Review: My Undead Yokai Girlfriend (2024, Prime)

I’d been doing a little reading on East Asian cultures recently, and what do you know? Amazon Prime just debuted this eight-episode Japanese series, which fit the bill neatly. I’ll try to avoid spoilers in my review, because I want you to dive right in and watch this. It’s a lot of fun. First, let’s …

Review: The Americans, from FX

As has become my habit recently, I just finished watching yet another series I’d missed during its initial run. This time around it’s The Americans, an FX show that ran from 2013-2018. I will clearly mark the section of my review that contains spoilers, so you may safely read the first half of this article …

Mad Men: A Retrospective

This series seemed like a slam-dunk for me, because it’s set in New York in the 1960s. I tried to watch it years ago, but I got turned off by the characters and dropped it after two episodes. However, I decided to give Mad Men one more chance after watching Once Upon a Time in …

Yeoman Rand, Female Lead of Star Trek

From what I've read, Grace Lee Whitney was hired to play Yeoman Janice Rand as the "female lead" on Star Trek. The female lead! The original concept, Wagon Train to the Stars, had the cast as analogous to the cast of Gunsmoke, and Rand was supposed to be Miss Kitty. She was supposed to provide …