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Working Stiff
Working Stiff
Rachel Caine | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
8
7.3 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamorous career choice, but at least it offers stable employment--until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele as part of an extortion racket. Now, Bryn faces being terminated--literally, and with extreme prejudice.

Wit the help of corporate double-agent Patrick McCallister, Bryn has a chance to take down the bigger problem--pharmaceutical company Pharmadene, which treats death as the ultimate corporate loyalty program. She'd better do it fast, before she becomes a zombie slave--a real working stiff. She'd be better off dead...




A new spin on the idea of zombie or living dead. This is a reread for me and I love the series. Rachel Caine is definitely one of my favourite Authors. This has strong female lead with a good storyline.
  
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AJaneClark (3975 KP) Oct 2, 2019

I have read the Morganville series, that’s what encouraged me to look for more of her writing. I loved how Morganville was written.

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) Oct 5, 2019

I've just started stillhouse Lake it's really good

Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage - Season One
Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage - Season One
2025 | Comedy
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Running from 2007 to 2019, The Big Bang Theory (TBBT) was an American sitcom that focused - initially - on a group of Scientist Friends in Pasadena.

From them, the character of Sheldon Cooper was probably the breakout star.

So much so, that he got his own spin-off in the sitcom 'Young Sheldon', which started airing towards the end of TBBT.

From that, Sheldon's older brother Georgie Cooper had perhaps the best storyline towards the end of its own run.

A storyline that is picked up in this, with Georgie married to Mandy (10 years his senior) and struggling to raise his young family in late 80s, early 90s Texas,

Like Young Sheldon before it, I never found it as laugh-out-loud funny as TBBT - amusing, yes, but not laugh out loud.

I'll still watch more of it.
  
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David McK (3921 KP) rated Fallout Season 2 in TV

Feb 15, 2026 (Updated Feb 15, 2026)  
Fallout Season 2
Fallout Season 2
2025 |
Season 2 of Amazon's Fallout adaptation, that picks up from where Season 1 left off, and with Lucy McClean now searching for her father for very different reasons than before whilst the Ghoul continues his search for his family and whilst Maximus is back with the Brotherhood of Steel, and whilst more intrigue and secrets come to light amongst the vault dwellers.

That sounds like quite a lot.

Which, to its credit, the show manages to spin seemingly effortlessly, again contrasting the 'now' with flashbacks to the past (and the Ghoul's former life), before the bombs dropped.

I've never played the games, so I can't say how closely it sticks, but I do have to say - for all that - this is thoroughly enjoyable, and mostly welcoming to newcomers (although they will need to have watched season 1 first).
  
House of the Dragon
House of the Dragon
2022 | Action, Adventure, Drama
6
7.8 (4 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Good Dragon scenes (1 more)
Fits in with Game of Thrones well
Slow paced (2 more)
Very political
Time jump
Very familiar
I'm a big fan of Game of Thrones so having a chance to view a spin off series is a no brainer.
This is a big series 10 episodes mostly around an hour long. Unfortunately there was no where near enough action for me. The first few episodes are good but then it jumps to around 10 years later with different actors playing some of the characters.
As usual there is a lot of political views around who should be the heir to the Throne and who is with or against the various Houses. Just creates a bit of a lull around the middle episodes before picking up again for the last 2 episodes. Hopefully a second series will have more action.