* I've not finished it yet, but I can fully understand why the second season of Umbrella Academy has been so popular on Netflix. It's terrifically directed, and the story is flowing with far fewer angsty relationship diversions than the first season, which did drag at times. It's overall much wittier, too. A very enjoyable bit of comic book based nonsense.
* How's this for a late review: finally got around to watching Mulholland Drive on the weekend. I thought I had read years ago that the movie was capable of making sense, but I didn't work it out for myself and had to go check on Reddit for the explanation. It does have strong Twin Peaks vibes, and I had forgotten that it had started out as another TV project that was converted into a movie. Unfortunately, I have to say that the overall impression it gave me was that David Lynch was quite overrated - Twin Peaks was fun and enjoyable in its day, but his movie work doesn't really do much for me. He really did make Los Angeles look like a physically unattractive dump in virtually every interior and exterior shot - perhaps that was revenge for his "creative differences" with the business at the time? Another thing the movie made me realise (again) was how extraordinarily tame by modern standards R rated movies of even a couple of decades ago could be in pornographic and violent content. We can all blame the internet and modern video games for that...
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