Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week has seen my house sweeping up the loose cobwebs of various outstanding series, as we finished our group watch of Frieren’s first season, and also continued to munch through the second season of Fallout. It feels morbidly validating for Fallout to be telling this story at this particular moment in time; I feel like “corporations blew up the world on purpose for quarterly profits” would feel a little far-fetched in most eras, but in truth might actually be understating the case as we currently face it. We’ve also been keeping up with the current season of Critical Role, which continues to astound me with its richness of worldbuilding and complexity of drama. Brennan Lee Mulligan is basically going for “we’re going to construct one of the enduring fantasy epics as a collective roleplay experience,” and so far has actually been following through on that preposterous proposal. I’m eager to see how the Seekers’ first arc concludes, but for now, let’s move on to the week in film!

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