• 2024: The Year in Trench

    Yeah. That picture kind of sums up the whole year, doesn’t it? TV: It’s all animated again this year. Suicide Squad Isekai was pretty good for an anime. I know a lot of people complained about how the Joker looked, but it’s an anime. That was exactly how an anime Joker would look. The second…


  • 2023: The Year in Trench

    It was kind of a ‘meh’ year as far as pop culture went. That’s not to say there weren’t some gems to be found. TV: I’m not the biggest TV watcher anymore, but I did watch two series this year, both animated, of course. While I’m not the biggest anime fan, I did watch an anime series…


  • 2022: The Year in Trench

    This is what used to be the Trenchie Awards. I didn’t do one last year because of depression, and I thought no one cared. Well, someone cared, and they know who they are. TV: I actually didn’t watch any series regularly last year outside of wrestling. So, no winner for 2022. Movies: I only saw…


  • Flash of Two Worlds

    Normally I don’t talk about single episodes of a TV series but last night’s episode of The Flash was so good I had to blog about it. However to avoid any spoilers I’m putting the rest of the post behind the cut.


  • Trench reviews Season 1 of The Flash

    Yes, I definitely recommend watching this series. Right now it’s tie for my show of the year with Daredevil. All my fears of Barry Allen being played by someone so young were dissuaded throughout the season as Grant Gustin did a great job of portraying a young Barry Allen haunted by the murder of his…


  • Trench reviews Season 3 of Arrow

    ***SPOILERS*** This was probably my least favorite season of Arrow so far. The things that didn’t have going for it was that the main villain was a Batman villain that to my recollection Green Arrow never had any contact with. Yeah I know, Comic Book Guy complaint but it’s a pretty major Batman villain. I…


  • Trench reviews Season 2 of Agents of SHIELD

    These are more recommendations rather than reviews but you get the idea. ***MINOR SPOILERS*** Anyway, I liked Season 2 better than the first season. Between the start of the season with HYDRA being in control then working up to Skye’s father along with the Inhumans made for a somewhat jumbled season but it came together…


  • Trench reviews Season 1 of Gotham

    ***SPOILERS*** I give it a hesitant thumbs up. It started off great with a great murder mystery of who murdered the Waynes along with Penguin’s chicanery and brutality and Fish Mooney’s plot to overthrow Don Falcone in Gotham’s mob scene. Then halfway through the season the tight writing and great storytelling kind of went off…


  • A view of 2011 from 1964 via The Outer Limits

    Last night I watched an episode of The Outer Limits called The Duplicate Man. I thought the episode was set in 2011 because they had a plaque at a museum that read 2011 AD. While the episode actually took place in 2025 it was still interesting to see what the 1960s thought the 21st century…