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Film: Top Gun: Maverick

Watching with young boys - quite a bit more enjoyable in this context. A lot of things are. The technical elements of the fight scenes impressive. Casting around Cruise was super strong. Does Cruise get enough credit for identifying talent actors to surround himself with?

Book: Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Didn't remember how preoccupied with death Tom Sawyer was...

Also, Tom loses a front tooth in the book but is 12 years old. Kids lose their front teeth at 6 or 7. Was this a mistake or did kids lose teeth later back then? Serious question.

TV: New Curb, S12

Not yet as terrific as S11.

TV: Sons of Anarchy Pilot

I remember bumping on the show as one of those phony prestige shows...like Chernobyl...where they marketed it like it was on par with Deadwood or Sopranos when it's clearly not. But if viewed as genre trash, it can be viewed next to Justified or Reacher and not embarrass itself. My point: not unwatchable. Cast has a lot of good faces.

Play: Hamlet

Read a strange version where the Gravediggers are referred to as Clowns and Hamlet never bumps into Fortinbras. Every time I read, I have questions. Why does Laertes presume Claudius had something to do with Polonius's murder? How old is Hamlet again? I used to insist he was not much more than a teenager - he's in college after all, but then he seems to remember a guy who died 23 years ago. So I read what the internet says and even this is open to interpretation. Are the clowns lying or misremembering the guy being dead for so long?

TV: Seinfeld random episodes

My unpopular opinion amongst intelligent people: Seinfeld is still better than Curb.