Burn, Butcher, BURN!

Season two of The Witcher ( spoilers! )

Roommate F has a Disney+ subscription, so I watched the first episode of Hawkeye. The first word I would choose for episode one is "awkward". Getting all of the pieces in place resulted in a pilot episode with many weird coincidences. But I did enjoy it. Hopefully it will improve as I continue the season. I do like Hailee Steinfeld, which is a plus for the show. The actress who plays her mother was interesting as well. Hopefully she'll have plenty of agency within the story, since she was prominent in the pilot.

Netflix has released a second season of Cheer and I've already devoured two episodes. They're very compelling; kudos to the editors. But also, they've tapped into a rather ideal human interest story: the stakes are high at a personal level, but at a world event level? Inconsequential.

Another enjoyable real-person show on Netflix: School of Chocolate, which is led by Amaury Guichon, who makes those viral videos of mind-blowing sculptures made of chocolate. I like the softness of it: no one is kicked off the show from week to week. Instead, contestants who show less skill in a challenge are given two-on-one lessons with Guichon while the other contestants do a team challenge.