Adored by Visitors... Page 18 EXIT ZERO November 3, 2022 Loved by Locals! OPEN FRIDAY - SUNDAY 7AM-2PM Beach & Grant 609-884-3772 Welcome Fall! in need of libations for your wedding or party? Call us! Open Daily 10am-10pm | WE DELIVER Sunset & Broadway l 609-435-5052 New Gluten-free options! ing from 3-7am and probably thought they were doing me a favor by playing Billy Joel’s “She’s Got a Way” as I am such a Billy Joel head. But it was the version from his famously mismanaged and terrible Cold Spring Harbor album which should have died in a fire and never seen the light of day. But I appreciate the thought. Smiley-face. Immediate Redemption of the Week: To the same WCFA, who followed that Billy Joel atrocity with Susan Tedeschi’s twangy version of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice”, and the sublime “Yellow & Rose” by, ahem, James Taylor and Shawn Colvin. How good are these songs? So good we’ll be playing them in the Terry O’Brien Trio next week. Hate Watch of the Week Possibly Hate Watch of All-Time: Avenue 5 on HBO. It’s trying SO HARD to be Veep In Space but fails in every conceivable way with the lone exception of finding ever more cringe-inducing ways to work the F-word into every line. It’s like Big Sky minus the emotional nuance and character development. It’s like Grey’s Anatomy if everyone was 10x more grating which seems impossible, I know. It’s like if all the Real Housewives were stuck in your living room for eight years. It makes me miss Saved By the Bell. But I watch every episode so… congratulations HBO? I guess? Comic Book Movie of the Week: Black Adam was a perfectly enjoyable waste of two hours on a Sunday afternoon. I absolutely hated the first 20 minutes because it did that thing where an English-accented voiceover explains a bunch of mystical gobbledygook no one could possibly keep track of, but after that was some pretty nifty stuff. It was also cool to see big screen versions of characters I’ve enjoyed since childhood (Hawkman, Dr. Fate). Not a classic, not terrible. The Rock only ever plays The Rock. So, a decent The Rock movie. Long-time readers know what a fan I am of Mike Flanigan’s Netflix series’ (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor which contains perhaps my very favorite episode of television ever made), new-time readers, well, I’m a big fan of Mike Flanigan’s Netflix series’. His latest, The Midnight Club, is probably my least favorite of these, but it’s still exceptionally good. It has a very Young-Adult vibe, which is probably why I didn’t LOVE-love it and just likeliked it. Also, one of the main characters is a mouthy Scottish prat, which gave me workplace PTSD (ahem, Jack Wright, ahem). Still highly recommend. I also recommend watching The Midnight Club while stoned on NyQuil. It’s a story-withina-story kind of thing and it gets super trippy if you’re dipping in and out of consciousness while viewing. Last Seen Alive is a serviceable little kidnap thriller on Netflix in the vein of the Taken movies starring Gergard Butler who’s ripped, which is good. He was rocking the Dad Bod in his last few flicks. Dad Bods are the domain of smalltown magazine columnists, not Big-Time Movie Stars. How medicated was I all week? So medicated I enjoyed the hell out of a movie called Jexi starring the annoying guy from Pitch Perfect about a Siri-like phone system that bullies a guy into turning his life around. Lucky break for you. With Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter my account is likely to be unlocked soon, so most of this crap will just go straight there as opposed to subjecting you to it every week. I’m so jealous. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have 27 loads of laundry to do and a Netflix queue that ain’t gonna clear itself. (Also, queue is a 5-letter word for Q. Language, man.) ’Til next week, don’t get caught in The Undertow.
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