Life in the Cheese Drawer

remember before binge watching? before you got an entire season of a show at one time and you got every episode with no waiting between shows? 
remember when you got a week’s worth of buildup between shows? the cliffhanger endings of each show?
i kind of miss that. 
i looked forward to every sunday when xena and herk were on, waiting each week, getting my popcorn, sitting down to watch at the same time each week. there was just something about the structure of it, that fact that you couldn’t just watch it any old time. 
when the new sherlock holmes abominable bride was scheduled, i got really excited, and not just about the episode; i was excited because it was in the future, and i could let the excitement build up.  (B-T-Dubs – great episode!)
so while i’m excited about all these great netflix shows that i gave reviews to, i’m also very excited thinking about taking it one episode at a time. looking forward to the next sherlock holmes season!

this is a long time coming. i watched the first season of jessica jones right around thanksgiving and meant to do a review of it, but because i was still blogging about charlie, i think i forgot about it!

i had watched “daredevil” when it first came out, and while i enjoyed it, i was completely compelled to watch it. something about mr. daredevil himself was just a little too clean cut and the plotline a little predictable for me to be 100% invested (i don’t know. don’t ask). so i was a liiitttle bit hesitant about jessica jones. but i was blown away! 
this show is fantastic. it’s rough, and jessica is rough. we see her fight for others and fight for herself. we learn how her past has made her who she is today, and we learn that she uses this to help her present self. we see her downfalls, and we see her pick herself up. she is sarcastic and harsh and defensive and puts up a wall. we see who she lowers the wall for, and we see how the bad guy uses that against her. 
this is gritty, dark marvel. is she a superhero? not really. is she hero for hire? sometimes.
or is she her own hero? absolutely.