Alrightreads: TV XIII

Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, The Sopranos Sessions

2019 / Ebook / 471 pages / USA

****

A bit poncy, but they made me a more attentive viewer and the spoiler policy was appreciated.

Sandy Schofield (Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Big Game

1993 / Audiobook / 276 pages / USA

***

A decent effort for so early in the series (though inevitably lacking as a result), the authors' relentless emphasis on bad smells made the crisis unpleasantly immersive, so thanks for that.

Frank Spotnitz, Marv Wolfman, Doug Moench and Brian Denham, The X-Files

2008-09 (collected 2009) / Ecomics / 176 pages / USA

***

Before the usurped IDW comic continuation and zombie TV relaunch, this brief Wildstorm run aimed more squarely for nostalgia. Impressive likenesses in familiar plots bring nothing new to the table, just how you want it.

Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Red Dwarf: Son of Soup – A Second Serving of the Least Worst Scripts

1996 / Ebook / 164 pages / UK

****

There's more method to this batch's seasoned selections, but they might as well have released a big book (or two).

Unknown, Severance: The Lexington Letter

2022 / Ebook / 43 pages / USA

***

A short and typically tangential tie-in, mainly notable for giving a hint about one of the series' formerly opaque mysteries, unless I'm missing things.