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Morning Tea: Star Trek: Voyager Documentary

February 25, 2020 Sammy Younan

Star Trek: Picard isn’t working. It’s partly the cheap Millennialization (which is frustrating because it’s not for you. On this point I side with the gatekeepers). Tragically Picard may end up in the collection of Star Trek failures: Enterprise and Discovery. Good writing is good writing. So yeah it’s fairly easy to classify them as…

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Morning Tea

#SetTheVCR: February 23-29, 2020

February 23, 2020March 29, 2023 Sammy Younan

This week is my Nerd Christmas with the return of Altered Carbon: Season 2. When is your Nerd Christmas? Lemme know after you’ve checked out the follow tv recommendations.

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#SetTheVCR: Febuary 2020 Recap & Review

February 17, 2020December 31, 2023 Sammy Younan

In a year that was unlike any TV year we’ve had: In a month noted for Valentine’s Day…there was lots of TV to love.

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#SetTheVCR: February 16-22, 2020

February 16, 2020March 29, 2023 Sammy Younan

So ah… most of what I suggest this week are documentaries. Except for Annabelle Comes Home. I really hope that is not a documentary.

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141 | Laura Mennell (Project Blue Book)

January 28, 2020March 6, 2023 Sammy Younan 1 Comment

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan interviews Laura Mennell who plays Mimi Hynek Project Blue Book (wife of ufologist Josef Allen Hynek).

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Picard’s First Tea

January 24, 2020September 25, 2023 Sammy Younan

Ok. Are we gonna discuss last night’s Picard debut??! Barely 3 minutes into the first episode Jean-Luc Picard says in that forceful Patrick Stewart way: “Let’s behave like civilized men.” And then pours a cup of tea before he gets a response. Tea out the gate. Fresh! I have other feelings but man to see…

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Quality Time is TV’s Love Language

January 23, 2020December 31, 2023 Sammy Younan

Star Trek: Picard is a love letter to the back in the day 22…24…even 26 episodes per television season. Appointment TV.

Television

Trial By Trailer: Arabian Alien

January 4, 2020March 9, 2023 Sammy Younan

So…are we gonna talk about Arabian Alien?!! “Saad, a Muslim married man, gets over his depression after a space Alien is introduced into his life.” What?! Yeah it’s a sci-fi film (I think) from…Saudi Arabia. For all the years I’ve been a nerd I’ve never said that before. Check out this extremely odd trailer… They’ve got…

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Movies, Trial By Trailer

135 | Dead Dicks & Majic (Blood In The Snow Film Festival)

November 26, 2019March 6, 2023 Sammy Younan No Comments

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan is at Blood In The Snow Film Festival media day: the first interview is with the Dead Dicks duo Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer followed by actress Paula Brancati and director Erin Berry who are behind Majic.

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129 | Kat Rosenfield (Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light)

September 24, 2019March 6, 2023 Sammy Younan No Comments

My Summer Lair Host Sammy Younan talks with Kat Rosenfield who co-wrote/co-created A Trick of Light with Stan Lee; his final universe: Stan Lee’s Alliances!

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