2 movies and a tv show

In December a friend and I watched the new Hunger Games prequel movie, A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Unlike the previous HG movies, I hadn’t read the novel before seeing this film, and my vague impression was “... something about Snow?”

I did figure out fairly quickly that ( spoilers, I guess )

In January I saw the Wonka movie prequel, which was airy like a meringue, and which lasted as long in my memory as a meringue would. Meringues have their place! Even the movie version of them! At the same time, it’s still a bit disconcerting to see all of that money invested on the (beautiful!) final product and realize later that you can’t recall much more than a vague outline of the story and the characters. Not even an ear-worm song remains!

I started watching the new Disney+ Percy Jackson series. Housemate A likes it, so it’s something we can watch together. The first two episodes didn’t really catch my attention, but since I was watching with someone else, I persisted enough for the pay-off. Which is to say: I’m now really enjoying the season, five episodes in.

I read book one of the series YEARS ago, and I recently-ish saw a stage version of The Lightning Thief. So I have only a very vague sense of where the story is going. Not sure if that makes it more or less enjoyable than knowing the main plotlines from the books.

( my one complaint )