Isolation Report, Week #63

No long post this time, but I will point out that this week saw the last episode of round 2 of Narrative Telephone.  You may recall my first talking about it back in week 8, again briefly in week 14, and I even gave it a 5-star rating in my pandemic TV roundup part 2.  Well, that was all about round 1.  Now they’ve done round 2, adding guest stars to help them achieve maximum chaos.  This last one was an amazing story kicked off by Aabria Iyengar, which of course the Crticial Role crew butchered beyond recognition.  But you should watch ’em all.  It’s the closest to joy I’ve gotten out of the past year and a half.

• R2E1: Return of the Matt (Matt Mercer starts; Brian W. Foster guests)
• R2E2: Two Brothers, One Coast (Brian W. Foster starts)
• R2E3: The Night Before Winter’s Crest (Laura Bailey starts, Micah Burton guests)
• R2E4: Two Brothers, One Coast (Micah Burton starts)
• R2E5: Questions and Quackery (Liam O’Brien starts, Dani Carr guests)
• R2E6: Familiar Feywild Fables (Dani Carr starts)
• R2E7: Chutney’s Christmas Vacation (Travis Willingham starts, Aabria Iyengar guests)
• R2E8: Of Heists and Horses (Aabria Iyengar starts)

Again, you don’t have to understand anything about Critical Role—or anything about D&D at all—to appreciate these.  It’s just the delight of watching 8 friends (and guests) struggle to recreate what has gone before, and then watch each other fuck it up completely and give each other shit about it.  It’s fun, and it’s funny, and it’s weirdly sweet.  Take happiness where you can find it, especially these days.

P’raps something more substantial next week.