Cornetto Trilogy

I mentioned the other day that I finally found a streaming service that carries the show Spaced. I’m almost finished watching it (there are only 14 episodes) and last night I found myself home alone for a while and decided to roll Spaced into a mini film festival where I watched Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright/Nick Frost movies.

I started with Shaun of the Dead for two reasons. One, it’s possibly the funniest movie ever (not to mention the greatest zombie movie ever). Two, I remembered it being short. It isn’t really short. It’s an hour and 40 minutes or so. That’s short compared to Godfather II, but not compared to reality. Regardless, it is one of my favorite movies and I haven’t watched it in ages. When it was done you would expect me to have moved on to movie number two in the Cornetto Trilogy, Hot Fuzz, but instead I jumped ahead to number three, The World’s End. Why? Because I had only watched it once before (despite the clear fact that it is genius) and, unlike Shaun and Hot Fuzz, I don’t know the whole thing word for word. I was definitely due for a viewing.

That’s all I got to last night. I might try to watch Hot Fuzz before bed tonight, thus completing the trilogy. I don’t know. I might try to stick to a couple more episodes of Spaced instead. I only have four left to go, I think. It might be three… or five… something like that. I’m in season two. Then again, I might just go to sleep. I am beat after this very weird day.

Spaced

If you are like me and are a huge fan of the movies Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End and often find yourself wishing for more viewing options from the team of Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, and Nick Frost, along with the rest of the gang, and you know there was a TV series called Spaced that they all did together prior to Shaun of the Dead but could never see it because it wasn’t available anywhere for either streaming or purchase, then I have some news for you.

It is available for streaming on the Tubi app. It’s free with commercials. There are only two seasons with a total of 14 episodes. I am on season one episode six and it is every bit as ridiculous and insane and wonderful and, well… English as I had hoped it would be.

Enjoy, folks. Enjoy.

Halloween Plans

So with over 1400 new cases of Covid-19 in Massachusetts today, and over 80,000 new cases nation wide, I figured I’d bring up the topic of Halloween plans.

What are you folks doing?

Wanna know what we’re doing?

Our plans are to turn off all the lights outside of the house, turn off all the lights inside the house that face the street, close all of the curtains, lock ourselves into a room in the back of the house and act like Shaun and Liz and Ed and Dianne and David and Shaun’s mom from Shaun of the Dead and wait for this whole thing to blow over.

Happy Covid-ween, everyone. Stay home and wash your damn hands!