WWE Hell in a Cell

• Smackdown Championship Hell in a Cell (Bianca Belair vs. Bayley): 4/7. When Bayley said "Ref, I'm done." why was that not a submission victory for Belair? Bayley's fantastic, but this felt like a boring rehash of something I've already seen.
• Singles (Seth Rollins vs. Cesaro): 4/7. This is still going on? Who even is Seth Rollins any more? He seems to have lost his cult, but he's still basically being that same character? Why is he fixated on Cesaro?
• Singles (Alexa Bliss vs. Shayna Baszler): 7/7. Alexa Bliss has mind control powers now.
• Singles (Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens): 4/7. Kinda hard to care about... whatever Sami's complaining about now and whatever Kevin's deal is here, when I just found out Alexa Bliss has mind control powers.
• Raw Championship (Charlotte Flair \vs. Rhea Ripley): 3/7. I wanted to see the big strong girls smashing into each other - big hits and throwing each other around - but they didn't really go for that. And Charlotte was using kind of sneaky and underhanded tactics, which seemed unnecessary. Overall unsatisfying.
• WWE Championship Hell in a Cell (Bobby Lashley vs. Drew McIntyre): 2/7. Again? Why? Still don't care about Bob Lashley (or MVP) and I'm kind of sick of Drew McIntyre as well.

Overall rating: 4/7. The thing about Hell in a Cell is, what's the point of it? It doesn't add any special rules or win conditions like a cage match, it's just a no-DQ match with limited potential because you can't get out into the rest of the building or bring in any non-standard weapons. It's supposed to be more extreme, but it's not. Scrap this dumb gimmick.

Cruel Summer

The unconventional drama takes place over three summers in the 90s when a beautiful and popular teen goes missing, and a seemingly unrelated girl transforms from a sweet and awkward outlier to the most popular girl in town, eventually becoming the most despised person in America. Each episode is told from alternating POVs.

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I watched this as it aired but I didn't want to recommend it until it finished because I felt like the ending could really make or break it. And now that it's over? I am going to recommend it. But there is one little thing that I really wish they'd changed. So first I'm going to talk about the show spoiler-free, and then there'll be a gap so that if you want to watch it without spoilers you can stop there. And then I'll talk about that one thing.

WWE NXT TakeOver in Your House

• North American and NXT Tag Team Championships (MSK & Bronson Reed vs. Legado del Fantasma): 7/7. Excellent tag teaming, cool moves, great finish. Just an all round fantastic match.
• Singles (Mercedes Martinez vs. Xia Li): 5/7. Some good moments but a bit underwhelming overall. Looks like this story is still building though. And I'm still waiting to see if Mei Ying has any kind of supernatural powers.
• Million Dollar Championship Ladder Match (LA Knight vs. Cameron Grimes): 5/7. Some good bits, but it's just so frustrating watching them pretend they can't climb a ladder. For one moment I thought Grimes was going to get the belt by climbing the scaffold instead of a ladder and if he'd done that it would have redeemed the whole thing, but he didn't.
• NXT Women's Championship (Ember Moon vs. Raquel Gonzales): 6/7. Solid match. Some shenanigans from Dakota Kai, but not too much, and obviously this faction feud has more room to continue.
• NXT Championship Fatal Five-way (Johnny Gargano vs. Kyle O'Reilly vs. Pete Dunn vs. Adam Cole vs. Karrion Kross): 6/7. Started slow but had some great combos and an excellent finish.

Overall Rating: 6/7. No real surprises but every match was entertaining and I'm interested in most of the stories going on. Note: I will never care about Cameron Grimes.

iMPACT! Against All Odds

• Tag Team Street Fight (The Good Brothers vs. Tommy Dreamer and Sami Callihan): 4/7. Not enough build-up in either the story or the show. Even if I'd cared about this match, which I didn't because I don't know why it was happening, it should have been later in the show.
• Singles (Joe Doering vs. Kojima Satoshi): 5/7. I think the main draw for this match is just seeing Kojima, but I don't know who he is so that's not doing it for me. It was an ok match though?
• X-Divison #1 Contenders Match (Petey Williams vs. Trey Miguel vs. Ace Austin vs. Chris Bey vs. Rohit Raju): 6/7. I wasn't too impressed with this match (although it did have a few cool moments) until the ending. Which was fantastic. Bumped it up a whole point.
• Singles (Rich Swann vs W Morrissey): 1/7. Skipped.
• Singles (Tenille Dashwood vs. Jordynne Grace): 4/7. I like Tenille but I'm not really sure what's going on with Jordynne and Rachael Ellering at the moment.
• Knockouts Tag Team Championship (Fire N Flava vs. Kimber Lee & Susan): 4/7. A bit slow.
• Men's Tag Team Championship (Decay vs. Violent By Design): 5/7. Some cool bits.
• Knockouts Championship (Deonna Purrazzo vs. Rosemary): 5/7. Solid.
• Men's Championship (Moose vs. Kenny Omega): 5/7. Another slow one, and no surprises.

Overall Rating: 4/7. Felt like everything was basically just in a holding pattern. Nothing really happened.

Consolidated Steam Reviews

The latest of these is already two years old since I mostly just review games on my blog now, and the oldest is from over ten years ago, so these are not fresh takes. I might not even agree with all of them any more. I'm just putting them here for completeness.

9 BC (games)

Nothing particularly outstanding in this batch. Some I might come back to, some I definitely won't. Some I like in theory and some that are just not for me.

KBAM Games #-A

I'd played some of these before but couldn't remember anything about them. Most of them I didn't even recall once I started playing. Most of them I won't bother playing again.

Controller-Enabled Games T-Z

Is this the last of them? No, just the last of the ones with full controller support so I didn't have to bother switching the HDMI cable from the TV to the monitor - which honestly shouldn't be the hurdle it is, but is frequently more effort than I can be bothered putting in.

And technically I have actually played some of these before, but I couldn't remember anything about them so I gave them another shot. Probably shouldn't have bothered.