It's been fun watching Seth Rogen grow as an actor, writer, producer, and director. The Studio could have coasted as an Entourage-style look behind the scenes of Hollywood, but it was much smarter than that. Every episode has a Curb Your Enthusiasm-quality callback or surprise that pays off beautifully — sometimes you see them coming from a mile away, and sometimes they genuinely catch you off guard.

You can feel the effort, the craft, and the love that went into this show. Even all the work that went into the just-a-few-seconds-in-the-background posters and trailers for all the fake movies. As a lover of movies, I really enjoyed it, even if the frantic one-ers and tight close-ups occasionally stressed me the out.

I have historically not been a huge fiction reader. But as I've gotten older, and started branching off from the business books that kept me occupied for the first 20 years of my adulthood, I have started reading more of it. I'm currently slowly working through John D. MacDonald's series of Travis McGee books, but I had seen multiple times that people enjoyed the scientifically accurate Delta V so I decided to give it a try and really enjoyed it. A near future story of billionaires and asteroid mining, it gave me a new appreciation of the economic and environmental reasons we will want to eventually venture into deep space.

Bogonia has much darker comedy and purpose. Safety Not Guaranteed was a quirky romantic comedy. Bogonia is definitely not. But the parallels are still there – just with a modern day update chock full of billionaire economy financial hellscapes, worker bee analogies, and crazy people kidnapping potential aliens.

Strange Harvest went more all-in on the Netflix documentary style. Shelby Oaks uses it more as setup before eventually moving into a regular type of horror story. Both enjoyable, but Strange Harvest will end up sticking with me a bit longer.