Fandom Snowflake Challenge

Day #3: Create a wish list of fandom things (podfic, graphics, playlists, canon recs, translations, research help, vids, sky's the limit!) that you'd like to receive.

( Advice (with potential for community recs). )

( Recs for Ghosts. )

( Financial support (or signal boost) for Miraheze. )

Ghosts (US/UK)

This is one of those shows that I point to as to why I tend to also tag "tv shows" on my fan scribbling on Pillowfort. As far as I know, each show is just called Ghosts within its original broadcast area, but I have to pick a differentiation here, so I'm going with Ghosts US and Ghosts UK.

Technically, Ghosts UK started first, but my family didn't start watching until recently. CBS brought it over, possibly to fill air time from the writer and actor strikes affecting US shows [autumn/winter 2023]. We were so caught up in enjoying the original inspiration for a show we like that we kind of forgot that British shows don't often last as long as a US season. (AKA This will cover seasons 1 and 2 because I forgot to make a post after six episodes.)

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For Life

For Life started airing in winter [February] of 2020. It's inspired by the story of Isaac Wright Jr, who was given a life sentence for drug charges that he was innocent of. If I understand correctly, he became a paralegal in prison, assisted other prisoners with appeals and legal stuff, was able to establish precedent for his own appeal, found proof of police misconduct in his case, and secured his own exoneration before becoming a lawyer after leaving prison.

In the show, the main character Aaron Wallace is facing similar charges and motivation, but he becomes a lawyer while still in prison, and I'm not sure if the show ended before he got to his own exoneration. (It didn't get renewed after season two.)

My family watched the first three episodes [of season one] back closer to the airing dates, but we should have recordings for the rest of the series. These are some approximate notes about those episodes.

( S1E1: Pilot )

( S1E2: Promises )

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( S1E3: Brother's Keeper )

For Life

Notes from watching on 5 January 2024.

( S1E4: Marie )

( S1E5: Witness )