one book, one TV show

BOOK: The Shepherd’s Crown is the last Tiffany Aching novel by Terry Pratchett. I may have read it before? But I didn’t particularly remember it, and I wanted an audiobook to entertain me while doing a bunch of tedious chores, so Pratchett won out. And I enjoyed it: both the story and the narration.

TV: Andor, season two, five episodes in.

opinions about sounds (and more) here

This isn’t the first show on Disney+ that has made me think “needs less soundtrack”. But I’m shocked that it’s this show–season one’s soundtrack was a huge part of the success of it all. I could tell just a few minutes into episode one of season two Nicholas Britell wasn’t doing the main soundtrack work.

Some of my less-enthusiastic response to season two is simply that I generally prefer origin stories to, er, the stuff that comes later. At any rate: Andor is still a very good show. Just not season one good, alas.

I am very pleased that Wilmon is back for season two: he’s the young man who threw a bomb during Maarva’s funeral/the riot that ensued. The actor has an interesting face, and the character was at a potentially interesting point in his story.

Other elements, sans real spoilers: there are two romantic relationships happening and I’m… at a loss for words about one of them. Other than maybe “Gah!” The other one is heartbreak waiting to happen, but it’s also plausible, so I’ll just wait for the fallout.