Mr. Burke Reviews

Review #27: Longmire When I log into Netflix, there is usually a banner suggestion for some new movie or show for me to watch. one might assume the suggestion stems from my viewing habits. While I'm on the fence about software tracking my preferences and trying to pigeon-hole me, you have to appreciate if they're making the effort. The promo for Longmire just showed a guy in a long coat and cowboy hat carrying a rifle with a backdrop of wide-open countryside. I had no idea what the show was about, and wondered if the suggestion came from my watching Wynonna Earp . (Had I thought about it, I would've realized that it couldn't have -- I was using someone else's account when I binged Season 1.) The Longmire of the title is a sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, and the show is based on the Walt Longmire Mysteries , which I've never heard of. However, there were six seasons of the show, which means it was popular enough to keep making them, and hopefully have ...

Review #25: iZombie I watch quite a few shows on the CW network, so many that it's likely my "most-watched" channel these days. This is, of course, do to all the shows currently in the "Arrowverse" -- shows based on DC comics. And since I watch so many of those, I hadn't watched many of the other shows advertised on that network. One of those shows was iZombie, which had a catchy title, and whose commercials showed a chick young zombie girl, making a living. I'd thought of tuning in, and I'm glad that I didn't do it then. Better to start from the beginning, which I eventually did, and continued on through the end of four seasons. It's not your typical zombie show. As it turned out, it was another show based on a comic, and they use comic tropes introducing scenes, along with some really atrocious puns that I only wish I could come up with. It also turns out that the Rob Thomas who produces it is the some guy from Matchbox 20 (and also th...