Weekly Entertainment Wrap Up #355 [CC]

Hi YouTube, it's Kathy, and this is my Weekly  Entertainment Wrap Up for October 15th - 21st. This week I read two books, I watched two shows, I watched seven movies. and I listen to one book. [pages turning] We're back home! We made it! If you've missed my last four or five  videos, I was on the road for about 4 weeks and now I'm back in my own  house, which is kind of nice. It also explains how I was able  to watch so many movies this week because we weren't driving many, many  hundreds of tho

usands of kilometres. The book I finished this week  is What We Kept to Ourselves. This is a family saga about these two  people who leave Korea and go to America to start their lives there.  Eventually they have two children, and this book bounces around the timeline a lot, so we get to see them kind of in the 70s or ' 80s, and we get to see them in 1999, which  is kind of the present of this book, and in the present time frame we find out  that the wife has actually been missing for about a ye

ar and there's  a dead body found in the yard that has a letter addressed to her. It becomes this whole mystery as  to how these people are connected and what possibly happened to her and  why she disappeared in the first place. This is one of those books that  has a really interesting premise but I was not super interested while reading it. I did enjoy some of the characters. I did enjoy getting to learn some  of the backstory here and there but this is one of those books where it  took me a re

ally long time to get through it because I was just never very  excited and picking it back up once I had put it down after  finish in a chapter or whatever. That being said, there is  some queer representation, it also has immigrant representation, as well as first generation American  representation, so all of that was interesting, but the story itself didn't really grip  me as much as I really wanted it to. This week I also read the latest  by Kate Leth, which is Mall Goth. This is a graphic

novel about this  girl growing up in the early 2000s. She has moved to this new place with her mother and she's trying to figure out  how to make friends at school, even though she's very guarded  and doesn't really want to do that because she's got trust issues, and then  also her mom makes her get a job at the mall. I didn't really know where this one was going. I just assumed it was about a goth that hung  out at the mall a lot in the early 2000s, Because, as you do. And this one ended up bei

ng really relatable  to me because the main character is bisexual which admittedly is something I didn't  really understand about myself until I was 30 so I didn't really understand when  I was a teenager, but here we are. Also, I thought goths were really cool.  I thought the fashion was very cool and I always thought it'd be  cool to at least try it out. And then this character is also groomed  by a man a two decades her senior over instant messenger and, uh,  that's a little bit too relatable

because somebody definitely  tried to do that to me. Outside of that, we have  really interesting characters. I enjoyed the art style. I  enjoyed how the story went and I think that you should pick this up if  you're at all interested in anything I just said. Onto the shows we watched, I  finished the last two episodes of the second season of Good  Omens, and finally got to the part that I knew was coming, although I didn't  exactly understand how it would be coming and now I'm just like, “oh o

kay this  better get picked up for another season” because I need to see how  this situation plays out. This series is a fun romp. For those of you who actually watched more  than, like, six episodes of Doctor Who, there's lots of Doctor Who references, because,  of course, Tennant was one of the Doctors, and I just found this a really fun time. I also finished the last six episodes  of the first and I assume only season of The Fall of the House of Usher, which  is something I had started last w

eek. Somebody in the comments of last  week's video let me know that this is actually a compilation of 10 of Poe’s  works, and, uh, that's that's cool actually. I really enjoy that. This was definitely gory and it went to a  lot of different lengths to do what we knew it was going to do because in the first  episode we knew that all of his children were going to die. We didn't know  exactly why it was happening, and it was interesting to find that  out, I believe in the last episode. We finally

got to see what that  deal was and how that transpired, and it was interesting to see the different  ways that their deaths were justified based on the types of people that they were. Once again, if this premise interests you,  I definitely think it's worth watching. Onto the seven movies I watched. In truth it was eight because  we rewatched Haunted Mansion but I already talked about that last week  so I'm not going to talk about it again. The first one this week was The Blackening. This is a h

orror comedy, ala Tucker and  Dale Vs Evil, or Cabin in the Woods, and it is very, very funny,  and of course very scary because you're trying to figure out  who is trying to kill these people who are just trying to have a  reunion in the woods, in a cabin, and it's full of different  references to scary movies, as well as just references to our own real  world and how that can be very scary sometimes. And if you love to laugh at your  horror, I definitely recommend this one. For the first time

ever, I also watch  Gothika, which is a movie about a woman played by Hale Barry who  works in a psychiatric unit and then all of a sudden finds  herself as a patient there and charged with something she doesn't think  she did, but can she trust her own memory? She then has to solve some weird goings  on to figure out what exactly happened. This also has Robert Downey Jr and  a very, very young Penelope Cruz. Then my roommate, Megan, and I also watched M3gan, and truthfully we did talk  through

a bunch of the this, mostly about how the main woman  looks like Deb from Dexter but isn't her and isn't related to her in  any way and that's a little bit weird to us. But if you haven't heard about this  one before, it is about this woman who actually works in animatronics.  They're trying to create the newest big toy for the kids market and they figure that this  doll that can actually interface with the child that it belongs to is kind of the way to go. It's kind of a horror tale about AI be

cause  the doll becomes very, very possessive of her child and will do really  extreme things, because of this - it becomes a whole Chucky situation, basically. Again, this is one we kind of talked through  because we had some wine by this point but I remember enjoying it  while we were doing that. After that, we went on to watch Sherlock Holmes 2, because I hadn't realized that they'd  actually made a Sherlock Holmes 2, again starring Robert Downey  Jr, so there we are again. I remember basical

ly nothing about  this because we talked through it but it's written in my list  so I need to tell you about it and I guess this is a reminder  to myself to watch it again because I don't remember anything  about the plot of this one. Additionally, I somehow missed the memo that  Clerks III is a movie that actually exists and came out last year. How I missed this  I don't know because I'm a really big fan of the original and the sequel. My best friend and I actually used  to watch the sequel, li

ke, every week while we were living in Ireland, and we could  probably still quote a ridiculous amount of it. In Clerks III, we kind of pick up  where we left off in Clerks II, in that Randall and Dante own the Quick Stop now, and they work there. It's daily life. It's  really nostalgic to see the certain shots that you saw from the first movie come  into the second movie, that type of thing, but there are certain life circumstances  that I didn't know were going to be a thing. And, uh, you shou

ld definitely  just watch it yourself, especially if you were invested  at all in any of the characters that you might have seen  in previous Clerks movies, because a lot of them come back. also forgot to mention that Elias is in  this one and he has such a character arc that is so fun to watch. And that was actually one of  the most interesting things. Like, characters from the first movie  that you don't expect to show back up because they weren't one of the main  four guy characters show back

up and I really enjoyed that. I just also really enjoyed seeing  Walt Flanigan in at least one role and then knowing that the person that  used to be the person that was, like, readjusting the milk in that one shot,  I'm pretty sure that was Kevin Smith's mom and I'm pretty sure that was  replaced by Kevin Smith's kid because I'm pretty sure  his mom is no longer alive. I take that back! It is his dad who has passed, and she was one of the Auditioners, which is  what I thought while I was watch

ing the film. As for the plot of this, it  gets really self-referential. There are moments of this that made me  want to cry along with a certain character and if you watch it, you will know which  character I want to cry along with, and overall I just very much enjoyed it. Upon finishing this, I also found out,  because the service we were watching it on was like “more movies by Kevin Smith” and I went, “wait, Kevin Smith directed a buddy  cop film starring Bruce Willis? What?!” That movie is c

alled Cop Out,  so I also had to watch that. This is one of those rare movies where he didn't  actually write it but he is the director of it and I feel like he maybe had a little bit  of influence on a little bit of the script because occasionally it does  sound like one of his movies, but yeah, this is a buddy cop film  between Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and they go to do this big thing that they  need to do and it goes badly, of course, so they're suspended without pay for a month, but the

n because of things in their  personal lives they decide to do some cop type things anyway… and I'm  sure that this didn't seem weird at all when it first came out over a  decade ago, but watching it now with the climate of actually watching  what actual police officers do and realizing that often it's not great, that,  uh, that made this a little bit less fun to watch. I'm not blaming real life  for me not enjoying this. I'm just, um, real sad that  real life is as bad as it is. Finally, we did

a rewatch of What  We Do in the Shadows last night. I had kind of forgotten that this  was done in a documentary style and I don't know why I forget  that every time about it and then I rewatch it and then realize that. It's just so funny and seeing Taika  Waititi and Rhys Darby so young and then having to point them out to  Chad, because he doesn't know who's who, and then him being like, “Oh those are  the guys from Our Flag Means Death?!” Which reminds me I need to  watch the second season,

because I'm pretty sure it's almost done now, which is when I want to watch it. As for the audiobook I listened to this week, that was In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. This is about this woman who is  going to a 10-year university reunion and really wants people to  think very, very highly of her. She's worked very hard to be noticeable. She's worked very hard to be successful  and she really wants that recognition. This is also going to be a weird reunion  because when she was at university she was

part of this group called The Easthouse 7. They were very famous on her campus, but  one of them definitely won't be there because she actually passed away  while they were all in university and her killer was never actually caught. Once she and these other  people actually get there, the younger brother of the woman who  died is actually been investigating this whole time and has some questions for them. This book takes place in the present,  which is this whole situation, but then also you ge

t to see them  growing up, going to school together, the different dynamics between  different people, who dated, who broke each other's hearts,  who was mean to each other, and all of this comes together in a culmination  of who could have possibly killed Heather? This one was crafty and it  had just enough misdirection that I wasn't actually trying to figure  out who did it while I was listening to it. I was just listening to the story,  which I always love when that happens because if you're

spending too much time going, “oh it has to be this, it has  to be this, it has to be this,” you're missing little details, and then  although sometimes you can be correct and it can feel really good to figure  it out, sometimes it's really fun to just let the story speak for itself. That's it for this week! If you've read, watched, or  listened to any of these, let me know about it down in the comments below. On the way down to the comments,  if you hit that Subscribe button, that would be very

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