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Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.

I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.  

I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time.  As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree. 

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

DVD/TV Series Review: FBI Season 3

 


Season three of FBI was another short season due to the covid pandemic, this time because production started later in the year than usual. So, this season only has fifteen episodes as opposed to a normal twenty-two-episode run. There is more cast turnover this season with Ebonee Noel and Catherine Haena Kim leaving the show and Katherine Renee Turner joining the cast as FBI Special Agent Tiffany Wallace who is a former NYPD officer and White Collar Division agent.

The show mostly follows the case-of-the-week procedural format that the prior two seasons have, although there are a couple of episodes in which the story arcs and the "bad guy" tie together. The covid pandemic is referenced from time to time, but it is not a main theme of the show at all. The show does play on real-life events including the protests against the police that occurred throughout the country and dug deep into the archives to have an episode that played on the investigation and capture of the Unabomber. The series continues to be well-written and acted. There is a lot of violence but nothing too gory, and there is really no sexual content beyond some kissing. The show still does not delve a ton into the characters' personal lives, but it still does a good job with character development and making viewers get invested, either positively or negatively, in the characters.

If you want the DVD set you will have to pay for an import as the DVDs are not released in Region 1 (the US and Canada), which means that you also need either a region 2 or region-free DVD or Blu-Ray player to watch them on. The DVDs are basically a MOD set that has a few different language options (German, English, and French) and does have captions, but there are no extras like behind-the-scenes features, deleted scenes, or anything like that. So, if you only get DVDs when there are a lot of extras, you may just want to stream this one because you will not get anything more by purchasing the DVD set.

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