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What’s Happening On Earth?

🇨🇦 Bell to resell fibre internet in Western Canada as it announces three-year outlook - BCE Inc. will begin offering fibre internet services in Western Canada using its rivals' networks under rules it has long opposed, as it seeks to grow its customer base and push for more bundled subscriptions.

🇨🇦 Bell looking at ‘streamlining’ its brands, with focus on internet & mobility bundling under Bell name - “Canada is a small market with too many brands,” Kirby explained.  “Going forward, Bell will be our only brand for superior mobile and internet and content bundling and driving product intensity.”

My Take: Four points that the company must concentrate on to expand its growth. It must put the customer first, it must deliver the best fibre and wireless networks, it must lead in enterprise markets with artificial intelligence products, and it must build a digital and media powerhouse. That’s a lot of stuff to get right.

Dell’Oro now expects total telecom equipment revenues across the six tracked segments to grow between 2% and 3% in 2025 - Dell’Oro noted that the rebound was chiefly fueled by a combination of easier year-over-year comparisons, stabilized inventories, and favorable currency movements. The recovery was broad-based across all telecom programs, with optical transport, mobile core, and routing leading the gains.

My Take: Good new for the porfolio ;)

The data center dividend - Data centers are the backbone of the digital services that individuals, businesses, and governments rely on. Globally, data center investments are projected to reach nearly $7 trillion by 2030. More than $4 trillion will be allocated to computing hardware. With more than 40 percent of this spending expected to occur in the United States, each state can carefully assess costs and benefits to ensure optimal outcomes for their communities

My Take: Are there clear future winners in the compute space?

Telstra tests SQC quantum system for predictive network analytics - As the telecom industry pushes towards next-generation connectivity like 6G, demand for AI-driven service optimization, predictive analytics, and stronger network security prompt adoption of progressive technologies like quantum computing, that go beyond the limits of classical computing.

My Take: Telstra tested a new quantum computer system to help predict and manage network traffic faster and cheaper than traditional AI tools. The trial showed early success, hinting that quantum tech could soon make telecom networks smarter and more efficient.

🇨🇦 Telecoms want CRTC to adjust service outage reporting, notification requirements - New requirements changing how telecom companies must notify the CRTC about service outages and report the specifics to the commission are going to be too burdensome for companies to take on, and in too short an amount of time, according to a group of service providers asking the commission to update its ruling. 

My Take: The industry feels the CRTC’s requirements risk turning every blip into a regulatory headache, rather than focusing on real, impactful failures. Stuff happens every day. Does it really need to be reported?

Your Broadband Bill Could Be Getting a Lot More Confusing - The FCC is looking to relax broadband 'nutrition label' rules, which have required ISPs to outline exactly what people are getting when they sign up for a service.

My Take: The FCC’s rollback will let ISPs hide more fees inside “bundled” line items, making broadband bills harder to read. This will undo years of progress on price transparency.

🇨🇦 Bell Expands 3G Shutdown Nationwide, Keeps Manitoba’s 2025 Deadline - Bell has provided an update to say its entire nationwide 3G network will retire in early 2027, freeing up wireless spectrum to improve its 5G+ network across Canada.

My Take: There will always be those who aren’t happy. I think it’s funny that they have a surcharge for active 3G customers.

🇨🇦 Bell’s new partnerships signal shift in Canada’s streaming strategy - The Canadian streaming landscape is undergoing a major transformation, and Bell Canada, the country’s major telecommunications provider and the parent company of Crave, is the charge. Instead of competing head-on with global giants, Bell has strategically partnered with major players like Disney+ and Netflix to expand its market presence and enhance customer loyalty in the streaming space.

My Take: Rather than competing purely on network infrastructure, it’s leaning into media aggregation and ecosystem control. Bundled streaming can lock in customers and reduce churn. If it works, it could change how telecoms monetize and differentiate in a saturated connectivity market. Content becomes king once more.

Opinion: Why tomorrow's networks need a new data blueprint - The telecommunications industry stands at a critical juncture. The promise of 5G, IoT and edge computing has unleashed a data deluge, yet telcos worldwide are facing an existential crisis. The demand for always-on, zero-downtime connectivity is colliding with immense pressure to cut costs.

My Take: You can layer AI and orchestration all you want, but if your data model is broken, you’ll never get real-time coherency to build and support a true “network digital twin”.

Nokia says operators now have a faster way to 50G PON - The vendor announced this week it integrated 50G PON into its existing fiber line card, allowing operators to choose between GPON, XGS-PON, 25G and now 50G while reusing the same hardware, said a Nokia spokesperson.

My Take: So why would anyone bother with 25G PON, then? What about C-PON? Is that the next shift?

GeoLinks says its licensed spectrum can speed up FWA growth - The future of fixed wireless access (FWA) may include bigger cities with higher speeds. GeoLinks and vendor Intracom Telecom this week plan to showcase what they said will be the first live U.S. demo of multi-gigabit FWA using 29/31GHz licensed millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum.

My Take: Many real deployments will use a mix of spectrum types with licensed for “core” high-throughput links, and shared/unlicensed for fill in or upstream/backhaul roles.

Why U.K. fixed broadband is now in big decline - According to New Street Research, U.K. physical wireline broadband subscribers will likely decline by around 250,000 in 2025, despite ongoing housing growth and fiber builds. This would mark “the first time there has ever been a decline” in the country’s fixed broadband market.

My Take: UK fixed broadband subscriptions are falling for the first time, as households shift to mobile data, fixed wireless, and satellite services. Overbuilding by fiber “altnets,” slow adoption of full-fiber plans, and saturated markets have created a shakeout, turning broadband from a growth sector into a consolidation issue.

SpaceX wins highest number of BEAD locations in Texas - Texas awarded SpaceX $108.8 million in BEAD funding to reach nearly 64,000 locations with its Starlink low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite service. Fiber providers picked up just over half of the state's locations overall.

My Take: $1,700 per location. Ontario’s cancelled program worked out to be ~4x that, with reserved capacity. Oh, well.

What AT&T really wants from 6G - AT&T wants 6G to be AI native, support 'network as a sensor' services and build on 5G Advanced, with new hardware and spectrum deployed only as needed.

My Take: AT&T rejects the “rip-and-replace” model. It wants 6G rolled out through software and shared spectrum, not massive capital cycles. The network should have embedded machine learning for performance optimization, energy control, and predictive maintenance. Cybersecurity should be native to the architecture, tracking users and assets instead of static network edges. The company sees 6G as a platform to extend existing investments, not push another “G” that no one needs..

Collaboration still key amid operator progress on APIs - While fraud prevention and security were among the first use cases, GSMA's technical director for Open Gateway and cloud networks, Mark Cornall, noted there is now some traction in other areas. He pointed to quality-on-demand APIs introduced in China to provide better connectivity for online purchases during the payment stage.

My Take: Without joint accountability, you end up with “compatible but useless” endpoints instead of a seamless developer experience.

The 3 OCP new releases you can't miss - The Open Compute Project's (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose is expected to be bigger and better than ever this year, with attendance forecasted to jump from 7,400 last year to more than 11,000 in 2025. Why? Because compute power – and all of its supporting technologies – has never been more important.

My Take: That’s a lot of people. Heard about this during an AI session at the Fiber Broadband Association meeting in Toronto a few months back. I’m starting to appreciate some of this stuff more as I embed in Data Center solutions. Read the article. Density, Cooling and Power.

What’s Happening In Space?

What’s in Space This Week?

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data - With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data, including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications, sent by satellites unencrypted.

My Take: Researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland spent three years scanning satellite signals with an $800 setup. They found that about half of the signals they intercepted were unencrypted, exposing private and sensitive data.

They captured:

• Calls, texts, and IDs from users on mobile networks using satellite backhaul

• Military and government communications, including troop and vessel data

• Corporate and infrastructure traffic from energy and telecom firms

• Airline Wi-Fi sessions and browsing data

The team estimates they saw only around 15% of all active geostationary satellite transmissions, meaning the real exposure is likely much larger. Some companies fixed issues after being notified, but many did not. The team published its tools so others could independently confirm the problem.

Oops.

🇨🇦 Telesat purchases real estate in Timmins to develop Landing Station site for Telesat Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network - –Telesat (Nasdaq and TSX: TSAT), one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, and Timmins Economic Development today announced that Telesat purchased a land plot on Laforest Road from the City of Timmins. This site will serve as a Landing Station to connect data from its advanced LEO satellite network, Telesat Lightspeed, to terrestrial Points of Presence and fibre in Northern Ontario.

My Take: Fiber in Northern Ontario? 🙂 I guess it would be difficult to build it in downtown Toronto.

SpaceX Offers New Look at V3 Starlink Satellite for Gigabit Speeds - The image compares the size of earlier satellites (and a human astronaut) with the upcoming V3.

My Take: Bigger satellites need bigger launch vehicles. That’s what Starship is for. During the 11th test flight, SpaceX’s Starship successfully deployed eight dummy V3 Starlink “simulator” satellites.

According to NCAT’s dynamic capacity analysis, Kuiper already provides a higher total global capacity than Eutelsat OneWeb.- While Kuiper is still some distance from enabling uninterrupted global connectivity, it is nearing the ability to deliver significant intermittent capacity in targeted regions.

My Take: “Specifically, at certain latitudes with higher satellite density, Kuiper will soon be able to offer hundreds of Gbps for trial use, thanks to simultaneous (intermittent) line-of-sight connections with up to 10 satellites.” Look at that coverage over Canada :)

The 10X Rule of Satellite Constellations - One of the most common questions I receive about satellite constellations - especially in the context of sovereign networks and direct-to-device (D2D) applications - is: How many satellites are needed to achieve continuous connectivity?

My Take: Carlos provides a great framework around his 10X Rule.

SpaceX Starlink Satellites Deployed In Stunning View From Space - Starlink satellites were deployed by SpaceX. Watch multiple views captured by cameras aboard the Falcon 9 rocket second stage.

My Take: More cool space videos.

Elon Musk’s Starlink fireballs stun the world but alarm researchers over impact. Here's why - The Starlink constellation currently includes more than 6,000 active satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) — by far the largest satellite network ever deployed. Each satellite is designed to operate for roughly five years before deorbiting and burning up on reentry. 

Starlink satellites are already falling, and it will only get worse - Each Starlink satellite has a five-year lifespan. They zip across the sky in low earth orbit. There, objects still feel about 95% of the gravity we experience on the ground. What keeps them from plummeting is their sideways velocity of 17,000-plus mph.

Warning issued to humanity over Elon Musk's billion-dollar company threatening life on Earth - A revered astrophysicist has warned that Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, which are falling daily, could cause disastrous damage to the Earth's stratosphere.   

My Take: A week later, this is still news. Yes, it will get worse as constellations continue to launch. Maybe the focus should be on survivability. I wouldn’t want to be a farmer in Saskatchewan ;)

The Dark and Quiet Skies Campaign - When you walk outside at night, do you ever wonder how many stars you can see? For most of human history, this would have been a foolish question. The night sky was filled with stars. Today, though, in any major city you may be lucky to see only a handful. For years, astronomers have warned that we are losing the night sky to terrestrial light pollution. In just the past decade, though, this concern has shifted from the Earth’s surface to space.

My Take: Existing space law is outdated and too vague to handle today’s scale of satellite deployment, interference, and orbital congestion.

Study: LEO craft beaming signals into Geostationary zones - The interference, according to Space Intel Report (SIR), is real but has to date not been the source of complaints to the industry regulator the ITU.

My Take: Without tighter spectrum and beam control, the next phase of satellite growth could trigger conflict, interference, and regulatory backlash.

Kymeta Multi-Orbit Terminal Selected for U.S. Army NGC2 Pilot - Kymeta’s u8 terminal provides multi-orbit connectivity across both Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, with the ability to receive and transmit data from a single aperture.

My Take: The military gets all the good toys. They look like large, rugged toys.

My Week in the Wilderness With a Starlink Mini Dish: Is Portable Satellite Internet Worth the Price? - My home office was in the North Cascades wilderness using Starlink’s portable Mini Dish. Here’s what I learned about its performance, setup and optimization.

My Take: Yes, don’t put it under a tree 🙄

SpaceX’s Second-Gen Starship Signs Off With a Near-Perfect Test Flight - This was the last flight of SpaceX’s V2 Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year.

My Take: Some great pictures in the story. Onward and upward, or something.

6 things Starlink does better than regular home internet - To my surprise, there are aspects of Starlink that are way better than I expected.

My Take: Yes, it’s all true. Cost isn’t one of them, of course.

Investors pour record $3.5 billion into space as investors look beyond big names, report says - Global space investment hit a record $3.5 billion in the third quarter, driven by a wider range of startups and continued defense spending, according to a report released Friday by space-focused investment firm Seraphim Space.

My Take: Clearly, the space has moved from “hype” to serious diversification.

Direct To Device

🇨🇦 Bell Reveals Pricing for Direct-to-Cell Satellite Coverage: Here’s What You’ll Pay - Blaik Kirby, Bell’s Group President of Consumer and Small & Medium Business, said the new satellite service will include voice, data, and text support, not just basic messaging.

My Take: “Kirby noted that Bell’s approach will differ from competitors like Starlink because it’s being built entirely within Canada. He said the company is constructing all of its satellite base stations domestically, which means “it’s a completely sovereign satellite solution” and that user data will stay in Canada.” … except for the Satellites. They don’t own those, and they aren’t “sovereign”.. And last I checked, Starlink has a number of ground stations in Canada.. This needs further investigation.

E& and Space42 partner to advance 5G direct-to-device connectivity - Space42 has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with e& UAE, the flagship telecom arm of global technology group e&, at GITEX Global 2025 to explore collaboration in Direct-to-Device (D2D) connectivity.

My Take: Instead of “satellite as backup,” networks are embracing satellites as peers.

D2D satellite battle hots up - A report from analysts at CreditSights has looked at the prospects for satellite delivered ‘direct-to-device’ (D2D) telephony and broadband. The report says that for the new entrants – the likes of SpaceX’s Starlink, AST SpaceMobile and Amazon’s Kuiper – the promise of D2D is that satellite companies will be able to access a much larger addressable market (6 billion phones worldwide) at a much lower cost than traditional satellite services.

My Take: I only posted this because of the headline. I have to go and hot up my dinner. Back soon.

Can mobile, Wi-Fi and satellite play nice? - When it comes to satellite, there are some challenges around spectrum posed by direct-to-device (D2D) communications, David Willis, group director for spectrum at Ofcom, said. While in larger countries operators can implement this relatively easily, there is a lot of harmonization needed to make D2D work in smaller markets, including European countries.

My Take: What do we need? Transparent coordination across device APIs, open standards, and spectrum sharing to let all three access types interoperate.

Enabling AI

Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified - Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries

My Take: “And you’re walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic.” They are so far ahead in so many ways.

‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War - OpenAI has announced “AI sovereignty" partnerships with governments around the world, but can proprietary models compete with Beijing’s open source offerings?

My Take: AI isn’t just about intelligence. Governments will increasingly demand AI systems tailored to their legal, cultural, and security needs, making platform control a non-negotiable.

Meet the AI chatbots replacing India's call-center workers - The company, LimeChat, has an audacious goal: to make customer-service jobs almost obsolete. It says its generative AI agents enable clients to slash by 80% the number of workers needed to handle 10,000 monthly queries.

My Take: India’s contact centers are replacing human agents with AI chatbots trained on local languages and tones. What AI will they use to figure that out? So many jokes to be made, unfortunately.

AI investment boom may lead to bust, but not likely systemic crisis, IMF chief economist says - The U.S. artificial intelligence investment boom may be followed by a dot-com-style bust, but it is less likely to be a systemic event that would crater the U.S. or global economy, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, said on Tuesday.

My Take: There’s no debt to crash the system. The loser will be valuation, not stability.

The AI skills gap is getting worse: Why and what to do - Many employees lack necessary AI skills. Here’s why that matters and how companies can get started with the needed training, while leaving some choices to individual teams.

My Take: Many AI training programs teach generic ML theory, not how to integrate models with systems, standards, privacy, or business logic. That leaves graduates unprepared. Existing workers can’t reskill fast enough. Taking an “introduction to prompting ChatGPT” course does nothing if there’s no practical application.

BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group strikes $40 billion AI data center deal - The purchase of U.S.-based Aligned Data Centers from Australian Macquarie Asset Management (MQG.AX), opens new tab on Wednesday is the first deal for the AI Infrastructure Partnership formed last year which includes Abu Dhabi-based fund MGX and Elon Musk's startup xAI among its backers.

My Take: The numbers amaze me every week. $40B. Massive.

Exclusive: Broadcom to launch new networking chip, as battle with Nvidia intensifies - The chip, called the Thor Ultra, enables computing infrastructure operators to deploy far more chips than they otherwise could, allowing them to build and run the large models used to power AI apps such as ChatGPT.

My Take: “Thor” sounds so powerful. Ulta makes it even more powerful. 800G networking chip. It promotes Ethernet as a credible alternative to InfiniBand and NVLink.

Global AI Confessions Report: Data Leaders Edition DATAIKU/HARRIS POLL SURVEY - The Global AI Confessions Report: Data Leaders Edition from Dataiku,
based on a Harris Poll survey of 800 data leaders worldwide, reinforces
a key notion: AI agents are no longer experimental. A staggering 86% say
their organizations now rely on agents in daily operations, with nearly
half (42%) embedding them so deeply that dozens of core processes
depend on them

My Take: Oh. That seems problematic.

Don't expect AI to boost telco profits after automation's failure - Fancy a bit of hyper-personalization with your mobile tariff? Ever been tempted as a telco by some hyper-automation? These are the latest additions to telecom's buzzword bingo, broadcast from the main stage at Ericsson's OSS/BSS Summit in London this week. It's now possible to sit through entire keynotes without hearing a word of plain English. Talk of finetuning LLMs for some intent-based operations, or of using agentic AI to monitor multiple domains as part of your journey to a Level 5 autonomous network, would sound like an alien language or bad acid trip to someone from the twentieth century.

My Take: LOL - “It's now possible to sit through entire keynotes without hearing a word of plain English.”

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!) - Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

My Take: There is a mention of explicit content in the article. What is it exactly that people are doing with these tools?

🇨🇦 Bell targets $1.5B in AI revenue in 2028 with deals for data centres and tools - While Bell can easily pay for its data centre plans on its own, it’s considering partnerships similar to the fibre deal with PSP Investments. “If there’s a way for us to accelerate our capture of the opportunity, then we should be looking at it,” Millen said. Bell has held discussions with potential investors since announcing its compute plans, but no deals are imminent, he said. 

My Take: “The firm estimates the unit will generate about $700 million in sales in 2025 and grow up to 29 per cent on a compounded annual basis over the next three years.”

OpenAI and Broadcom announce strategic collaboration to deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed AI accelerators - By designing its own chips and systems, OpenAI can embed what it’s learned from developing frontier models and products directly into the hardware, unlocking new levels of capability and intelligence. The racks, scaled entirely with Ethernet and other connectivity solutions from Broadcom, will meet surging global demand for AI, with deployments across OpenAI’s facilities and partner data centers.

My Take: The vertical integration shall commence.Everyone loves control, don’t they?

NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats - Meanwhile, NotebookLM is now using Nano Banana to offer six new visual styles for your video: Whiteboard, Watercolor, Retro print, Heritage, Paper-craft, and Anime. 

My Take: NotebookLM seems to be evolving from that inquiry platform to something much more integrated. I decided to kill some trees and output a video of one of my projects on NotebookLM.. …waiting….

This and That!

New hydrogen battery can operate four times colder than before — meaning denser and longer-lasting EV batteries - Being able to store hydrogen at 194 °F could dramatically change its use as an energy source.

My Take: Hydrogen and Nuclear. The path forward.

🇨🇦 Lyft to open Toronto tech hub, deepening push beyond US market - The office will be located in Toronto's financial district and will host several hundred employees across engineering, product, operations and marketing, as the company expands its presence in Canada.

My Take: I wonder if they will take an Uber to get to work?

BT develops ‘network immune system’ - Developed by BT’s research and development team, with tools from its partnership with Ericsson, NIS uses programmable network capabilities to enhance security embedded in the network to autonomously prevent, detect and respond to cyberattacks in real time.

My Take: It uses anomaly detection, reinforcement learning, threat simulation, and programmable network fabric to spot and remediate attacks - kinda like the human immune system?

New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds - Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes.

My Take: “On Friday, the family members of two California teenagers who died after the Cybertruck they were riding in caught fire in a crash sued the automaker, alleging that Tesla knew about the difficulties of manually opening its doors before the teenagers were trapped inside.”

AT&T and Toyota drive the future of 5G connectivity and enhanced in-car entertainment - AT&T 5G will support Toyota Connected Services, which includes safety and convenience features, navigation, remote services and vehicle maintenance. Software updates can be delivered over the air, further enhancing the ownership experience of Toyota vehicles. The integration of 5G will help strengthen Toyota Connected Services, including navigation updates, quicker response times for the “Hey Toyota” Voice Assistant, and more.

My Take: I have a Toyota. I subscribe to Connected Services. They can do all of this today. Maybe 5G is cheaper.

Nvidia starts shipping $3,999 Blackwell-based desktop supercomputer - Highly anticipated DGX Spark aims to bring petascale AI computing directly to office desks with some 200 Gb/s of network bandwidth

My Take: Finally! A computer that can fill a WiFi7 stream with data! One thousand million million operations per second. I wonder if you have to connect it to a water source?

How healthy am I? My immunome knows the score. - Now, thanks to a slew of new technologies, understanding this vital and mysterious system is within our grasp, paving the way for powerful new tools and tests to help us better assess, diagnose and treat diseases.

My Take: I’m sure the insurance companies are salivating over this!

Instagram might come to your TV soon because Reels must be everywhere - Instagram could soon take over your TV screen. At the Bloomberg Screentime Conference, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri revealed that the platform is planning a dedicated TV app as part of Meta’s deeper push into video content.

My Take: Do we need this? It’s only to compete with YouTube, and such, excet without the longer form content. Maybe that’s coming soon, too?

Asian golden cat: The 'feline of many costumes' that plucks birds before eating them - The Asian golden cat is an elusive creature endemic to South and Southeast Asia. It is known to take down prey much larger than itself, including buffalo calves, baby deer and small muntjacs.

My Take: WTF is a “muntjac" you ask? The Muntjac, also known as "barking deer," are small deer species native to Asia with a range that has expanded to parts of Europe. They are known for their compact size, reddish-brown coats, and the barking sound they make as an alarm call. While primarily herbivores, some muntjac species are omnivorous and will eat eggs, small mammals, and carrion.

WTF is “carrion" you ask? Carrion is the decaying flesh of a dead animal, also known as a carcass.

Infographic Of The Week

My Take: Montreal, $75. Toronto, $117. Germany, $404. Now you know why Montreal is a great place for a data center and Germany isn’t 😉 (that’s not true, actually)

Podcast Recommendation

In a sport that generates more than $3.5 billion a year, teams compete in cars that cost $70 million to develop and build — and a split-second to crash. Zachary Crockett assesses the damage.

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Movie/Streaming Recommendation

IMDb: 7.9/10

JMDb: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/10 (“engaging and emotionally resonant.” Just like me.)

Boots is a heartfelt dramedy that stands out in Netflix’s lineup with its authentic portrayal of a young gay Marine recruit in the 1990s. Led by Miles Heizer as Cameron Cope, the series draws on Greg Cope White’s memoir to craft a journey of self-discovery amidst the harsh environment of boot camp.

The show skillfully balances humour and emotional depth, exploring themes of belonging, friendship, and resilience while dealing candidly with discrimination, fear, and camaraderie among diverse recruits.

Vera Farmiga shines as Cameron’s whimsical mother, and the ensemble cast delivers layered performances that bring out both the grit and humanity of military life. While the premise echoes familiar coming-of-age tropes, Boots distinguishes itself by making every episode engaging and emotionally resonant.

It is a timely, moving story about identity, courage, and forging bonds in difficult circumstances.

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