The Cruise (2020). Directed and written by Richard Louprasong. Really loved the urban legend angle here. Good storytelling and music. Good ending. Solid queer horror short.

Dead End Drive (2020). Directed by Alexander Yellen. Zombies are not my fav subject but I enjoyed this one. The ending makes this short! Good acting. Great twist. The moral of this story is always be careful whose house you run into especially during the zombie apocalypse.

Pt 5-The whole episode is just proof that the Sisters aren’t ready for the truth? Not that maybe Leo is wrong about the Avatars? Hmm…Interesting place to end the episode.

Pt 4-Wow. I’m glad Daryl is back in the fold, took him long enough. The side villains' plan is overly complicated and with the Avatar storyline taking the main focus, it would have been beneficial to have a simpler demon for plot line B.

Pt 3-Brody has a potion to kill all Avatars? Where did he find that? He doesn’t care about Leo? Brody is happy to kill him. He goes from 0 to 100 really quickly. Brody is really traumatized and crazy all at once. The Avatars are very powerful, controlling time like that?

Pt 2-Here it’s because Leo drops the bombshell that he is an Avatar. Cue the gasp. If it’s too good to be true, it usually is. A world without good and evil? Yeah, not possible. It’s a lie. How someone as smart as Leo is falling for this, is beyond me.

Charmed 7x09. Pt 1-I’m not here for the drama, but there's a lot of it here. The potential Big Bad. The Avatars are the worst & most frustrating potential villains because we barely ever see them & everyone in every episode spends a good deal of time arguing about them.

Pt 4-Triggers: a deer is killed and its throat is slit and a butcher chops a dead cow or pig. I can’t wait to see the rest of this series.

Pt 3-I enjoyed seeing how entrenched he is in this small town. Glad Debra is back in a way. His girlfriend looks a bit like Debra. Oh, the temptation in this episode.

Pt 2-But this is an interesting story and I’d like to see a sympathetic serial killer raising his teenage son. I wonder if his son has murderous impulses. This episode starts with a new Dexter and a life I didn’t think I’d see him live.

Dexter. New Blood. Pilot. Pt 1-This was a great pilot. It set the scene for the series and drew me in like the original series did. When I first heard that they were bringing Dexter back, I thought they would rewrite that ending or most of it but sadly, that isn’t the case.

Pt 2-Leaves us at a very climatic scene. Definitely piqued my interest. Getting some ET vibes here. I’d definitely watch the rest of the series

Elves (2021). Pt 1-Starts with the murder of a cow. Yikes. Hard to watch an animal be scared and slaughtered. Kind of a trend now to start with animal death. Great. Interesting setting and characters. Suspicious townsfolk. What are they hiding? I’m here for the mystery.

Pt 2-Interesting cast of characters and a good cast. This episode was just laying the groundwork and setting the scene. Character- heavy without the scares. Has potential but didn’t grab me.

Midnight Mass (2021). Pilot. Pt 1-Opens with a drunk driver killing a woman so if that’s a trigger, start the pilot after that point. Good establishing shots of the town. Good sets. Takes a while to set up the story. Strong sense of place. Dead cats, so many dead cats.

Pt 4-Wish we had seen the important letters that prompted his descent into madness. What an intense final act. Wish we had more closure on the box. Ends abruptly.

Pt 3-Needs more backstory here. I didn’t feel the connection between these so-called friends. I felt like I needed their history as friends. Most of the film, we’re just watching them talk, smoke, and drink beer -- not enough.

Pt 2-Good premise though about finding a box that predicts the future and the death of the main character. Do we make our own fate or is it predetermined? How well do you know your friends? A bit too visually bright in some scenes.

To Freddy (2020). Pt 1-I liked the conversation in the beginning about social media, targeted ads, and how much information companies like Facebook have about us. This movie was a bit slow, possibly too slow.