role
2x96 Family Shatters [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

TV

The Wheel
5x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
12 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches [the end]

Far from the end of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, of course, but the end of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Comics

Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli
#231 Saved
#232 God and Country
#233 Armageddon [the end]

I didn't intend to binge my way through this, but it was so good I didn't want to stop reading. A deserved classic.

Videos

Critical Role
2x96 Family Shatters [1st half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Films

Mobile Suit Gundam (1981)
[#33 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2025]

Comics

Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli
#229 Pariah!
#230 Born Again

Videos

Talks Machina
#142 'Blessing in Disguise'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Collection Count

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

I mentioned last time that this week would be an average one, provided all my preorders for the 24th turned up early, and most of them did. That's six new titles this week, then, but two are upgrades, so it sits at four — and my weekly average for 2024* was 4.5, so there you go.

* calculated as the increase to "number of titles" in the year-end tallies, divided by 52.

Number of titles in collection: 3,490 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 986 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,504 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 446 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 8,408 [up 9]
Number of films: 4,425 [up 5]
Number of additional cuts: 439 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,883 [up 4]
Number of short films: 1,225 [no change]

It's also time once again for a monthly running time update...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
589 days, 5 hours, and 5 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 14 hours, and 18 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader, which might be twice the size of this one...

Films

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
[4th or so watch]
[#32 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2025]

Continuing my chronological James Bond rewatch — you know, the one I last touched on in 2020 and that’s been going since 2012. Will I complete it before they manage to release a new Bond film? At this point, maybe.

(I also put "four or so" for my watch count last time I saw TMwtGG, but I now think I probably overestimated that.)