Review Day

There are no major spoilers in these reviews.

Yellowjackets, Season One:
We watched this in the spring but it must have slipped out of my review queue. This is a tense, unsettling thriller about a high school soccer team that crashes in the Canadian wilderness, intercut with flash-forwards to the only survivors in the future hanging onto a collective secret. Great performances (especially by Juliette Lewis and Christina Ricci), although be warned that the show starts leaning more heavily into horror elements as it goes on.

Final Grade: B+

That 90s Show, Season Two:
The first season of this sequel show had a campy charm and a good balance of cameos versus new character development. This season just feels like a an actual sitcom made in the 90s and starts to drag almost immediately. We watched 6 of the 8 episodes but never felt compelled to finish it.

Final Grade: C-

Asin9ne by Tech N9ne:
I enjoy Tech N9ne's fast-patter hip hop in spite of his incorrect use of "9" for phonetic spelling (however this is not as egregious as Ekoh naming his albums "The Detour", "The De2our", and "The D3tour"). This album has some good beats a little buried in skits and transitional material that gets tiresome after the first listen.

Final Grade: B

Meta Quest 2 Elite Strap:
The cheap plastic clips on my original Quest 2 headband finally broken after 3 years of near-daily use. This $20 strap relies on a twist knob to hold tension rather than elastic which makes it far more comfortable. The only downsides are that it's much harder to put on and take off the headset with glasses without twisting the knob to maximum size, and the headest takes up noticeably more shelf space since you can't tuck the headband into the headset anymore.

Final Grade: B