First Kill first look

Vampires? Hunters? Kissing?! Unheard of!

The Quest

"LARP-ing goes big budget in the trailer for Disney Plus reality show The Quest"

Kids today.

J: Cosplayers got beat up when we were kids.

Moon Knight

Moon Knight 1.01 is pretty fun once you get past the opening which yeek.

1.02 pretty much lays out what's up, chooses a moral stance, and has an invisible monster fight.

1.03 is fighty and Khonshu is a bad debater.

Layla (ft. Moon Knight) 1.04 had some very varied portrayals of mythological beings.

1.05 and I want a Taweret plushie because (a) adorable and (b) I need something to hug.

Vampire Slayer Player

I'd like to play a proper Buffy game again. Our Mage game skewed that way, obviously, but not all the way.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer 25

Happy 25th anniversary to the premiere of TV's Buffy The Vampire Slayer!

Lestat

Super Bowl ads (a fascinating glimpse into a parallel world) include the first few seconds of footage from the new Interview With The Vampire series. And of course the first line comes from Lestat. And suggests some kind of antihero motivation change for him. Fiiiine.

Christmas haul thoughts

The Expanse continues to not quite map the books onto the TV seasons, so big climactic events come mid-season. I kinda like it for first runthroughs, but it does encourage rewatching from disc 2 of one season to disc 1 of the next.

Also, Maltesers and Jaffa Cakes.

This week on What We Do In the Shadows Nandor joins a Golconda cult and that goes as well as you might expect.

Only Murders In The Building

Only Murders In The Building is wacky and occasionally melancholic fun. Not an easy mix.

What We Do In The Shadows season 3

What We Do In The Shadows season 3 features a common event in every Vampire LARP, the PCs end up as the Primogen by accident.

J: And they're almost always horrible at it

Me: With ten episodes in each season, they'll probably be there longer than most PCs in positions of power.

Cloak & Dagger

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger (trailer) premiered three years ago and I can now watch it, so I have started to, and it's good, and pretty dang grim for a show about teenage superheroes.

J notes "At least that part was true to the comic."

Gaston notes "It kind of felt like a WoD show to me."

And yeah. ;

Two kids (in New Orleans no less) empowered by something they don't understand, which doesn't make their already harsh lives any better, and might be some mystical lineage that dooms them both.

The first regular episode ends with a 3D printed voodoo doll. That's some quality Hollow One foci there.

I'll take this as a good sign for the WoD TV/film development deal with one of the show's writers and producers (who also worked on The Punisher and Constantine series) co-leading it.

The Sandman

The Sandman cast looks great, use of pronouns in announcement also good.

WWOD News

Must not start thinking about a World Of Darkness game about a 1980s local news show.

no, staaahp

World Of Darkness media development

A development deal for World Of Darkness TV and films, with smart geeky people involved. 

Heisserer is currently the showrunner and executive producer of “Shadow and Bone” for Netflix, and he was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of the 2016 sci-fi feature “Arrival.” He’s also written “Bird Box,” “Lights Out” and his directorial debut, “Hours.” Boylan has written on several TV series, including “The Punisher,” “Cloak and Dagger,” “Constantine,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Castle” and “Leverage.” She’s also written DC and Marvel comic books, and she’s a co-founder of Bespoke Plays, a live-reading series of new plays in L.A. and New York.

Fingers crossed. Remind me to watch Shadow And Bone, and Cloak & Dagger.

WandaVision theory

I have no idea, I'm just along for the ride.

Ho ho ho

And now the annual "checking the new DVDs and Blu-Rays work, by which I mean watching them" begins.

I can now confirm that The Woman In Black (the first TV version) works.

I love you Baby Yoda

 

The Mandalorian season two trailer

See if you can spot the moment I squeed.

Take me down to the Paradise City

Ever since meeting Claudia I've thought a (not as world-famous as Lestat) rock scene horror game could be fun. Never imagined Bella Thorne playing a metalhead though.

Denver By Night

Denver By Night episode two is up for VODing. Also: