Millennium

Last night I was watching the first episode of Millennium from 1996.  It was a TV show created by Chris Carter (who came up with The X-Files) and it starred Lance Henricksen as a retired FBI profiler who has a unique ability to get inside the heads of serial killers, and he moves back to the suburbs of Seattle and becomes a consultant for a strange organisation called The Millennium Group.  It's a strange show, very much of it's time, and it lasted for three seasons, and totally changed each season.  The first one is extremely bleak and quite intense horror, the second went into bizarre fantasy-horror, and in the third it became an X-Files clone, and there was actually an X-Files / Millennium cross-over episode.  I still think Millennium is an underrated show.  It's dated, but it is still surprisingly disturbing for a mainstream network TV show.

Also last night I downloaded The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson on to my Kindle Fire.

It was a pretty long day at work.  I listened to This American Life about getting your money's worth, which told a short story from the point of view of a condom.  I also heard Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, which is basically an analysis of the whole history of the X-Men comics and their many, many spin-offs.  I heard Comedy of the Week (presenting a sketch comedy show called Daphne Sounds Expensive), Happy Sad Confused (which interviewed Tom Hiddleston and Nicholas Hoult) and one of my favourite podcasts You Must Remember This, about the "secrets and / or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century".

It was really hot today, surprisingly so.  The problem is that it's been really cold recently, and it often gets very cold at work, and so I was wearing my thick woolen top and thick jacket.  When I got home I was absolutely exhausted with heat.