On another note, my wife and I binged all 8 episodes of Amazon’s new Prime-exclusive dramatic series Jack Ryan on Friday, and I’ll be damned if it isn’t pretty great. It’s well cast across the board, and John Krasinski makes an unexpectedly good Ryan. The producers (including Carlton Cuse from Lost and Graham Roland of Almost Human) know what they’re doing and they understand the character well – they haven’t tried to make him into James Bond or Jason Bourne, which is exactly right. The show takes no shortcuts. I like it a lot. It’s already been picked up for a second season which is now filming. I highly recommend it.

Finally today, on a personal note, I’d like to make one last pitch for my old high school friend Scott DeMers’ outstanding and epic new civilization building board game Hellenica: Story of Greece. It’s being developed in collaboration with the good folks at Mr. B Games. There are only 4 days left in his Kickstarter, but the project was fully funded in just 3 hours and they’ve been adding stretch goals like madmen, thus making the game more awesome by the day. If you’re a table top gamer, do yourself a favor and check it out! Here’s the Kickstarter link and below you’ll find some artwork created for the game...

That’s all for now! Stay tuned...

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