Miraclo Miles

    So much else calling out for attention, and with watchables already piled up, finding even more things to watch doesn't seem like much of a sane prospect. I'm not even fishing around for new things at the moment, as I need to get some other things done and make some attempt to round out my life a little.       This week on Paramount+, the fourth season of the animated Star Trek: Lower Decks came to a satisfying end. A manic pace of in-universe nods continues to give it the Star Trekiest of Trek feels with the casual, plot-essential trivia drawn from decades of Star Trek shows, woven throughout.       Also there, the contemporary Frasier series' first season hits its halfway point with episode five. I'm enjoying it, but it continues to walk a wobbly line as some of it works smoothly while other moments reek of formula, with some of each overlapping. I'd be very interested in seeing how well or not this new series works on its o...

   So much that needs doing, and with more than enough items already waiting for me to make the time to watch them, I haven't been digging for yet more new/new-to-me items.       I've already watched and enjoyed this week's penultimate second season ep for Star Trek: Lower Decks and the Frasier series (both on Paramount+), each as part of quiet island block when I wake up somewhere between midnight and two AM on a workday, and am up for two to four hours before dropping off for a pre-workday nap. Both of those I watched pre-dawn yesterday. This week's Lower Decks starts to bring this season's mystery arc out of the shadows, while Frasier continues to build the new show, in part, with thematic echoes of the old.       Today even just Amazon Prime/freevee has five new episodes of shows I'm following: Two each for the recently-returned Bosch: Legacy and Upload , and the seventh/penultimate episode of the first season of Gen V. (Gen V'...

      Even though I've already watched the pair of debut episodes of Frasier (see next paragraph), and this week's Star Trek: Lower Decks (which continues to do a stellar job of mining  previous Trek series for character, episode and extraterrestrial culture lore and deftly applying them at breakneck speeds), I still have multiple things I'm looking forward to catching up on, including new eps of Gen V (Amazon Prime), Loki (Disney+), and both Archer and Welcome to Wrexham (both on Hulu), along with the first two episodes of a final six for Doom Patrol over on Max... and that's just off the top of my head, so getting this week's streaming post out of the way brings those one step closer for me.       I've watched the two episodes of the new Frasier series that arrived on Paramount+ this week, and while it was a mixed bag it was good to see the character back, with him attempting to move into his third act by returning to Boston, where...