She’s back …
Good Asian-related News:
Squid Game season 2 is pretty good. It’s not as good as the original. This time around, the emphasis is on players’ personal dramas and relationships. That’s fine, but the selling point of Squid Game is the games. The games were better in season one.
The new season does bring back the opening challenge, in which players must outwit/outrun a giant girl-doll (above), but there is nothing to rival the first show’s best game, in which contestants play a deadly game of hopscotch over a bottomless pit.
Bad Asian-related News:
I’m not sure where to place the blame for this one, but it’s among anime distributors Funimation, Crunchyroll, and Sony.
In December, I discovered that my Funimation library of movies and TV shows had been erased — poof! Gone without a trace.
Despite my providing them with a screen capture of my digital library (below), the jerks at Crunchyroll were less than helpful. They demanded receipts. From shows that I acquired years ago. Do you keep receipts from movies you bought three years ago?
That seems like theft, to me. If you are considering purchases from Crunchyroll (Funimation is, apparently, defunct), be warned.
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I watched La Palma on Netflix. It was a routine disaster show about a volcano. The only thing I am likely to remember is actress Alma Gunther (on the left, below):
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