Sense8 (Netflix, Season 3 / Finale)

This show was officially cancelled by Netflix (likely because it’s really expensive to make and they can get crappy things people will watch anyway for much cheaper), but they relented from fan outcry and funded a finale movie to wrap everything up.

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Overall: See my reviews of Season 1 and Season 2. This was an ambitious, deeply queer show that made some missteps and could have stood to be edited down in a bunch of places, but the concept was really cool and I liked most of the characters. (…I could have taken or left a bunch of the “main plot” side characters.) I’m cool with it ending, but hope the creators make something else with a similar style to it soon.

Meats in Iceland

So, Jethrien already did a really complete, detailed report of our trip to Iceland. The only thing I really have to add is regarding meats, because during that trip, I ate a bunch of animals I hadn’t before.

• They love lamb; smoked lamb is a common cold cut, lamb is the base of the meat soup, lamb is in the hot dogs. One tour guide noted there are about 500,000 sheep in Iceland, or about a million during lambing season.

• The other really common cold cut was ham, which they have a dozen varieties of. I have to wonder if that’s an imported love, because for all the sheep and cows and horses we saw, I didn’t see a single pig.

• Horse tastes a lot like beef, though it’s a very tough meat. Neither of these things is surprising.

• Langoustine are the tiny lobsters which taste, unsurprisingly, like sweet and tender lobster. I had them deep friend, roasted with garlic butter, and in soup, and they were consistently delicious.

• Minke whale (which is not endangered, for the record) tastes like one of the gamier red meats, though with a slight fishiness.

• Puffin reminded me a lot of duck. I specifically had it in a smoked, not-quite-jerky form so it was really tender.

• Ling is a cod-like fish, and tastes like it.

• Icelanders LOVE mayonnaise. It’s the meat-condiment and dipping sauce of choice.

• Also, Icelanders apparently like both British-style sandwiches (hard boiled eggs and iceberg lettuce go on everything) and French-style (the single slice of ham and cheese with, of course, mayo). They do a lot more of the seeded rye breads than white breads, and apparently eat a lot of nuts.

We can tell what part of this trip was most important to me, eh?