Hello, it is Reviewsday Tuesday and today I'm going to be talking about my January Favourites.
It's the first Favourites video of 2019. I hope the first month of the year has been good to you.
I've had a good month, a lot of things have been going on, I've been pretty busy,
But I also took some time off at the start of the month as well so there's been quite a nice balance.
Today I'm going to start by talking about TV shows as I so often do.
The first TV show I'm gonna talk about today as one of my favourite
Is the new special Black Mirror episode, Bandersnatch.
It's on Netflix and it's special because it's a Choose Your Own Adventure episode.
The viewer gets to choose the direction of the story.
I've never experienced a story told in this way.
I've read Choose Your Own Adventure books but in this medium I found it really exciting.
I really enjoyed how the whole viewer choice aspect was woven into the story,
And it's very much true to the spirit of Black Mirror in terms of themes and style.
So if you have access to Netflix, I recommend checking it out.
In a completely different vein I have been enjoying the new BBC adaptation of Les Miserables.
Six episodes, a new episode every Sunday night on BBC one at 9:00 p.m.
We've just finished episode 5 at time of recording, so there's one episode left.
I've been enjoying it a lot, Les Miserables is my favorite book, I'm also a fan of the musical.
And I have found the BBC adaptation to be very true to the book, more so than the musical is.
I do slightly wish that the series is a bit longer, because the book is so epic
And takes place across such a wide span of time, a little bit of that is lost in the series.
I mean obviously it does a better job than a film would.
But there are quite a lot of coincidences in the plot which were never quite so obvious to me in the book
But in the TV show seem quite glaring,
And I feel like slightly more time with the story would minimize that a bit more
But then I'm sure that a lot of people would be like 'no, this is enough, this is plenty, this is long enough.'
Now a film. This month, well, in fact not even this month, 31st December, New Year's Eve,
I saw Jumanji, the new version, for the first time.
The one with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and Jack Black, and Karen Gillan.
I enjoyed it a lot, I was worried, I was a big fan of the Robin Williams film as a kid.
Ihave seen it a lot when I was growing up.
But I really liked how they updated the story, how they made it a sequel instead of a remake.
How they modernized it. I enjoyed it.
I believe there's a sequel in the works right now and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Next, a game. On my Twitch channel this month we started a new game.
We finished playing The Last of Us and we started playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
This was my first experience of The Elder Scrolls and I am enjoying it a lot.
I heard mixed reviews of it before, several people I know really loved it, and several had not at all.
So I was interested to see how I would feel about it
But pretty much from the first hour of playing I was right in there, right involved, and very excited to continue.
It's very epic, there are a lot of choices that you can make, and there's so much to do.
It can be a little overwhelming at times, especially if you are generally a completist with games.
I'm not, I'm resigned to the fact that I will only complete a fraction of the things that it's possible to in this game.
But it's really, really fun. I'm just so excited to play in such an open world
And it's also been a while since I've got to create my own character
So that has also added to the experience.
I'd recommend it and I can't wait to continue playing it on Twitch.
Speaking of games, my favourite place this month is the video games exhibition
Which is currently on at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
It's called Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt and it's on until 24th February
So you have just under a month to see it if you fancy it.
It's very good, it starts off with rooms dedicated to particular games,
One of them being The Last of Us so immediately I was a fan of the exhibition because I'm a fan of The Last of Us.
And then it goes into more detail about like the history of games and how games are made
And games as a tool of societal change.
Representation in video games, the importance of video games, themes in video games.
There's a bit about streaming which I found very interesting, and also stuff about fan works in general.
And there were also, quite importantly, several games that you can play while you're going around.
I was very impressed. I've seen a few exhibitions in museums over the years
And I think this is probably my favourite.
Finally, a purchase. As you may know if you've watched some of my videos this month
Because I've been going on about it a bit, I bought a gaming PC.
I've been wanting to improve my setup for a while to make gaming and streaming easier
And now I have, and I have a different background to my videos now so that's exciting.
I'm very happy so far, I was using a Mac for a while
So it's taken a little while to get used to being back to Windows
And also just to transfer everything across was a bit of an ordeal,
But now I'm pretty much set up now, and raring to go.
Also on a slightly smaller scale, I bought this Wonder Woman hoodie and I love this as well.
So those are some of my favourite things from this month,
I would love to know some of your favourite things from January.
Also do you have any thoughts on any of the things I have talked about today.
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