Author: Mark Alexander

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This is Unfortunate

Counterpart has been cancelled.

While disappointing, this does not come as a complete surprise. While I loved Season One, I found this past season terribly difficult to follow. I rarely knew which universe (Alpha or Prime) things were actually occurring in. Because of tech or architecture, it was easy to tell the two universes apart, but the lines blurred this season. It didn’t help matters that the story itself had become so convoluted it would be difficult to follow in a single universe.

But all is not lost. Apparently Season 3 is being shopped to various streaming services.

On another note, I find myself being drawn into yet another Netflix series, The Umbrealla Academy. It’s the story of an estranged and very dysfunctional family of superheroes being forced to come together in the wake of their father’s death in order to prevent the end of the world.

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An Interesting Dissertation

An interesting dissertation on how to best represent DUNE’s Baron Harkonnen on screen in our post-modern society without resorting to the tropes for evil used in the 1960s when the novel was written…

And the comments that follow the article are for the most part—refreshingly—thoughtful. I could not help but draw parallels between the Baron’s character and another sociopathic, malignant narcissist we’re all having to deal with in there here and now.

Definitely worth a read if you’re a fan of DUNE.