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Schrodinger's Reviews- My Love/Hate Relationships with Reviews

I have a confession. I both love, and hate reviews. I know, I know, I use this blog a lot for reviews. But that's where my love/hate relationship begins. Because I love writing reviews. When there's a film, or TV show, or book, or play, that I've loved then I want to share it with the world. And if there's something about it that I didn't like, or I felt didn't work, then I want to see what other people think of it. Not necessarily to see that people agree with me, but just out of a natural curiosity to understand how others perceived it. Perhaps it's the writer in me, wanting to understand what people think of different plots, and how well certain plot devices go down. But my issue is that I don't really like reading them. Or, rather, I'm trying to get out of the habit of reading them. The reason is that, over the last few years, I've noticed that I've let reviews get in my way of enjoyment. I've not watched films or TV shows, or not

Everything Is Rebooted- The Good Place Season 3 premiere review

Spoilers ahead- please don't read if you haven't seen The Good Place Chapters 27 and 28 . When Mike Schur’s The Good Place completed its second season, it was hard to envisage what season three would bring to the table. While the first season had essentially ripped apart its storyline to start again in season two in the ‘rebooted’ world, season two had done something even more dramatic. It had rendered the world no longer accessible. At the end of episode ten Best Self , the world was physically dismantled, Shawn (Marc Evan Jackson) giving the order to Michael (Ted Danson) to pack the world up now that the experiment had apparently ended. Then at the end of the final episode of season two, Somewhere Else , the four human members of Team Cockroach were sent back to Earth to be given a second chance. So where did that leave season three? The biggest thing that confused me was how Michael intended to get the four humans to meet again, seeing as the reason they had b