Snake hips & venomous quips

I thought I'd used that title. The archive search function says otherwise. Perhaps I dreamt it.

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Craving more bebopping cowboyness, I gave the 2021 live-action series another chance. After all, the biggest "C/B" fan I knew, RS2, had deemed it passable. I also recalled dear old Dad, who preferred fantasy to scifi, digging it enough to complete. It turned out the 10 episodes were fine for helping this escapist linger in that high-tech, low-life (to borrow a phrase) galaxy with a dysfunctional crew of struggling bounty hunters a little longer. 

The l-a series is essentially a greatest-hits package that makes a couple of key mistakes: connecting/explaining too much and concentrating more on the Syndicate plotline, which was always the least interesting. Can't fault the casting, however. I wasn't sure about Daniella Pineda as Faye Valentine at first, but her charisma won me over. Did you know the show was filmed entirely in New Zealand? No, me neither, until I read it yesterday.