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Okay, this laser challenge is amazing. It was cool watching Andie work. They're so graceful. I also really appreciate that being streaming means the show doesn't need to be beholden to 42 minutes as a runtime. So much of this game is about the scheming, and I'm glad they don't have to cut more of it.

I didn't know either of them from Survivor, but while Stephenie annoyed me, Cirie may honestly be my favorite player here. She's really good at it.

Episode 6: Did I stroke off for a minute? Why did Amanda leave?

My Anglophile history-loving nerd self really wishes they'd call the Round Table the Star Chamber instead, but that's probably a bit too deep of a pull for most of the US audience.

Agree about Christian and in the 3.5 episodes I've seen, I'm honestly surprised he's been able to evade as much suspicion as he has, especially given that Brandi wasn't shy about her thoughts. But he's got such loose lips, and really goes overboard a lot of the time. Cirie and particularly Cody are a lot more subtle. But for whatever reason, I like them as a gestalt. Amongst the Faithful, the only ones I find myself rooting for are Shelbe, Amanda and Andie, at least for now. Amanda reminds me a lot of the nurses I work with.

I can also say, three episodes in, I'm surprised to find myself rooting for the Traitors.

I'm working at my second job, which is as a jail psychiatrist. I'm not allowed my phone, so I'm binging the show on the Peacock website. Alan is a great host.

I've only watched the first episode, but...I love this. I think if they do a second season, I'm going to audition for it. Reading people and keeping up walls around my personal life are kind of what I do professionally. This is maybe the first reality show where I think I'd be really good.

It's a remix of "Bloody Mary" by Lady Gaga. A video of the dance scene recut with that underneath went viral a few weeks ago, so Netflix is leaning into it.

Prepare to feel ancient: "Emissary" debuted 30 years ago today. 30 years on, I still get a little emotional when the Prophet who looks like Jennifer Sisko figures out what "die" means.

Yeah, I was excited until I realized it was reality TV people, not civilians. I’m still being optimistic, but I’m not encouraged.

The shuttles that rescued the kids had NCC-74656-A as their registry numbers. Quite the tease.

For a show that had a rough first half of its season, it's REALLY come out swinging in the back half. I also loved all of the ship porn. Let alone that all of the assets looked so good, they pulled from Trek history. They had the USS Centaur from "A Time to Stand," the USS Thunderchild from First Contact, and the actual bloody Defiant.

I was NOT expecting a kids show to go that dark.

Full credit to both Kate Mulgrew and Brett Gray and the animators for making Janeway-in-Dal and Dal-in-Janeway immediately recognizable. Also, I thought we didn't talk about "Threshold."

So the Christmas Dragon livestream was actually a pre-record of a in-person screening for Kickstarter backers. But, Joel did come out and reveal that they have Season 14 in the works, and will share details after New Year's.

Many people worked on Batgirl, and they killed that even without a star who is a complete sociopath. As far as we know, anyway.

Whoa, the Amazing Bag Man? That's a deep cut.

The Gizmoplex is having a Christmas theme week. Tonight is a holiday edition of a Jackbox playoff with Joel, Jonah, and Emily playing against Mary Jo, Felicia, and Patton. Tomorrow is Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Wednesday is Santa Claus, Thursday is The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, and Friday is the premiere of their new movie The Christmas Dragon.

While I won't pretend that much of it was as High Art as Call Me By Your Name, Moonlight, or Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2022 turned out to be a really good year for queer filmmaking.

It's hard to put this into words, but that seemed very incredibly realistic and perhaps why it wasn't commented on more fully. The default assumption with a guy who looks like Aaron wouldn't go for a guy who wasn't at least also a 9, to use your classifications. It can be brutal on the dating/hookup apps for the same reason. While I would never compare it to what I know women go through, there are horrible issues with body image issues amongst queer men. I belong to a Facebook group for gay male doctors, and two years ago when the vaccine was first being rolled out to health care workers, people began posting selfies of their shoulder after the shot. A lot of the guys who didn't look like they spend a mind-numbing about of time in the gym actually prefaced their photos by apologizing for not looking like the others. It was some of the most toxic bullshit I've seen in my life. Which actually does dovetail into something else else I liked: the movie didn't kink-shame. It didn't body-shame (Guy Branum's character was allowed to be sexual and the movie was willing to acknowledge there would be guys who'd be into him). It didn't shame the throuple. And even Harvey Fierstein hitting on Bobby and Aaron was treated as funny, not horrifying.

This opened in limited release last week and goes wider this weekend. Based on the memoir of the same name by TVLine's Michael Ausiello. The reviews have been mixed, but it's got quite a pedigree.

I think what I liked the most was how refreshingly drama free the non-romance parts were. There was no angst about coming out. No one was dying of HIV. It was just the story of two adult men who have very clear senses of their identities and have lives that they're pretty much settled into who can't help liking each other. I can't tell you the last queer movie I saw where there wasn't at least one of those things.

It was an exploratory mission. The ship was a similar design to one that was seen on Enterprise. If Jankom's ship launched even during the run of the show, we're at least 250 years from that. They could get that far in that time. The Medusan ship is the same as one that was seen in the Remastered version of "Is There In Truth No Beauty," so they probably headed out during the TOS era. While we perceive Zero as a teen like Gwyn, Dal, and Jankom, we don't really know how old they are chronologically.