What I've Caught Up With, February 2025

It’s been a difficult month for my family; my mother is very ill right now, and it’s difficult to deal with because of the diagnosis she has received. I also was down myself for a week with a superficial blood clot in my right calf—nothing serious, but scary, given my genetic history. Because of that, my focus has necessarily been elsewhere. I did watch a few movies of various vintage, though, and most of my viewings were better than average.

On the television front, I did a lot of work on shorter series including The Queen’s Gambit, which was a darling during lockdown. I went back to Marvel shows as well, getting through Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, and Echo, which respectively were quite good, good until the last episode, and should have been better. I’ve spent a lot of time with Danny McBride shows in February, finishing The Righteous Gemstones and watching all four seasons of Eastbound and Down.