Movie: Top Gun: Maverick (2022). The original was a fun movie with a thin plot. Pete Mitchell a.k.a. Maverick is a much more interesting character three decades later. He's coming to terms with the impending end of his very protracted adolescence / young adulthood and he has some regrets. For me, his rekindled relationship with Penny Benjamin is the best thing in the film. Finding love later in life can be complicated for a number of reasons. They handled this very, very well.

I saw it in the theater three times and have watched it three times at home now as well. It is very, very rewatchable for me. I get it if young people don't get what the big deal is, but there is more to this movie than just nostalgia for nostalgia's sake.

TV: Currently watching a four-part NetFlix documentary called Pepsi, Where's My Jet? and it's a hoot. I remember the ad campaign in the mid '90s and this case making the news sometime later.