So. I recognize that I dropped the ball on “covering” the final go-through of AGENT CARTER’s second season; a mistake which can be blamed largely on some busy/trying times here around the home office and at least partially on the show becoming increasingly difficult to write interestingly about as the season wore on. Sorry, this one just didn’t work for me.

However! I did end up writing a “season summation” piece like I’d planned to, it just didn’t get posted here. Instead, it got space as part of my new gig over at ScreenRant. You can read it here.

Suffice it to say: I don’t think Season 2 worked, and it feels like they didn’t really have a solid plan for it other than “we have to do another one of these.” In the piece I break down how this doesn’t have to mean the end for the characters or their place in the MCU, but the bottom line is that I wouldn’t expect a 3rd go-around, at least not in the same format.

By now I imagine you know the drill. If not, scroll down.

I’m collecting the best of my previously-published work in a series of themed eBooks as “The MovieBob Anthology,” and the newest volume, “MOVIEBOB’S REEL RETRO” – a collection of my reviews and articles about classic, obscure, overlooked or even forgotten older films – is the newest one to reach completion. You can buy a copy in .epub format (compatible with most e-readers) from Lulu HERE for the low price of only $4.00 US.

The other volumes (previously posted about) include the following; all priced the same and in roughly the same layout (i.e. with “MovieBob’s” preceding the individual titles):

REEL BREAKDOWN: Reviews of new (at the time of publication) theatrical films. Includes the transcript of the PIXELS review.

IDIOT BOX: Columns, reviews and blogs about new and classic television. Includes pieces on THE SIMPSONS, SOUTH PARK, MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, Bill Cosby, Stephen Colbert and the original TRANSFORMERS and REAL GHOSTBUSTERS series.

SUPERHERO CINEMA: Writing from various sources about comics, superheroes, comic-book movies and comic culture in general. Includes retrospectives of the animated and live-action Marvel TV productions of the 60s through the 2000s.

STRANGE HOLLYWOOD: Columns and articles on movie culture, the film industry and Hollywood history.

GEEK STREAK: Writings on the subject of “geek culture.” Includes the “Re-Tales” series from the old Intermission column, “Bat-Mitt vs Obamavengers” and “The 50 Most Boring Opinions in Geek Culture.”

The final volume, which will be published within the next few days barring unforeseen delays, will collect video game writing – including a selection of transcripts from classic Game OverThinker episodes. So stayed tuned for that 🙂

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The big MovieBob Anthology rollout continues. The three from yesterday and the day before are still available (and will continue to be, since these are digital books) so if you want the details on what’s new today, hit the jump:

First up is MOVIEBOB’S IDIOT BOX, which collects my TV writing – some of it coming from this blog, the majority coming from the old “High Definition” column at The Escapist. Lot’s of good stuff in this one, and much of it more recent than a lot of the other material: “Tina Saves The World,” aka why Tina from BOB’S BURGERS is a groundbreaking character, “#NotAllBundys,” a reading of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN as a proto-satire of Men’s Rights Activism, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Cosby,” which I believe is self-explanatory, and of course “2015: The Year South Park Finally Got Old.”

Want more? There’s also write-ups on THE SIMPSONS, DOCTOR WHO, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, CLARISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL, RICK & MORTY, BLACK JESUS, the end of THE COLBERT REPORT and THE DAILY SHOW, the original TRANSFORMERS and THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS!

Also joining the roster today is MOVIEBOB’S STRANGE HOLLYWOOD, which as the title implies is probably the most “eclectic” of the Anthology: Basically, if I thought it was worth republishing and didn’t fit under any of the other specific titles (i.e. non-review columns that were not specifically about older movie, video games, nerd-culture or comics) it went here. For example: This is where you’ll find the “I Wrote That Crap!” trilogy, where I outlined some of my own failed attempts at writing/selling screenplays.

That means this is where you’ll find pieces like “Why Movies Suck Now,” “Summer School,” “Abotu Critics,””How To Read Film Criticism” and others on those lines. There’s also a lot in here about box-office analysis, the politics of “message movies” (including in-depth looks at controversies surrounding AVATAR, AMERICAN SNIPER and SELMA) and an in-the-moment look at the impact of Disney pulling off their biggest twist-ending ever in FROZEN.

This leaves two more books to launch to complete, hopefully within the next few days if not tomorrow; and since it’s the last two I can reveal in advance that they will be volumes collecting reviews of older/classic films and a volume of video-game writing – which will include (but not be limited to) adaptations of original transcripts from classic Game OverThinker episodes.