Welcome to Harry Potter and the extremely successful trailer launch. Yes, I think that went pretty well. Everybody wondered why did we need this and then we saw it and said I need it now. Now we just have to wait until Christmas which is pretty exciting news. And I think like you know I think 80% of the reaction to this has been pretty positive. I think even most people have to admit Snape looks pretty darn good.

Uh, we’re going to talk about all of this, but I want to talk about a couple of things up front before we dive into the actual trailer and first look images that they released. Thanks for all the goodies HBO. But, you know, I think that suddenly, speaking of Netflix, who almost purchased Warner Brothers HBO, it looks like HBO finally has themselves a Netflix style show.

Uh, they’ve done very well in the adult section of entertainment extremely well, and they kind of started this whole, you know, prestige television thing, but it’s gotten away from them a little bit. Uh Netflix has really successful shows like Stranger Things, uh uh Wednesday, now One Piece, and I I think you can clearly see, and I would also throw Adolescence into the mix there. You can see the influence of those shows, I believe, on this one.

I think that HBO set out to have a Netflix style hit, and I think they’re going to have one. On that note, I was wondering how is this going to drop? It seemed like maybe it would be a binge. And some of you are saying that you’ve heard that’s the case. If this is a binge, if it’s gonna drop all eight, let’s say, episodes on Christmas Day. That’s going to the hierarchy of the holiday 2026 season is about to change. Sorry, Dwayne. Once again, not in your favor.

And I think this is going to be such a big hit on Christmas and for the couple of days after. Uh because it’s, you know, there are a lot of adult Harry Potter fans. I think this is more of a family thing as well than any other movie coming out this holiday season. And it’s going to be a lot more content for a lot less money. You’re going to get an eight hour movie for less than a premium movie ticket. And it’s certainly going to cut into repeat watching.

So, you know, just the other day, Jumanji moved to get ahead to get come after Dune and Avengers uh Doomsday, but now I think all three of them are going to be severely undercut. Uh, one of these is a Warner Brothers movie, but I think they feel it’s different audiences. Um, but I think everybody likes Harry Potter. That’s one of the reasons it’s so successful.

Uh, let me know down below if this is what you’re going to watch for Christmas. I think it’s what everybody’s going to watch for Christmas. And how many times do you think you might watch it? People love them some Harry Potter. I just, as I said in my reaction, recently rewatched all of the movies two years ago during Christmas, but I know that some of you watch the whole the whole run of the films every Christmas. So, I guess they did their research. They know that.

And uh they want to have a situation where instead of the movies, you watch this. Maybe you watch both and compare them. Uh you’re going to be watching a lot of Harry Potter this holiday season.

All right. Now, speaking of how can these two things coexist, the movies of course are very fantasy. You know, Chris Columbus who set the tone really leaned into that uh from you know who comes of course from the Home Alone space and I think that worked really well.

Obviously very successful franchise of films. So how did the shows coexist? Well, by taking a different approach, and I’m surprised at how well this approach works. This show feels more grounded. Uh, and you might be like, who wants grounded Harry Potter? But now that I’ve seen it, I’m like, me? I mean, it feels very real. It feels much more emotional.

I got so many feels, you know, from, you know, that’s the thing. I never read the books and I remember going to see the movies when they came out and I was and I think a lot of us who didn’t read the books had been like it’s nice and people who read the books were like it’s more than nice and we were like but we don’t really know what’s going on because they’re skipping over a lot of stuff obviously and people who you know who’d read the books can fill in all those spaces but here because it’s that it’s they have eight hours or so to tell the same story we’re all going to feel much more uh we’re all going to feel more included and I think that’s um that makes the story I think more emotional.

It pulls someone like myself more into it and you know and I think it has time now for really strong emotional beats. Not to say that the films didn’t have strong emotional moments, but the this to me again feels more real, more relatable, more lived in, which I is something I had not anticipated or I didn’t anticipate that approach and I didn’t anticipate how effective it would be.

It feels a little bit more like reading a book, which I think is delightful. But you know what it really feels like? And I wonder if you had the same thought. To me, it feels very much like British television.

Oh, and I gotta tell you, I don’t know how you feel about it in the UK, but everywhere else, particularly here in America, where we just go crazy over a British accent, as they talked about in the film, Love Actually, we love some British television.

Uh, so this to me reminds me of not only older British shows like Black Adder, I love Black Adder. And also, while I didn’t watch it, I’ve seen a couple of clips of Doctor Who, you know, like early Mr. Bean. It has like that 70s8s kind of space to it, which I think is interesting. But then also, as I said, more recent shows like Adolescence. It feels a lot like that.

Again, also, as I mentioned in my reaction, I recently went to the UK for the holidays. Uh, not last year, but the year before. Had a wonderful time. And this very much reminds me of my trip and I feel it feels very much like modern England which is cool. Uh and not just the visuals.

Some of you said what a I saw someone say what a missed opportunity not to use John Williams score but that’s high fantasy here. They had something that was more like haunting. Uh I can’t quite you know uh I got to be careful because they they the HBO is still very aggressive with claims. So, we’re going with stills here uh for the trailer breakdown. But it was like la, you know, over the title. And I was like, ooh, magical.

And I mean, boy, talk about this Harry Potter. That’s one sad little nerd, you know, like he looks I don’t even have to see him live under the stairs. He looks like he lives under the stairs. But he’s also, I think, so much more relatable and has so I mean, with Daniel Radcliffe’s character, you were like, “That’s the star. That’s the lead.” But here, I feel like this is very much more Harry’s story.

Uh, some of you also noted that they seem to have not been able to change Hogwarts substantially because they don’t want to have to totally redo the theme parks in the studio tour, and I think that makes sense. I mean, as disappointed as I am as well, I’m like a I think it’s a good idea.

They seem to have just turned the lights down, right? Uh so let’s let’s go through uh the photo the images and we’re going to go through the trailer, but I also want to take a look at these first look photos that HBO released through their press website, and you might have seen in some publications already and online.

So we got to start with Snape. Now this is uh uh Papa Assidio, an actor out of the UK. I feel very bad for him uh because he’s been getting apparently death threats over this role as a fictional character, guys. Okay.

I think he looks great. Now, an important choice that I want to point out to you that you might not have caught from the trailer is that while Hogwarts is a has a diverse student body, there does seem to be an issue with colorism at the school.

You will note that no one has the same skin tone, at least in the trailers, as Snape, and colorism is still a very important issue to this day. We’ve talked about it with the casting of Storm. And both Viola Davis and Lepita Niongo have talked about how it’s made it more difficult for them to get roles.

Um, and so I think it’s a very interesting element to potentially bring into this conversation, uh, to this story.

Uh, also it does complicate Snape’s relationship with Harry’s parents. Uh, as I recall, Harry’s mom was very close with Snape, but yet for some reason things never progressed. And perhaps this might provide an answer to that because of, you know, the world that they lived in at the time.

Let’s see. Let’s see. I have to see how it’s portrayed. But I think this looks very good. I think that Acidu looks like he’s doing a fantastic job. I think the visual here is striking. This is a very I mean I can see why they released this photo.

I wish they had a shot this good in the trailer of him. Although none of the none of the faculty at Hogwarts is well represented in the trailer itself. Uh but I think he looks absolutely amazing and let’s face it nobody can compete with Alan Rickman. So why even try?

I think you have to go in a totally different direction and this is it. I would love to see him cast as interesting a figure as Chris Chalk did in the recent Welcome to Dairy as Dick Howerin.

This looks to me like that interesting a performance with lots of really interesting layers. I’m impressed. I didn’t know how this was going to look. I didn’t know what I was going to make of it because of course Alan Rickman, even to us non-book readers, was just so burned in our brains as Snape. Uh but I like this very much.

I’m not saying everybody’s going to be able to get behind it, but as someone who likes Elseorld stories and appreciates them, I think it’s great.

Okay, then. So, the next one is here. This is a much better shot of Dumbledore, John Lithgow, going around saying, you know, I considered not being in the Harry Potter show because of JK Rowling’s statements, but you know, at the end of the day, I still did it.

You’re like, then why being an up John? You can’t have one foot in, one foot out. Either you’re doing the show or you’re not. I like his beard. You know, the other shot in the trailer of him is too close up and so it doesn’t seem that magical.

But man, he’s got great beard action there. I love the little swirls in the beard. I mean, that looks just great. Wind in the beard. I’ve never heard of that before, but I love it. Right. So, I’m impressed. That’s some great beard acting there.

So, I think I think he looks great there. I think it looks great. They really need to invest in some lighting in Hogwarts for Pete’s sake. I mean, aren’t they all magical? What is the spell luminous or whatever?

Okay, this one I don’t like. Now, I’m a big fan of Janet McTar. I love Janet McTar and I’m sure I’ll appreciate her in the role. Bit different from Maggie Smith.

You know, with John Lithggo’s Dumbledore, he’s like more understated and seems more like a real person, right? But it’s just Maggie Smith. but someone else playing.

It’s like it’s like Janet McTar is playing Maggie Smith’s version of uh McDonald instead of creating her own. And so I have a little bit of an issue with that. Maybe I’ll change my mind when I see the actual performance, but in the still not loving it. I mean, I don’t hate it, but I’m not like impressed. I’m not like, "Oo, what’s happening here?" like I am with Dumbledore and Snape.

Let’s look at the kids. All right, there’s our trio. Although, I have to say, I think you gota It does remind me of Challengers a bit now. There’s Hermione and her two little white boys. I think that’s hilarious.

Uh, but look how nice Hogwarts looks there with some freaking sunlight at least illuminating things. But it looks like a real castle that seems to be in need of some repair. Like a lot of castles in England. You know, they have a real problem with upkeep over there. It’s expensive and these things are crumbling like you wouldn’t believe. But it looks great.

This is a magic castle. Don’t tell me that Hogwarts has financial difficulties. Okay. What’s the tuition here, man? Okay.

But I think this is a very nice shot. They look adorable and I like it very much. Uh they had a nicer, wider version of this, which I wish I’d actually grabbed on the website where you could really see it and you really saw them. But they look adorable. I like them quite a bit.

There’s Hermione. This is actually her best shot. It’s not in the trailer, I don’t believe. She looks okay in the trailer, but she stands out the most here. Um, she looks a lot like Emma Watson.

In fact, I think that’s one of the things she said, one of the reasons she wanted to play the role, and she does the voice acting in the books that are the audio books that are currently very popular. So, that should help her be accepted uh as Hermione. She looks great to me.

She looks fantastic. She um I’m curious if you know she was uh added for to bring some diversity to the to the show to the story and there’s always been some debate ever since um the Broadway or the West End Broadway show Cursed Child as to uh Hermione’s ethnicity like what did JK Rowling intend in the text?

Uh and some people have interpreted some way and others have another. Um, so do you feel that that that this recasting uh brings diversity to the show? Do you feel there you feel there’s representation, but she looks adorable? I think she looks great.

There’s Ron. I don’t like him as much so far. Uh, but that’s fine. I don’t want to pull focus from Harry. I think in the movies, Daniel Radcliffe, as good as he was, I came to appreciate his performance more when I saw the movies again recently. But I think he had a very hard time competing with the uh his co-stars for attention on screen.

Uh, but here I don’t I think that our new Harry is not going to have as much of a problem. I think he has a little bit more uh screen presence than they do. So and he should be it’s his freaking story, man.

Okay, then. Oh, he I love this. I feel bad because Tom Felton, who played uh Draco Malfoy in the original uh movies, still makes a living off of that. So, he’s probably like, "No, I’m Draco Malfoy. Maybe they can, you know, do stuff together in the future to pay their rent.”

Uh, but you know, I mean, I like Tom Felton. When I went to the UK, he I went he does like this uh interactive experience uh outside the Tower of London and he did a nice job, but I was like, man, he’s really working hard, you know? He’s like really tap dancing for his supper and he’s currently speaking of the Broadway show or the musical. Uh no, it’s just not it’s not a musical. The Broadway show, he’s currently playing the father, Lucius Malfoy.

Um but he looks great. That kid looks really uh posh and uh as we know, evil. There’s a better shot of him in the trailer, but I think uh I like this casting.

And then there are the Derslley’s uh Harry’s adoptive uh well, his relatives, his adoptive parents, who are so mean. And I like that they look kind of nice. You know, they were very comical in the movie.

But I like that they have Belle Powley playing uh Mrs. Dersley. And I like that she’s a little I like that she’s underneath all that very pretty. I think it’s a good choice because, you know, that doesn’t mean she’s beautiful inside.

So, I think I like I like that quite a bit. I love their glasses choices. Um, a lot of people have said, you know, these books came out in the ‘9s, so they’re trying to do a 90. It looks a little 80s to me, but they’re trying to do that to put it in that time frame.

But it seems and some of the things with Harry today in uh London, it seems to me to be uh from current times very modern. So that being said, let’s go and take a look at the trailer.

Okay, so here we are at the Dursley Home. And what I like about it is that right away I knew this was very different than the movies because in the movie the Dursley Home felt like a set.

It felt very much a little bit like a darker version of the Home Alone house to some degree because of course it was the same director. Uh but this feels like a real house. So I liked that. I like the depth to it. It doesn’t feel like a set. So I think that looks very nice.

Here’s Harry running at school, which really reminded me of adolescence. This, you know, it’s they didn’t spend a lot of time in the muggle world in the movies because they didn’t have the time, but here they do. And I like establishing uh the muggle world opposite the magical world that Harry’s about to discover. I think that’s a nice choice.

So, here he is getting beat up in the bathroom by I think that’s what his cousin or something, right? Um I really like the way this I I did not think I was going to like this actor who plays Harry. What’s his name? Let me see if I can find it. His name is Why is it so hard to find? Who would think it would be right up front? Uh, whatever.

Okay. Um, oh yeah, Dominic Mclofflin. That’s a nice name. Dominic Mclofflin. He reminds me a little bit of Matthew Brick or something like that. Uh, he has that kind, you know, and as I said in my trailer reaction, he looks a little bit like a little man, you know.

I very much And what’s what’s interesting about that is that I instantly think of his father and I instantly think of the man he’ll become. So his past and his future are in his face. Isn’t that an interesting quality? And you can’t really tell that from still photos of him, but when I see him acting, he feels that way to me. I think that’s fascinating.

So he’s about to get beat up in the bathroom. He’s just like everybody else, you know? He’s very relatable. All right. His scar is so much more subtle. Like what? Isn’t that just a smudge on your head, Harry? No. He’s like, „No, it’s a scar.”

So, here he is. There’s Mrs. Dersley giving him a haircut. Some of you said that’s from the books. And apparently his hair grows very quickly. Needs to be cut all the time. Maybe that’s why she’s upset about it because she’s like, „I just gave you a haircut.” And I guess she doesn’t want to pay to send him to the barber.

Um, couldn’t you work out a deal at the barber shop where maybe he sweeps up a little bit and they can cut his hair? You got to be you gotta be enterprising, Harry. Think of a solution. But that’s all right. He’s gonna he’s going to get some good mentorship in a moment.

But I liked this scene. You know, a lot of parents are mean to their children, not just the kids who are going to be, you know, sorcerers. And I think it’s very sad when an adult, you know, adults and parental figures are supposed to build you up and make you feel special. Uh, and they don’t always do that. In fact, they often sometimes try to make you feel very small.

So, I think that’s really great that this show will show that um they’re wrong. And it’s often more about them than it is about you. All right.

So, I love this shot. What? It’s hard to see, but he’s on the train. It’s the reflection of him on the tube. That’s what you call it in the UK, right? He’s in the tube and he’s just so alone and he looks and right before this he looks at his reflection for a moment and then he looks away almost as if it makes him uncomfortable like he doesn’t know what to do with himself.

Oh my god, the emotion. What a great little child actor, right? Good job, Dominic. I mean, that’s really impressive. Uh, and I also think the direction is impressive as well.

But I absolutely adore this shot. It’s one of my favorite shots. And again, a movie wouldn’t have time for this kind of poignency, but an eight hour show is like, „We got time, guys. What do we What do you want to do? How about some feels?” Uh, we got all the feels for you.

As someone who I took I used to take the bus and so um I can relate to how much you would get into your own head when you when you uh are um commuting to school.

So, I love this because here he’s talking to um oh my gosh, uh Hagrid and I didn’t think, you know, it’s very much like uh Robbie Col Train who played the original role. It was very similar, but I think Nick Frost is doing a nice job.

But here, I like, you know, he said nice stuff about Harry’s parents in the movies, but here he’s really going into it. And I think the way that you can see young Harry just eating it up like well even more than it’s just food like it’s oxygen like he just needs this so badly like it’s something he’s been deprived of and it’s just feeding his soul and also he’s like a little shell shock to be hearing it finally.

I mean it’s just really to me this is one of the most emotional scenes in the trailer. I I thought it was beautiful and you know none of the other muggles around know what’s going on. Stupid muggles. Sorry, Hermione.

Okay. I also like this shot, too. You know, that he finally has someone who’s taking care of him and, you know, loves him and Hagrid’s taking him out of the tube, out of the underground. Uh, and he’s like, „Next time I see you, it’ll be at Hogwarts.” And you’re like, „Oh, yeah.” So, here they are at Kings Croft Station. And when I was at the UK, when I was visiting the UK recently, we went here. We couldn’t do the hair. I mean, we kind of saw it. You know, the line to do the Harry Potter photo was like that, you know, you just basically hold on to a little luggage cart and you’re like, I’m running through the wall. The line was so long, we were like, well, forget this. But we could see it. And then we went to the Harry Potter gift shop that was there. It was very nice. I am house Slytherin. I’m wearing green today to represent. I bought myself some stuff. Whenever I go to a Harry Potter place, I always must buy something Slytherin to represent my house.

Uh, so anyway, I was the here at King’s Cross Station and it’s really cool to see uh I think they probably filmed for their for real in the movies too, but I don’t know, for some reason it feels more realistic here. So, he’s going to do it. That owl’s like, „You better be right about this, man.” And then I like this shot. I I chose the reverse because, you know, when you first see it in the trailer, you go, „There’s Ron. I can tell cuz their hair head’s on fire.” Uh, but what this shot is really about is the reverse and that’s that Harry um is not only meeting other children like himself, but this children still has this child still has their parents. And I think that is just so sad for Harry because he doesn’t and it’s just a I mean to explore how this is just a constant reminder for him um and he has to you know what as I said one sad little nerd but I love him. I love him. It’s going to be a sad, powerful nerd. Thank you very much.

Uh, but yeah, he looks like a boy who lives under the stairs. You’re like, „Do you live under the stairs?” And he’s like, „I do.” More power to you, Harry. But I love this. I just love it very much. All right, let’s look at the next group of photos. Well, enjoy your one clear look at Hogwarts because we’re turning off the lights for the rest of it.

Oh my god, it’s so dark. The eye strain there. I’m surprised not everybody at Hogwarts wears glasses. Why isn’t there a spell to fix your vision? Okay, so asking the tough questions. Excuse me, professor.

Okay, so as someone who’s recently had to deal with dry eye and it’s affected my contact lenses, I have a real question about this. So the Hogwarts Express has arrived and those are some little lights that you’re going to take to walk through the woods. Uh, but that looks very cozy. Why did we arrive at night? I guess it’s a very long uh ride, but very charming. Very nice.

So, here’s our first Oh my god, it’s so dark. Here’s our first look at Hogwarts. Woo! I like all the tap. I mean, not the the banners. Very English, very medieval, right? And of course, they used to have all these tapestries in castles because it was cold and that’s how they did warm uh interior heating, you know, to keep the drafts out. That’s why they did it. They weren’t, you know, they didn’t hang rugs on walls for fun. Thank you very much.

Uh, so I like having that little element to that as well. And I like looking and checking out all and they all look like very handmade. I’m like, ah, did you sew that? It looks like you sewed it. I’m not There’s not anything here I’m like, did you get that at a store? I’m like, I can tell you handmade everything in this place, but it gives it a charm, so I don’t mind. I’m very American, as you can tell.

Okay, I like this shot. Those stairs are great. They look like snakes, don’t they? That’s a really cool shot. And I like this beautiful shot of our trio, right? And Harry, there he is leading up the group. I like that they’re really focusing on him as the leader. I think that’s great.

Uh, it’s a great shot. I love this shot. But then I also like this one. Uh, this to me looks like it’s the Slytherin house because you can see a lot of Slytherin banners and also you can see it reflected in their uniforms really well. More merch to sell, baby. Uh, but yeah. Uh, I think that looks really nice. Again, I don’t know why there’s no more lighting here, but whatever.

So, this is Ollivander, but I got to tell you, I still see the evil guy working for Cersei from Game of Thrones. I don’t care if he puts on glasses. I’m like, "Oh, yeah. Hey, how you doing?” He’s like, "I sell wands now.” I’m like, "Good for you.”

All right. So, you know the famous line of, "We can expect great things from you, Harry." And it’s like, geez, pressure. I like this. They got some candles in here, boy. I like this. So, I always felt the classrooms in the movies were kind of not very well realized. You know, they had so much to do in the movies. They were like, "Oh yeah, and he’s also going to school.” But I hope that they can focus more on the school element here in the show.

That is a great classroom. I love it. I don’t know how they’re not going to light stuff on fire by accident, but I guess they can use a spell to put it out. But this looks like a really good class. But it leads to my favorite one of my favorite shots of the trailer. This one. Oh, look how cute he is. He wants to do well in his studies. He’s like, "Okay, I’m ready to write stuff down.” Adorable. Adorable.

I also like that they’re um highlighting that he’s a good student as well. You know, in the movies it was all about if you want to know anything, only Hermione is apparently paying attention in class. But no, Harry is also taking notes. He looks so cute. He’s adorable. All right. He looks like a teacher’s pet.

All right. There you Okay. So, he has a pinky ring on which signifies that he’s evil. Uh, as we all know from our movie rules, movies and show rules. So, there’s a bunch of Slytherin. I don’t hang out with these kids. Thank you very much. I’m one of the good Slytherins, like his uh his his own son. If you if you’ve ever seen if you’ve ever seen the uh the stage show, uh you know, Draco’s son is is good. Uh but anyway, so yes. So they’re bullies. Uncool bullies. Look, he got a Nimbus for uh Quidditch. I like that. That’s a very old school packaging. It looks so British. You’re like, give me one. Uh me me. I really like it a lot. They’re like, "We don’t update our packaging. It’s a classic. Thank you.” And I’m like, "Don’t ever touch the packaging. It’s perfect.” Now, I don’t know why, but for some reason the snow here makes like all the difference. And I looked it up and they did play Quidditch in the snow in the movies, but I think it was part of a Quidditch montage. Here to have them taking the field in the snow and the fresh snow. I don’t know. For some reason, it just seems so cozy and real. You’re like, a, let me get some hot. I don’t like butterbeer, by the way. Sorry. I tried it at Universal because I wanted the mug and I’m like, oh, this is unique. And I was like, "So, I’ll take some hot cider, please, or hot tea if I want to be super British. Uh, some tea and biscuits, and I will enjoy your Quidditch match.”

Okay, but this looks really cozy. There he is. He’s so cute. Look at him. His broom, his nimbus is as big as him. That sounds that good. But I like this. I think this looks really great. He looks so great. Uh, he just feels like such a real person and so interesting. He feels like, you know what, he feels like he’s got a lot going on. That’s what I, again, that’s what I said about his his past and his future all rolled into one. What a cute little kid.

Okay, then. Oh, darn it. Sorry. Or the third group of This is shorter. This is one of my least favorite shots actually because it doesn’t feel like Harry Potter. I feel this feels more like Wednesday or it feels more like Hunger Games. This doesn’t feel like Harry Potter to me at all. So, I actually dislike this shot quite a bit. I’m like, it’s too derivative.

Now, I understand this is an important class, but I don’t like the way it’s designed. Uh, here we get some shots. Here’s Snape, you know. Uh, I forget the spell for this, like Illuminati or whatever. Whatever, man. Okay.

Um, I guess, you know, wizardry is all about precision. Uh so anyway, uh this is a cool shot in my opinion. I think it’s very neat, you know, and he definitely needs to illuminate that hallway because there’s like it’s very dark out there.

Uh but he looks great. He looks super cool. He looks very Snapy. I mean, you look at this and you’re like, "Yeah, that’s Snape." And I think that’s very effective.

I don’t like this shot of Dumbledore. Uh you know, I think I, as I said, it’s better when you pull back and you see his very magical looking beard. here. He just looks a little too ordinary perhaps, but you know, I’m sure. Let’s see how the performance works out.

That’s a crazy hat, Dumbledore. Okay. And I like this. I like this photo of them, you know, together on the train. You know, this is obviously very iconic. One of my favorite things about the theme parks is when you go on the Hogwarts Express, they have this cool effect where the Death Eaters, that’s what they’re called, right? Where they like come by and they’re like checking the cabins and you’re like, "That’s pretty cool.”

So, I kind of always think and I like traveling by train. It’s not that much fun here in the United States, I got to tell you. But when I was over in uh Europe, I traveled by train uh both I think mostly in Italy actually, but it was Oh. Oh, and I travel took the train from uh London to Paris and it was great. You guys have great train travel. Uh I wish that we had that uh here. Uh but it looks really great. I love that they’re all so close and um really, you know, it is very challengersy. Uh but such good uh friends. And then there’s the title card. There we go. That’s uh Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone. Thank you very much. Of course the original title of the book before it got Americanized to the Sorcerer Stone. So what did you think? Did you pick up anything different uh or have any new thoughts going through it like this? And again uh how are you factoring this into your holiday 2026 plans? And do you hope it’s a binge or do you prefer the weekly for discussions? I just think people are going to eat this up. You know, I think people really like I think they want you to have an experience like with Stranger Things and I think people are going to have that experience with this. I’m very very impressed.