I assume anyone reading this has watched more of Ray Donovan than I have, so I’ll keep the recap brief: this show concerns a Hollywood fixer/hitman/thug for hire whose professional and personal relationships begin strained and spend the next however many episodes tugging yet further, so long as the constituent atoms roughly hold together. RayContinue reading “Ray Donovan, seasons 1 and 2”
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World’s Strongest Man 2019
Okay, here’s the headline: Martins Licis won it. But what’s behind that? I think this was a really consistent performance that was simultaneously not amazingly impressive, if that even makes sense in this context. I was actually surprised near the end, when he had a nearly insurmountable lead. So, what happened? Event 1 was theContinue reading “World’s Strongest Man 2019”
UFC 243
This was a fun show. Thankfully the two main events were really good rather than just “fun”, as two Kiwi fighters did the biz, and outclassed their very capable opponents. The main event fights were quite similar to each other, in that you had a rangy, lean New Zealander using his reach to pick offContinue reading “UFC 243”
UFC 241
Well, I just watched the damn UFC. I was expecting Daniel Cormier to have another pretty easy heavyweight title fight against previous champion Stipe Miocic, despite the Croatian-American’s size and reach advantage. I was wrong. I was right for a while. DC nearly ended it in the first round, after a combination of quicker hands,Continue reading “UFC 241”
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