Prime Time Crime

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew watches the Queen Latifah-starring CBS reboot of the classic crime drama, The Equalizer, while D. Bethel finds a powerful, personal, and moving story about depression and self-acceptance in the 2018 retro-styled puzzle platformer, Celeste.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• The MyHeritage AI-generated vivification of Vigo the Carpathian (via Twitter user, Mark Richardson).
• However, it also generates nightmares like this (via Hi-Fructose Magazine on Instagram).

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Episode 36 - Dan & Andy's Quality Audio" (13 February 2015): Where Andrew made D. Bethel watch the pilot to Andrew's favorite show (after Star Trek...maybe), John Rogers' Leverage by John Rogers.
• "Episode 108 - Private Reasons" (29 September 2016): Where D. Bethel and Andrew discuss the surge of reboots of classic '80s film and tv franchises.
• "Sad News Theme" (28 February 2020): Where Andrew discussed his first impressions of another reboot of a classic prime time drama, MacGyver.
• "For Great Justice" (19 February 2021): Where D. Bethel talks with Andrew about video game genres and their ability to tell certain kinds of stories (as it related to the bizarre news around Six Days in Fallujah).

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• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
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• "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
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