Monday Media Musings - 6/20/22

Exandria Unlimited: Calamity: A beautifully tragic tale, well-told. This Critical Role four-episode miniseries explores one of the incidents that kicked of The Calamity, a centuries-long war between gods that helps define the history of the game's setting. As a prequel, you know to a certain extent how it has to end, but that took nothing away from the journey of getting there. I wasn't at all familiar with Brennan Lee Mulligan before this, but I was very impressed by the emotionality of his storytelling and what felt like an instant rapport built at the table (though I heard a couple of mentions of a session zero, so of course it couldn't have been). I also fell totally in love with Lou and Luis, both in terms of their characters and as players, and of course Aabria is always brilliant. ( Minor character spoilers. )

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