In no particular order, my favorite television shows of 2025:
Dept. Q (Netflix)
Alien Earth (Hulu)
Task (HBO Max)
Andor (Disney+)
Adolescence (Netflix)
The White Lotus (HBO Max)
Silo (Apple TV)
Severance (Apple TV)
The Last of Us (HBO Max)
My Melody and Kuromi (Netflix)
I also really enjoyed watching the Boston Red Sox on NESN. It was great when they made it to the playoffs, but I wasn’t impressed by the national network broadcasters. I ended up putting WEEI on for my audio. Overall, the Major League Baseball postseason was exciting, especially the World Series.
Watching the Major League Baseball World Series with my cat
Earlier this month, BOOM! Studios, in collaboration with Hasbro, announced that it has licensed the publishing rights to the fabulous ’80s IP Jem and The Holograms! Here’s what BOOM! Studios detailed in a press release:
Fans can look forward to all-new stories with Jem and all her friends coming from BOOM! Studios in 2026, along with a BOOM! Direct Reserve Campaign collecting the historic run of JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS comics launching on Kickstarter this November.
The news arrives during the brand’s milestone 40th anniversary, following the debut of new dolls from The Loyal Subjects, marking an exciting new era for the iconic franchise.
“I was part of the team that brought JEM & THE HOLOGRAMS back to comics in 2015 and saw first-hand the positive impact our stories had on a broad and diverse community of readers,” said Michael Kelly, Publisher of BOOM! Studios. “I could not be happier than to be working with Jerrica, Kimber, Stormer and the rest of the group (yeah, even Pizzazz) once again.”
Note that the new dolls from The Loyal Subjects are available to pre-order from their website. Some are even scheduled to ship before the holidays (Hint, hint). For continuing news on Jem and The Holograms and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to this blog.
In my review of Deepwater Horizon, I mentioned that I once met director Peter Berg. It was at WonderCon 2012 in Anaheim, CA. Photos were not allowed in the room. But here is a photo of Erin holding a Peter Berg-signed Battleship poster.
Erin and her Battleship poster at WonderCon 2012. Photo by Amy Lordan
The poster also is signed by actress Brooklyn Decker and some guy named Alexander SKARSGARD. Oh. Sorry about the all-caps. My iPhone autocorrects that last name to all-caps.
When I spoke to Skarsgard (fixed it that time!), we asked him about the differences between filing Battleship and Generation Kill. Most notably, he told me that being in Generation Kill was an honor. That they had pretty much filmed the entire series in one month, in the desert.
I commended Skarsgard on his performance in Generation Kill. He thanked me and said it was nice to talk about the series. I told him that I had borrowed it from the library and that when my fella and I started to watch episode one, he said, “Why did you bring this home? This looks like something I would pick, not you.” And then, minutes later, “Is that … SKARSGARD?!? That’s why you brought it home!”
As I concluded my story, Skarsgard shook his fist in the air, and shouted, “SKARSGARDED!” Erin mimicked Skarsgard and said, “SKARSGARDED AGAIN!”
And that is my story about the second time that Erin and I met the Swede made famous for his tragic performance in Zoolander.
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