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Hello everyone :)
I know I made a stranger things thread recently and I got hooked on another show and I didn't want to make any more of these Do you like this Tv show threads. So I decided to make a megatread for all the shows. Their are 2 other megathreads for Music and Movies. So I thought TV and Netflix would be fitting too :). Whenever you start a new show you like you can share it here. :D
Right now I am so hooked on Orange is the New Black.
I know it is what is considered a "chick flick". But I love this show so much lol.
It started by just watching it because I liked Piper Chapman (I think she's nice) but now I like all of the characters. Or many of them anyway. I hate a few.
Please try not to spoil too much because i'm early on. As will be a universal rule of the thread. But I will say that Red is amazing and powerful. And I like Pennsatucky even though she's crazy. But she's pretty cool once the plot unravels.
So much drama interlaced in one season. Let alone 7. :D I can't believe how much is ahead of me.
Anyone else love this show? :)
Thank you for sharing any of your favorite shows past, present or future.
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Ordered best to worst out of what I am currently watching/waiting for next season to come out.
1. Peaky Blinders
2. Babylon Berlin
3. Last Kingdom
4. F is for Family
5. Castlevania
6. Black Mirror
7. Stranger Things
8. Agretsuko
9. Ozark
10. Frontier
11. The Rain
12. Disenchantment
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I watched Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus earlier and it was excellent!
I also recently watched Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling which wasn't as good but fine.
As for actual shows on Netflix I don't really watch much. I watched the first couple seasons of The Ranch but don't care for it anymore.
Mostly looking forward to the return of Eddie Murphy with Dolemite Is My Name on Netflix.
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Right now I am so hooked on Orange is the New Black.
I know it is what is considered a "chick flick". But I love this show so much lol.
It started by just watching it because I liked Piper Chapman (I think she's nice) but now I like all of the characters. Or many of them anyway. I hate a few.
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Anyone else love this show? :)
I hate the use of "chick flick" as a derogatory. If something is good, it's good! Regardless if it is made for kids, adults, men, women, etc...
That said, in the early seasons of Orange is the New Black there was nothing quite like it, or quite as good on TV. It was phenomenal. Like most shows it does have its ups and downs, but I feel like it managed to finish strong. There are some characters that remain kind of bland and boring, and some that do shift and change over time. Not a spoiler, because its personal opinion, but I hated Piper by the end, but that mostly came from a place that was because almost all of the other characters (except 1 or 2) were far more interesting.
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I just finished watching the second season of Mindhunter. While its still an exceptionally well made show, there is a turn halfway through the season that feels like it changes the what the entire show is about. The focus and priorities shift, and while I know it is generally a true story and this did happen, the previous focus of the show is what I was far more interested in.
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I used to have netflix but got rid of it because they took off a whole series movies I wanted to watch, and I got pissed because I wanted to watch them and they were gone earlier this year. The JAWS movie series. Other than that I was turned away by the selection. but a lot of series and shows and even movies offend me for religious reasons.
And I'm not much of a movie watcher this is the main reason why
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Currently watching Godzilla movies for the first time.
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Currently watching Godzilla movies for the first time.
This is the TV thread, you can find the movie thread here: https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,2205.0.html (https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,2205.0.html)
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I finally got to see the first season of What We Do in the Shadows since it showed up on Hulu. It's based on the 2014 film of the same name (my favorite film of that year), which was written and directed by Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok). The show is *almost* as good as the movie. It's a little looser and a bit more broad, but I still watched it all in one sitting.
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Right now I am so hooked on Orange is the New Black.
I know it is what is considered a "chick flick". But I love this show so much lol.
It started by just watching it because I liked Piper Chapman (I think she's nice) but now I like all of the characters. Or many of them anyway. I hate a few.
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Anyone else love this show? :)
I hate the use of "chick flick" as a derogatory. If something is good, it's good! Regardless if it is made for kids, adults, men, women, etc...
That said, in the early seasons of Orange is the New Black there was nothing quite like it, or quite as good on TV. It was phenomenal. Like most shows it does have its ups and downs, but I feel like it managed to finish strong. There are some characters that remain kind of bland and boring, and some that do shift and change over time. Not a spoiler, because its personal opinion, but I hated Piper by the end, but that mostly came from a place that was because almost all of the other characters (except 1 or 2) were far more interesting.
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I just finished watching the second season of Mindhunter. While its still an exceptionally well made show, there is a turn halfway through the season that feels like it changes the what the entire show is about. The focus and priorities shift, and while I know it is generally a true story and this did happen, the previous focus of the show is what I was far more interested in.
I agree :). I'm still pretty late to the party which is awesome because I get to binge it all in one go. It's always funner that way imo instead of waiting months for the next season.
I agree that even early on, Piper has already started to wear off in terms of complexity and her plot is getting a tad more bland. I assume she'll pick up again in terms of depth because she's a main focal point but red seems to be taking over.
So far my top 10 favorite characters are
1. Piper (for now she's still my favorite. It might be mostly because she's relatable personality wise but I also loved her plot line regarding Larry. The other inmates are very hardened. I'd definitely sit at the Yoga Lady and Pipers table lol)
2. Pennsatucky (Pennsatucky really is the most fun side character to watch. And she's very underrated. Her plot is great and she's funny.)
3. Poussey (Poussey has a lot of depth and is my favorite of their group. She has loyalty. )
4. Fisher (I love Fisher, I'm far enough to know key plot point regarding her but I won't spoil it. But she is great)
5. Spanish Leader (I forget her name, but she's smart and strong.)
6. Mr. Healey (The only cop guy that I like, He has a good heart but personal problems make him mean at times)
7. The New York Stalker girl.
8. The Blonde Heroine girl (Forget her name too but she's cool)
9. Red - (Red is a focal point character and she adds a tough element to the show. But I didn't like her early on)
10. The Transgender girl (I forget her name but her plot regarding her son is pretty interesting. And shes cool)
I hate soso. Literally loathe her. I hate people that are like her in real life. I loathe most of the Diaz Family for their actions. And I hate Alex Vause with every viber of my being and hope she gets beat with a lock sock soon. :)
It really is a great show. I love it and purchased the funko pops of the characters.
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I'm currently re-watching Family Matters on Hulu starting from Season 1.
I haven't seen this show since the 90s and it brings back a lot of nostalgia for me.
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Currently watching the Orville and How I Met Your Mother on hulu and Mindhunter and Defenders on netflix enjoying these so far. Still waiting for second season of Umbrella Academy really looking foward to this.
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I finished season 6 of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. Easily the weakest season since the first. I still generally enjoy the characters, but the endgame this season wasn’t particularly interesting.
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Binged through Glow Season 3 yesterday and overall I thought it was alright. I felt like the wrestling part took a backseat to all the other story stuff going on, more than usual, which I think is by design. Setting it in Vegas as a nightly show that doesn't really change much, so you can't show tons of the same things happening, meaning more time spent on all the relationship drama and other things. The different story lines going on are generally good, though feel a tad drawn out at times and found myself kinda skipping through some bits as I basically got the gist of it pretty quick. Some of the storylines didn't get a very good resolution though, they just felt skimmed over, which kinda sucks, but I think we'll see more come of it with the next season.
The show ended in a pretty good spot though, so I think Season 4 could be pretty great.
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Y’all need to check out The Boys on Amazon Prime. It was pretty sick.
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Y’all need to check out The Boys on Amazon Prime. It was pretty sick.
I saw it when it launched and it's pretty good. Not quite as crazy as I thought it was gonna be, but still worked pretty well.
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Also began watching The Wire. One of those shows I've heard about for years as top tier television. Now it's kind of an interesting time capsule...Set after 9/11, during a time where computers weren't completely widespread, pagers existed, not everyone has a cellphone. That right there makes this an interesting watch for me. The show itself? Alright so far lol Still early, so waiting for it to really take off.
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The Wire never really “takes off”. It’s a slow build that is constantly adding new layers and complications while simultaneously exploring both sides of the law. It’s engaging and intriguing, but it’s also a realistic look into that kind of life, so don’t expect set pieces or anything like that.
I just watched I Think You Should Leave on Netflix. It’s a an utterly bizarre and surreal sketch show that is also incredibly funny.
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The Wire never really “takes off”. It’s a slow build that is constantly adding new layers and complications while simultaneously exploring both sides of the law. It’s engaging and intriguing, but it’s also a realistic look into that kind of life, so don’t expect set pieces or anything like that.
I just watched I Think You Should Leave on Netflix. It’s a an utterly bizarre and surreal sketch show that is also incredibly funny.
Oh that's fine if it's more like that, I meant "taking off" more in way of the story really settling in, as the first couple episodes so far feel more about just working me into the setting, but it's starting to hit that point 3 or 4 episodes in now. I'm fine with it not having any big crazy set pieces like a Breaking Bad would as a more realistic take on things can still be engaging.
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I just finished Seasons 1-3 of King of the Hill last night. This is a show that has aged remarkably well, but I believe I’m about to start getting into the era where I didn’t really watch it anymore. I figured this would be a good spot for small break since there are still around 200 episodes to go.
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Season 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale. Pretty inconsistent, but it finished extremely strong. There’s finally some major catharsis at work after 3 seasons of misery.
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Got through Season 1 and Season 2 of The Wire. Season 2 wasn't as good to me. Felt disjointed dealing with so many different storylines going on, not nearly as tight as Season 1. The show is still pretty consistent though, so I'm hoping Season 3 can pull it back in, though taking a break from this to go watch The Walking Dead now that Season 9 is up on Netflix.
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Got through Season 1 and Season 2 of The Wire. Season 2 wasn't as good to me. Felt disjointed dealing with so many different storylines going on, not nearly as tight as Season 1. The show is still pretty consistent though, so I'm hoping Season 3 can pull it back in, though taking a break from this to go watch The Walking Dead now that Season 9 is up on Netflix.
Season 2 is kind of considered the odd-man-out. I don't think its the worst season, but it is a bit tonally and structurally different that all of the others, because of just how much it shifts the storytelling focus. Each season expands the scope of the show in some way, but Season 2 probably does it the least organically.
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Got through Season 1 and Season 2 of The Wire. Season 2 wasn't as good to me. Felt disjointed dealing with so many different storylines going on, not nearly as tight as Season 1. The show is still pretty consistent though, so I'm hoping Season 3 can pull it back in, though taking a break from this to go watch The Walking Dead now that Season 9 is up on Netflix.
Season 2 is kind of considered the odd-man-out. I don't think its the worst season, but it is a bit tonally and structurally different that all of the others, because of just how much it shifts the storytelling focus. Each season expands the scope of the show in some way, but Season 2 probably does it the least organically.
Yeah there's just way too many separate stories going on and the stuff with Stringer and West Baltimore gangs were unnecessary to the stuff going on with the docks, though I know they had to have it there to keep that story going till Season 3 when they are back on that stuff.
I also started into the new Dark Crystal TV show, just the first episode, and it's really well done. The mixture of CG and puppetry looks really good, giving it all a bigger scope. Lots of good actors in it too, though outright I only recognized Mark Hamill and Sigourney Weaver. Should be a real nice watch.
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I just finished Episode 4 of Dark Crystal. It’s incredible.
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I just finished Episode 4 of Dark Crystal. It’s incredible.
After re-watching the original movie a month or so ago, I was worried the the CG would overpower the puppets and actual sets too much, but it all blends so well, with CG being best for grander shots, and puppets and good sets up close. The only thing I'd say was a little overdone with CG was that the Skeksis have CG tongues when they talk and it mildly distracting, because they don't all have wiggling tongues in every shot that the Skeksis talk, so I have to wonder why they even spent the money on doing that. Other than that, I can't wait to continue the series.
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Currently watching Transformers: Prime and in the middle of season 3.
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Got through Walking Dead Season 9 and while the first half was fairly boring, the second half was generally better. A change in the story helped to make things fresher, bring in a new dynamic, though it's still not reaching the best stuff of the earlier seasons. Pretty standard stuff for TWD. All it makes me want to do is read the comics, which I might do eventually. I believe the tv show is still using the comics story points, but there's big character differences between them and the comic has always been way more intense.
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I just finished Episode 4 of Dark Crystal. It’s incredible.
Finished it last night. I can't believe the show ended up being this good. I wasn't the biggest fan of the original (it's a technical marvel while being only an OK movie, at best). This series takes all the best things about the movie and makes them better while also telling an amazing original story. Cannot recommend it enough.
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Just finished the Lizzie Borden took an Axe movie and the following season that chronicles the aftermath "Lizzie Borden Chronicles" on netflix. Since I live in the city it took place, it was pretty neat to see :). I think the movie was very much so better than the series but they are sorta intertwined. Very good views although their were quite a few historical inaccuracies. They made lizzie pretty hot which was funny and it clearly had a bias to how the events took place in the mind of the director. Which was cool.
I love the wonderful scenery and how they really brought it back into that era. The series didn't take place in Fall River but it did it's best to capture the vibe which was cool. Great performances.
I also have started binging Ink Master on YouTube. I don't have cable which sucks and it's not on netflix so I have to just watch highlights :(. But boy is that show addictive and fun. I don't even have any tattoos nor am I an artist but I still love it :).
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Got through Walking Dead Season 9 and while the first half was fairly boring, the second half was generally better. A change in the story helped to make things fresher, bring in a new dynamic, though it's still not reaching the best stuff of the earlier seasons. Pretty standard stuff for TWD. All it makes me want to do is read the comics, which I might do eventually. I believe the tv show is still using the comics story points, but there's big character differences between them and the comic has always been way more intense.
Do you think I will like Walking Dead? I was actually spoiled to it pretty early on by one of the characters dying but now i've come to realize every single character dies so it's not much of a spoiler if I watch from the beggining lol.
I love the telltale game series. I heard they are similar. I think they are both inspired from the comics right?
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Got through Walking Dead Season 9 and while the first half was fairly boring, the second half was generally better. A change in the story helped to make things fresher, bring in a new dynamic, though it's still not reaching the best stuff of the earlier seasons. Pretty standard stuff for TWD. All it makes me want to do is read the comics, which I might do eventually. I believe the tv show is still using the comics story points, but there's big character differences between them and the comic has always been way more intense.
Do you think I will like Walking Dead? I was actually spoiled to it pretty early on by one of the characters dying but now i've come to realize every single character dies so it's not much of a spoiler if I watch from the beggining lol.
I love the telltale game series. I heard they are similar. I think they are both inspired from the comics right?
If you liked the Telltale games for their story, that's basically what the show is. The show is based on the comics story wise, but the games are kinda emulating the comics look a little bit, but are an original story in that setting.
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Seasons 4-5 of King of the Hill are done. I’ve been laid up in bed a lot the last couple of weeks. I also knocked out the last 6 or so episodes of Last Week Tonight yesterday.
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Charged ahead with KotH S6, which was extremely strong. The first two episodes are filled with two classic moments; “That’s my purse! I don’t know you!” and “Pocket sand!” respectively.
Took a break and binged Preacher S3 over the last two days. It’s never been the best, and is often inconsistent, but it’s entertaining as hell.
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This week I watched the Netflix mini-series Godless. It's a good Western, but not quite what the marketing would have you believe. It's a rather traditional Western that happens to include a town of women, it is not a Western about a town full of women.
Disenchantment Part 2 is definitely better than Part 1, but it still feels like it is missing something to really make it good.
American Horror Story: Apocalypse is easily my least favorite season of the show. I've got a couple of episodes left, but I find myself quite bored by it.
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Binged through the last season and a half of Gotham and finished it. I was real off and on with the show, I think like the first half is a real mixed bag, but it got better for sure in the latter half and the last season in general was the best I think. The show did enough to put it over the rest of the general super hero type shows I think, primarily the CW ones as it would get abit bloodier and nastier at times, though it's hilarious how often people are brutally shot or seemingly killed just for them to go "Oh, they totally survived or are in a coma". It's kinda common in the comics, but not something you see in a show as often I feel and it comes off pretty silly. Oh and the amount of times characters teamed up, just to betray each other might be in like the dozens? It's kinda ridiculous, especially towards the end lol
Overall I liked the show though.
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I finished the BBC / Netflix show Bodyguard. It was like a more well paced, shorter UK-version of 24. Good fun watch, but a little convoluted at the very end
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Had a real good watch with Carnival Row. I love the setting, mixing what is generally a sort of 1700's/1800's, Industrial Era, London, with that of a fantasy backdrop. It's not based in any actual setting, a very different world, but because of that, it gets away from the faults you might see, like with that shit Netflix movie Bright. As a general fantasy setting, it is pretty well done, kinda Fantastic Beasts crossed with Game of Thrones, but magic is fairly minimal in the story, so kinda leans in that way that you see with GoT.
Characters are all real good, I was actually genuinely interested to more know of the lore, more about the war that happened, the other side of the conflict that actually won it, but it seems to not be based on any book unfortunately. Turns out the co-creator that wrote it also wrote the screenplay for Pacific Rim, which I love too.
I do recommend it if you want something with a taste of fantasy to it.
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Man, it's only been a few days since I finished the series, but I still want more. That's a sign of a good series I feel, because I just wish this was based on a book so I could go read more and I don't usually read a lot of books (Last read Game of Thrones a few years back). Got me into a fantasy mood and thought about rewatching Lord of the Rings, which also has Orlando Bloom in it lol
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Well here's one the best western cartoons I think I've watched in awhile. It's only 5 episodes so far, not sure if that's the whole season or if they plan for more, the last episode definitely isn't an end, more of a middle of the story type of feel, but it's so good. Genndy Tatakovsky once again just makes really engaging animation. I love that he's doing darker, bloodier, stuff now after the final season for Samurai Jack, and he goes all out here. Dinosaurs, Ape-Men, Mammoths, all just getting ripped and battered. There is no dialogue at all at any point, there's no setup for this intense, primal, fantasy world, you are just brought in and you are along for the ride, but they do a lot to characterize Spear and Fang, the sound design and music they do use really draws you in, so it's well designed.
I highly recommend it if you want just a damn good show.
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Finished season 2 of worlds fastest car. It's a very fun show to binge. The episodes go by so fast because they are just exciting to view. They pin 3 home built cars, like rat rods, civics, junk cars, and project cars against a rich person in a supercar and see who wins.
The winners go on to a finale to race in a head to head.
I hope anyone who loves cars will give it a shot. It's really fun. and funny at times.
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Since it's October, I'm rewatching Castlevania! Probably my fourth time now, so glad it finally got a show!
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Binged through the last season and a half of Gotham and finished it. I was real off and on with the show, I think like the first half is a real mixed bag, but it got better for sure in the latter half and the last season in general was the best I think. The show did enough to put it over the rest of the general super hero type shows I think, primarily the CW ones as it would get abit bloodier and nastier at times, though it's hilarious how often people are brutally shot or seemingly killed just for them to go "Oh, they totally survived or are in a coma". It's kinda common in the comics, but not something you see in a show as often I feel and it comes off pretty silly. Oh and the amount of times characters teamed up, just to betray each other might be in like the dozens? It's kinda ridiculous, especially towards the end lol
Overall I liked the show though.
That Batman reveal was god-awful, though.
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I watched the first 6 episode of Season 4 of The Good Place because they were about to start taking them off On Demand and I couldn't wait. It's still easily one of the most creative and funny shows on TV. I'll be sad to see it go.
Also almost finished with the Netflix series Tuca & Birdie. It's utterly freaking bizarre. It's hilarious, but often goes off in totally unexpected directions.
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Just started Preacher on hulu man that shit is weird but I can't stop watching.
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Just started Preacher on hulu man that shit is weird but I can't stop watching.
It's definitely a trip! I'm patiently waiting for the last season to hit streaming so I can see how it all end.
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With October over I have switched back over to my total watch / rewatch of King of the Hill. It is amazing how it feels both timeless and stuck in the 90s.
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Finally got around to Good Omens, which has a cast that I love, but I ended up feeling the same about the show that I did about the novel - it's good but something about it just doesn't grab me the way I feel like the content should.
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So, I watched the first season of Adventures of the Gummi Bears on Disney+. It's definitely a cartoon from the 80s. Not great, not terrible, just some decent fluff to have on in the background. I plan on making my way through a fair chunk of the classic Disney Afternoon stuff on the new service, so I figured I would start at the beginning. I've got much higher hopes for stuff like Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck.
I also watched the first episode of The Mandalorian, which hit pretty much all the buttons I was hoping. It's so nice to really get to see the underside of the SW Universe. Plus, Life Day is now canon!
Also, King of the Hill, Season 8. Still good, but I'm kind of starting to hate Peggy.
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Coming off what Star Wars has been for the last several years, I wasn't as much excited about The Mandalorian as I was curious. As far as Star Wars has fallen I still have hope that it'll become great again, or at least be passable entertainment, which is exactly what The Mandalorian is.
The first episode of The Mandalorian was pretty good overall, although it by no means was great on the level of the prequels or especially the OT. I guess the best direct comparison would be between this and Rogue One; the look and feel of this was very Rogue One, as was the more gritty, underbelly of Star Wars feel that it had. This show definitely was interesting based on the fact that it didn't have anything directly to do with the events of the original trilogy or the sequel trilogy, which was very refreshing imo. I want to see more Star Wars that isn't trying to succeed on the coattails of the original or prequel trilogy, but instead does its own thing set in the Star Wars universe.
The production quality of the show was pretty good and a lot of practical effects were used which made it feel very authentic. There were parts that felt cheap or like I was watching someone's fan movie, but overall the show looked great as did the alien costumes and sets. We are introduced to several characters, but unfortunately the main character has felt fairly undeveloped. However I won't criticize this too much since it's only the first episode. As for what happened in the first episode, there is a somewhat strange tonal shift at one point in the episode that was a bit off, but it did little to distract from the overall good quality of the episode. The climax and final scene of episode 1 were the best part and the ending definitely left you on a cliffhanger that makes me want to watch the next episode. One other thing I wanted to mention about the ending is the best depiction of an IG droid in all of Star Wars, which was totally bad ass!
While it wasn't riveting by any means, The Mandalorian's first episode was a breath of fresh air for the franchise. It was cool, well made, entertaining, but most of all it felt like Star Wars. Particularly this felt like if someone adapted an EU novel or comic into a high budget TV show or movie, which is something I wish Disney would have done instead of scrapping the old Legends EU. I will be watching the next episode and likely the whole first season. I really hope that Disney doesn't drop the ball on this show or ruin it in some way. I'd like to be optimistic, but this is the same Disney and Lucasfilm that brought us TLJ and Solo. We'll see I guess.
The Mandalorian: Episode 1: 7/10
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So, I watched the first season of Adventures of the Gummi Bears on Disney+. It's definitely a cartoon from the 80s. Not great, not terrible, just some decent fluff to have on in the background. I plan on making my way through a fair chunk of the classic Disney Afternoon stuff on the new service, so I figured I would start at the beginning. I've got much higher hopes for stuff like Gargoyles and Darkwing Duck.
I also watched the first episode of The Mandalorian, which hit pretty much all the buttons I was hoping. It's so nice to really get to see the underside of the SW Universe. Plus, Life Day is now canon!
Also, King of the Hill, Season 8. Still good, but I'm kind of starting to hate Peggy.
Yeah Gummi Bears was never one of my favorites from back in the day, just a casual bit of entertainment, but a lot of the other stuff I loved from the Disney Afternoon like Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, Tailspin, Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales. I actually plan to check out the new Duck Tales since I saw that was on the service and I've heard there were some good episodes and they've been bringing in characters from other shows like Darkwing Duck into it.
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Watched The Mandalorian too and really enjoyed it. It's the kind of story stuff I've wanted to see from Star Wars done in show form, where it is a more stripped down story dealing with a side of that universe that we don't usually see, something we would've got with the canceled 1313 game, so it's nice that we are sorta getting that here in a different way. Just one episode to go on, so I can't say too much on it, but the effects and action is good and I'm curious to see where they take it.
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I just started watching Rick and Morty after some friend's recommendation a couple of weeks ago and I am two episodes away from finishing the third season. It's the first animated series I've watched in, like, a decade or so and I'm finding it to be pretty entertaining!
Definitely recommended even for people who, like me, may have some bias against cartoons in general...
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Coming off what Star Wars has been for the last several years, I wasn't as much excited about The Mandalorian as I was curious. As far as Star Wars has fallen I still have hope that it'll become great again, or at least be passable entertainment, which is exactly what The Mandalorian is.
The first episode of The Mandalorian was pretty good overall, although it by no means was great on the level of the prequels or especially the OT. I guess the best direct comparison would be between this and Rogue One; the look and feel of this was very Rogue One, as was the more gritty, underbelly of Star Wars feel that it had. This show definitely was interesting based on the fact that it didn't have anything directly to do with the events of the original trilogy or the sequel trilogy, which was very refreshing imo. I want to see more Star Wars that isn't trying to succeed on the coattails of the original or prequel trilogy, but instead does its own thing set in the Star Wars universe.
The production quality of the show was pretty good and a lot of practical effects were used which made it feel very authentic. There were parts that felt cheap or like I was watching someone's fan movie, but overall the show looked great as did the alien costumes and sets. We are introduced to several characters, but unfortunately the main character has felt fairly undeveloped. However I won't criticize this too much since it's only the first episode. As for what happened in the first episode, there is a somewhat strange tonal shift at one point in the episode that was a bit off, but it did little to distract from the overall good quality of the episode. The climax and final scene of episode 1 were the best part and the ending definitely left you on a cliffhanger that makes me want to watch the next episode. One other thing I wanted to mention about the ending is the best depiction of an IG droid in all of Star Wars, which was totally bad ass!
While it wasn't riveting by any means, The Mandalorian's first episode was a breath of fresh air for the franchise. It was cool, well made, entertaining, but most of all it felt like Star Wars. Particularly this felt like if someone adapted an EU novel or comic into a high budget TV show or movie, which is something I wish Disney would have done instead of scrapping the old Legends EU. I will be watching the next episode and likely the whole first season. I really hope that Disney doesn't drop the ball on this show or ruin it in some way. I'd like to be optimistic, but this is the same Disney and Lucasfilm that brought us TLJ and Solo. We'll see I guess.
The Mandalorian: Episode 1: 7/10
Watched Episode 2 and while I'm not going to do a full review I will say that it was very, very good! Even better than episode 1. I'd give it an 8/10 overall.
I'm going to hold off reviewing anymore of this show until season 1 has concluded and then I'll give my full thoughts on it overall.
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King of the Hill seasons 9-10. This is definitely where the show starts to get a little shakier. Still plenty of good episodes, but the number of duds is just a lip bit higher, with ones like Enrique-cilible Differences and Hank’s Bully. Both are ok in a vacuum, but compared to the rest of the series are aggressive “meh”.
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Hello everyone! Just made it back from strangercon 2019 in Dallas, TX. :D A convention tributing the cult icon Stranger Things! My all time favorite netflix show.
I must say, it was the absolute best weekend of my entire life, so much so to the point that my actual life following it has felt completely void of fun and actually depressing in contrast. Which is something i'm trying hard to fix before I spiral into depression. Mostly coping by saving up for the next lol.
But I will say, the atmosphere was electric. The convention staff were incredible. And Millie Bobby Brown and Caleb McLaughlin who play Eleven and Lucas on the show were both extremely nice and wonderful people. I got to meet both and got a few of my pops signed by them :D
Millie is extremely talented. and did some voice impressions at the Q+A which was awesome. Spoilers were made by Millie but I won't share those here in case people don't want to know :)
Hope everyone has a very happy holidays. :D
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Hello everyone! Just made it back from strangercon 2019 in Dallas, TX. :D A convention tributing the cult icon Stranger Things! My all time favorite netflix show. .....
Sounds like you had a terrific trip!
I picked-up Stranger Things and Stranger Things 2 on Blu-Ray recently. I have watched every episode I own except the last episode of Stranger Things 2. Maybe I will get to watch it tonight. I think the show is very well done, and I hope to get the next season soon. Its the best Sci-Fi show I have seen in years.
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I've been watching Queer Eye lately ;D
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Earlier this year I watched The Expanse. It was amazing. Then a few weeks ago I read the first novel the show is based on. Then Amazon announced the premiere date for Season 4 (December 13).
Last week, the GF and I decided, sure, why not, lets watch it again before the new comes on - but let's not go nuts. We don't have to speed through it. We are already halfway through Season 2.
This show is so good, ya'll. It's pretty handily the best hard sci-fi show that has ever existed.
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I said I wasn't going to say anything else about this show until the season was over, but I absolutely cannot contain how happy and impressed I was with the last episode! Wow! For the first time since The Force Awakens came out I actually felt like I was watching Star Wars again. Full disclosure, there is one particular scene towards the end that actually put tears in my eyes; I was just so happy to be watching something again that resembled and felt like Star Wars.
Of course we aren't even halfway through the series so there is still a lot of room for things to go south, but right now The Mandalorian has just got better and better with each episode. I have to give episode 3 a solid 10/10. Wow!
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The Mandalorian: episode 4: 5/10
This was definitely the weakest episode so far, mostly because it felt kind of a like a filler episode, which this show should not have considering it's only 8 episodes and they're only about a half hour each. A new character called Cara Dune was introduced and she is a breath of fresh air as an actually well written character in Disney Star Wars. She is also a total badass while also being relatable. There is also a pretty cool scene towards the end of the episode, but overall this one was a bit on the mundane and boring side.
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The Mandalorian: episode 4: 5/10
This was definitely the weakest episode so far, mostly because it felt kind of a like a filler episode, which this show should not have considering it's only 8 episodes and they're only about a half hour each. A new character called Cara Dune was introduced and she is a breath of fresh air as an actually well written character in Disney Star Wars. She is also a total badass while also being relatable. There is also a pretty cool scene towards the end of the episode, but overall this one was a bit on the mundane and boring side.
Yes definitely the worst so far.
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Now I am watching Season 9 of the Walking Dead. Then it will be on to Season 1 of Fear the Walking Dead
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The ending battle of episode 3 in The Mandalorian made me so happy. I've always wanted to see Mandalorians kicking ass in live action and we finally got it. I was originally a fan of Boba Fett as a kid, even if he doesn't actually do anything, it was a style thing (They did him so wrong...same for Phasma in the new movies. A character that could be so good that they waste, but still looks cool), and he was always more interesting outside the movies in books and other media, so I've always wanted to see more done with them. It's really reinvigorating my Mandalorian love and now I'm like "I gotta get me some Mandalorian toys" lol
Episode 4 has only extra confirmed that Baby Yoda is precious and embodies all that is good in this world. As for the episode, it's totally fine. A slower episode makes sense after the last one and I like the chill world building it does and it's still a good episode. I always love a classic "Help the villagers fight the threat" setup, though I wish they had explored why the raiders had an AT-ST. They bring it up and then just sorta drop it. Might not be important to the story, but it's just an interesting bit of lore to know. Still really enjoying The Mandalorian.
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The Mandalorian is just Lone Wolf and Cub in the Star Wars universe and I am so here for it. The only real weakness of Chapter 4 is that the story is such a traditional archetype.
I also watched all the episodes of The World According to Jeff Goldblum which is fun.
Also rewatched most of Season Two of Parks and Recreation because it was what the gf’s family decided to put on TV while I’m still out of town.
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Chapter 5 of The Mandalorian was another light episode like the last one, but the setting is cool for this one due to the nostalgia. Wish they had done more with it, but again I thought it was fine like 4 was and definitely still fitting that classic western theme. Hopefully the last episodes of the season are just going all out.
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The Mandalorian: Episode 5
This unfortunately felt like another filler episode where very little that happened moved the plot forward in any meaningful way. In a show that's 20+ episodes filler episodes are par for the course, but this being only an 8 episode season, with each episode only being around half an hour is almost inexcusable. Regardless episode 5 was still pretty entertaining and was filled with a ton of prequel and OT references that I absolutely loved. This was definitely the most fan service rich episode so far. Aside from that the action was entertaining, what went down was pretty cool, and without spoiling anything the last scene has me very excited as to who might show up later on in the show. Not a bad episode, but certainly not one of the better ones so far either.
Score: 7/10
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The Mandalorian: Episode 5
This unfortunately felt like another filler episode where very little that happened moved the plot forward in any meaningful way. In a show that's 20+ episodes filler episodes are par for the course, but this being only an 8 episode season, with each episode only being around half an hour is almost inexcusable. Regardless episode 5 was still pretty entertaining and was filled with a ton of prequel and OT references that I absolutely loved. This was definitely the most fan service rich episode so far. Aside from that the action was entertaining, what went down was pretty cool, and without spoiling anything the last scene has me very excited as to who might show up later on in the show. Not a bad episode, but certainly not one of the better ones so far either.
Score: 7/10
I personally don't think the tease at the end is anyone we know, as I know people were getting abit worked up about that on twitter last night, but I think it's gonna just be the new character played by Giancarlo Esposito (Gus from Breaking Bad) who basically fits the tease of armor with a cape. Not to say I wouldn't die if the tease was someone else, because it would be the best with who people thought it might be, but I'm not getting my hopes up. At least not with Season 1 lol
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Episode 5 was pretty easily my least favorite so far. The guy playing gunslinger wasn’t very interesting, and it pretty much completely wasted Ming-Na. Some decent fan service bits, but overall kind of weak.
I’m also expecting Giancarlo’s character to be the payoff.
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With my recent Star Wars kick, I've been watching Star Wars: Rebels while I do bead art. Never watched it before, but I'm through the first season and starting into season 2 and it's not bad. It hasn't really won me over, I think it's just alright, but it has some good moments and just the general Star Wars aspect is good. I know some of the stuff that happens coming up, so I'm hoping things take a step up in the second season and into season 3 as there looks to be a time skip. Definitely looking forward to some more backstory on Sabine the Mandalorian girl. I dig her design.
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Season 3 of Big Mouth is a solid continuation, but definitely feels like it is lacking the same absurdity of the first two seasons. Still, anything to get more Jenny Slate and John Mulaney.
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Ended up accidentally binging the first season of Bosch over on Amazon. Kinda heard about the show through some off the cuff remark about how the cop in the show basically bought himself a super fancy house selling the rights to one of his cases, something that makes a lot of sense if you think about it (Like what if John McClane sold the rights to the story of Die Hard 1 and got rich off that? lol) and turns out its a real solid cop drama. I'd say it's on the side of the more realistic cop dramas, not full on The Wire where they show every bit of procedure and such, but it keeps more to that side than say...an NCIS or Bones. The Wire connection comes back with Lance Reddick also being in this show, but in a much smaller, though slightly similar role.
I also like that it's basically focused on Bosch, the main character of the show. A problem I found with The Wire was that there were like a dozen different stories happening at once and it felt kinda stretched thin and was probably one of the reasons I sorta fell off the show, because for every good story they would tell, there would be two others I just didn't feel interested in. And there's 5 seasons out with a 6th on the way, so this could be something I keep up with. I like the lead quite abit and the show is fairly well done. I'd recommend it if you are wanting to check out a newer solid cop drama.
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The Mandalorian: Episode 6 - 4/10
I'll first say I'm kind of pissed and fairly disappointed that half the episodes so far are pointless filler episodes that do very little to nothing at all to drive the main story forward, or contribute to the overall story arch in any meaningful way. This is starting to feel like a show that doesn't know if it wants to be a show like GoT where every episode and everything that happens is relevant to the main story in some way, or if it wants to be freakin DBZ where the majority of the episodes are pointless filler. What makes this worse is that the episodes aren't very long and there is only eight of them this season. This really irritates me, and episode 6 is exactly that, another filler episode, albeit a cool one.
I'm not going to spoil the story, but essentially the episode is about a prison break with a lot of action. It's too bad that the background story to all that action is kinda mundane, and the crew Mando must work with are by far the most cartoonish, cringy group of characters in the show so far. I thought the person they were going to break out might be of some significance in some way, but he is probably the most unremarkable character of the whole episode. On top of that, there is a "twist" towards the end that you can see coming from literally the first 5-minutes of the episode and did not surprise me at all.
As I said, the action was good and there were some genuinely tense moments, but overall this episode was completely unnecessary and does not server the main story one bit. This has been my least favorite episode thus far, and I sincerely hope with only two episodes left that this show really, really picks up because it's becoming as unremarkable as Disney's Star Wars movies.
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I still like these episodes, they are well done and this one had a pretty fun cast of recognizable people, but yeah, it's just another filler. That's not the best in an already very short season. Hopefully the last two episodes are going all out to finish up the season.
I did like the people that showed up, as I was surprised to see the dude from Sons of Anarchy, Bill Burr, and best of all, Clancy Brown, who gets to be another character in the Star Wars universe as he was also a character in Star Wars Rebels.
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See, I like the fact that we are getting mostly stand alone stories with some minor tie-in to the overall arc. It reminds of the old Tales books, or a comic run. Not everything needs to be design as "a 8-hour movie" (or 4-5 as the case may be) that streaming services seem to have forced upon us. The episodic structure makes more sense for a show that is releasing weekly instead of dropping for a binge session.
Speaking of binge sessions: season 4 of The Expanse came out a day early, so I watched 2 on Thursday and the remainder yesterday. I think it was a slight step down from the previous two seasons, and roughly on par with the first. From what I understand of the source material, this was kind of expected, as the fourth book in the series is generally considered the weakest, and mostly set-up for things to come. It's still really, really good, and the new Amazon budget really shines with the specials effects this year.
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See, I like the fact that we are getting mostly stand alone stories with some minor tie-in to the overall arc. It reminds of the old Tales books, or a comic run. Not everything needs to be design as "a 8-hour movie" (or 4-5 as the case may be) that streaming services seem to have forced upon us. The episodic structure makes more sense for a show that is releasing weekly instead of dropping for a binge session
That is the point though for low episode seasons. It's meant to be a more focused, story driven, experience, without a lot of filler or dragged out story beats. They can do a more tightly told show, while also maximizing the quality, rather than needing to stretch the budget across a lot more episodes. I like these episodes, they are good, but when there's only 2 episodes left and nothing has progressed in the main story after 3 episodes, it doesn't feel right.
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See, I like the fact that we are getting mostly stand alone stories with some minor tie-in to the overall arc. It reminds of the old Tales books, or a comic run. Not everything needs to be design as "a 8-hour movie" (or 4-5 as the case may be) that streaming services seem to have forced upon us. The episodic structure makes more sense for a show that is releasing weekly instead of dropping for a binge session
That is the point though for low episode seasons. It's meant to be a more focused, story driven, experience, without a lot of filler or dragged out story beats. They can do a more tightly told show, while also maximizing the quality, rather than needing to stretch the budget across a lot more episodes. I like these episodes, they are good, but when there's only 2 episodes left and nothing has progressed in the main story after 3 episodes, it doesn't feel right.
Well, it's not doing that, so one could argue that it is not what it's meant to be. It's simply not what you expected. Look at the first seasons of Always Sunny and Archer, a huge portion of BBC shows, all of the USA Network procedurals. 8-13 episodes a season, almost all standalone, with barely a thread to string them together - though occasionally you'd get a minor one. You shouldn't judge a show for what you were expecting, judge it on what it actually is.
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a Harlod and Kumar Christmas- I totally forgot this movie existed until I saw the blu-ray for cheap and bought it. Then I had completely forgotten that this movie came out when 3D was the biggest thing in movies. You can easily tell what were the big 3D scenes in the movie and honestly watching it in 2D... those scenes don't look the best. Overall it's a good Stoner comedy about Christmas, reuniting with old friends, and sticking up for yourself against your father in law... even if he is Danny Trejo. Also Neil Patrick Harris' part is the best
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Well, it's not doing that, so one could argue that it is not what it's meant to be. It's simply not what you expected. Look at the first seasons of Always Sunny and Archer, a huge portion of BBC shows, all of the USA Network procedurals. 8-13 episodes a season, almost all standalone, with barely a thread to string them together - though occasionally you'd get a minor one. You shouldn't judge a show for what you were expecting, judge it on what it actually is.
It wasn't really about expectations, it was about how they setup the show. 3 episodes dealing with the main story, and then it was 3 random episodes that do slightly delve into the Mando's backstory, but dropped the previously setup narrative entirely, and now we only have 2 episodes (hopefully both deal with it) left to get back to the main story before the season ends. Certainly not expecting it to be wrapped up by the end, but structurally it was how they were setting up show before we got these middles episodes.
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Well, it's not doing that, so one could argue that it is not what it's meant to be. It's simply not what you expected. Look at the first seasons of Always Sunny and Archer, a huge portion of BBC shows, all of the USA Network procedurals. 8-13 episodes a season, almost all standalone, with barely a thread to string them together - though occasionally you'd get a minor one. You shouldn't judge a show for what you were expecting, judge it on what it actually is.
It wasn't really about expectations, it was about how they setup the show. 3 episodes dealing with the main story, and then it was 3 random episodes that do slightly delve into the Mando's backstory, but dropped the previously setup narrative entirely, and now we only have 2 episodes (hopefully both deal with it) left to get back to the main story before the season ends. Certainly not expecting it to be wrapped up by the end, but structurally it was how they were setting up show before we got these middles episodes.
They weren't really that connected though - at least not all of them (Episode 3 definitely was). Episode 2 is just about Mando dinking around with Jawas and repairing his ship. The only semi-big overarcing development was The Child using the Force, and lets be honest, everyone saw that coming. That's about the same amount of long-term development as Episode 4, where we get confirmation the FOB is still for The Child, not Mando, and that they can't stay in one place - a generally more important storytelling revelation than the Force use. Even as a standalone Episode 6 gives us a fair amount of history on Mando - he was not always as chivalrous as we see him now - and he was definitely getting busy with the Twi'lek.
Episode 1 is debatable, since its the Pilot episode. Yes, it is the job that sets everything in motion, but if you change the quarry at the end from The Child to literally anything else the episode remains the same, and has no long reaching effects. It's only in those last moments that it actually becomes important to the serialized story that is being told. Like I said before, it's Lone Wolf and Cub - just continuing adventures of this baby and surrogate father, with occasional links back to who and what they are.
It's reminding me a lot of The X-Files revival seasons. The premiere and finale were mythology heavy (and pretty awful because of it - hopefully not the case here), and in the middle we get a bunch decent-to-good stand alone stories.
Also, I watched Unbelievable on Netflix. It’s really good, but also very difficult to watch.
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Got through two more seasons of Bosch. I really dig the show, just a solid bit of cop drama. I think I like it, because it's generally pretty chill, like there's big drama and some action moments, but it never gets too crazy or feels unrealistic. Just a well paced story from beginning to end and all the actors are pretty likable. Gonna take a break from the series to focus on some other stuff. The Expanse has a new season, Witcher is out in 3 days, and I got anime to catch up on. Sorta ended up with a glut of things to watch lol
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And Chapter 7 is back on track in The Mandalorian. I'm hoping the finale is abit of a longer one to deal with the end of the season, but it's a good setup here for sure. Sucks we have to wait longer than a week for the last episode lol
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The Mandalorian: Episode 7 - 8/10
I'm SO happy this show is getting back to the main story, and what an episode it was! Definitely some of the coolest action we've seen so far! The ending of this episode has me totally hyped for the final episode and I can't wait to see how everything that got setup in this episode plays out.
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I binged both The Righteous Gemstones and Watchmen over the last week, and they are both incredible in vastly different ways.
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Finished the new season of The Expanse and it's solid stuff. It's great that it was given a second chance at life as the story for everything keeps being interesting. Though it's funny to see that with them off TV and on Amazon, they can do a few things they can't on TV, which basically amounts to people just saying the "fuck" a whole lot, almost comically so at a point with the UN councillor woman lol
I do recommend the series if you haven't started, though the first...I think 5 episodes of the first season are weirdly rough, I actually stopped watching around then the first time before giving the series another shot, but once you get past that, its all good.
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Haven't been sleeping great, so binged another season of Bosch. I will say that binging these probably aren't the best, because while it stays consistent, it also doesn't have a lot of big highs, so it sorta runs together at times. Not bad at all, because it does keep being interesting and this season has a surprise or two, and while I am gonna watch Season 5, I am sorta hoping it takes things up another notch.
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Finished the first season of The Sinner . Good, but way more melodramatic than I expected. Second season seems a little better so far.
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Finished the first season of The Sinner . Good, but way more melodramatic than I expected. Second season seems a little better so far.
Season two was a hair better than the first, mostly due to cast and location changes. Plus no idiot husband making the world’s worst decisions.
I watched all of the final season of Silicon Valley today. There were some good laugh-out-loud moments, but it is a show that definitely lost its momentum and focus a couple of years ago.
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Chapter 8 of The Mandalorian was a great end to this first season and I'm hoping they can continue to deliver on what is quickly becoming one of my favorite pieces of Star Wars media at least in terms of shows and movies. On a smaller note for the show, I love seeing more good stuff with the Imperials, like we get to see a Death Trooper go hand to hand with Mando and we get this goofy little sit down with two Scout Troopers, and the ending I had to look up what it meant, but it actually involves something that showed up in the Clone Wars and Rebels cartoon, so I'm definitely finishing up Rebels and then going to check out the Clone Wars cartoon.
Great show, can't wait for Season 2.
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The Mandalorian - episode 8: 9/10
This was an amazing finale to a show that really surprised me by its overall quality. Episode 8 was an excellent, action packed episodes that left season 1 on a satisfying note, while at the same time making want season 2 badly. Without spoiling anything, I thought the end was amazing and Mando as a protagonist is becoming one of my favorites, especially when stacked up against all original characters created since Disney took over.
As for the series as a whole, I'd give it a 7/10; to give some context to this score this is where I'd rate Phantom Menace and A New Hope as well. This is the best piece of new Star Wars we've got since Disney bought Lucasfilm, and is better than all the films. The closest anything has come so far is Rogue One, but The Mandalorian has the edge over it for having far better characters and overall a more interesting, well written story. Where The Mandalorian season 1 loses points is the 3 episodes in a row of filler episodes that contributed little to nothing to the overall plot; I feel like these episodes could be skipped entirely if you wanted and continuing from episode 3 to episode 7 would be nearly seamless. However, these filler episodes were not bad, and while it wasn't necessarily my cup of tea, I can appreciate why a lot of people really enjoyed episode 6. However, if I was just judging episodes 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8, this show would be a solid 8/10, but unfortunately I have to take the bad with the good when judging it.
I will absolutely be buying this series on bluray when it gets the inevitable release on it, and I will be anticipating season 2 highly. Well done Disney, and for the record this is how you do good Star Wars.
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Finally got around to finishing The Witcher and I think it's a pretty alright show. Good fantasy movies/shows are honestly kinda rare even nowadays, stuff like this, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, etc, so I'm always looking for more that I think are entertaining (Need to get back to the Dark Crystal show). I think the show overall is good, but it's a messy good. I think it drags abit, though thankfully it's only 8 episodes, and it has an obnoxious timeline. You don't notice there's one until a certain point and then it's bouncing between multiple points of time and I don't think it did itself any favors with it.
Effects are mostly good, there's a point at the start where it feels a little sketchy and you worry that it won't be consistently well done, but I think it does well for the majority of the show. I heard someone say that it gets to like "CW Super Hero" show level and that's not even slightly true. You definitely won't have to worry about Supergirl tier CG here lol Cavill also nails Geralt I think too, like I wasn't sure how they were gonna play him, but if you know him from the games, he's exactly that.
I've never been a Witcher fan, my only connection is Witcher 3 that I beat, and even then I wasn't in love with the game because the combat was a little iffy, so as someone just wanting a sword and magic based show, I enjoyed my time with the Witcher and I'm pretty interested in the second season as a better focused and paced story will do wonders for the show.
I'm actually gonna go and try and give the Witcher 3 a new shot after all this time, see if my views on the game has changed. I even grabbed a mod that changed Geralt to the Cavill version pretty well to mix things up lol
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 was alright. I didn't care for the season long plotline about her parents, but Midge and Joel's stories were pretty good. It was also nice to see Sterling K. Brown show up. He's great in everything.
The Witcher was entertaining, but something about it felt off the entire time. It simultaneously felt very expensive while also feeling really cheap in some places. The performances were good, but took some getting used to. Messy good is the perfect way to describe it.
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 was alright. I didn't care for the season long plotline about her parents, but Midge and Joel's stories were pretty good. It was also nice to see Sterling K. Brown show up. He's great in everything.
The Witcher was entertaining, but something about it felt off the entire time. It simultaneously felt very expensive while also feeling really cheap in some places. The performances were good, but took some getting used to. Messy good is the perfect way to describe it.
I think them not having a distinct timeline of events, jumping back and forth between not just different stories, but different points of time while doing different stories, it made it hard to follow things. Especially when they are talking about decades of time, but almost no one looks different aside from that one court mage that's friends with Geralt. I think the second season can fix that, bring a focus to the show that it desperately needed.
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 was alright. I didn't care for the season long plotline about her parents, but Midge and Joel's stories were pretty good. It was also nice to see Sterling K. Brown show up. He's great in everything.
The Witcher was entertaining, but something about it felt off the entire time. It simultaneously felt very expensive while also feeling really cheap in some places. The performances were good, but took some getting used to. Messy good is the perfect way to describe it.
I think them not having a distinct timeline of events, jumping back and forth between not just different stories, but different points of time while doing different stories, it made it hard to follow things. Especially when they are talking about decades of time, but almost no one looks different aside from that one court mage that's friends with Geralt. I think the second season can fix that, bring a focus to the show that it desperately needed.
The biggest issue with the timeline was as you pointed out, it wasn't clear they were doing different timelines until Episode Four, and then they didn't do a lot to make it explicit. It wasn't played up as a twist or big deal, it just happened and was pretty confusing - and I had already heard there were timeline shenanigans in the show. I agree that it looks like Season Two will have more focus there.
Watched all of The Boys Season One yesterday. That was a fun and mean little show. Can't wait for Season Two.
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King of the Hill S11-12. You can definitely feel the show running out of steam, but it’s not really bad. There are still some really great jokes sprinkled throughout.
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Finished season 5 of Bosch, the last of the available seasons. I still think it's a solid enough cop drama, but it's also not really doing anything particularly new or different at this point. I'm probably done with the show as I think it needs a new swerve to keep me going, so unless I hear something good about the new season, I won't be continuing.
Since I needed something else to dive into, I thought I'd give Vikings another shot as I saw it was still going. I think I only watched Season 1 in the past, but just never continued on for whatever reason, so starting over and gonna see how far I go. Got kinda in the mood for Norseman related stuff after playing Hellblade the other night and after Bosch, I could use something with a little more action going on to it.
This also reminds me that I'm super behind on Vinland Saga...hrmm...I might catch up on Vinland now that I think about it as I want to catch up on my anime if I can.
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And binged through Vinland Saga, catching up to it as I had stopped a little over half way through and it's great. It wasn't till the end that the title of it was "End of Prologue" that this was all a prologue and the main story actually dealing with "Vinland" is coming up lol It's a great anime with a good story.
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Also ended up watching all of Infinity Train, a cartoon network show and it's pretty good. Comes across a little like the wackiness you'd get with Adventure Time, but with more of an actual ongoing story like with Steven Universe. I dug the humor and characters and the story works pretty well.
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The long great trek is over. All 13 seasons complete. What a good consistent run. Even in the last 4-5 episodes there were quotes that have become memes. That's an enduring legacy.
Also finished Adventures of the Gummi Bears season 2. It's just a kids cartoon, but my dumb completionist brain won't let it go.
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Preacher S4 came to Hulu much faster than I was expecting. It was never a truly great show, but it was always entertaining. The last couple of episodes are as good as the show ever was, but I do think it was time for it to end.
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So I tried out Netflix for the first time ever and was bummed to find out the selection is so mediocre. Most of it just original content, and I was under the impression that "Netflix has everything", when it doesn't. It turns out in the world of streaming content, everyone is clutching to ownership and proprietary platforms. You want to watch this movie? Then you have to get this movie's parent company streaming service, etc.
Here I was thinking you could just watch any movie on Netflix by the time it came out on Blu Ray. Wasn't that basically the deal with Netflix back in the day? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Netflix used to mail DVDs, right? Was the selection always so limited? Do they still do physical rentals in any form?
Netflix isn't going to sell me on a bunch of original content. I want things I've heard of and box office movies. Is Red Box the only option left, now?
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So I tried out Netflix for the first time ever and was bummed to find out the selection is so mediocre. Most of it just original content, and I was under the impression that "Netflix has everything", when it doesn't. It turns out in the world of streaming content, everyone is clutching to ownership and proprietary platforms. You want to watch this movie? Then you have to get this movie's parent company streaming service, etc.
Here I was thinking you could just watch any movie on Netflix by the time it came out on Blu Ray. Wasn't that basically the deal with Netflix back in the day? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Netflix used to mail DVDs, right? Was the selection always so limited? Do they still do physical rentals in any form?
Netflix isn't going to sell me on a bunch of original content. I want things I've heard of and box office movies. Is Red Box the only option left, now?
Netflix was better, but they've lost a lot of stuff with everyone having their own streaming apps. They do have non-original stuff, but they are big pushing original content for sure.
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So I tried out Netflix for the first time ever and was bummed to find out the selection is so mediocre. Most of it just original content, and I was under the impression that "Netflix has everything", when it doesn't. It turns out in the world of streaming content, everyone is clutching to ownership and proprietary platforms. You want to watch this movie? Then you have to get this movie's parent company streaming service, etc.
Here I was thinking you could just watch any movie on Netflix by the time it came out on Blu Ray. Wasn't that basically the deal with Netflix back in the day? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Netflix used to mail DVDs, right? Was the selection always so limited? Do they still do physical rentals in any form?
Netflix isn't going to sell me on a bunch of original content. I want things I've heard of and box office movies. Is Red Box the only option left, now?
Honestly, it sounds like you expectations were misaligned. Even when Netflix was the only game in town they did not have "everything" on streaming. They had a lot, but there was always stuff you couldn't find - especially new releases. Also, a common complaint about the company over the past few years has been how they are filling the streaming options with nothing but their own stuff and filler garbage like the Asylum ScyFy Originals.
And they definitely still do physical rentals, you just need to go into your account settings, find and update that. Looks like this.
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I watched the first season of The Sopranos for the first time in 20 years, and while its a good show, it is merely a shell of how good it would be in later seasons. I was honestly shocked at just how much it feels like a typical 90s drama, and there are a ton of weird editing and production choices. You can also tell that HBO wasn't really funneling money into it the way they would eventually. Certain things feel really cheap. All that said I can't wait to keep going forward with it.
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Speaking of waiting 20 years... the first episode of Star Trek: Picard came out yesterday. I am so totally in for this. It was maybe the best pilot episode that a Trek show has had.
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I watched the first season of The Sopranos for the first time in 20 years, and while its a good show, it is merely a shell of how good it would be in later seasons. I was honestly shocked at just how much it feels like a typical 90s drama, and there are a ton of weird editing and production choices. You can also tell that HBO wasn't really funneling money into it the way they would eventually. Certain things feel really cheap. All that said I can't wait to keep going forward with it.
S2 and S3 are much more the show I remember. Much more polished, more confident, fewer weird production issues. S3 has some all time greatest episodes of television like Employee of the Month and Pine Barrens.
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The Sopranos still. S4 is a danged masterpiece.
Also watched the series finale of The Good Place which was one of the most satisfying finales I’ve seen in a while.
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The Sopranos still. S4 is a danged masterpiece.
S5 starts good, but it meanders a bit in the middle, but the lat 4-5 episodes are some of the show's best. Especially 'Long Term Parking'.
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Got through all that is available for Vikings other than Season 6, which I'm not paying for, so that'll be it for now till I can watch that easily. Overall I enjoy Vikings, it only dragged at times when the multiple stories going on at once started to be too many, like when they were dealing with stuff in France, I though most of that outside of what involved Rollo was kinda unnecessary, and there were stuff with English that didn't work, or in this last season, Floki's tale was kind of a mixed bag (Though the wrestler Edge being a character was cool as he did well lol). It's a consistent show, though I think I've lost count of how many times Kattegat, the main viking town in the show is stormed and captured, just to be re-captured by someone else lol Action is good too, so basically anytime there's a battle going on, it's usually a good watch and there are multiple battles per season and they usually do well to try and make sure that they don't feel stagnant or repetitive.
Not sure what to watch next at the moment. I thought about redoing my Disney Plus sub to finish the Star Wars cartoons and Simpsons, but I might just end up waiting on The Hunters, some 70's based Nazi hunting show that is new for Amazon as I thought that could be interesting. Also I was watching Blacklist on Netflix, starting back over from the beginning since I stopped at like Season 2 forever ago and figured I'd rather just rewatch it to catch back up. It's worth it for James Spader lol
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A few episodes into this new show, Hunters. I'm mostly liking it, but I feel like it struggles abit with its tone. The first episode is played pretty straight, it's dark with a slight exaggerated feel to it, but by the 2nd episode they are playing up the 70's exploitation style way more and comes across kinda out of place when its also dealing with holocaust related stuff, and the third episode kinda cuts back on the cheesy exploitation feel for what it was like before. It's overall well done, I like the characters, so I'm hoping the show kinda picks a path and sticks with it.
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The Sopranos still. S4 is a danged masterpiece.
S5 starts good, but it meanders a bit in the middle, but the lat 4-5 episodes are some of the show's best. Especially 'Long Term Parking'.
Season 6 has the same meandering problem that 5 does. The first half of the season spends too much time on a character and storyline, that while important, probably should not have been so much of a focus in the final stretch of the show. The second half of the season jumps from plot point to plot point with not a lot of connective tissue. Overall, it is still a brilliant, if flawed show (notably the first and last seasons) that walked so that modern television (your Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, etc) could run.
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Finished Hunters and I'm kinda torn about it. Generally I was fine with the show, there's stuff that absolutely works, but if I had to make a comparison, it's like Inglorious Basterds, which isn't a positive. It's two tonally different ideas that don't create a very cohesive experience. They try to come across as this very real, dramatic, serious story with lots of talk of the holocaust, peoples stories from that time, and it can be very heart wrenching...and then out comes the 70's exploitation with weird, out of place, satirical cutaways that don't need to be there and over the top violence and action, and like a pot fueled dance sequence that lasts all of a 20 seconds...
They touted it as "inspired by true events", but it's really not, it just generally uses the real story of "Operation Paperclip", bringing Nazi's over to America to use their skills, and turning it into an alt-history thing of these Nazi's now trying to start a Fourth Reich and try to take the USA down from the inside. It's about as "inspired" as Pirates of the Caribbean was "inspired" by real world pirates lol
Had it just been a crazy, over-the-top, fictional story that didn't try to hinge so much on real world drama, basically "The Boys", but with Nazi Hunters, that would've been fine, or if it had been a serious drama that tried to tell a realistic story without all the bloodshed and violence, that would've been fine, but because it kinda zigs and zags through both ideas, it struggles to stand on its own. They do set up a second season and I think it could embrace its more crazy side, which would be best for it, but there's no telling if it'll get that second season or not. I can't super recommend it right now...
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I should be finishing Season 2 of The Legend of Korra tonight or tomorrow. It’s a good show, but nothing about it is holding a candle to the original series yet, but I have heard that 3-4 are very strong.
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I should be finishing Season 2 of The Legend of Korra tonight or tomorrow. It’s a good show, but nothing about it is holding a candle to the original series yet, but I have heard that 3-4 are very strong.
Ok, Season 3 was much better. Still not as good as the original, but this was a very strong bounce back after the so-so Season 2.
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I should be finishing Season 2 of The Legend of Korra tonight or tomorrow. It’s a good show, but nothing about it is holding a candle to the original series yet, but I have heard that 3-4 are very strong.
Ok, Season 3 was much better. Still not as good as the original, but this was a very strong bounce back after the so-so Season 2.
Season 4 was a little bit of a step back. I’d rank them 3, 1, 4, 2 - with a pretty big gap before S2.
I started a series called Stan Against Evil. It’s a super low budget, low stakes version of Ash vs. Evil Dead. It’s fun and short and John C. McGinley is good. The sheriff is played by Janet Varney, who voiced Korra. It’s disposable, but entertaining.
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I started a series called Stan Against Evil. It’s a super low budget, low stakes version of Ash vs. Evil Dead. It’s fun and short and John C. McGinley is good. The sheriff is played by Janet Varney, who voiced Korra. It’s disposable, but entertaining.
Finished all 3 seasons. Law of diminishing returns hit this one hard. Still getting at least one good laugh per episode, but got pretty repetitive and predictable by the end. Too much ignorance when characters should have known what was going on right away.
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Really knocking stuff out with this Social Distancing:
Castlevania Season 3
Archer: 1999
American Horror Story: 1984
Adventures of the Gummi Bears Season 3
Kingdom Season 2
Really dig all of them - except Gummis. Just watching that out of habit.
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South Korea is just killing it with their zombie stuff these days. Both Train to Busan and Kingdom are great. I just finished Season 2 and by the time it ended, I could've gone with more episodes, that's how much I wanted it to keep going. That said, they really aren't dragging the show out at all and doing more than like the 6 episodes wouldn't have made it any better. It's a tight story that knows what the plot is and everything is in service to that, so it doesn't feel like how much of a mixed bag Walking Dead can be. I do recommend it though if you want some zombie media with some different and unique flavor. Setting it in the 1500's of Korea really does a lot for it in terms of visuals and the kind of drama it brings. I don't even have any real gripes with it other than some small little issue I felt I had related to the zombie infection itself, but it's very minor and doesn't hurt the story at all.
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I liked S1, but S2 was great. My biggest issue would be with the cliffhanger ending. I thought for sure it was over and would have been very satisfied.
Legion Season 3. More consistent than S2, but still not even close to the quality of S1. Was still a hell of a trip to watch, though.
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Ended up binging through Tiger King on Netflix, hearing a lot about how crazy this documentary was, and it lived up to it, like if this was a regular tv show, it would seem absurd and exaggerated, but its all real and it's ridiculous. It's infuriating at how bad everything was for people and how creepy things could get. It's just insight into something you never really heard about.
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Went through all 3 seasons of Broadchurch this week. First one was brilliant, second fell off quite a bit, but the third rebounded some. The Brits sure do know how to make a murder mystery.
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Been going through all 6 seasons of The Blacklist since about mid-February and finally finished with it. Season 7 is out there, but being that I'm not gonna watch it live on tv and that the second half of the season is delayed because of the virus, I won't be watching for it awhile, but will whenever it comes to Netflix.
Overall I enjoyed the show. There was some weak points here and there, I think it was Season 4 or 5 where there were some wonky conclusions and issues with the writing, but it never was enough to tank things. Honestly some of my biggest reasons for staying was because James Spader is just a treat, I could listen to him kinda talk about anything lol The cast continue to be good and you did see them grow and change as things went on, which is good and while it's not the most amazing show in terms of action or effects, I kept wanting to see more of the overarching story and see where things lead our characters.
I would recommend it if this is the type of cop/crime drama you like. A comparison might be like CSI or NCIS, where there's a criminal to be stopped every episode, but this show is more than just that since there's usually something else bigger involved going on, which makes it more interesting than those shows, but it kinda operates in a similar way.
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Happy! S2 finally hit Netflix. It’s definitely more bizarre and gleefully violent than S1, but it is also more disjointed and not as engaging. Based on the content of the show I’m not surprised it got cancelled.
Binged through all of Toast of London. Quintessential bizarre British sitcom. Matt Berry is great in it, but the joke does kind of start wearing thin by the end. Worth a watch if you are into British comedy.
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I've been watching the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! off and on for the last several months. Following my obsession with Pokemon in the late 90s and early 2000s, Yu-Gi-oh! filled that void of childhood fad for me for about a year, during which i got really into the card game and also watching the anime. It was during this time that the first season was airing, and while I wasn't as into it as the cards the anime was based off of, I still remember enjoying the first season or at least what I saw of season 1.
Sadly, not even nostalgia was enough to allow me to enjoy this show, as Yu-Gi-Oh! is honestly one of the worst animes I've ever watched. Not only is the plot extremely basic and stupid, but it doesn't even follow the rules of the card game its based off of. I can forgive the latter, but the fact that the plot is so lame made getting through the 50ish episodes of the first season difficult to say the least.
While watching season 1 realized how many episodes of it I hadn't seen as a kid, probably around half of them actually. On top of that season one oddly doesn't end with Yugi defeating Pegasus in the Duelist Kingdom, but rather several episodes after that when he takes on a little girl and then a guy who plays a dice game that might as well have nothing to do with the Yu-Gi-Oh card game. I'm guessing this might have been the western end of season 1, but still it just seemed very odd to me.
Sadly the only parts of Yu-Gi-Oh I enjoyed were the first few episodes where the characters are introduced and where Yugi defeats Kaiba, as well as a few select battles after that, including the rematch of the aforementioned duel. Sadly not even the nostalgia I had for Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid/teen could allow me to enjoy this show outside of those select moment.
Unfortunately I don't see myself watching anymore Yu-Gi-Oh beyond what I just saw, and sadly I don't imagine I'll ever rewatch any of Yu-Gi-Oh again. There are parts of our childhood and past that are sometimes best left in the last and I can safely say that the Yu-Gi-Oh anime is one of those things.
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S2 of Castle Rock was way better than S1. More focused and far less Abrams mystery box nonsense. Lizzy Caplan was great as Annie Wilkes. Kinda fumbled across the finish line by dropping several plotlines without a lot resolution. Still enjoyed it quite a bit overall.
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Like so many others Tiger King. What a trip that was.
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace is a very different beast than The People vs. O.J. Simpson, which was probably a good idea. It's far more slow burning and contemplative, generally telling its story in reverse. Great performances all around, but it does drag a bit in places.
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Future Man Season 3. A pretty decent bounce back after a mediocre S2. Shorter season made the pacing way better. It was never a great show, but the performances were always pretty funny.
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Really been cruising through TV shows.
Black Mirror Season 5 was a real step down. Same with Big Little Lies Season 2, but it at least still had stellar performances.
But before those I watched the entirety of Baskets with Zach Galifinakis and Louie Anderson. It was pretty incredible from start to finish.
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Watched the first season of Happy! on Netflix and I liked it. It's fucked up and weird, but everything about the show works primarily because of Chris Meloni. He is just reveling in this crazy role of an ex-cop who has lost his shit, at the end of his rope, doesn't care if he dies, and then he's brought in to help find a daughter he didn't know about with the help of her imaginary friend. I had seen stuff on it for awhile, but never took the interest, but I dug it and I like when it gets kinda crazy with its surreal and stylized moments. Tonally, I would say it's like The Boys, but sorta less serious. It's still very violent, kinda disturbing, but the characters are all a little more ridiculous and over the top.
Gonna watch the second season, though I know they cancelled it afterwards. If it does well on Netflix, I could see it come back perhaps.
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Meloni has already moved on to another show (an SVU-spin off returning as Stabler), so if it does come back it will be a while.
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Meloni has already moved on to another show (an SVU-spin off returning as Stabler), so if it does come back it will be a while.
Yeah I saw that, they could still do it between that new show, but we'll see, I only just started Season 2, so I don't even know if it continues to be watchable. I liked the talk I saw about this show, that their head cannon for Happy! was that this is just Stabler after hitting rock bottom lol
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And I finished Season 2 of Happy!. I could see watching a third season if they brought it back, it's still got some pretty over the top action and absurdity going on and I like that they built both seasons around holidays, with the third one looking to be Halloween. I thought this one dragged just a smidge at points, but it's still pretty ridiculous and weird. It's got me in the mood to go watch Scott Pilgrim where you have this wacky world with stylized stuff going on, though I felt it was kind of a tad bit less of that this season.
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Yeah I felt like S2 wasn’t as focused as S1. I still enjoyed it, but was fine with it kind of ending where it did.
The Act on Hulu. I can see this series being a lot better if I didn’t already know the story of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. To avoid spoilers it is an absolutely insane true crime story. The series plays a lot of this as shocking reveals, so I found myself twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next revelation. Performances are all really strong, but it also ends really abruptly. Definitely worth a watch if you are interested in true crime.
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McMillions was a decent enough documentary for 3-4 episodes, but stretching it out 6 made it a bit hard to stay engaged.
Criminal: UK was a tight little three episode show. Great performances all around.
The entirety of BBC’s The Fall. First season was great, second was really good, third was a dumpster fire.
The entirety of Sneaky Pete. What a delight that show was.
Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace. Deliciously bizarre.
The first season of Solar Opposites. It's not quite Rick & Morty, but it is a fun time.
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Watched all the available episodes of the Harley Quinn show on DC's streaming service and it's great. It reminds me a lot of like Venture Bros, it's raunchy, bloody, it's way more fun than anything they are doing with live action Harley. Definitely looking forward to the rest of Season 2 and hopefully a Season 3.
At the same time, I've started watching Doom Patrol, only 3 episodes in, but I really like it. I know absolutely nothing about Doom Patrol itself, but it's weird and interesting and it's R-rated, so it reminds me of something like The Boys in that regard, though it is abit of a slower series since a lot of the show is about the team dealing with their severe mental hangups. I actually thought Doom Patrol might've been an X-Men take by DC, but funny enough I was wrong, in that Doom Patrol's first appearance is actually before the first appearance of X-Men, but it's literally months apart in the same year, but they definitely share a lot.
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Punisher Season 2 on Netflix, bit late, still enjoying it after Season 1
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I've recently downloaded the Pluto TV app, which is like the best basic cable package you've never had. Channels dedicated to Cold Case Files, Forensic Files, Glory Kickboxing, Nick Jr, Nick Regular, Yo! MTV Raps and so much more.
I've spent most of my time on the American Gladiators channel. It's such a good show just to have on in the background as you go about your day.
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I've also probably watched more Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the past 2 months than I have in the last decade. It's been great.
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I've recently downloaded the Pluto TV app, which is like the best basic cable package you've never had. Channels dedicated to Cold Case Files, Forensic Files, Glory Kickboxing, Nick Jr, Nick Regular, Yo! MTV Raps and so much more.
I've spent most of my time on the American Gladiators channel. It's such a good show just to have on in the background as you go about your day.
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I've also probably watched more Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the past 2 months than I have in the last decade. It's been great.
I love Pluto TV. There is almost always something good to watch on there. The only complaint I have is that the shows can get repetitive, normally they show the same 3 or 4 episodes of a show on repeat. I haven't watched it in a while though, so that may have changed. I must have seen the episode of Punk'd with Jason Bateman 1000 times.
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I love Pluto TV. There is almost always something good to watch on there. The only complaint I have is that the shows can get repetitive, normally they show the same 3 or 4 episodes of a show on repeat. I haven't watched it in a while though, so that may have changed. I must have seen the episode of Punk'd with Jason Bateman 1000 times.
I've not had that issue at all. I suppose its possible that it is also dependent on what channel you are watching. American Gladiators seems to be running through the entire series in order, and doing so should be giving it enough content for a week and half before it circles around again.
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Invasion. Appears to be a tv take on the body snatchers, very mysterious, nothing sinister as yet like the other takes on it.
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Burning Love is a show I'm surprised I didn't know anything about. It's a parody of The Bachelor and Bachelorette that has a ton of comedians and actors that I really enjoy. Apparently it was one of Yahoo! Screen's earliest shows, which would explain why it flew under the radar. It's blisteringly funny, but I can also understand why it didn't last too long.
The Outsider on HBO starts really strong, then kind of treads water before practically sprinting to the end.
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HBO Max got the latest (last?) season of Luther that I had really been wanting to check out, but since the GF hadn't seen the show at all we started from the beginning. It's a bit more melodramatic and silly than I remembered. It's a show that got lucky and has a super charismatic lead in Idris Elba. Ruth Wilson is also pretty great, but maybe not in the show enough. Worth a watch if you like pulpy cop shows, but it definitely isn't as serious or realistic as several others I have seen since it originally premiered.
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I think some of the best DC stuff I've seen for awhile is basically Doom Patrol and the Harley Quinn cartoon. The movies mostly suck, the animated movies can be good, but are also all built on already established stories most of the time, but Doom Patrol in particular was a weird, but enjoyable time. I swear it's script is just 60% of Cliff cussing like crazy, but it doesn't come across as bland or generic like most CW DC shows are like. Not knowing anything about the Doom Patrol, it's much like Guardians of the Galaxy where I had no idea what I was getting, but I really enjoy all the characters.
I could see people not liking it, there's not much action, it's very character driven, these are all broken people and the whole season is them kinda coming to terms with who they are, but everyone is good in it, I love Alan Tudyk as Mr. Nobody (I thought at one point, that he would make for a fantastic Joker, but then I realized that in the Harley Quinn show, he's actually the Joker in it, so I was right, but it never clicked for me that he was playing Joker lol), it's just weird, funny, goofy, show and I can't wait for Season 2.
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Tend to go to the movies around my birthday, half the time it's usually a Pixar film with their release schedule, but since theaters aren't really open and I wouldn't go to one anyways, had to pick something to watch tonight. 2005 King Kong was a bigger investment than I wanted (3 1/2 hours for the extended edition lol), so I went with Scott Pilgrim vs The World. Haven't watched it in a few years and I still think this movie awesome. It's an anime and video game come to life, it's an absolute blast. The music, the style, the editing, the camera work, it's all so frantic, I love it and it sucks it didn't do well at the box office, because it's so fun.
*EDIT* Ack, just realized I put this in the wrong thread. Oh well, they serve the same purpose lol
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Finished Bojack Horseman last week. What a hilarious and also heartbreakingly realistic show - which very surprising considering all of the anthropomorphic animal people.
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Bless this Mess and Stumptown are my new favorite shows at least untill the 2nd Season of Umbrella Academy comes out later this month.
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Been watching The Righteous Gemstones because I love Danny McBride. Amazing show, not exactly what I expected from reading about it but I'm still loving it so far, I'm about halfway through. I think Close Enough came out today too, may check it out because I liked Regular Show and I'm trying not to let my HBO Max subscription go to waste lol.
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Binged through Gravity Falls this weekend. Pretty delightful show from Disney XD. It's like Rick & Morty for kids by way of The X-Files and Twin Peaks. A boatload of good voice talent involved as well. Big recommend.
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Top of the Lake is a detective show from New Zealand that is incredibly frustrating to watch because of the constant dumb decisions made by the lead character, which is a shame, because it is generally good aside from that. The GF and I started referring to it as Elisabeth Moss stars in "Dumb Detective."
11.22.63 is a pretty good mini-series based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, about an English teacher that goes back in time to stop the assassination of JFK. The biggest issue is that it forgoes a lot of wordbuilding in lieu of the assassination plot, which is disappointing, as the worldbuilding is far and away the best part of the novel.
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Right now the only things I'm following on a regular basis is the CW's Stargirl. LOVE that show. It's such a love letter to the JSA and Infinity Inc. And I grew up reading those comics. The old Earth-2 DC characters were awesome.
And I'm going through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on CBS All Access while I wait for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3. Never followed it when it originally aired. I was watching Star Trek TNG and Voyager then, and thought DS9 was just below them and not as good. Honestly, that opinion hasn't changed. But it's still worth watching. It has some real standout episodes.
I'm waiting for The Flash, NWA Wrestling, and Star Trek: Discovery to start new seasons.
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DS9 is best Trek, yo!
Binged Atlanta over the last 2 days. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it. It's shifts through genres effortlessly while feeling both very real and incredibly surreal. Not for everyone, but I'd recommend everyone at least giving a shot.
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DS9 is best Trek, yo!
Binged Atlanta over the last 2 days. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it. It's shifts through genres effortlessly while feeling both very real and incredibly surreal. Not for everyone, but I'd recommend everyone at least giving a shot.
I do love Quark, and Bashir and O'Brien together.
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About to finish Childrens Hospital which is a completely bizarre Adult Swim show from most of the Wet Hot American Summer team. It's really funny, but it's so dense and insane that it's difficult to binge. GF has requested something a little toned down for our next watch.
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Started watching "the new" Unsolved Mysteries. Yeah, I'm a sucker for these kinds of shows. Loved the Robert Stack era, he was fantastic at telling creepy stories. However, the "new" show does not have any narration which is a disappointment. As many other people as there are these days who wish they were Stack, they couldn't find anyone?
It's literally the only reason I'm not cancelling my Netflix yet. I can't find anything worth watching on it.
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Binged through Umbrella Academy Season 2, I enjoyed it, maybe not quite as much as the first season, I'm not sure, but overall I enjoy the series. It's weird and goofy, much like why I enjoy Doom Patrol.
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I recently went through every episode of Hoarders that was available on Hulu. Every other episode involved me thinking that I was one tragic event away from becoming one of them. Maybe just a bit cleaner.
Finally finished out Season 5 of The Adventures of the Gummi Bears. i really hope this isn't indicative of the rest of the Disney Afternoon cartoons, because its been a bit of a slog.
Kitchen Nightmares is my replacement background show for Hoarders. A bit more formulaic, but still a guilty pleasure watch.
And when I'm not working I'm doing my first rewatch of Mad Men which is just truly incredible television.
UPDATE: Finally finished Gummi Bears. Far more of a chore than I hoped it would be. Started DuckTales - we'll see how that goes.
Also finished Season 5 of Mad Men last night. Definitely not as as strong overall as the first 4, but episodes 11 and 12 are some of the strongest the show ever had.
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Got around to watching the Pokemon Twilight Wings web short series and it's great. Maybe some of the best Pokemon stuff I've seen in awhile as the animation is top notch and all these little short stories were real nice. It makes me like Pokemon Sword more, because I found the game to be very underwhelming, no real story going on, no voice acting, nothing all that great character happening, it's a real half-assed release, but I hope they do more of these shorts with this level of quality.
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Finished Mad Men. I like season 7 a bit more than I remembered, but it did definitely feel like it was time for the show to end.
Lucifer season 5 released on Friday. It was a pretty good entertaining time, but still sagging under the Lucifer / Chloe relationship. The mythology remains easily the best part of the show.
UPDATE: The Umbrella Academy Season Two was pretty good. Felt like it lost a little steam in the back half, but it was still a good, fun watch.
The Harley Quinn series from DC Universe is shockingly great. They put the first two seasons on HBO Max and the gf and I binged them over the weekend. Their takes on Bane, King Shark, and Gordon are all really solid.
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Been kinda binging through Bojack Horseman the past few days. I didn't really like it at first, the humor wasn't really clicking, but it's been growing on me abit as I get through towards the end of Season 2. Not sure if I'll keep on, The Boys Season 2 is out today, so I'll probably switch to that at least for this weekend.
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Been kinda binging through Bojack Horseman the past few days. I didn't really like it at first, the humor wasn't really clicking, but it's been growing on me abit as I get through towards the end of Season 2. Not sure if I'll keep on, The Boys Season 2 is out today, so I'll probably switch to that at least for this weekend.
Yeah, I thought Bojack didn't really start clicking until Season 2. The first one was fine, but it was definitely a "I don't see what all the fuss is about" thing until I got a little further in.
I'm finishing the 2019 Swamp Thing today. It's surprisingly solid, but let down a bit by the two leads, who are both a bit bland - which is disappointing because of the surprisingly deep supporting cast. There's some interesting behind the scenes drama about how the tax credits it was supposed to receive weren't filed with the state correctly, so it went massively over budget by not getting those rebates. Because of this it was cancelled on the same day as the premiere, because it would have been too expensive to continue. That freedom, however, has made the back of the season feel very propulsive and unhindered, since they made it knowing they weren't continuing.
UPDATE: Perry Mason was great. Kinda bummed it was only 8 episodes.
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Finished up Bojack Horseman and I gotta say that I liked it. It's this weird mixture of really dark and depressing happenings alongside goofy absurd nonsense, but all done in an ongoing story where characters grow or change. It's not gonna be something I ever rewatch, but if the show ever comes back, I could continue on with it.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency has been a total surprise. I started it expecting that maybe I would be providing a sensible chuckle here and there , but it is genuinely a laugh-out-loud delight of a show that I am already sad to hear that it ended 3 years ago. Season 2 hasn't been quite as strong as Season 1, but it has doubled down on the bizarre and I am so here for it.
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This was a random pick up, which has been doing good for me with Netflix lately, as I hadn't heard anything about the show Away, but it's a solid bit of realistic "Mission to Mars" storytelling. Of course there's drama and problems to solve and there's stuff happening back on earth with the Commander's family to add a little more to show, but I like it. It doesn't blow me away and there are a few times I sorta feel like the "illusion" of them being in space breaks a tiny bit, but for a TV drama, it's done well. The Earth drama with the commander's family is probably where people could feel things drag, but I think it works well enough, and I like that they kept the story focused on just one family and not a whole bunch as they could've easily bogged the show down by having too many different stories with other families of the crew and so on. I hope they get a second season to continue on as I could keep watching it.
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Only have about a season and half left of Drunk History. It didn't quite grab me at first, but after the first few episodes it's really become kind of a comfort show, and certain parts of it just feel like you are getting to hang around with these people, and you can maybe learn something!
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I started watching "The Boys" on Prime Video and it's pretty fantastic.
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Finally got around to watching Chernobyl. It's astoundingly good. Like wow, blew me away.
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Finally got around to watching Chernobyl. It's astoundingly good. Like wow, blew me away.
That was such a good show. I've kinda had a weird fascination with Chernobyl since I got into the STALKER game series, so getting something about the general original history of it was very interesting and it's just a real well done show.
I've started into a rewatch of the classic Top Gear travel specials, I saw that if I get a Motortrend subscription on amazon, which is like a buck a month for two months right now, I could watch all their great specials, which I've rewatched a few times over the years. The adventure episodes are a real enjoyable time, seeing all the scenery and shenanigans they go through and I forget enough of what happens after awhile, so going back, it's like I'm watching them new again lol
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark is a very good doco about Michelle Mcnamara's hunt for The Golden State Killer. It has a few balancing issues regarding her life v. the case, but is otherwise very engrossing, even if there's not a ton of material that's not in the book.
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Just started watching Raised by Wolves. Not sure what I make of the first episode; a little strange but glad I can binge watch 9 more episodes to see how it plays out.
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The Haunting of Bly Manor is very good, and an excellent companion piece to Hill House. Where Hill was more of a horror show with drama elements Bly is more of a drama show with horror elements.
Finished the first season of Murder, She Wrote yesterday. It's a delightful show, and perfect to have on in the background while I'm working.
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I've been bingeing anime lately. Burned through K-on, My Love Story, Clannad, and maybe a few others. I'm at the last episode or two of Toradora and a few episodes into Tamako Market.
I see a lot of stuff for Toradora folks being like Taiga is best girl and stuff, and she's good and all, but I like Minori better for Ryuuji.
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I've been just watching a ton of Simpsons mostly lol If it's a game without much story, I've just got playing Simpsons alongside it. I've been basically watching Simpsons since Disney Plus came out and I'm up to Season 14 right now. I still think the show is good, I don't have the nostalgia like other people do, though I understand why people don't really watch it past the 9th or 10th season. Just gonna keep trucking away at this for probably the rest of the year.
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Watch the entire first season of Star Trek: Lower Decks over the weekend. It wasn't perfect, but got progressively better with each episode, to where by the end it was probably one of the best season one finales Star Trek has ever had. And it was very nice to be watching Star Trek that knows how to have fun again.
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I just made the switch from Netflix to the Hulu/Disney+ combo. I also still have Prime. I'm finishing up Season 2 of The Boys on Prime. Disney+ has been content overload. Starting to watch some of the 90's Disney Afternoon cartoons with my kids. With Hulu, I'm watching Bob's Burgers.
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I finished my binge watch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Damn good sci-fi series with great characters that just gets better as it goes on.
So then I continued with Star Trek: Enterprise (skipped Voyager as I've seen every episode more than once, never watched Enterprise). I'm near the end of season 1, and it's good by normal sci-fi series standards, but compared to the various awesome 90s Star Trek series it feels like it lost a step. I hope it gets better as it goes on, but it's still watchable nonetheless.
And speaking of Star Trek, ST: Discovery Season 3 began with a bang! What an action-packed 2 episodes to kick things off. Can't wait for next Thursday to see what the far-flung future has in store for the re-established, fledging Starfleet and the Discovery crew.
Other than Star Trek, though, I'm not watching much. Usually I'm watching the new season of fall superhero shows and wrestling. But COVID has both of those pushed back. As an NWA fan, Billy Corgan has unfortunately cancelled NWA Powerrr indefinetly until the pandemic has ended. The CW has postponed it's slew of DC superhero shows until 2021. And I'm not seeing much else aimed in my direction coming in the near future. I do collect movies, too, though, so I always have those to watch.
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Yeah, I really liked the first two Disco episodes. It has nice to see Michael having fun for once.
Just watched The Boys S2 this weekend. It's really good. It's nice to see superhero media get kind of railed.
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Just watched The Boys S2 this weekend. It's really good. It's nice to see superhero media get kind of railed.
Good grief! I freaking loved that show. I’m ready for season 3.
It was such a crazy twist on the squeaky clean super-hero stories
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Finally got around to finishing Ash vs Evil Dead, the 3rd season, I left it on the second season, but figured it was to end it. It's goofy, bloody, and fun. I'm so bummed they didn't get a 4th season, it took a crazy turn and I was all for it lol
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I really dug the show as well. I don't think it ever got as good as season 1 again, but it was always a blast. It's also the first thing I remember seeing Samara Weaving in, who is fast becoming an "it girl" in Hollywood.
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Doctor Who Season 12 is fun. I'm starting to get the feeling that the people that have been dismissing the Chibnall / Whittaker era as "dumb" and "illogical", etc. have never actually watched Doctor Who before. High art it has never been.
Rick and Morty Season 4 finally up on Hulu. An utter delight. I liked that went back to being a bit more fast and loose and just having a blast all the time. It felt like it was kind of disappearing up its own ass in Season 3.
Final season of Mr. Robot was finally put up on Amazon. It's really, really good, but I was not in love with the finale. The idea is good, but it gets way too dragged out once it's obvious where it is heading. The show still never quite hit the highs of Season One, but still well worth watching.
Watched the German sci-fi series Dark on Netflix. What a mindfuck! It was really incredible. The last season gets a little too bogged down in plot at the expense of the characters, but it was still really good. Big recommend for sci-fi fans.
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Lucifer - binged watched from S1 and up to date at S5 pt 1.
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I'm well passed the midpoint of my rewatch of The West Wing. I finished Season 4 and checked out a couple of episodes in Season 5, and I can really tell the difference with Aaron Sorkin being gone. That said, I had forgotten just how great the first couple of seasons are.
Finished up the second season of Murder, She Wrote. It's a great show just to have on in the background while working.
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Started to watch the Heroes show. Never seen it before. Pretty cool show.
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Season 5 of The West Wing. Man that post-Sorkin drop-off is incredibly noticeable when viewing the season as a whole. It has become less about the characters and more about the plot. It's not awful, but it is definitely not as good.
Animaniacs (2020). This is fine? The first few episode were very hit or miss, but it seems to find its footing in the back half. The Pinky & the Brain segments are probably stronger overall, though I do miss the other side-characters - there is one sketch that addresses some of it beautifully and is wonderfully bizarre, but they don't follow-up on it.
Manhunt: Unabomber. Too much invented melodrama. It's like they didn't trust the show to be interesting without inventing some overly obsessed agent and downplaying the involvement of Ted's family. It's not bad, but feels like a missed opportunity.
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Me and Mrs Cosmos are half way through Season 4 of Vikings on Amazon.
I have absolutely loved this show so far...perfect blend of violence, politics and the odd naked person.
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I've been slowly catching up with Supernatural since I fell off the show after the eleventh season; I've been meaning to catch up with the series, but always put it off, until recently given all the hubbub surrounding the finale and all the dissatisfaction and what-have-you. I want to close the book, so to speak, so thankfully TNT has been airing the show on loop for the longest time now, although I'll have to go elsewhere for the final season.
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Big Mouth Season 4. I love this weird, disgusting, hilarious little show.
The Ripper. Tight four episode doco series about the Yorkshire Ripper. I was pretty unfamiliar with this case, so this filled in a lot of missing information there.
Archer Season 11. A pretty good return to form. The coma seasons were fun, but felt like they were missing something. Seems like they found it.
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Late to the game, but watching Cobra Kai. So good I sat there and watched 9 episodes in a row!
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Well, getting HBO Max for Wonder Woman 84 wasn't the best idea, but I am using this opportunity to catch up on some shows I missed out on. I just got through Westworld Season 2, having originally watched the first season back around when it aired and I liked it back then, the second season...maybe not as much? I had heard folks weren't happy with the series after the first one and I can sorta see why, but it's also abit of a thing where the show would sorta lose me in spots and I wasn't 100% on board the whole time. How the show handled certain parts could be a little hard to follow, and I guess what I want to see more out of the show was all the different park mixture. The system is falling apart and we see that there are other parks and all of that mixes, and we get some of that, but it's a small part of the show as the story is about a whole lot else, which is fine.
I am gonna start into Season 3, see where the story is going, the future tech world could be interesting since I am in a Cyberpunk mood.
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Started watching Alice in Borderlands, this is really good.
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Ended up binging the first season of Cobra Kai and really digging it. I don't have much attachment to the old Karate Kid movie, I liked it as a kid who was into karate/kung fu films, but I never really went back to it, but building the show around the bully from the movie who's life went to shit afterwards and it's about him bringing the Cobra Kai dojo back, trying to make up for his past failures. I was actually not entirely sure about the story, if they were saying if the methods Johnny is taking is actually bad or not, like he's always portrayed as an asshole, but where it goes by the end worked very well and I'm definitely gonna keep watching.
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This was a very long running watching, starting back around when Disney Plus began back in December 2019, but here it is, I finally watched nearly every season of The Simpsons. That doesn't include the newest one, which isn't on there yet, and I skipped the first few seasons, because I found the show kinda unwatchable back when they hadn't figured out the visuals and voices for the show, so roughly 27 seasons. I know people stopped liking the series around Season 10 for very legitimate reasons, but personally not much bothered me with the show a whole lot till around when they went HD with the series in the early 20's of the show.
Something I heard of, was that the show kinda lost its heart, like Homer was just a deranged idiot, rather than a likeable buffoon, but it gets really bad in kinda the middle of the series and that HD era. That said, they start to tone that back abit, like Homer was always stupid, but it didn't feel quite as ridiculous as it use to be. I actually think some of the most recent stuff is pretty entertaining and I've seen a few others say that too, which is crazy to say for a show that's been going on for 32 seasons now.
This wasn't a show I watched with full focus, it was my side show while I had game stuff going, but it was fun to watch as someone that didn't grow up with the series like others did or start the show off from the very beginning.
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Disenchantment Part 3. I like the show, but whenever I finish watching it I just want to rewatch Futurama.
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. Decent true crime doc. Told almost exclusively from the POV from the cops, which allows for some great insights, but also leaves the feeling that it is leaving stuff out as well.
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Really enjoyed Catherine the Great on Sky. Pretty entertaining, good acting, high production values. Happily watched it all. Don't know where and what liberties they took with history but a little wiki seemed like it was a reasonably accurate story, for TV at least.
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Binged through Blood of Zeus on Netflix and it was pretty solid. It's action never really gets as good as like Castlevania, at least comparing their best scenes, but it's very similar in tone in terms of the violence going on, and there's a good enough story here, even though, it's very comparable in general outline to Disney's Hercules lol There's way more to the story for sure, involving people turning into demons and the gods are way more involved, but it's closer than you would think based on a few bits of the story structure. I would recommend it though if you are into these styles of show as it was better than I was expecting.
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Bit of a random pickup, I was bored, trying to find something to watch and saw Nick Frost doing a tv show about the paranormal called Truth Seekers, and it ended up being a good bit of fun. It's actually made by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Pegg also having a small role in the show, and we even get Malcom McDowell in a role I don't usually see him in. Usually he's the sinister villain or maybe more sophisticated type, and here he is just Nick Frost's dad, a cantankerous old man, abit senile, but entertaining. This is very much in that same vein of films they did before with like Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, and The World's End, with that dry British humor, everything handled with abit of a comedic bent, so it's never too serious even when it gets dark. First season is good and I'm curious where they take things in a second season if they get it, based on how it ends.
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I did pretty much an entire rewatch of The Expanse while the new season was on, and barring a complete crash and burn in the final season, I think it may legitimately be the best science fiction series of all time. At the very least the best space based one. It's so, so good. I've basically watched the whole thing once each year since I started watching it.
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Got access to a friend's Disney+ account and am five episodes in on the Mandalorian. At some point I'll get to watching WandaVision.
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Binged the latest 2 parts of Disenchantment as I needed something to watch and while the show was abit iffy in the first part, I think it gets a little better in the next parts. That being said, I feel like it still struggles with some weird sound design, like it's lacking certain audio cues and songs in parts where it should be, it was an odd issue I noticed in the first part. Also odd pacing as some jokes drag, which is sorta the point of some of them, but the jokes aren't good enough for it. The show isn't nearly as good as Futurama or The Simpsons, but it's certainly watchable.
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Continuing my Netflix binging, I picked up Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts and had a great time with it. Charming, funny, I didn't know beforehand that it was a post-apocalyptic scenario or I might have watched it sooner, but it was a worthwhile watch. This show definitely only exists because Steven Universe exists, the show has a very similar story to it, but it's only three seasons, 30 episodes, and there's not much in the way of filler, so it's better handled. It does enough to stand out on its own though with its fun characters and comedy and the art style is very reminiscent of that kinda angular look from the early 2000's. Definitely recommend it if you want an enjoyable cartoon to watch.
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Superman: Lois & Clark (the new CW show, not the 90s one).
It was alright. Not terrible, not great. I'll still watch it for now as I don't have much to watch.
It seems more focused on Superman's family. He's married in this with twin teenage boys.
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I'm currently on season 2 of Warrior.
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I'm still sorta in that mood of not being sure what I want to watch, so other than watching some Jujutsu Kaisen on Crunchroll (It's really good so far), I randomly watched through the 6th season of Alone they had on Netflix. I think I watched an episode or two of this back when it was first airing somewhere, I don't really watch cable anymore, but it was interesting, learning survival techniques, seeing how people adapt, and I appreciate that the show isn't burdened by a host or a camera crew, so it does really sell the "Alone" aspect. I don't really love getting to the point where people are suffering, starving, trying to hold on, it can be hard to watch that, especially when they realize they can't keep going, but it's an interesting watch to me, probably will go find Season 7 to watch if I can.
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Just binged through Pacific Rim: The Black and it's really good. I wasn't sure if it would pan out, the last CG anime kaiju series I watched was the Godzilla Trilogy (It sucked) so I was going in with abit lower expectations, most of my hype just based on my love for Pacific Rim, but this is just genuinely good. The story and setting is dark and interesting, the kaiju vs jaeger fights are intense, I like the main characters who are teens, but there's good depth to them and there's an interesting mystery going on through the show. I'd actually say this has that nice feel in between the first two movies, where it kinda feels more grounded, more gritty and dark like the first movie, but it has some of the more crazy ideas that were introduced with Uprising, as this anime is a sequel being that they talk abit about something that happened in the movie.
Great watch, though unfortunately only 7 episodes. I hope a second season is already happening or confirmed soon as I definitely want to see this finished.
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No spoilers of course, but just finished the finale for Wandavision and I really liked it. There are a few quibbles I have with it, nothing that ruined it, and it didn't have anything to do with unrealistic fan theories, but a few things could've been better. It's a very solid start to their TV show lineup and definitely hoping Falcon and Winter Soldier is good, followed up by Loki in May I think.
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No spoilers of course, but just finished the finale for Wandavision and I really liked it. There are a few quibbles I have with it, nothing that ruined it, and it didn't have anything to do with unrealistic fan theories, but a few things could've been better. It's a very solid start to their TV show lineup and definitely hoping Falcon and Winter Soldier is good, followed up by Loki in May I think.
I loved it. I have to admit I thought the first 2 episodes dragged. But after that, it really got intriguing.
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I loved it. I have to admit I thought the first 2 episodes dragged. But after that, it really got intriguing.
I grew up watching Nick At Nite as a kid, and other re-runs of old shows, watching like Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, I wasn't really much of a sitcom person, but I enjoyed that stuff, so it was kinda fun watching that kind of stuff again, even if a lot of story didn't really happen at the start.
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I loved it. I have to admit I thought the first 2 episodes dragged. But after that, it really got intriguing.
I grew up watching Nick At Nite as a kid, and other re-runs of old shows, watching like Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, I wasn't really much of a sitcom person, but I enjoyed that stuff, so it was kinda fun watching that kind of stuff again, even if a lot of story didn't really happen at the start.
I loved the beginning stuff. I am also a Nick at Nite kid, and still like watching that classic stuff to this day. I almost wish that WandaVision had more of it, and was disappointed that they had basically abandoned the TV show conceit for the last couple of episodes.
Been watching Bored to Death on HBO. Halfway finished with the series. It's light and fun, but had a bit of an identity crisis up front. It's been steadily getting better then entire time, though - and I do love me some Ted Danson.
UPDATE: The rest of the second season of Bored to Death was great. Season 3 was fun, but felt a hair off.
Murder, She Wrote Season Three. Oh Jessica, who won't you get killed by traveling to their town?
Began my crusade to watch the last two seasons of Modern Family. Maybe it's just because I took two years off, but I'm finding myself relatively impressed by Season Ten. It's not nearly as good as it was in the beginning, and the younger kid actors can be kind of grating, but I am definitely laughing out loud at least once or twice an episode.
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Random show watching led to me checking out Jack Ryan on Amazon which was alright. Political/Global Terror thriller sort of deal. Watched both seasons of the show and while I think the first season has the better story, it feels way better paced, the second season had some extra aggression to it since it got more personal for Ryan. The finale for the second season, I felt slightly confused by, I'm not sure how they justified it, maybe I missed some details before it, but it's generally not a bad show if you are into this kind of thriller.
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Finished the last two season of Modern Family. A couple of characters remained charming until the end, but others (Manny, especially) were insufferable. I'm glad actually decided to stick it out and finish the show.
Solar Opposites Season 2. Better than the first I think. Leans more into Rick and Morty territory while still being its own thing.
The Sinner Season Three. Started strong but got really meandering in the back half. Easily the worst season so far.
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I know absolutely nothing about DOTA, never really played it, but I dug DOTA: Dragon's Blood. It's done by the same studio who's done Korra, Voltron, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, so it's a little weird seeing them do an adult animation in a style similar to the first two lol Blood, cursing, a proper fantasy show. I like the main lead, he's a good hero type burdened by something he can't control, and the other leads also are handled well. The action is pretty solid, I chuckled a few times here and there with the humor when it popped up, it's a good watch. I feel like the only negative I have is that it felt like I was losing track of some of the story, mostly around stuff with the Goddess, there's a number of story arcs happening beyond just what the main Dragon Knight is doing, so it's kind of a lot overall. Not a bad thing, it's just that you gotta focus on the story more.
I am still looking forward to season 2 though.
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Another random pickup, I saw this advertise on the main page for Netflix, and thought Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars was something new, but it's apparently from 2017 lol Visually it's really nice, it's an anime styled film, though with some more realistic stylings to it compared to what you usually expect from anime. I feel like this one had a weird tone to it, it has that cheesy, hyper-patriotic, attitude you remember from the first original movie, but all the soldiers are wearing these dark and gritty power armor suits, like it's all trying to be more serious than it is. I think that aspect might just be a part of the greater Starship Troopers world itself that I don't know about, I don't remember if I watched any of the other Starship Troopers stuff they've done.
I haven't seen the movie that was before this one as this is a sequel to that for sure, but the animation was pretty good, all the action worked, and a fun note was that they got Casper Van Dien and Dina Meyer to come back and play their characters from the original movie, even if visually the characters look nothing like they use to lol An odd bit was that they had live action news story stuff amid this very anime looking show, which was an odd choice lol Overall, not a bad watch, not a strong recommend or anything, but if you just want a scifi flick and got some Starship Troopers nostalgia at all, there's something here.
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Going through Stargate SG-1 on Netflix. I used to catch re-runs here and there, but I've never watched it as a whole series, before. Really enjoying it. Just started Season 2.
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The West Wing seasons 6 & 7. A big bounce back from season 5. It's not nearly as good as it was in the early years, but I'm really surprised at how much I'm enjoying the run up to the finale, which I'm about to start.
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Just finished the first season of Invincible and gotta say I'm so glad they've already confirmed Season 2 and 3. It's a great show, good animation, good story and characters, it's just all around quality. I went in with no knowledge of what the show was other than it was by Robert Kirkman and it was about superheroes, but that was it and I highly recommend folks do that too with the show, no trailers, no reviews, just give it a watch and by the end of the first episode, you'll know if you want to keep going.
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Finally got around to finishing Primal, it's not a show I can just have on the side while I play something, but I feel like this might be Genndy's best show. Just the art style, the horror of it, the drama without a single word said, it's an intense show and you feel for these two unlikely partners in this terrifying ancient fantasy world. I know Samurai Jack is considered probably his most well known and loved show, for good reasons, I love Samurai Jack, but this one feels like a show you'd just never see a creator get to make, because it goes against every thing a studio would want to see out of an animated show these days.
It's genuinely horrific and sad, there's long pauses for dramatic build up, and with no dialogue. I could not recommend this show more, it's incredible. I'm glad it is getting more episodes.
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Finally got around to the final season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. The first half was super fun, but it got kinda bogged down with lame villains in the back half. Overall way better than Season 6.
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Superstore - 20minutes of heavenly good entertainment! binged all the seasons in the last few weeks and i cant think of anything lately in the last few years that has matched its comedy. Glad they wrapped it up when they did as it was getting weaker in the last few seasons.
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Mare of Easttown - 3 Episodes in and very good, be interesting to see where it goes.
Also, still working my way through SEAL Team, over half way of Season 1 down, enjoying it.
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Castlevania is the gold standard for video game adaptations. It takes some liberties, but keeps the ideas and themes intact. So, so good.
Schitt's Creek is so relentlessly positive by the end of its run. I'm very glad I got around to this. While the first two seasons weren't bad, they aren't really an indicator of the bastion of happiness that the last two seasons are. Hearty recommend if you want a light-hearted, positive, comedy.
The Critic has generally aged pretty well since it's original run in the mid-90s. There are few questionable and outdated jokes, but I found myself laughing more often than not. Worth revisiting if you have fond memories.
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Star Trek Voyager -(Currentyly Season 3): Second time watching through this series, quite enjoying it this time.
The Flash - (Current season): I like this show, but it seems like it might be nearing it's end. :(
Twilight Zone the 80s series - (Season 2): So far a good mix of serious/goofy episodes.
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Star Trek Voyager -(Currentyly Season 3): Second time watching through this series, quite enjoying it this time.
The Flash - (Current season): I like this show, but it seems like it might be nearing it's end. :(
Twilight Zone the 80s series - (Season 2): So far a good mix of serious/goofy episodes.
Excellent tastes.
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Mare of Easttown - Another good serious crime mini-series from HBO. Not the best thing they've ever done, but still well worth a watch.
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Watched the first episode of Loki and it's great, it's definitely more interesting than Falcon, which was more standard MCU fare, not bad, but it's what you expect out of it, but I love the setup for the story here as it sounds real interesting. Plus the story involves something I love to see in media, but won't talk about for obvious spoiler reasons right now.
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, such a great show.
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Finally got around to the final season (of this storyline) of Castlevania and I had a great time with it, absolutely the best season overall. The first was short and set the tone. The second was a big step up and showed how good things could be, the big fight at Dracula's castle showing there was really something real good here. The third was fine, it had some great moments, it was mostly on par with the second. And Season 4 just comes in an absolutely kills it. Real good character interactions and story and the animation at numerous points is top notch, every fight Trevor, Alucard, and Sypha got into was not just well animated, but well choreographed. The visuals also took a step up just in general. There are only a few points where the CG backgrounds are a little standout from the animation, but overall very good, the finale was a real treat.
Really glad this series is continuing and hopefully it can keep up this level of quality.
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Season 5 of Lucifer really isn't doing it for me for some reason. It's fine, but it's felt like it's missing something since it left network TV, which is not something I thought I'd ever say.
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Season two of The Hustler just started. Quite a fun show.
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Season 5 of Lucifer really isn't doing it for me for some reason. It's fine, but it's felt like it's missing something since it left network TV, which is not something I thought I'd ever say.
Alright, the back half of this batch was way better.
Season 4 of The Handmaid's Tale was much more tightly paced than the last two. Still some plotting issues in general, but this one had a lot of big changes for the future.
Fargo Season 4 is fine? Suffered from a major miscasting of the two leads, and had about 8 episodes of plot stretched to 11 actual episodes.
I Think You Should Leave. A rewatch of Season One made me appreciate it much more this time, but made the first watch through of Season Two feel weaker, although it did still have some killer bits.
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No spoilers, but watched the Loki finale and had a great time with the show. I definitely would say I liked this one the most of the three shows more because it was beginning to end more enjoyable and the setting is great. Wandavision was great nostalgia for all the throwback tv show stuff, but the story is kinda slow, and the finale stuff wasn't super great, Falcon and the Winter Soldier was more of a standard show and I liked when we got Captain Falcon, but some of the story stuff was kinda weak. I don't even have a lot of negatives for the show, other than I wanted to see more time travel/variant nonsense throughout the show, but other than that, it's a good time.
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Tig Notaro's One Mississippi on Amazon. Heartbreaking and hilarious. The second season veers a bit more towards traditional and / or cringe comedy, but it is really an incredible show, but I also don't blame anyone for not wanting to go forward with more, as it can be tough to watch.
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I started the War of the Worlds TV series which is supposed to be the worst TV show of all time, or at least terrible. It is not terrible but it is not great. I remember watching it as a kid and I can say my original memories of this show are just of barrels. Watching it now I can say that I do not really remember any of it.
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I started the War of the Worlds TV series which is supposed to be the worst TV show of all time, or at least terrible. It is not terrible but it is not great. I remember watching it as a kid and I can say my original memories of this show are just of barrels. Watching it now I can say that I do not really remember any of it.
I barely remember it. Mostly I just remember the aliens looking like humans, but they'd have green glowing blood. I remember I liked it. But I was like 6 or 7 only.
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I totally did not remember that the aliens could turn into humans or the green blood.
I was also watching some X-Files episodes over the weekend that I haven't seen since they were new on TV and I noticed I didn't remember any of those either. So it was like watching something brand new. And those were episodes I do know that I had watched. I had come across this phenomena in the past also, watching some Star Trek TNG episodes, a series where it is unfathomable that I had not seen everything. I guess that useless sports knowledge actually did push out some old unused memories after all.
I started the War of the Worlds TV series which is supposed to be the worst TV show of all time, or at least terrible. It is not terrible but it is not great. I remember watching it as a kid and I can say my original memories of this show are just of barrels. Watching it now I can say that I do not really remember any of it.
I barely remember it. Mostly I just remember the aliens looking like humans, but they'd have green glowing blood. I remember I liked it. But I was like 6 or 7 only.
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The new Masters of the Universe: Revelations show dropped and I gave it a watch since I was kinda looking forward to it, I've been sorta vaguely on the outskirts of He-Man stuff for a little bit now, I have some of the WWE MOTU crossover figures and I thought the Skelegod figure was a cool toy from the new show, and I've know of He-Man pop culture wise, but never got deep into it. I know I wouldn't like the old show, most of those old shows from that era are generally pretty awful, I mean the animation was cheap, stories basic, and were there to sell toys, so if you don't have the DEEP nostalgia for them, which He-Man was before my time, it doesn't hold up.
The new show though is great though. I have heard some fans being upset with it, I know exactly why, some of it is for good reasons, some of it for very bad reasons, but I think what's here is a solid enough show. It's got a good story to it, the direction they took made sense to me, and it's got some good serious moments with some well done action to it that has me wanting to see where they take it. It's also got plenty of cheesy moments which are nods to the original show I would imagine, so it's got a nice mixture where this isn't the hardcore ADULT version of MOTU, but it's certainly not the same kids toy commercial it use to be. I can't compare it to the reboot they did in the early 2000's as I never watched it.
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Recently finished watching Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Complete Series
Now watching Star Trek: Picard - Season 1
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Started Bosch this week.
Season one was fine, but season two took a huge leap forward. Great guest stars and pacing. Generally better in every way than the first. About halfway through the third right now.
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I'm in the final season of Stargate SG-1, now (season 10). It's not as good as the earlier seasons. In Season 9 they got rid of Richard Dean Anderson (Colonel O'Neill) and replaced him with a new character, and they got rid General Hammond and replaced him as well. They also replaced the Gou'Ald with new villains called the Ori. And a certain character named Valla (played by Claudia Black) shows up far too often, I find her so damn annoying.
That said, it's not terrible. I'm still enjoying it, despite such flaws. It's certainly not as bad as the final season of Sliders was.
Next up will be a full watch through of Stargate: Atlantis. Which I have seen MANY episodes of in reruns, but I've never sat and watched it all in order. I really do love the buddy-cop type relationship John Sheppard and Dr. McKay have in that show, they are pure gold. And the Wraith are some bad-ass looking villains.
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The rest of Bosch was also pretty solid. Not an incredible show, but good and entertaining all the way through. Some pacing issues with the final season, likely due to production during COVID, but nothing that drags it down in the end.
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Randomly put on Centaurworld after seeing some art for it and end up having a real fun time with it. It's super silly comedic nonsense, it reminds me a lot of how wacky Adventure Time could be, along with the same kinda...dark undercurrent to it all as it's about a horse from a dark, war torn, world, that falls through a portal and ends up in this goofy Centaurworld, looking like a real horse with these very ridiculous cartoon characters, but I found it quite charming and a good watch, gave me a good laugh here and there. It's also a musical and not like in the way Steven Universe or Adventure Time can be once in awhile, there's multiple songs per episode usually. I do recommend it if you want something goofy and light hearted to watch.
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Invincible is pretty great - kind of an animated version of The Boys - but I honestly kind of wish that it was playing everything a little more straight, and that it was just a superhero show without the big "reveals" / mystery about Omni-Man. You can only see the deconstructions of superheroes so many times before it just becomes another cliche.
Season one of Narcos is really good. Probably too much English narration to keep people who don't like subtitles involved. I knew Pablo Escobar was a big name in the cocaine business, but I had no idea just how much chaos he was responsible for.
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Took a break from my Stargate marathon after finishing SG-1 (before starting on Atlantis). Watched a few other things I'd been neglecting:
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Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
It is kind of by-the-numbers as far as Resident Evil stories go. Felt a lot like one of the early games in the series, with a final countdown and everything. But you know what? I love old-school RE, so I enjoyed it, despite that.
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Masters of the Universe: Revelation
I loved it, and I hated it. I hated that ***SPOILER AHEAD*** they killed off the two coolest characters in the franchise, He-Man and Skeletor, in the first episode. And I hated what they did to poor Orko. But I'll be damned if the animation and writing wasn't awesome. I wish it hadn't ended on a cliffhanger.
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Loki
And speaking of cliffhangers, man, that Loki ending. And we know how long Marvel projects take, so it'll be a while before we see what happens. Loved this series, BTW. Just the right mixture of humor, intrugue, and time-travel shenanigans for a damn entertaining ride...that unfortunately has no sense of closure.
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Marvel: What If?
Only seen the first episode, so far, just like everyone else. Promising start to the series. I enjoyed what I saw. Very reminiscent of the kind of thing you'd see in the comic series. Can't wait to see what's next in store for this.
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Narcos season 2 is a driven a bit more by a singular through line, but it is just as good as the first season.
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Re-watch of What We Do in the Shadows leading up to the new season premiere. Still totally incredible.
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Got around to watching Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, and its not good. I was sorta impressed with the quality of the series, until I realized that it's only 4 episodes, so all they did was unnecessarily chop up one of their CG movies into a couple episodes lol I mean the animation is fantastic, but to say this is a tv series at all is being pretty disingenuous. It's mostly the same as the other CG movies they've done with their connections to Resident Evil 4, 5, and 6. I mean it's at least not as ridiculous as I think it was Vendetta with the super hilarious and ridiculous gunplay nonsense, but it's still not particularly good lol
Claire is in it, but she's completely and entirely pointless, like you could remove her and no story beat changes, it's like they felt like they HAD to include her because it's Leon here. The story in general is sorta half-baked, real generic, I honestly don't know why they are continuing on with the movies like this, because this political thriller stuff is real boring and generic and there's no interesting story here. Like I'll take this over the previous live action films, but that's not saying much. The series has moved on with Resident Evil 7 and 8 and I wish they'd do the same for the CG films. I had a small hope this could be good, but it's just Capcom continuing to let their stuff get butchered when it comes to movies. The Monster Hunter CG film was bad, the Monster Hunter live action movie was bad, the live action Resident Evil movies were bad, and I got no expectations for the live action adaptation of Resident Evil 1 and 2 that they are doing now.
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To anyone who is a fan of subtle satire comedy mixed with relatable characters and funny plot lines I highly reccomend checking out Schitt's creek :) It is my new show that I have been binging. I have upped my game to feature the infinity gauntlet of streaming services by adding Hbo Max and Paramount Plus to my apps which has led me to binging fresh prince of bel air too which due to my generational gap I missed and never got the lure of.
Schitts Creek's camera and way of filiming is pretty immersive. Sometimes I feel in the motel with the Roses. It's one of them shows where no matter who you are their is someone to relate to. The eccentric bisexual hipster who can be snarky and runs an artsy shop in town square, the rich but frugal and often times annoyed with his privliged children greyed father of 2, the aristocratic snobby old lady with many wigs and even the Stevie who seems to not care at all lol But I do suggest everyone give this one a shot on Netflix :D
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Narcos Season 3 is not nearly as good as the first two, but has a pretty good 2-3 episode run at the end.
The Queen's Gambit is really good. Not incredible, but really good. Totally understand why everyone got into it last year.
Manhunt: Deadly Games is really good until you hit the halfway mark and it hits total fabrication Town at which point there is a huge nosedive in quality. All the Richard Jewell and ATF stuff is good to great, but the FBI / militia story is hot garbage.
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After repairing my time machine I have gone back and watched the first season of Ally McBeal. Pleasantly surprised at how well it holds up. The pilot suffers from a major case of TV Pilot Syndrome, and there are some dated moments, but I was laughing a lot.
Midnight Mass is another solid as hell horror/drama mini-series from Mike Flanagan. His best finale episode by far, though it might be about one episode too long.
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Went through all of Marvel's "What If..." as I was waiting for it to finish up and just binge it all at once since it's not an ongoing story like the other series are. Visually, I love the style, it sorta reminds me in some way to Iron Giant, just in CG and with more detailing and lighting to it. Odd I know, but something about it feels familiar. Makes for some great action though.
Generally I thought it was fun, I like alternate reality story stuff. Writing was a mixed bag at times though. The only one that I felt was rough, and was one I wanted to like more, was the Zombie one. It was trying to be a zombie comedy, but tonally it didn't work at all. It was too jokey, so any serious moments just didn't hit at all. I know they couldn't do it like the comics, but there was a lot of room for improvement. The ending was great though, essentially using all these alternate realities we had seen, to create a multiversal crossover, that's a fun way to bring it all together. It's nothing amazing, but there's definite room for improvement.
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Went through all of Marvel's "What If..." as I was waiting for it to finish up and just binge it all at once since it's not an ongoing story like the other series are. Visually, I love the style, it sorta reminds me in some way to Iron Giant, just in CG and with more detailing and lighting to it. Odd I know, but something about it feels familiar. Makes for some great action though.
Generally I thought it was fun, I like alternate reality story stuff. Writing was a mixed bag at times though. The only one that I felt was rough, and was one I wanted to like more, was the Zombie one. It was trying to be a zombie comedy, but tonally it didn't work at all. It was too jokey, so any serious moments just didn't hit at all. I know they couldn't do it like the comics, but there was a lot of room for improvement. The ending was great though, essentially using all these alternate realities we had seen, to create a multiversal crossover, that's a fun way to bring it all together. It's nothing amazing, but there's definite room for improvement.
I loved it. Felt just like the comic series. One-shot stories of alternate-realities, and I'm a sucker for alternate-reality and time travel type stories.
Though the party Thor episode was pretty stupid. And I felt like Thanos went down far too easily when Ultron faced him.
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Apparently they had to shelve an entire episode (about Gamora / Tony) and every episode had to be shortened to some degree due to the pandemic. Overall, though I agree with kamikazeeg - it was a fun time, with room for improvement. I would actually like to see more overall standalone stories fro mthe MCU in general, though.
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Apparently they had to shelve an entire episode (about Gamora / Tony) and every episode had to be shortened to some degree due to the pandemic. Overall, though I agree with kamikazeeg - it was a fun time, with room for improvement. I would actually like to see more overall standalone stories fro mthe MCU in general, though.
That makes sense, being that the ending involves the Gamora from that shelved episode and was the only one that didn't have a story for us to follow.
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With all the hype around Squid Game right now, I figured I'd better give it a watch before I'm spoiled about what happens and I dug it. It's a really solid drama/thriller with an interesting enough premise. I think it's overhyped abit as things can be nowadays I feel when something starts to get popular (I think people are taken back by its premise, which isn't super common in western shows outside of like maybe Hunger Games, but I've seen it plenty in anime and what not), but it's genuinely a solid show with some intense moments, good pacing, and good acting.
Visually I dig the look of the show, it comes across very retro with some of its style, like it could've been made in the 70's. Having it all be Korean kid games too makes for this weirdly lighthearted element to so much death and drama happening. My only complaints is that the story feels a little wonky in spots and the ending could have been better, but it's still like an 8 out of 10 show, I do recommend it as it's nice to have another piece of interesting Korean media, which reminds me to go and watch Parasite.
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LuLa Rich is a documentary about LuLa Roe on Amazon. Totally shady company, but I feel like they did this doco too early, since the company and founders are still around, so there are a lot of unanswered questions and stuff that doesn't get addressed.
The Movies that Made Us - Not nearly as interesting as The Toys that Made Us, but decent to have on the background. Still not the biggest fan of how this team edits stuff.
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Sliced Bread Is The Best Thing Since Cobra Kai
Cobra Kai is better than a sweet cream cheese on a toasted bagel, it's that sequel we were denied. It's all I can share and more. For one the acting is top tier. Ralph Maccio still has it. Johnny Lawrence goes from being one of the most hated men in 80s lore to now being someone we belove and his arch is anime levels of profound :D
If your Mrs. offers you to fly to rome and even chocolate covered strawberries off glascapes overlooking gondolas. Or if your trampoline park is having a pizza night. Cobra Kai is better. If you imagine the best dream you ever had. Cobra Kai is better.
It also has a tubular and bodacious soundtrack. And I am actively on my journey to be Johnny Lawrence by buying a 91 Trans Am and drinking coors banquet beer while wearing leather and kicking unadulterated wholesale ass. The best.
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Finishing up season 6 of Lucifer. Watched all of the Marvel series. Waiting for Hawkeye which should start in 2 or 3 weeks.
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With all the hype around Squid Game right now, I figured I'd better give it a watch before I'm spoiled about what happens and I dug it. It's a really solid drama/thriller with an interesting enough premise. I think it's overhyped abit as things can be nowadays I feel when something starts to get popular (I think people are taken back by its premise, which isn't super common in western shows outside of like maybe Hunger Games, but I've seen it plenty in anime and what not), but it's genuinely a solid show with some intense moments, good pacing, and good acting.
Visually I dig the look of the show, it comes across very retro with some of its style, like it could've been made in the 70's. Having it all be Korean kid games too makes for this weirdly lighthearted element to so much death and drama happening. My only complaints is that the story feels a little wonky in spots and the ending could have been better, but it's still like an 8 out of 10 show, I do recommend it as it's nice to have another piece of interesting Korean media, which reminds me to go and watch Parasite.
Exactly my thoughts. It's huge with people that have never seen anything like it before. That's not to say it's bad, it's pretty good, with at least one truly great episode in the middle, but there are two plot lines that basically go no where, and it is kinda predictable in spots.
Lovecraft Country doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts. It's well acted, written, and executed, but it never quite gels to reach the heights its aiming for. I'm really liking it, but totally understand why it didn't find an audience.
Lodge 49 is an incredibly weird, joyous, melancholic little show. It's such a wonderfully realized world, and every character feels so lived in and real.
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Watched Part 2 of Masters of the Universe: Revelation and it's a great watch. I know old fans have issues with the show because it isn't about He-Man anymore, but I guess I don't really care about that, the old show was dumb and goofy and they already did a bunch of stuff with He-Man and Skeletor, so the show revolving more around Teela and Evil-Lyn makes it more interesting as there is more character to work with compared Prince Boy Scout and Evil Skeleton Man. Heck, there's even a nod to this idea at the very end of the show basically saying there is more here than just their fight.
That being said, the show is genuinely good, it's got some solid enough story telling and the action is pretty great. I don't think its highs hit as high as say Castlevania did, but it's very consistent and well done. I'm sure there are some plot issues here and there and probably a little too much ease to how new powers are utilized if I wanted to try and be more critical, but I don't know, the show just keeps clipping on at a good pace where it never felt like it hurt or anything or became too noticeable to be bothersome. It's still a power fantasy, but unlike say a Dragon Ball Z, there's better setup to the power being given. For the most part that is.
Definitely looking forward to more of the show.
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Chucky! I think it started off kinda slow with the first two episodes but the show got much better. Season finale is this Tuesday.
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Binged through the live action Cowboy Bebop and had a great time with it. It's certainly not an ideal adaptation, it's not on the same level as the anime at all, but what I enjoyed is the general expansion of things. More casual time spent with all the characters was entertaining., I enjoyed that, even if the dialogue could get abit goofy at times, but it wasn't as terrible as I had been hearing, or at least enough to bother me. Really, I went into this not with the idea in mind of it being better or even as good, just to see if they could make a good show, because I think on its own, it's very entertaining. The action is good, a lot of the scifi stuff is great (Some wonky CG and effects strewn about, but it's mostly good for a tv show), and I think it hits most of the story beats it needs to for the things it is adapting.
The original is better, no doubt about that, but I still had fun with this version even if it is imperfect.
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Doing a complete rewatch of The Expanse for a lead up to the premiere of the sixth, and final, season. Perhaps the greatest sci-fi series ever created.
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Doing a complete rewatch of The Expanse for a lead up to the premiere of the sixth, and final, season. Perhaps the greatest sci-fi series ever created.
The only problem to me with it is the first season drags like crazy to get good. Multiple people had the same problem I had, where it doesn't really take off till like episode 5 or 6 and its such a weird hurdle for a show that does get really good. I'm actually behind myself, I still need to watch most of Season 5.
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Doing a complete rewatch of The Expanse for a lead up to the premiere of the sixth, and final, season. Perhaps the greatest sci-fi series ever created.
The only problem to me with it is the first season drags like crazy to get good. Multiple people had the same problem I had, where it doesn't really take off till like episode 5 or 6 and its such a weird hurdle for a show that does get really good. I'm actually behind myself, I still need to watch most of Season 5.
I enjoyed it from the first episode, but I'm a sucker for good world-building. It was probably episode 4 that made me really sit up and start paying attention, and it was episode 8 when I realized that I loved the show. This is like my fifth rewatch in 3 years.
Ally McBeal - The second season is better in pretty much every way. It skids off track about the halfway mark with some bad love triangle BS. It's so much better when it is an off-kilter comedy about weirdo lawyers.
Enlightened - A dramedy that aired on HBO about a decade ago. Incredibly well acted and written, but crushingly sad. Had to take a break after the first season (of two).
The Witcher - The second season is a major step in the wrong direction. Bogged down with uninteresting politics, lame characters, and a distinct lack of Witcher-ing.
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With all the hype around Squid Game right now, I figured I'd better give it a watch before I'm spoiled about what happens and I dug it. It's a really solid drama/thriller with an interesting enough premise. I think it's overhyped abit as things can be nowadays I feel when something starts to get popular (I think people are taken back by its premise, which isn't super common in western shows outside of like maybe Hunger Games, but I've seen it plenty in anime and what not), but it's genuinely a solid show with some intense moments, good pacing, and good acting.
Visually I dig the look of the show, it comes across very retro with some of its style, like it could've been made in the 70's. Having it all be Korean kid games too makes for this weirdly lighthearted element to so much death and drama happening. My only complaints is that the story feels a little wonky in spots and the ending could have been better, but it's still like an 8 out of 10 show, I do recommend it as it's nice to have another piece of interesting Korean media, which reminds me to go and watch Parasite.
Exactly my thoughts. It's huge with people that have never seen anything like it before. That's not to say it's bad, it's pretty good, with at least one truly great episode in the middle, but there are two plot lines that basically go no where, and it is kinda predictable in spots.
Lovecraft Country doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts. It's well acted, written, and executed, but it never quite gels to reach the heights its aiming for. I'm really liking it, but totally understand why it didn't find an audience.
Lodge 49 is an incredibly weird, joyous, melancholic little show. It's such a wonderfully realized world, and every character feels so lived in and real.
You could start a film critic blog or something not gonna lie lol. Everytime a new thing comes out I come back here to see Cartagia's take on it. Definitely thorough input :)
With that said I finally finished all 6 seasons of Schitt's Creek.
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Thiers plenty of solid character growth here, I think I relate to everyone except Alexis. Alexis starts off tollerable buit quickly becomes like nails on a chalkboard. She is selfish, and agrondizingly needy like a succulent plant that needs constant watering but with a 2000 dollar a week purse budget. The actress really did a good job capturing the valley girl, rich daughter vibe with her.
Roland, Stevie, Johnny and David all see themselves grow as a family.
Their is a little something for everyone in this one and one of my favorites :)
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Exactly my thoughts. It's huge with people that have never seen anything like it before. That's not to say it's bad, it's pretty good, with at least one truly great episode in the middle, but there are two plot lines that basically go no where, and it is kinda predictable in spots.
Lovecraft Country doesn't quite add up to the sum of its parts. It's well acted, written, and executed, but it never quite gels to reach the heights its aiming for. I'm really liking it, but totally understand why it didn't find an audience.
Lodge 49 is an incredibly weird, joyous, melancholic little show. It's such a wonderfully realized world, and every character feels so lived in and real.
You could start a film critic blog or something not gonna lie lol. Everytime a new thing comes out I come back here to see Cartagia's take on it. Definitely thorough input :)
I've done both the blog thing and the freelance thing for other sites, with a small amount of success, but it got to the point that it sucked all the fun out of it. I'm on Letterboxd now, which is where I keep closer track of the movies I've seen.
My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/qGyR
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While I've been on board with the Marvel shows so far, Hawkeye was mostly a miss to me. It was pretty boring till episode 3, where the action was at least entertaining, but it didn't pick up a whole lot after that. The show drags for the most part till the end where a cool character shows up and it perks things up, but it doesn't salvage the show. Honestly the show comes across more like one of the Netflix shows, which isn't a knock against them, they were just clearly lower budget affairs with lower stakes and this show is much lower stakes. This is just that with some more production to it.
The problem I feel is that to me, Hawkeye isn't interesting enough, Kate Bishop is kinda obnoxious, and the threat in the show is REALLY lame. We go from magical witches, to superpowered terrorists, to a time traveling FBI, and here we get low level mob thugs. The story stuff of Clint dealing with his trauma abit more and the repercussions of his time as Ronin is okay, but it doesn't hold up an entire series when I don't care too much for the characters involved. I feel like if this had just been a one shot movie for Disney Plus, instead of 6 episodes, it would've been better.
Oh well, they can't all be winners.
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While I've been on board with the Marvel shows so far, Hawkeye was mostly a miss to me. It was pretty boring till episode 3, where the action was at least entertaining, but it didn't pick up a whole lot after that. The show drags for the most part till the end where a cool character shows up and it perks things up, but it doesn't salvage the show. Honestly the show comes across more like one of the Netflix shows, which isn't a knock against them, they were just clearly lower budget affairs with lower stakes and this show is much lower stakes. This is just that with some more production to it.
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Oh well, they can't all be winners.
Yeah, I wasn't a huge fan either. It had decent action (except the rooftop fight, which was awful and had terrible greenscreen) and great character moments (the scene between Kate and Yelena is one of my favorites in the latter era MCU), but overall it just felt kind of stiff and lifeless.
Enlightened Season Two - Better than the first in pretty much every way. Not that the first was bad, it just felt like a trial run for this superior version of the show that is far more hopeful and not crushingly sad.
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Witcher season 2. Production values are pretty high and Cavill is great as Geralt, but the story and dialogue is difficult to follow. Shame.
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Finished a rewatch of S1 of The Righteous Gemstones before the new season starts next week. So happy to finally have it back.
Big Mouth Season Five - Felt more in line with the older seasons, storyline wise, but still just as crass and hilarious as always.
Over the Garden Wall - Dark, bizarre, and hilarious mini-series from Cartoon Network. Very short, so worth spending time on if it looks interesting to you.
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Just finished Love/Hate, RTE show about drug dealers in Dublin. Really enjoyed it and was sad to see it finish...
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Pen15 - A coming of age story about two thirteen year old girls played by 30-something women, and all the other kids are played by kids. Very funny, and sometimes moving, the last stretch of episodes unfortunately has a disjointed rushed feeling brought about by COVID production restrictions. Still pretty good it just doesn't feel as cohesive as earlier episodes / seasons.
Other Space - One of the few shows that aired on the doomed Yahoo Screen. Created by Freaks and Geeks' Paul Feig with a pretty solid cast, including multiple MST3K alum it follows a group of misfits that get lost in an alternate universe. Shame it was on Yahoo as I would have liked a couple of more seasons. It's pretty fun.
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I'd rewatch the Witcher season 1 and binge the second season but I don't have Netflix anymore... moved to Hulu/Disney+ deal for the kids. I'd buy a blu-ray set of it but for whatever reason, Netflix has decided to not release The Witcher to own on disc when they've released many of their other popular shows. Oh well.
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I'm working my way through Big Bang Theory and Grimm.
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Netflix's Lost in Space is relatively solid. Good cast, good-to-great effects, and a slew of great TV directors. I've only just finished season one, but it does have some real plotting issues, that stem mostly from it trying to be a more family friendly show, and putting kids front and center, but there are a lot of really bad decisions made by these children that have supposedly been trained for this trip. Couple that with Dr. Smith being a hair too omnipotent in her planning it keeps it from being as good as it good be.
The Expanse is over. The final season is pretty easily the weakest, mostly due to the lowered episode count. It still managed to wrap things up in a pretty satisfactory manner even if it did feel a bit rushed. The fact that I just wanted to stay in the universe a bit longer probably doesn't help that feeling.
Season Two of Lost in Space leans away from the idiot plots that peppered through S1, but they still pop up occasionally. Still a fun time. Season three is even more consistent and is a terrific wrap up for the show.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia seasons 14 and 15. There's still a laugh or two every episode, but the vibe isn't quite the same as it used to be. Would not hurt my feelings if they called it quits soon.
I'm not hating The Book of Boba Fett, but it is really just cementing that legacy characters should mostly be left alone, or only used in small doses. There's not actually a lot known about adult Boba in the new Canon, but it just invites comparison, and inevitably leads to the kind of schisms SW is plagued with these days.
Season one of The Bridge, a crime drama from a little less than a decade ago on FX. The characters are great, and the world-building is awesome, but the actual plotting leaves a bit to be desired.
Season two is more consistent, and has better overall plot, but it is at the cost of some of the interesting dichotomy of locations and the lead detective's personality.
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I've kinda struggled to watch shows and movies lately. I have tons of stuff to watch like Book of Boba Fett, catching up with One Piece, multiple other anime shows, Arcane, Vox Machina, but I haven't been feeling like just sitting down and watching something. I usually like to game and if it's not a very story heavy thing, Monster Hunter, currently Pokemon Legends, I put something casual on the side...So I'm kinda just getting a massive backlog of stuff lol
What did I watch? Outback Truckers! lol I don't know why, the idea of people driving these giants semi-trucks with multiple trailers through crazy harsh terrain for thousands of miles was just really interesting. This genre of reality tv is one I've kinda had a thing for compared to most other stuff, because while they do hype up "What could go wrong", like every situation is "If this driver doesn't keep as far over on the left side of this narrow stretch of bad road as another road train comes by, they both could collide head on and kill them both, their family, and every kangaroo and cow in a 4km radius." Overblown, but compared to the more casual drama of other reality shows, stuff like this does have a real danger and difficulty to it that I can appreciate. Shows like Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, etc...Also I really like listening to their accents, it's weirdly relaxing listening to them talk lol Unfortunately, of the 9 seasons they've made, only 3 I think are on Netflix and nowhere else. No clue when I'll get more. Funny how hooked I got in, though I was spoiled reading a news story that one of the drivers who's been on the show alot was arrested for fraud a few years back which didn't surprise me lol
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Finally started Game of Thrones a couple weeks back. I'm halfway through Season 2, with 3-8 piled up waiting.
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I've been doing a complete Arrested Development rewatch, and those original two seasons are really just some of the best that TV has ever been. The third season is a little bit of a step down, because of the slashed budget and episode order, but still has some of my favorite moments of the show.
The new remix of S4 feels more like the classic episodes, but some of the magic is still missing. Bits go on too long, and while the extra narration keeps thing clear it's a bit much.
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Rewatching two favorites: Stargate: Universe and Quantum Leap. Both still hold up quite well, I'm enjoying them.
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Always looking for Japanese documentary stuff, found the Age of Samurai show on Netflix and thought it was pretty alright. Of course don't know how accurate it all is, but it had some dramatic re-enactments of stuff that kept it interesting.
Also watched the Rise of Tokyo on Youtube, a nearly hour long special on the general history of Tokyo, which was pretty interesting, though felt they really skimmed through the history quite abit from like the 70's on, like I understand some of the biggest history for Tokyo was like it's turn into a major city and the stuff with WW2 is more important, but felt like they could've spent actual time on the bubble era of the 80's and such as they barely even talked about it. A good general overview at least.
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I just finished watching season 2 of "Raising Dion" on Netflix. It's an amazing and heartwarming take on superheroes, as well as the troubles their parents have to go through, I highly recommend.
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The final season of Arrested Development is actually pretty solid. The energy is a bit off, but the writing is generally pretty sharp. The biggest issues are that it is stuck closing out storylines that we're not the best ideas in the first place.
Season 5 of Murder, She Wrote was more of the same, which is like a warm blanket.
The Season 2 premiere of Star Trek: Picard was pretty easily the best episode of the show. Had a much better sense of tone and place than the first season ever did.
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Picard season 2. Great start. Hopefully it can keep this up and not be the disappointment the first season was. It had action, The Borg, time travel, and Q!
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The Jinx - Herculean (and frustrating) miracle that it made me kind of like Durst.
Devs - Decent sci-fi mystery miniseries from Alex Garland. Easily at least two episodes too long, just from all the looooong establishing shots set to "eerie" music. Good stuff is all front-loaded, too.
Archer - Season 12 is back to more of the same. Fun show, and touching tribute to Jessica Walter at the end.
Wellington Paranormal - Silly Spin-off set in the universe of What We Do in the Shadows. Super low budget, tiny cast, but mega charming.
Marcella - Pretty solid British crime procedural. They feel need to make every little thing connected, though. Like a side-character can't just exist on their own, they have to be involved in the major plot somehow.
Bad Vegan - What the producers think is interesting isn't, and they spend next to no time on the actual interesting stuff.
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Finally catching up on the last of the stuff I've set aside, just need to watch Arcane next, but with Moon Knight coming on, thought I'd go and get through Book of Boba Fett. Definitely got a lot better as it went on, the first episode wasn't anything special, but it did become more of what I wanted, though I am definitely more than ready to move on from Tatooine lol What's the Obi-Wan show about? Oh yeah, more Tatooine stuff lol
Show was fun, I dig the path they are taking with Boba Fett, makes him a more interesting character, and I was fine with the show turning into a Mando extension for abit, Boba was a spinoff, I just wasn't expecting them to dedicate two episodes to Mando. I'm interested to see what they are doing with Obi-Wan, though I'll be looking forward to a return to Mando proper in Season 3 so we can get more stuff that isn't on Tatooine and the Ahsoka will be cool too, but I am preferring much less Jedi stuff. I know the Jedi stuff is what people tend to love most with Star Wars, but I was always more partial to Bounty Hunters and rogues, the ground level guys in this crazy scifi fantasy world, so the Mandalorian stuff has been great for me.
And couldn't sleep, so I watched the first episode of Moon Knight, which was good, I'm pretty interested to see where it goes as I know almost nothing about the character other than a few things I've heard about him.
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Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery is the best and most consistent one yet. I've only got two episodes left, so it is entirely possible it craps the bed at the last moment (a big problem with new era Trek - Picard and every previous season of Disco has had a disappointing season finale so far). I do think the show still has some structural and logistical problems in general, but it has slowly been moving in the right direction, so that these problems that were so glaring early on are now just minor annoyances.
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Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery is the best and most consistent one yet. I've only got two episodes left, so it is entirely possible it craps the bed at the last moment (a big problem with new era Trek - Picard and every previous season of Disco has had a disappointing season finale so far). I do think the show still has some structural and logistical problems in general, but it has slowly been moving in the right direction, so that these problems that were so glaring early on are now just minor annoyances.
OMG, season 4 was horrible, the worst yet. So much useless melodrama and crying. The plot was aimless, slow and plodding for a good portion of the season. And Burnham has to be the worst captain ever. I'm pretty much done with the series after this season and the last.
On the other hand Picard has been straight fire this season.
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Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery is the best and most consistent one yet. I've only got two episodes left, so it is entirely possible it craps the bed at the last moment (a big problem with new era Trek - Picard and every previous season of Disco has had a disappointing season finale so far). I do think the show still has some structural and logistical problems in general, but it has slowly been moving in the right direction, so that these problems that were so glaring early on are now just minor annoyances.
OMG, season 4 was horrible, the worst yet. So much useless melodrama and crying. The plot was aimless, slow and plodding for a good portion of the season.
I've heard this from a lot of people who watched week-to-week, but on watching as a binge I think it's perfectly fine and moves along at a decent clip. Most importantly to me, though, it felt like a classic Trek plot - an unknown race that we can barely comprehend is doing something that we may or may not understand, and we have to race to figure it out. I'd still put it at the bottom of my list for all the series, but it's working for me far better than it ever has before.
And Burnham has to be the worst captain ever.
The Seinfeld effect. She's by far the least interesting (main) character on her own show. And she should have never been made captain - she mutinied in the first episode. The show really, really wants you to forget about it, but it just can't shake it. Just like it tried to redeem a literal space Hitler into a lovable scamp in Seasons 2-3.
On the other hand Picard has been straight fire this season.
It really is. The fact that they are basically doing a mishmash of Tapestry / Yesterday's Enterprise / Voyage Home and it is still working is incredible.
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Watched The Legend of Vox Machina and had a some great fun with it. Great fantasy setting, good animation and action, fun crude humor and excessive violence. It's pretty cool that it's the whole Critical Role gang doing this and it's based off a custom campaign they did. Kinda makes me want to go and check out the original campaign as I only really watched their stuff starting with the...2nd campaign I think.
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The first season of Mr. Mercedes is a solid as hell adaptation of the Stephen King novel. Great cast and good behind the scenes crew.
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Got around to Peacemaker and had some fun with it. I do think they kinda stretch the quirky, irreverent, dialogue stuff a little too far, it gets a tad overbearing when the jokes get dragged out abit to long. Cena nails the character, like I feel if it was anyone else doing it, they'd either play him with the wrong tone or wouldn't be able to fully embrace the weird, broken, asshole he is, but he does great. Looking forward to another season of this.
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Can always count on Jojo's Bizarre Adventure to be the weirdest show lol Finally got around to watching Stone Ocean and it doesn't hold back, with the oddest intro for a character ever. Jolyne is pretty great though, I like her more in general than I did Giorno, though her stand powers creep me out abit, holes in flesh is uggh...unsettling. Good stuff so far with just this first part, it's such a weird story and a weird setting.
Always funny to see anime do American prisons, because its always the craziest version. In this show, this Florida prison has explosive arm bands if they get to far away from the guard, and that guards will just shoot anyone at any point. Like this isn't meant to be some crazy super max place for the most hardcore people, there are prisoners who are only doing a few years in it. Reminds me of Baki in the prison arc when he gets sent to prison for kidnapping the president, just so that he can fight Biscuit and there's pretty funny stuff going on with the writing for it.
Very entertaining though, looking forward to the next part later this year.
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The second season of Mr. Mercedes is way better than the book it is based on, but I hated the book, so I only took this as a minor win. The third season is based on the second book in the series, which I liked way, way more.
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Doom Patrol Season 3, it's still weird and goofy and while it doesn't have much action in it, it doesn't matter because there's always something interesting going on in the lives of these weird, broken, people lol
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Raised by Wolves Season 1 - Figured since I had HBO for abit longer, that I'd binge through what I can and decided to check this out and I found it a reasonable watch. It's dark and intense as hell, the premise is really engaging and the mystery definitely keeps me wanting to watch. I'm not sure if I like the end of season 1 or not, it's not bad, it's just one of those things where it wasn't what I expected and it all depends on where it might lead. Certain shows and games make me wary of really out there scifi plots, I have a type of story that drives me nuts if I come across it, so we'll see, I'll probably take a break for a few and then come back to the second season next weekend.
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Moon Knight was fine. Good cast kept it from being underwhelming.
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Star Trek day, today!
We get both Star Trek: Picard's season finale today, and the premiere of the all-new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which tells the adventures of the original Enterprise before Kirk became captain.
I'm pretty excited.
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Star Trek day, today!
We get both Star Trek: Picard's season finale today, and the premiere of the all-new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which tells the adventures of the original Enterprise before Kirk became captain.
I'm pretty excited.
What did you think of the rest of Picard season 2? I think it still managed to put together a pretty solid story all around, even though it could have stood to have either A) jumped timelines one more time or B) have been 2-3 episodes shorter.
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Star Trek day, today!
We get both Star Trek: Picard's season finale today, and the premiere of the all-new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which tells the adventures of the original Enterprise before Kirk became captain.
I'm pretty excited.
What did you think of the rest of Picard season 2? I think it still managed to put together a pretty solid story all around, even though it could have stood to have either A) jumped timelines one more time or B) have been 2-3 episodes shorter.
I still have yet to watch the finale. But so far I feel that it was amazing for the first 3 episodes, then kind of fell into a bit of a slump (though still enjoyable).
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Yeah, the Star Trek Picard finale was kind of meh, too. And I have questions:
1. How does an immortal, omnipotent being die? It would be nice if they explained that.
2. If The Borg were already on Earth in 2024, then why were they clueless about Earth and The Federation in Q Squared?
But how about that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, huh? That felt like they were getting back to the feel of what Star Trek used to be. Good stuff.
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Yeah, the Star Trek Picard finale was kind of meh, too. And I have questions:
1. How does an immortal, omnipotent being die? It would be nice if they explained that.
I do wish they went more into depth with Q in general. I think it is furthering the "evolution" of the Q that started in Voyager, but they didn't really link it well enough.
2. If The Borg were already on Earth in 2024, then why were they clueless about Earth and The Federation in Q Squared?
My understanding is that the "Borgati" were a different faction and not related to the main collective. They went around legitimately saving the "lost" of the universe.
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Woo hoo! Good time to be a sci-fi fan! New Quantum Leap series picked up by NBC. A sequel to the original series, not a reboot:
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Third season of Mr. Mercedes is better than the second, but struggles with two separate storylines - one from the books (pretty great) and one that isn't in the books at all (really bad).
Finally got to start a rewatch of Barry since the new season started. Season one is even better than I remembered. And I loved season one.
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Raised by Wolves Season 2 - I liked the first season more, felt more dire, more intense to me, though the second season expanded on more of the mystery of the planet, which is interesting enough. Don't know if I'll continue on with I assume an eventual third season.
Peaky Blinders Season 1 - Random watch, but it's a good one, solid early 1900's based crime drama, Cillian Murphy is great in the lead. I also started into season 2, which started off a little wonky, because they killed off a prominent character from the first season off screen and there was a two year time jump, sorta felt like something was missing at first and the story kinda bounces alot so it almost feels directionless, but there is a coherent story here. It's still good, but I wonder if this show had some big rewrites or something for the second season that made it abit jarring.
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Season 2 of Barry is just as good as, if not better than, the first. So glad the new season is finally here, after almost 3 years.
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Castle was a guilty pleasure of mine, it's a pretty formulaic show but the on screen chemistry between Fillion and Katic is what makes it.
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The Halo series looks great, but man I'm struggling with the story and the lack of action. I'm gonna finish it since there's only 1 episode left, I'm midway episode 9. But give me some Spartan vs Covenant battles!
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Disenchantment, Part 4. Still a fun, entertaining show, but always just kind of slips from my mind after each release. I do really like how it sets itself apart from the other Groenig shows with a nasty mean streak and violent tendencies.
The first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are pretty solid, with biggest issue being that the child character is just a skosh too precocious, and that the second epiose has some really shoddy green screen / StageCraft on the main planet it takes place on.
Atlanta - Season 3 is weaker than the first two, but there's still nothing on TV quite like it. Really incredible stuff.
Our Flag Means Death - This is so much damn fun. It feels like a live action kid's show but made for adults.
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I started watching season 4 of Stranger Things. But then quickly realized I had forgotten a lot since it had been so long. So now I'm starting over at the beginning.
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The Boys Diabolical S1 - wow. No words. The super power ability to control turds, anyone?
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Finished 'The Last Kingdom' season 5 and now on Vikings:Valhalla on Netflix. :)
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STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4 VOLUME ONE IS EPIC OMG
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I did not watch Stranger Things until just over a week ago, and I binged the entire series and am now caught up. Now the pinball game makes so much more sense.
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Been watching a lot of One Piece the past month as I got back to my marathon re-watch of the series. I got through the Sky Island Arc, of which the Skypeia stuff is pretty alright, I thought Eneru was a pretty solid villain for most of it and I liked the story going on. The Water 7 Saga stuff was definitely a big step up afterwards, probably the best so far I'd say with the Water 7 Arc and Enies Lobby Arc in particular bringing a lot of good story stuff with Usopp and the Merry, Robin and Frankies backstories, and further expansion of the World Government stuff and how corrupt it all is. I am skipping all the filler arc's they do, as it's usually not that entertaining and it's not useful for the story, so that helps for sure.
Currently in the Thriller Bark stuff, which is alright, the setup is kinda fun, but we get introduced to Brooke who is probably my least favorite of the crew and never really becomes likable to me. Like Usopp was sorta that character for awhile for me, but he does grow a lot and he's way better after the time skip, where as Brooke is just always the same, which is a shame as he's the music dude of the group and I just don't care for him. Oh well, this arc will be a nice bit of fun before the next saga which has some pretty awesome stuff coming up.
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This latest batch of Stranger Things is easily the most I've liked the show season one. Called the big episode 7 reveal during the prisoner flashback, but it was still cool. Hot take, Hop should have stayed dead. Would have given S2-3 more meaning and trimmed the most pointless story thread of the season.
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Finally getting around to watching Demon Slayer again, I went through the Mugen Train arc and thought it was fairly solid, Rengoku being just an absolute top tier lad in it. Kinda reminds me of fiery sword wielding All Might. Of course Ufotable bringing their just absolutely incredible fight scene moments. Thankfully Zenitsu is practically non-existent in this arc. Hate him with a passion lol
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Season 3 of Barry is far more surreal, and a bit more uneven, than the first two but it still a fantastic showcase for all involved.
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I'm enjoying Ms. Marvel a ton so far (even only a couple of episodes in). It reminds me a ton of Spider-Verse and I dig that. It's shaping up to be the best Marvel Disney+ series thus far.
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Bosch Season 7 - I honestly don't know why I finished the whole series for this, kinda just casually binged a season off and on over the past year or two, but I don't know, it's just kind of a chill cop drama, it has its moments, but it never often gets too crazy or over the top. It's nothing great, but it was okay. I think I had the same issue with some previous seasons, but the side story stuff that isn't focused on Bosch, are really kinda holding back things abit, it's rarely that interesting to warrant cutting away too. Like this isn't The Wire where you are going from intense cop stuff to intense criminal stuff. I guess it sorta shows the breadth of happenings in a department, from the poltically infused top, to the interpersonal actions of the station, but I kinda started to hit a point where I was skipping past some of it.
Don't know if I'll watch the new show, maybe I will down the road, this show kinda became my "I need something casual to watch, even though I have a bunch of other stuff to watch, but I'm not really in the mood to watch that, so I'll just watch this straight forward cop drama." lol
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Obi-Wan Kenobi is pretty solid overall. Some small missteps here and there, but mostly a well told story about Obi-Wan overcame his post-Clone Wars disillusionment and came to terms with Vader, the Empire, etc.
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Finished watching Fleabag last night. It's one of my girlfriend's favorite TV series. I enjoyed it quite a bit though there were some things I wasn't the biggest fan of particularly in the first season, and a couple plot threads that weren't quite resolved in the way I was hoping in the second season. Still a really good show with fantastic writing, acting and humor. We enjoyed discussing each episode quite a bit.
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I like the first season of Fleabag, but I think the second is some of the best television I've ever seen. Andrew Scott is so good as Hot Priest.
Worst Roommate Ever - Very solid true crime series that basically does a different case each episode, but there's some weird cheap looking animation they use instead of reenactments that just doesn't work.
The second season of Russian Doll tells a much different style of story than the first but still has the same acerbic edge and commitment to its theme, so it is still very recognizable as the same show.
The second season of Tuca & Bertie is just as funny, weird, and poignant as the first.
Wild Wild Country is a good documentary, about the Rajneesh cult, but it really drags in places, especially if you have a working knowledge of the story. This 6 hours series could have easily been trimmed by 2 hours or so. Maybe more.
I really like that Season 4 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel kinda moved everyone back from such high levels of success and kept them in one place. It starts getting kinda really outlandish and bizarre in the back half, which I honestly think I loved.
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Volume two of Stranger Things Season 4 is also great, though I would've loved more of a triumphant ending. Feels kind of like Infinity War, but not as much of a gut punch.
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Geez, the Stranger Things Volume 1 episodes had a lot going on, but the pacing was great. Where did that go for Volume 2? Other than the first and last 5 minutes of episode 8 was superfluous. Episode 9 is better, but really has issues balancing all the stories.
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I started watching season 4 of Stranger Things. But then quickly realized I had forgotten a lot since it had been so long. So now I'm starting over at the beginning.
You're in for a ride with this one :)
Easily first or second best season of the quadrilogy. The duffer brothers are absolute mad men in terns of perfectionism and time appropriate story telling through the sci fi genre. I have flown to meet the cast and never regret a second. I am happy you're going back to catch up because this one is definitely a purists season. A lot of tie ins throughout. You're gonna love it.
With that said I just began a Beverly Hills 90210 binge. Brenda Walsh, Brandon Walsh and the gang of high faluting spoiled rich kids who tend to have more problems than their wealth would display. I love the show.
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We Own this City - Really good mini-series about police corruption on Baltimore. Feels a bit like David Simon is trying a little too hard to recreate The Wire, though.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - The best and most consistent first season of Star Trek series, and maybe one of the best seasons of the franchise as a whole. So, so good.
First season of Ozark is pretty solid, but it tries a bit too hard to be like other prestige TV that it gets a little sloppy in the storytelling.
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Stranger Things Season 4 - I had a great time with this. I don't remember the previous seasons in enough detail to figure out where I would place this one in comparison to them, but I had a lot of fun with it. The slasher movie vibes and "Satanic Panic" stuff they added was a cool addition to the 80's adventure stuff they had going on. I'm not sure if I was in love with how spread out the stories were, like you have the Hawkin's crew, the West Coast crew, and then the West Coast crew story splits, and then there's the Russian dealings, and while it wasn't hard to follow, it did feel a smidge disjointed. It does come together towards the end well and sets up for a really exciting final season though.
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Season 3 of The Boys is incredibly solid, even better than S2. It gets a little too mean in a couple of spots, and there's at least one super coincidence that bugs me, but still really good.
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I'm enjoying Ms. Marvel a ton so far (even only a couple of episodes in). It reminds me a ton of Spider-Verse and I dig that. It's shaping up to be the best Marvel Disney+ series thus far.
Further elaboration on that, I think the show had a lot of wasted potential, and it kind of fell of the rails with the introduction of the clandestines (with the weakest episode being the fifth). It deserved to be so much better, but I think it's a 7/10 as is.
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Resident Evil (2022 Series) - So yeah, once again they failed with Resident Evil. Not as bad as what I've heard the reboot movie they just did, or most of those awful RE movies they did before, but this is a bad Resident Evil series. It's at least vaguely based on game lore (Racoon City, Wesker having died in Resident Evil 5, that sorta stuff), but it's a completely different timeline sort of story where the apocalypse happens and wipes out most of the world.
I'm not gonna front and say "Oh, how dare they treat the true gold that is Resident Evil like this!", Resident Evil as a series is the dumbest possible shlock, but in the best way possible. It's cheesy, over the top, it's ridiculous. This tv series is just boring and standard. It's writing can be clunky and it jumps between timelines where it's set a decade and a half after the apocalypse, and then right before the apocalypse, but most stuff before the apocalypse is really boring. I was skipping a lot of this show, especially I think Episode 5 with them futzing around in the house for most of the episode. The vague teen and family drama stuff never really worked. The show is better whenever it's in the post-apocalypse and there's zombies and bio weapons, it's fine. Like there's giant mutant creatures and the Lickers, they have a simple nod to Dr. Salvador that I thought was a tiny bit fun, but otherwise...This isn't anything great.
It's a bog standard zombie show, like a 5/10 at best, worse if we look at it as Resident Evil, I'd pass on it. I think this is the same company that did all the previous Resident Evil stuff and they need to go away. The movies sucked, the reboot sucked, Monster Hunter sucked, this sucks. There's a tiny chance they make the second season better, no teen drama stuff, but it's still not good Resident Evil, no one wants this from a Resident Evil tv series.
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Resident Evil (2022 Series) - So yeah, once again they failed with Resident Evil. Not as bad as what I've heard the reboot movie they just did, or most of those awful RE movies they did before, but this is a bad Resident Evil series. It's at least vaguely based on game lore (Racoon City, Wesker having died in Resident Evil 5, that sorta stuff), but it's a completely different timeline sort of story where the apocalypse happens and wipes out most of the world.
I'm not gonna front and say "Oh, how dare they treat the true gold that is Resident Evil like this!", Resident Evil as a series is the dumbest possible shlock, but in the best way possible. It's cheesy, over the top, it's ridiculous. This tv series is just boring and standard. It's writing can be clunky and it jumps between timelines where it's set a decade and a half after the apocalypse, and then right before the apocalypse, but most stuff before the apocalypse is really boring. I was skipping a lot of this show, especially I think Episode 5 with them futzing around in the house for most of the episode. The vague teen and family drama stuff never really worked. The show is better whenever it's in the post-apocalypse and there's zombies and bio weapons, it's fine. Like there's giant mutant creatures and the Lickers, they have a simple nod to Dr. Salvador that I thought was a tiny bit fun, but otherwise...This isn't anything great.
It's a bog standard zombie show, like a 5/10 at best, worse if we look at it as Resident Evil, I'd pass on it. I think this is the same company that did all the previous Resident Evil stuff and they need to go away. The movies sucked, the reboot sucked, Monster Hunter sucked, this sucks. There's a tiny chance they make the second season better, no teen drama stuff, but it's still not good Resident Evil, no one wants this from a Resident Evil tv series.
The last movie was awesome. People complain about Resident Evil media not being true to the game. That movie was and they still complained. It followed the story of the first two games very well. And it was gory and scary, not an action-fest like Milla Jocovich ones were. The only valid complaint I heard was that Leon was Hispanic when he should have been White...and that's a small thing to be upset about! Sometimes I feel like people are just ready to bitch about anything.
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The last movie was awesome. People complain about Resident Evil media not being true to the game. That movie was and they still complained. It followed the story of the first two games very well. And it was gory and scary, not an action-fest like Milla Jocovich ones were. The only valid complaint I heard was that Leon was Hispanic when he should have been White...and that's a small thing to be upset about! Sometimes I feel like people are just ready to bitch about anything.
I haven't seen the reboot film, I heard nothing good about it from anyone, so it would be more fair for me to cut that part out. It being based on the games is nice at least, no more "The Adventures of my cool, original character, wife, Alice", but I thought it was kind of a bad idea to make the movie about the first two games in one go and the trailer made it look pretty bad. Plus it's the same production company as all the other Resident Evil stuff, and they don't make good stuff. Maybe I'll give it a shot to just see, I don't know, the series really had me frustrated last night, especially after going through other Capcom media in the past year or so that was awful like the Monster Hunter movie, and that stupid CG Infinite Darkness "series", that wasn't actually a tv show, but an unfinished movie they hacked up into 4 episodes for some random reason.
Well, I was gonna try to watch Welcome to Raccoon City, but it's not available on a streaming platform I have and I'm not really interested in picking up Starz just to watch it. Whenever it comes to Amazon, I guess I'll give it a watch.
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Arcane - Finally got around to this after hearing so much good stuff and it absolutely lived up to it. Incredible animation and style, great story, I barely wanted to stop watching it. I don't know anything about League of Legends lore, I played it casually back in the day when it was first out, I like plenty of the character designs, but this world they've built up is great. Really can't say anything more about it, it was just a real damn good watch and I can't wait for more.
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Ms. Marvel - I didn't really care for this one. The change in her powers never felt right and while they justify it in story enough with a whole new background, I'm never gonna like it. I grew to really like her in the Avengers game, the one really good thing about that game, but I don't have the same enjoyment of her in this.
I think the problem I have with the show is that the there is so much time spent on teen drama and cultural heritage stuff, that's like most of the show, and when we do get super hero stuff, it's just okay at best. It doesn't help there are definite times when the special effects begin to look rough, which we are learning lately has to do with Marvel basically sabotaging their own productions, which is pretty unfortunate.
It's not terrible, it at least pops and has its own style which is something, but this goes on the lower end of the tv shows for me. Hawkeye is still at the bottom of my list, I'd probably put this above that, which is below Moon Knight and Falcon/Winter Soldier. She-Hulk is up next, so hopefully that's good.
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The second season of Ozark is really good. Laura Linney owns pretty much every episode.
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I've been liking Resident Evil (2022 Netflix), so far, haven't finished it yet. Good zombie show. Doesn't follow the games at all, as it takes place years later, but it does reference them.
It has very cool zombie make-up, reminds me of the likes of Walking Dead zombies. Top-notch gore effects.
I am intrigued about the mystery of Albert Wesker. They mention he died in 2009 (reference to the Resident Evil 5 game), but he's alive with daughters here.
And is the Barry from Umbrella supposed to be THAT Barry? He does mention he's the master of lock picking. Except he seems like a bad guy, and works for Umbrella. Barry wouldn't work for Umbrella.
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I've been liking Resident Evil (2022 Netflix), so far, haven't finished it yet. Good zombie show. Doesn't follow the games at all, as it takes place years later, but it does reference them.
It has very cool zombie make-up, reminds me of the likes of Walking Dead zombies. Top-notch gore effects.
I am intrigued about the mystery of Albert Wesker. They mention he died in 2009 (reference to the Resident Evil 6 game), but he's alive with daughters here.
And is the Barry from Umbrella supposed to be THAT Barry? He does mention he's the master of lock picking. Except he seems like a bad guy, and works for Umbrella. Barry wouldn't work for Umbrella.
I won't spoil anything, other than it's not THAT Barry. THAT Barry would be like 70 in this time frame lol
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The third season of Ozark is easily the best one some so far. Emotionally intense and mostly great storylines - except for one kinda bad one.
Season 4 kinda reverts back to the looser storytelling beats (and some big plot holes), but it goes for some big moments and cycles back to some beats and plot elements of early seasons, which mostly works. The finale is not great, though. Weirdly melodramatic, and Wendy acts like a totally different character.
Season 3 of Wellington Paranormal is easily my overall favorite so far. The first two had episodes I liked here and there, but this one is good from top to bottom.
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Started watching Chuck from scratch.
I love that show :p
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Peaky Blinders - Finished the series and overall, I like it. It's a good period gangster drama with some fun flair to the music they put throughout the series. That said, there are a number of times where I feel like the story is kinda losing itself, maybe that's just me, but it's like they introduce something more into an already involved drama, and they spend a lot of time with it, and I'm just like...Hey, wasn't this season about something else? It kinda does that for a lot of the series, but just when I might lose interest or feel like it's dragging, it pulls itself back with a good final episode or bit of story that I enjoy.
The last season was a mixed bag, I liked a decent bit of it, but one character gets sidelined for a lot of it, another is added, and it feels kinda off, I'm curious if losing the actress for Polly really messed up the story for it. It was still a good watch though. I can see some folks complaining about how the stories resolve themselves, plot armor going on for folks, particularly Thomas, but I still liked it. Cillian Murphy is great in the role. Definitely looking forward to the movie coming up to finish this main story off. Apparently some spin-off stuff will be happening, during some interesting timeframes (World War 2, which is fitting being that this series started off at the end of World War 1).
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 - A decent documentary about the disaster that was Woodstock 99. Just crazy to see how bad it went, a pretty serious management disaster leading to a whole bunch of tired, pissed off, drugged up, idiots causing a riot. Pretty crazy.
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I'm watching Space: Above and Beyond, and man, talk about a showing being 5 years too early. All I see is potential. Slap together a modern 10 episode season with this as the frame work? You got yourself a stew goin.
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I'm watching Space: Above and Beyond, and man, talk about a showing being 5 years too early. All I see is potential. Slap together a modern 10 episode season with this as the frame work? You got yourself a stew goin.
I recently came across the DVD set of this for dirt cheap and picked it up. I haven't watch it, yet.
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I'm watching Space: Above and Beyond, and man, talk about a showing being 5 years too early. All I see is potential. Slap together a modern 10 episode season with this as the frame work? You got yourself a stew goin.
I recently came across the DVD set of this for dirt cheap and picked it up. I haven't watch it, yet.
It definitely shows its age, and the first 5-6 episodes are a little rough / boring, but it really picks up around episode 7 or 8 and has a couple of legitimately great episodes in the back half.
Watched the 7 available episodes of Tuca & Bertie season 3. Still weird, bizarre, hilarious, and surprisingly deep.
Ms. Marvel is pretty fun, and maybe my favorite MCU show since WandaVision. The finale stumbles a little, but it has a more uniform thesis and vibe than most the other shows.
Watched Season 3 of Solar Opposites. It isn't as overtly clever oe intricate as Rick & Morty, but it still has the same sense if humor, just with a bit more of, for lack of better term, wholesomeness.
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Think I will watch Peaky Blinders I should have ages ago with the rave reviews it got
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Think I will watch Peaky Blinders I should have ages ago with the rave reviews it got
It's a very decent show. I think over the seasons there's stuff that drags abit and I almost fell off the show, but it's a pretty solid period crime drama. It was kinda worth it just for Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby and when Tom Hardy would show up, mumbling his way through things as Alfie Solomons lol
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Think I will watch Peaky Blinders I should have ages ago with the rave reviews it got
It's a very decent show. I think over the seasons there's stuff that drags abit and I almost fell off the show, but it's a pretty solid period crime drama. It was kinda worth it just for Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby and when Tom Hardy would show up, mumbling his way through things as Alfie Solomons lol
I just finished the last season about a month ago. I thought it was pretty good, I think my biggest complaint is it often has too many balls in the air with the storylines which leaves some of them/the characters feeling a little underdeveloped. It has phenomenal acting, filming, great costumes and set design, and a fantastic anachronistic score.
Season 1 - Fantastic, kicks off the series, really liked the main villain
Season 2 - Slight dip in quality but still entertaining especially the finale.
Season 3 - Pretty confusing and not very interesting. You need to know a lot of the political backstory that was going on at the time to really enjoy it.
Season 4 - Nice return to form with a great villain and a really great opening episode that gets you sucked right back in. Probably my second favorite season after the first
Season 5 - Really forgettable. Don't remember much about it.
Season 6 - Really rushed, unfinished, and not very well written, with a disappointing conclusion that screams "movie finale" just like Downtown Abbey. There are some factors that play into this final season not really panning out (some COVID related, some other things that I won't mention).
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Station Eleven is a solid 7/10 mini-series about an apocalyptic flu and the tale of a band of survivors 20 years later. The fall of society stuff is all great, but the main conflict of the "present" is pretty boring - though the characters and stuff is all fine.
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Think I will watch Peaky Blinders I should have ages ago with the rave reviews it got
It's a very decent show. I think over the seasons there's stuff that drags abit and I almost fell off the show, but it's a pretty solid period crime drama. It was kinda worth it just for Cillian Murphy as Thomas Shelby and when Tom Hardy would show up, mumbling his way through things as Alfie Solomons lol
I just finished the last season about a month ago. I thought it was pretty good, I think my biggest complaint is it often has too many balls in the air with the storylines which leaves some of them/the characters feeling a little underdeveloped. It has phenomenal acting, filming, great costumes and set design, and a fantastic anachronistic score.
Season 1 - Fantastic, kicks off the series, really liked the main villain
Season 2 - Slight dip in quality but still entertaining especially the finale.
Season 3 - Pretty confusing and not very interesting. You need to know a lot of the political backstory that was going on at the time to really enjoy it.
Season 4 - Nice return to form with a great villain and a really great opening episode that gets you sucked right back in. Probably my second favorite season after the first
Season 5 - Really forgettable. Don't remember much about it.
Season 6 - Really rushed, unfinished, and not very well written, with a disappointing conclusion that screams "movie finale" just like Downtown Abbey. There are some factors that play into this final season not really panning out (some COVID related, some other things that I won't mention).
Yeah that's about how I'd go with the seasons. I think 3 is the worst for me, I kinda stopped around there for abit before returning to continue on as it really dragged and 6 is definitely the most problematic season for sure. It's issues didn't make me hate it, but you can clearly see where things were added or changed and made for a wonky time. If anything, all the actors deliver through the whole show, it's just unfortunate the writing couldn't be more consistent.
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I have been watching The Walking Dead series from the start. I only have 4 or 5 seasons on DVD and BD, and I will watch the ones I have but stream the seasons I hadn't seen before. I have 1 on BD, streamed 2 and 3 on DVD. I think I don't have Season 4 and thus have not seen it. And I am thinking that years ago I told people I didn't watch TWD when it was on TV because I had gotten it mixed up with a different zombie related show. Now I can't remember what that other show was called and am hoping that maybe there wasn't another show and what I am remembering is just in one of the seasons I haven't seen.
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I have been watching The Walking Dead series from the start. I only have 4 or 5 seasons on DVD and BD, and I will watch the ones I have but stream the seasons I hadn't seen before. I have 1 on BD, streamed 2 and 3 on DVD. I think I don't have Season 4 and thus have not seen it. And I am thinking that years ago I told people I didn't watch TWD when it was on TV because I had gotten it mixed up with a different zombie related show. Now I can't remember what that other show was called and am hoping that maybe there wasn't another show and what I am remembering is just in one of the seasons I haven't seen.
Great show for the first few seasons. But it overstays it's welcome. Main characters start leaving the series, stories start to feel a bit repetitive. I didn't make it to the end. But don't get me wrong, here, it is really good while it's good.
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I've seen past the season when Rick left the series to live in junkyard world. I think the most recent I saw was the one where Negan was living with the group but as a prisoner.
I know they always said Rick would come back to be in a movie, but as time goes on there doesn't seem like a movie is happening.
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Watching The Sandman on Netflix right now, it's really good I recommend to everyone (that's an adult at least)
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I watched Old Enough over the past few days, and while it is fun, I just didn't seem to find it as engaging as I thought it would be. Except for this one kid where everything seemed to go wrong. That was incredible television.
Season 4 of Wellington Paranormal is just as delightful as the first three. Wasn't as big a fan as I thought I would be,but I'll miss it now that it is over.
What We Do in the Shadows made some changes for the better in season 4 - mostly a big change to Colin Robinson, that makes him feel fresh again. One of the most consistently funny shows on TV.
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I'm halfway through the new season of Cobra Kai...I hope it gets better. I love the show, but this season has been pretty blah. I think they're starting to run thin on ideas.
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Harley Quinn season 3 is some of the best comic related media released in the last couple of years. Terrific takes on multiple DC characters, although 3 seasons of this Clayface is wearing thin. A terrific Batman story wedged in here.
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Harley Quinn season 3 is some of the best comic related media released in the last couple of years. Terrific takes on multiple DC characters, although 3 seasons of this Clayface is wearing thin. A terrific Batman story wedged in here.
I started season 1 and couldn't make it through. Does it improve significantly? or is the show just not for me?
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Harley Quinn season 3 is some of the best comic related media released in the last couple of years. Terrific takes on multiple DC characters, although 3 seasons of this Clayface is wearing thin. A terrific Batman story wedged in here.
I started season 1 and couldn't make it through. Does it improve significantly? or is the show just not for me?
Sounds like it's just not for you. The tone, irreverence, and violence remain roughly the same throughout. I do think there's a pretty big step-up after the Pilot, just because it has Pilot syndrome, but otherwise it is the same show it was in the first season for the most. Maybe a bit more serious in some aspects now.
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I'm halfway through the new season of Cobra Kai...I hope it gets better. I love the show, but this season has been pretty blah. I think they're starting to run thin on ideas.
Finished the season today. It did get better, but still was the weakest season, yet. And the return of Kreese tease for season 6 really hammers down my point about them running out of ideas.
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The first season of The Terror is a very cool and interesting story, that could have stood to have been maybe 2 episodes shorter.
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Anyone else watching House of the Dragon?
When it started I was really down on it. Likely because I hated the last 4 seasons of GoT. The farther it goes the the more I find myself really enjoying it. I'm super worried about the next time jump though when the actresses will be replaced.
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Sins of the Mother is a good, yet disturbing doc about a woman who likely killed her children, but shouldn't have been released yet because the trial hasn't happened yet.
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I watched the first episode of Rings of Power, I got about 45 minutes in, was bored to tears.
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The newest season of The Orville is really good, but it bums me out that it got so serious. I liked it precisely because it wasn't as grim or bleak as Discovery and Picard. The episodes are mostly too long as well, with most episodes having pacing issues with loads of dead space that could have been edited out.
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I've always enjoyed stop-motion movies and shows like Wallace & Grommet or Shaun the Sheep. I'd often watch both with the kids and still do. Recently, I've been getting into the Laika movies. I've seen most of them and enjoyed what I've seen.
Last year they came out with Laika editions of a few of their movies and I bought Coraline for the Halloween season. I bought Box Trolls last month and finished watching it with the kids last night. I think I'm going to buy ParaNorman this week for the Halloween season as well, but this is the one I haven't seen yet.
Their other two are on my list to buy as well; Kubo and Missing Link... with the latter being a favorite. Apparently their next movie is called Wildwood and will release next spring or summer. Looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
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I liked it precisely because it wasn't as grim or bleak as Discovery and Picard.
Dude, I know what you mean. I'm a huge fan of Star Trek from the Next Gen era (Voyager and DS9 included) and I was pumped for Picard. I watched the first season and was so pissed by the end of it that I've written off all modern Star Trek. They took the hope of humanity's future, showing that we should strive to be the best of ourselves and how to do that, and they decided to take a big fat s**t on it. For all intents and purposes... they killed what made Star Trek so great. If I ever get the itch, I'll be watching what's existed since I was a kid up through the last of the reboot movies.
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I don't think that there is inherently anything with Trek going dark. There are aspects of both Disco and Picard that I think only work because of where they went with the story, I just think they go to that well too often, and in the case of Picard S1, goes overboard in the violence department. Now that Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are way more lighthearted the niche The Orville filled isn't as empty, but it's the niche I prefer.
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Right now we're taking the lighthearted route and watching a combination of Classic Scooby-Doo and the new season of The Great British Baking Show.
Also watched the first episode of Game of Thrones. I've been reading the books since January (on book 4), and have been interested in watching the TV series since HotD is getting a lot of discussion on Twitter. First episode was fine, definitely lacking in the effects and setting, which I've been told gets a lot better as the show's budget improves. Not sure when I'll get around to watching the rest of the series.
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Finally wrapped up Season 6 of Murder, She Wrote, which saw the introduction of the infamous "bookend" episodes. You can definitely feel that the show is starting to run out of steam (and still has 6 more seasons to go), and while I don't hate the idea of having Jessica introduce stories that don't actually involved her they are very hit or miss in the quality department. I'm going to take a little bit of a break before moving on to S7.
Finally getting around to watching She-Hulk and I *love* it. Exactly what I've been wanting from these D+ shows. Fun, low stakes, episodic stories that doesn't go overboard with melodrama. Favorite MCU offering in ages. Tatiana Maslany is a treasure.
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I've re-watched Bly Manor. That show is so perfectly crafted, easily Mike Flanagan's best work. Also re-watched Midnight Mass, which is also excellent, right up until the final episode where it and everyone's intelligence falls right the fuck off a roof. Those first 6 episodes though are so good, it really makes me sad it ended with such a poorly thought out "happy ending". Watched the first episode of Midnight Club (Mike Flanagan's new thing) and it definitely has the Are You Afraid of the Dark? vibe going. Wasn't terribly interested but it's Flanagan's work so I'll at least finish it.
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Season 4 of The Sinner is a huge turnaround from a massively disappointing Season 3. Still not as good as the first two seasons, but it was nice to see it rebound in its final one.
The third season of Star Trek: Lower Decks isn't as riotous funny as the first two, but is still very solid. They've been walking the line of irreverent/ serious so closely it was bound that the scales would tip in one direction eventually.
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She-Hulk - This is just goofy, light-hearted fun. It's pretty different from the usual MCU shows and I think that makes for a pretty chill watch. It has an ongoing story, but is generally it's own thing every episode and the bit of 4th wall breaking is a little extra spice thrown in. It's not amazing, but it's some good fun. I'd probably put it in the upper half of the MCU shows so far.
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Watcher - Naomi Watts was stellar, the show is gripping beggining to end. Leaving the viewer not knowing who it could be. The watcher honestly could be anyone from the daughter to you reading this and the director conveys what it feels like to be the husband. And it's filled with energy that you can feel through the screen - 95/100
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She-Hulk - This is just goofy, light-hearted fun. It's pretty different from the usual MCU shows and I think that makes for a pretty chill watch. It has an ongoing story, but is generally it's own thing every episode and the bit of 4th wall breaking is a little extra spice thrown in. It's not amazing, but it's some good fun. I'd probably put it in the upper half of the MCU shows so far.
That's exactly what I liked about it, too. It was nice to finally get something from the MCU that remembered it was enough just to be fun.
I've watched the first three seasons of Veep. It starts off pretty ok and has been getting better with literally every successive episode.
Veep continues to get better with every episode until it peaks at the end of season 5. Season 6 is roughly the same quality as S5, but a bit more inconsistent as they're trying a lot of new things. S7 is the first legitimate step down, as it everything just gets a bit too outlandish, but this comes almost exclusively from the fact that it is the only season written after the 2016 election, and it had to compete with the new absurdity of American politics.
Cabinet of Curiosities - One great episode, one good one, one decent one, and the rest just OK or worse.
Andor - Holy hell this was good. Maybe the best Star Wars content Disney has put out. Close call with Mando S1.
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window - Solid-ish parody of the Gaslit Woman Mystery Genre. I love how straight it plays the joke, and the touches of absurdity, but it's a balance that would have worked better in a 90 minute runtime, not an 8 episode mini-series. Back half is better about it than the first.
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She-Hulk - This is just goofy, light-hearted fun. It's pretty different from the usual MCU shows and I think that makes for a pretty chill watch. It has an ongoing story, but is generally it's own thing every episode and the bit of 4th wall breaking is a little extra spice thrown in. It's not amazing, but it's some good fun. I'd probably put it in the upper half of the MCU shows so far.
That's exactly what I liked about it, too. It was nice to finally get something from the MCU that remembered it was enough just to be fun.
I've watched the first three seasons of Veep. It starts off pretty ok and has been getting better with literally every successive episode.
Veep continues to get better with every episode until it peaks at the end of season 5. Season 6 is roughly the same quality as S5, but a bit more inconsistent as they're trying a lot of new things. S7 is the first legitimate step down, as it everything just gets a bit too outlandish, but this comes almost exclusively from the fact that it is the only season written after the 2016 election, and it had to compete with the new absurdity of American politics.
Cabinet of Curiosities - One great episode, one good one, one decent one, and the rest just OK or worse.
Andor - Holy hell this was good. Maybe the best Star Wars content Disney has put out. Close call with Mando S1.
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window - Solid-ish parody of the Gaslit Woman Mystery Genre. I love how straight it plays the joke, and the touches of absurdity, but it's a balance that would have worked better in a 90 minute runtime, not an 8 episode mini-series. Back half is better about it than the first.
OMG, She-Hulk was such an incredibly god-awful steaming pile of dog shit.
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Third season of The Umbrella Academy is easily the weakest so far. It's not bad, but there is a bit more manufactured drama that's caused by characters not acting quite like themselves, being impulsive, etc.
Netflix's The Characters is an interesting experiment. 8 30 minute sketch episodes all written by different comedians. Not as hit or miss as Cabinet of Curiosities, but it is kinda varied. Loved the Kate Berlant, Paul Downs, and Tim Robinson episodes.
The Way Down - Documentary about a religious weight loss "church" that is about 15 minutes from me. Fascinating stuff, but like so many of these lately, really should have just been a movie.
Rewatched all of I Think You Should Leave while I was out of town. Definitely turned around on my opinion about Season 2. Now I'm sure it is way better than the first after being way more undecided after my first viewing.
Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal which is of the most interesting, bizarre, meta, and incredible things I've ever seen.
The final season of Atlanta solidifies it as one of the best, daring, most creative, genre-bending series ever made. Just incredible stuff.
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Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal which is of the most interesting, bizarre, meta, and incredible things I've ever seen.
Knowing the lengths to which Nathan Fielder has before shown audiences he's willing to go, I still found The Rehearsal to be such a huge surprise as Fielder again blew away all of my expectations. As some off-the-wall social experiment, there comes a moment where I'm sure many viewers are left to truly consider what is is they're even watching. When discussing the show with someone, they said how they believe the show transcends genre; while I'm not sure I can agree to that opinion fully, there is certainly some truth to it in considering what The Rehearsal is. Toward the end, there are certainly moments where the direction the project is moving in becomes quite surreal as more and more heavy themes are presented. As a follow-up to Nathan for You, I think the more mature tone that the project held set the two apart from another for the better.
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Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal which is of the most interesting, bizarre, meta, and incredible things I've ever seen.
Knowing the lengths to which Nathan Fielder has before shown audiences he's willing to go, I still found The Rehearsal to be such a huge surprise as Fielder again blew away all of my expectations. As some off-the-wall social experiment, there comes a moment where I'm sure many viewers are left to truly consider what is is they're even watching. When discussing the show with someone, they said how they believe the show transcends genre; while I'm not sure I can agree to that opinion fully, there is certainly some truth to it in considering what The Rehearsal is. Toward the end, there are certainly moments where the direction the project is moving in becomes quite surreal as more and more heavy themes are presented. As a follow-up to Nathan for You, I think the more mature tone that the project held set the two apart from another for the better.
I hadn't seen Nathan for You yet (aside from random clips here and there), but I just finished Season 1 last night, and I think you are spot on. It is gutbustingly funny, but it definitely feels like it was a series of trial runs (of varying degrees of seriousness) for The Rehearsal.
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Last season of The Walking Dead went up on Netflix, so I figured why not, I'll finish up the series. It's never been as good as the earlier seasons and I wouldn't say the final season was particularly great, but it's...fine. I feel like Season 10 had more of a serious threat to it with The Whisperers, as The Reapers early on in Season 11 were kinda lame, and the Commonwealth was a change of pace for the show, but I thought it dragged a lot. There's decent things dotted throughout, but it's not really a show I'd recommend.
And I'm halfway through Star Wars: Andor and despite the high praise I've heard about it, the first half of the season is kinda boring aside from the actual heist in Episode 6. This type of show is what I want to see with Star Wars, everything doesn't need to be Jedi and fan favorite characters, but I don't know, Andor is just sorta stumbling through scenarios and the Coruscant plot line is just okay and I could not care less about what is going on with the failed security officer lol Maybe the show really pulls it together in latter half, but it's not been a particularly great start.
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The thing with Andor is that it builds, and builds, and builds on everything that comes before it, where I'd say that probably literally every episode is better than the one before it, but the end result wouldn't be nearly as satisfying if you hadn't built that earlier foundation.
It reminds me of Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Sans the first awful episode, that show just got better and better throughout the season until it hit one if the best season finales I'd ever seen.
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Finished Andor and I'm still not in love with it. It's okay. The show was just steadily decent with spikes of interesting stuff going on and I would say the latter half is better than the first, but nothing wowed me, it's just a decent bit of scifi drama, and that's about it. Maybe I sorta fell in for the hype and that kinda tainted things a smidge, my expectations were too high because of that, but it's fine. Compared to the other Star Wars shows, I'd probably say I like it more than Boba Fett, it's better written, more consistent, but I think I just like Mandalorian more in general as a show.
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The rest of Nathan for You is incredibly hilarious, and often incredibly smart, but sometimes it felt a bit too much like a prank show for my tastes. Overall, though, Nathan Fielder is a mad genius.
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Overall, though, Nathan Fielder is a mad genius.
Some of Fielder's much earlier work is also incredibly funny. From his old YouTube channel, Thin Watermelon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-Y31ONZuI) and "Morning Walk" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcrLSSlNZGs) are two of my favorites. His old news segment On Your Side has some good clips too, such as Talking to the Animals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jDGJRKFv7Q).
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Star Trek: Prodigy surprised the hell out of me. Reminded me a lot of Avatar and Korra in that while it is targeted towards children it doesn't talk down to them while having mature themes. It does this while still feeling like Star Trek through and through.
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Last of Us: Episode 1 - I'm not gonna keep up with the show till its done, but I had the HBO sub for a week anyways, so figured I'd just watch the first episode and it's good. They stay really accurate to the game, which doesn't make for a truly exciting watch as I played the game twice, so I know what is mostly going to happen, but they are interjecting some new stuff to fill things out here and there, like we got an extended opening with Joel and his daughter that is nice.
There is a big change of how the infection works, they got rid of spores in favor of "tendrils", which I don't love the change, but the "tendrils" are creepy as hell, so I don't mind it. It's not crazy important to the overall story, but they are so accurate to the game as is currently, something minor being altered like that isn't so bad.
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Last of Us: Episode 1 - I'm not gonna keep up with the show till its done, but I had the HBO sub for a week anyways, so figured I'd just watch the first episode and it's good. They stay really accurate to the game, which doesn't make for a truly exciting watch as I played the game twice, so I know what is mostly going to happen, but they are interjecting some new stuff to fill things out here and there, like we got an extended opening with Joel and his daughter that is nice.
There is a big change of how the infection works, they got rid of spores in favor of "tendrils", which I don't love the change, but the "tendrils" are creepy as hell, so I don't mind it. It's not crazy important to the overall story, but they are so accurate to the game as is currently, something minor being altered like that isn't so bad.
Pretty much where I landed on it as well. It's incredibly well made, but I can't find myself getting that excited for it week to week, since I already know the story pretty well.
As for the spore change, I understand it for a couple of reasons - there were always internal logic inconsistencies with it in the games. Why is this room ok, but the next room over not? Just how many spores can you inhale? How far does a single blooming body spread? Getting rid of spores gets rid of all those types of questions. Secondly, it's to keep the actors faces uncovered, which, sure, yeah, whatever.
Second episode:
I honestly think I liked it more than the premiere. It showed that they can do more than just adapt the cutscenes and are able to take the actual gameplay loop and make it compelling to watch. The premiere was really good, but outside of the cold open (which please let every episode have some kind of pre-outbreak cold open) I couldn’t shake the whole “I’ve already seen this” feeling.
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Finally got around to Harley Quinn: Season 3 and the show is still just a lot of fun. I really enjoy how they are goofing on all the heroes and villains, I feel they handle it all in a way that still keeps the characters intact, but just amplifies their extremes or gets to play with them in different ways and are able to do a lot with genuine character growth.
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Willow was generally a bit of a disappointment. It gets way better in the back half, but the first half was tonally all over the place, and a lot the dialogue is terrible and filled with modern colloquialisms. And the decision to use modern rock songs over the credits was baffling. If it were it's own new idea that wouldn't be a problem, but it does not work as a sequel to the movie. It grew into its potential over time, and I'll watch S2, but I just wish it were good from the jump.
The first season of Abbott Elementary is extremely solid and sure-footed, especially for a network sitcom. Great characters, fun performances.
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Eddie Murphy and David Duchovny were great in You People.
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Watched the first four episodes of Poker Face. Very fun murder mystery show in the vein of Columbo. Helps that I love Natasha Lyonne.
Don't know if there will be a better episode of television this year than The Last of Us episode 3.
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Don't know if there will be a better episode of television this year than The Last of Us episode 3.
It might be one of my favorite episodes of TV that I've every watched. Spectacular.
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Don't know if there will be a better episode of television this year than The Last of Us episode 3.
It might be one of my favorite episodes of TV that I've every watched. Spectacular.
I hesitate to say this just because of potential recency bias, and because I watch a lot of TV, but it really was so, so great.
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Finished Episode 1 of TLOU. It's the second coming, it's digital poetry, it's a felt tip pen scratching accross papyrus to give us independence from tyranny but in media form. It's velvet. I didn't expect in a million years it would follow the game so closely. Most game spinoffs go their own direction. Alter the plot. It borders on a live action version of the game itself. So far anyway. The dialogue. Pretty blown away. It's a ode to gamers with depth to keep non gamers involved. At first I was unsure about the Ellie casting but she nails the angst, sass and vibe of Ellie. Sarah was a gem. She gold the depravity of the early moments of apocalypse. Loving this.
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Paul T. Goldman is a fascinating project that is part documentary, part failed TV pilot, all based on the supposed real life of the titular Goldman. It has tinges of Nathan Fielder's work (the director did a few episodes of Nathan for You) alongside a darkly comic and vaguely sinister true crime doc, like Tickled.
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Ep 3 of TLOU is harrowing, it's so infectiously pretty in ways an apocolypse has no right to be. The love story unraveling on screen, the ambiance, the pacing. The pure power. Offerman ia a poised actor beyond what he is given credit for. Druckman yet again showing why love is love. It is a flower in a desolate land of rotting walker flesh. Homosexuality in zombie films was so sparse before, you'd almost believe the diseases were eliminating of the ability to be homosexual. Having a man who has been alone for years find purpose in the solace of another. Gender becomes irrelevant. Plot takes the wheel. And you just be. The show just rolls like a Nascar tire made of velvet. In a zombie setting. You would find societal psuedo religious constructs dwindle, bonds would form within smaller intergender dominated groups. Horror erases stigma. Pain unites. Love encompasses. People wouod accept themselves. It was awesomely written. I know many are angered by it. But honestly homophobia isn't my cup of lipton. TLOU 2 now this. Druckman knows how to tell love with no fear of fitting boundaries and anyone it offends are worth losing. Congrats and massive chefs kiss. The romanticism of it all. The speed but also depth. I am wow'd. 100/100
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All Of Us Are Dead - Finally finished this, did it in two large chunks. I still think South Korean media does some of the best zombies out there. I don't know if this comes from Train of Busan specifically (I don't know about South Korean zombie media before that), but the zombies are fucked up when a person transforms into one. Where in Walking Dead the virus you can sorta imagine casually lifting the corpse and putting it back to work, but in this show, it's like the virus is trying to capture the body, control it, so it contorts and there's bone and joints snapping and cracking, it's gross and intense and it never once stops feeling that way. It's always unsettling and definitely a South Korean zombie trademark.
The show itself is very decent, it's fairly messed up, like some horrid stuff happens to these kids and people, but it almost borders on being a little too depressing, like the tragic story stuff almost feels too forced to draw out a sad reaction at points. It doesn't ruin anything, but maybe it could've been written better or even not need. It also doesn't help that the bouts of humor and levity to try and perk things up come off very clunky too in a show like this. I also think the show would be better if it was cut down like an episode to kinda quicken up the pacing a tad, I'm sure at least two of these episodes could've been condensed down to one as I was starting to skim through the character moments of kids talking about stuff.
As a zombie show, it's really good, there is always an abundance of zombies, there's never a situation where the zombies are not plentiful and therefore a threat, especially as they are all fast and aggressive. It's also not a gorefest, I don't mind gore in a zombie flick, but it's definitely on the lighter side, plenty of blood, biting, violence for sure, but it's rarely gratuitous like some other zombie media can be where it's like the gore is the focus more than the story or characters.
If you are into zombie media, I do recommend this. Train to Busan, Kingdom, and this are all great South Korean zombie media. And to make note, if you watch Train to Busan, do not watch Peninsula. It's a super garbage and very embarrassing sequel to Busan lol
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Velma - It's not nearly as awful as all the review aggregates would have you believe. I laughed out loud at least once per episode, but it's incredibly scattershot and often too mean-spirited. Also, there was no reason for it to be Scooby-Doo characters.
Murder, She Wrote - So I made it to the second intended ending of the show at Season 7, and through the last of the bookend episodes (which were way better this season). Only 5 more seasons to go!
Poker Face had a very solid first season. Sometimes not quite as clever as it tried to be, but solid direction across the board and killer (puns!) guest stars every week.
The Last of Us is far and away the best live action video game adaptation, but aside from one or two episodes it is missing the emotional core of the game. It is a faithful adaptation of nearly all of the cutscenes but without the gameplay sections the pacing feels very choppy and Joel and Ellie's relationship isn't as developed.
M.O.D.O.K. - This was fine. The doofy supervillain stuff is generally solid, but the family drama didn't work all that well.
The first two seasons of Line of Duty are a pretty brilliant crime procedural. Best one I've seen in a while. Eager to watch the remaining seasons.
Third season was the best one yet.
Cunk on Earth - Well this was just funny as hell, and just the right length to not wear out its welcome.
Toast of Tinseltown - Maybe a little more surreal than Toast of London, but not as strong in the plot department. Matt Berry is a mad genius.
Fourth season of Line of Duty isn't as tightly plotted as the first three, but it's still a pretty compelling watch. Thandwie Newton is a terrific seasonal guest star.
The fifth season of Line of Duty gets pack to a more methodically plotted story than S4, but some seams are starting to show. They're returning to several story beats they've used previously, but they are thankfully still executed extremely well.
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Peacemaker - Pretty handily the single best entry in the DCEU, which is a big surprise, especially because Peacemaker was about the last character I wanted a show about (after that very solid arc in The Suicide Squad), but they really made him interesting and nuanced. Plus it is hilarious.
Third season of The Mandalorian is probably the weakest overall, but I still enjoyed it. I think you could have moved some stuff around for pacing purposes - chop that Dr. Pershing episode up and spread it throughout the season, instead of doing it all in one, for example - but in general I could watch Mando and Grogu do random fetch quests every week and be cool with it.
I've watched the first three seasons of Broad City, which is, overall, very good and very funny. It's got a bit of the surreal vibe of Atlanta along with the realistic relatability of Pen15. Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, the two leads are incredible, and they got an amazing supporting cast that they do not overuse. The second season was the best so far, with the first finding it's footing a bit, and the third being a bit more experimental, which worked more often than not but led to it being a little more uneven.
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The Mandalorian: Season 3 - I really enjoyed it. I do agree it's not the best season, it doesn't have that initial strong focus the first two did, but I feel like I heard a lot of folks talking poorly about it and I'm here enjoying it more than Andor, a series that people were really talking up as the best Star Wars has done lately, but I thought was fairly middling.
It does sorta feel like a story that Mando/Grogu sorta get relegated to the backburner for slightly, but as someone that is here for the "Mandalorian" stuff, getting a whole season dedicated to Mandalore and the Mandalorian people is great. It will be nice to see the story seeming turn back to what it started out as more, Mando and Grogu getting involved in bounty hunter work, dealing with Imperial Remnants, that sounds great.
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Seasons 4 and 5 of Broad City are both very good. S4 is a bit better than S3, and S5 is great wrap up to the series. It's gets far more into the emotional aspect of Ilana and Abbi's relationship, so while it's not as uproariously funny it earns the ending it shoots for.
Second season of Perry Mason isn't quite as good as the first. It's still really good TV, but the overall conspiracy and investigation, while interesting, isn't as deep or engaging. The trial is also tough to get invested in.
Watched the first two seasons of Better Call Saul. The first season is a bit better than the second, as it was obvious they didn't know if the show was gonna work, so it tells a full story that shows you how these characters could have ended up where they are in Breaking Bad. S2 ends up spinning its wheels a bit, but does provide some good character work and do a good job of putting the characters on an even more direct path for where they are in BB.
What makes it work so well as a prequel is that Saul and Mike were characters that we only ever saw in orbit of Walt, so all the people in their personal lives (save only 1 or 2) could easily survive to, and be around in BB.
I put on the first season of The X-Files as a background watch while working. A bit of a mistake, because it is one hell of a season of television. Amazing music, stories, cinematography. Just phenomenal.
Season 3 of Better Call Saul is probably about on par with S2, but with inverted strengths and weaknesses.
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Season 3 of I Think You Should feels like a little bit of a step down from 1 and 2, but there are still sketches that get in your head, fester, and just get funnier over time. I'll give it a second watch in a couple of months and see where I land then.
After season 4 of Better Call Saul I'm ready to say that I'm not in the camp that thinks it is better than Breaking Bad. It is still extremely good, just not that good.
Fifth season of Better Call Saul in the books. Ended incredibly strong, but the first half was kind of all over the place. Probably because it was confirmed that they would be getting season 5 & 6 to end, and they needed to clear out the old plots and really get their endgame started. It's felt very different, in general, since the end of S3 and the death of a major character that really kind of shifted the tone and focus of the show in general. Not in a bad way, necessarily, it just doesn't feel quite the same - focusing far more on the cartel storylines, etc.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - I haven't watched Star Trek in ages, not counting the new movies, I haven't really watched a Star Trek series since maybe Enterprise back in the day. I heard Discovery was a mixed bag, same for Picard, but I started to hear good things about this one and going into it with not much knowledge of it, I think it's a very decent start with the first episode. I believe I had a general idea of it being a prequel series to the original show, though I didn't know it had a younger cast of some of the original crew. Definitely nice having a better version of Spock than what we got with the movies.
As a Star Trek show, seems like it has the right goals in mind story wise, solving dilemma's with dialogue and diplomacy, while having some action dotted throughout. So we'll just have to see how the rest of the show goes, but the first two episodes were solid.
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Finished Better Call Saul. The last seasons good, but feels a little disjointed due to the structure. Absolutely worth a watch if you are a Breaking Bad fan, but it is a slower more deliberate series that ultimately has the same style while thematically going in pretty different directions.
Final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a huge rebound from the uneven S4. The final two episodes are particularly well-written, with Tony Shaloub getting a monologue in the penultimate episode that might be the best thing I've ever seen him do. They do start the season and then intersperse with flashes to Midge and Susie's futures that, while interesting, give away a bit too much information and undermine a lot of the potential dramatic tension. Mostly, though, it stuck the landing.
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Skull Island - This was great. I thought it was marketed more initially as a "Kong" show, I mean it is Skull Island, but the show is specifically just called that and Kong is actually a more minor character than that. Which I'm totally fine with, because this is just a good general monster show and it's great getting to see more monsters and such. My only problem with the show is that it's short lol 8 episodes, normal 25'ish minute run time, I could absolutely use more.
Characters are a lot of fun, enjoyed the humor as it's not trying to be super serious for a lot of it, something leaning more for teens and up than for kids, especially with the violence and blood. Animation and art style is great, there is some CG strewn about, but it's used sparingly. I could maybe understand someone not really liking the show if you just wanted like "Kong Adventures" or something, like the '98 Godzilla cartoon where each episode is just Godzilla fighting a new monster, but I like seeing more exploration of this world which is why I'm looking forward to the show Monarch. I assume it'll be kinda similar to this, just in live action.
I think they retconned a thing or two in this from the previous movies, but it's not too big of a deal, just something I noticed, though it absolutely does call back to the Kong movie specifically a few times which is fun. Show is a great watch, I hope they get another season. I mean it's the Monsterverse, I'll basically take anything at this point lol
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Freevee's Jury Duty is a long term elaborate prank show that is made special by their perfect choice of a mark in Ronald Gladden. He's so affable and friendly that everything they throw at him rolls off his back and he genuinely like all of the people in on the con - and they like him.
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Freevee's Jury Duty is a long term elaborate prank show that is made special by their perfect choice of a mark in Ronald Gladden. He's so affable and friendly that everything they throw at him rolls off his back and he genuinely like all of the people in on the con - and they like him.
Um...I—uh—I-I-I-I also am racist.
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Freevee's Jury Duty is a long term elaborate prank show that is made special by their perfect choice of a mark in Ronald Gladden. He's so affable and friendly that everything they throw at him rolls off his back and he genuinely like all of the people in on the con - and they like him.
Um...I—uh—I-I-I-I also am racist.
Smaller jumps, James.
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The Rig: Season 1 - Ended up watching a random show because I couldn't figure out what to watch. Idea for this seemed interesting enough and the show was overall fine. Decent bit of drama about a crew on an oil rig that ends up dealing with a mysterious event that cuts them off from the rest of the world. I wasn't sure where it would go and I'm mostly fine with where it went. Has a pretty clear environmental message that comes across a little ham fisted in places, but the cast is good, some of which I remembered from Game of Thrones and luckily this isn't a canceled show I stumbled across, like when I found "The River" and was like, "This is cool, I wonder when it's getting another season" and it turned out to have been canceled two years before I watched it lol
I think I was drawn to this because it was about an oil rig, of which I've played the game "Rust" a lot, and there's an oil rig to get to in that and I thought a story centered on one could be interesting. Was sorta the reasoning I might watch Black Demon, which is a giant shark movie that I think is generally set on an oil rig lol
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I watched the two released season of Yellowjackets. Totally wild show. Great first season, but the writing takes quite a dip in S2. The start and end are really good, but the middle has totally idiotic writing involving a police investigation and completely forgets about the previous season's story with one of the leads. Great characters and performances all around, but it was very frustrating.
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My Adventures With Superman: Episode 1 - Normally I don't do just a single episode, I try to wait for more to binge, but it's free on youtube right now and I wasn't to see what they were giving us and it's pretty good. It's really nice having this old school feeling Superman that I don't know if we've had since maybe the 90's animated one? You got Clark, Jimmy, and Lois as interns, Clark is just learning the extent of his powers as they begin to take shape, and it's all well animated and fun.
So much Superman stuff for awhile has been animated movies with the more serious and darker stories with him in it like Injustice, or the Death of Superman, or some big end of the world Justice League sort of thing, or you have the recent dark Snyder takes on Superman, and this one is just trying to go back to that classic Clark Kent/Superman dynamic and I think that's going to be a fun time. It's sorta what the upcoming movie is sounding like it'll be too, which I'm all for. Give me color, give me humor, lighten Superman back up, I'm cool with that. I hope the rest of the show is good.
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Still plunking away at Finished Murder, She Wrote. Season 8 ended with a genuinely sad episode followed by one with the most hateable victim I can remember from the show.
PlutoTV finally started airing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and I've probably watched 2 seasons worth in the last week. I've been reminded of just how handily it is my favorite Trek series.
Mrs. Davis is a totally wild mini-series about a nun who has been tasked with finding the Holy Grail by an AI from Damon Lindelof. Really wacky and fun and surprising. Definitely worth checking out.
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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress - Haven't rewatched this since it aired, but I still think it's a great show. I think it was made specifically because of the popularity of Attack on Titan, the same studio making that taking the opportunity to create their own show in a similar vein and I think they made a pretty solid show with a cool setting. I still think as a show that it needed two seasons, one season that was more dedicated to the former town surviving for a time on the train, and then the second dealing with the events of Biba. That might just be me as someone who enjoys post-apocalyptic survival stuff and we don't really get more than a few episodes of that before Biba's stuff show up.
Love all the design ideas for the show though with the cool steam powered trains and steam tech, the walled cities, and I like a unique zombie, so having them turn extra strong with a focus around their glowing metal-like encaged hearts as a focus for attacks is pretty cool. I do wish it got another season or another movie, which would let it explore more of the story as they kept teasing stuff with the one stone. Would be a nice way to wrap the show up.
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I've been watching The Leftovers recently. Still only on season 1, I know that season 2 and 3 are very different. But I must say, even though I'm only on episode 7, this might be my favorite television series.
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Mike Judge's Beavis & Butt-Head on Paramount+ is so damn good. I hope there's more to come but for now it seems like it may be done to switch focus to King of the Hill.
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead - This is only for the first two episodes that have been out, but as a sucker for zombie stuff, I was looking forward to this one. The idea of someone being HAPPY for the zombie apocalypse, not because it would let them go crazy and ignore all morality and become a monster, but because they are on the verge of killing themselves in their job, so the zombie apocalypse lets them quit work and have a chance at enjoying life lol
It has a really fun art style where everything going on, including the bloody gore is just blasted with color, making it feel like it's the apocalypse by way of Splatoon lol I think it's gonna be a fun show.
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood - Needed something random to watch and figured I might rewatch most of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, short of the newest arc which I have the other half to watch. This was always my least favorite arc, and it continues to be my least favorite. The dub might not help things, I don't think anyone really knows how to do a British accent in the show, it's very cheesy, it feels like a bad stage play or something lol This arc still wouldn't be super great in Japanese either, animation isn't the best at times, and the characters aren't the best. Jonathan is kind of a boring guy compared to every one to follow, this isn't the Dio everyone loves, Speedwagon is mostly just there to be like "Oh my god, this is happening!", Baron Zeppeli is kinda okay, but he's only around for a few episodes. There's also not a lot of those quirky characters that kinda defines Jojo as the show goes on outside of like Jack the Ripper and the two resurrected knights.
I know the next arc is a step up with like Joseph being all wacky, the Pillar Men, and some of the other characters that show up, so looking forward to it abit more. Really excited to get to Stardust Crusaders as that was always my favorite.
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency - Huge improvement over the first part, like across the board. Better animation, the characters are way more fun, the Pillar Men are a crazy threat, it's super ridiculous and what you will see from Jojo from here on out. Dub is better too, I mean, it's cheesy with accents, but I thought it was still better lol Joseph is an absolute prick, but he's so wacky, he's just way more entertaining than Jonathan. I forgot how it feels like they sorta...almost positively portray the Nazi's in this, like it starts out as them being obviously bad, but then it's just them working together, and Stroheim is like a friend of Joseph, Caesar has a Nazi buddy...I mean it's not exactly positive, I guess they treat it more neutral, just weird on a second watching lol
Great part though, Stardust Crusader is next, which was my favorite part in the past, so we'll see if that still rings true.
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Secret Invasion - Yeah this was boring. Nick Fury having his own show and it being a spy thriller isn't a bad idea and it's been setup enough over the movies to make it work, but this isn't an exciting spy thriller, especially with knowing what this story is based on, it feels lacking. There's a little bad writing, the ending is kinda crap as it feels like it undercuts the more grounded feel of the entire show and is only there to connect with part of the comics story, there's missed opportunities, and the justification as to why none of the superheroes, or even just regular heroes are brought in to help, is weak at best.
I can be very forgiving of the MCU as it has been lately...for the most part...I'm easy to please, but this feels like they did all this work bringing the Skrulls into the MCU, setting up stuff, and then when it came time to adapt Secret Invasion, they just had no story. They had a crude outline utilizing what happened in the comics, but couldn't think of any interesting way to utilize it.
Skip this, it's not worth watching. The more I think about it, there's a chance this plays into maybe the next Captain America perhaps, but I still can't recommend this show, it's just too underwhelming.
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Baki Hanma: Season 2 - This is the kind of show that anime is made for. Something so insane, so absurd, that it could never be made in real life because it could never recreate the type of visuals and story a show like this does. I didn't think this anime could get more ridiculous after the previous season, and I knew this plot was coming, but it is absolutely wild. A caveman from prehistoric times (Yes, they point out how this changes all known scientific thought on the subject of humanity), who was somehow hilariously preserved perfectly in salt all this time, just to be revived in the present day in a time period full of the craziest, strongest, fighters today.
This season is almost horrific with some of the violence that happens. It's actually been interesting to watch this season and how the series has progressed from the first show they did, where it had a lot of kinda crappy CG going on, mixed with animation, to shifting to the next season that had less CG and more well rounded animation, to there being almost no CG now. I almost feel like the animation can be kinda limited a lot of the time here, but the actual art is so good and anime knows how to sell unmoving shots so well, it still feels so action heavy because of it. Not that anime's haven't failed that before, the first season of Record of Ragnarok is pure and utter garbage with how little action animation is there in the fights to the point that I stopped watching.
A sidenote, I love the voice actor for Baki in the English dub, he actually doesn't have a lot of lines in the show for the most part, he almost feels like a side character at moments, but how he voices certain lines were just the best. He's perfect for the character. That being said, there was an error or two in the dub, as twice the narrator said that Pickle (The cavemen, yes it's silly), was 6'5", which hilariously wrong, because Pickle is like 2 feet taller or more than most people. He's actually like 8 foot tall, but they kept saying 6'5", which would make most everyone else in the show not even 5 feet tall lol
Just an absolutely absurd season for sure, honestly a little messed up with a thing or two they do, but it is a show that doesn't hold back.
Also, I say this is in the most non-negative way possible, but this was the most homoerotic season of anime I've ever seen lol And in a show like Baki, that's saying a lot lol
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Twisted Metal is pretty good.
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With the new episodes of Futurama being released I decided to rewatch the entire series, but I've not been as diligent about it as I meant to, so I'm only up through Season 3. I'd forgotten just how much I love it. I'm curious to see how the Comedy Central episodes hold up, as I'd only seem most if those once compared to the 5-6 times I've seen the original run.
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I watched one episode of Twisted Metal, pretty good start actually, I was kinda not really expecting too much out of it, but it's goofy, violent, and it's got cars with guns. Peacock apparently doesn't do the free subscription with a tv deal anymore, so I probably won't get to the rest of it till later, but I like the setting for it, having it be that (seemingly) Y2K actually happened and the world went to hell, which explains why there's a bunch of crazies in gunned up cars running around. Looking forward to the rest.
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Legend of Vox Machina: Season 2 - Don't know why I took this long to get to this season, but finally did and it's as fantastic as I was hoping for, this is just great all around show. Good story, good characters, good action, it's hardcore and crude, it's just an awesome fantasy show. I highly recommend it and I'm so excited for the third season.
Also to note, yet another final Lance Reddick performance, and it's great to see these and how he's just so good in every thing. Like it's obviously him with some effects, but he just had that perfect, low, impactful voice, dude could say or talk about anything and I'd listen. Doesn't matter what he did, it was good. Will continue to be missed.
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I finished the original Fox run of Futurama. Still a really brilliant show, especially at the end of that era. On to the movies!
I started watching 12 Monkeys based off the strength of the third season of Picard (Terry Matalas was the showrunner of both), and the first season is pretty good, but nothing amazing. It has similar strengths and weakness to Picard, but I've also heard that it gets better as it goes, so I'm excited to keep going.
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With the new episodes of Futurama being released I decided to rewatch the entire series, but I've not been as diligent about it as I meant to, so I'm only up through Season 3. I'd forgotten just how much I love it. I'm curious to see how the Comedy Central episodes hold up, as I'd only seem most if those once compared to the 5-6 times I've seen the original run.
Coincidentally, I'm also in the middle of watching Futurama but started in mid-March. I've actually never seen the series before, and starting it was on a whim and had nothing to do with the latest series revival. I'm at the end of season six.
Generally, I find the show to be decent. Few episodes are really good, with many just being fine, and few again being bad, in my personal opinion. I've found character writing to be a little inconsistent mostly in regards to Fry, with some of the writing also having aged some poorly. A lot of pop culture or historical references aren't really funny either, even if you get them. Once season six starts, the series begins to incorporate plot writing focused on responding to modern culture and events similar to South Park. Some of these episodes are passable, I suppose, but I much prefer more original writing for this series.
I'll mention it here instead of the Movies topic, but Bender's Big Score is certainly the best of the four movies. Getting a more in-depth look at Fry's past and the events leading up to his cryogenesis was engaging as a first-time viewer. I personally thought the fourth movie Into the Green Yonder to be quite bad.
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With the new episodes of Futurama being released I decided to rewatch the entire series, but I've not been as diligent about it as I meant to, so I'm only up through Season 3. I'd forgotten just how much I love it. I'm curious to see how the Comedy Central episodes hold up, as I'd only seem most if those once compared to the 5-6 times I've seen the original run.
Coincidentally, I'm also in the middle of watching Futurama but started in mid-March. I've actually never seen the series before, and starting it was on a whim and had nothing to do with the latest series revival. I'm at the end of season six.
Generally, I find the show to be decent. Few episodes are really good, with many just being fine, and few again being bad, in my personal opinion. I've found character writing to be a little inconsistent mostly in regards to Fry, with some of the writing also having aged some poorly. A lot of pop culture or historical references aren't really funny either, even if you get them. Once season six starts, the series begins to incorporate plot writing focused on responding to modern culture and events similar to South Park. Some of these episodes are passable, I suppose, but I much prefer more original writing for this series.
This makes sense, because it was at Season 6 that the show was revived on Comedy Central. There are some really strong episodes in that era, but it is far more inconsistent in quality than the original Fox run. I've watched the original run several times (including with creator commentaries), but I've only watched the movies once or twice, and most of the CC episodes once, so I'm actually pretty stoked to be getting into those episodes this time.
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House of the Dragon - Been meaning to get around to this as someone who was a fairly big Game of Thrones fan (Barring the rushed final seasons) and I think this show is just alright. There isn't anything bad here, some good performances, it just feels so slow. Game of Thrones had so much more going on, so what political drama there was, it was spread across different families, locations, the drama wasn't just about the heir to the crown. It does find ways to change it up with time jumps, some plot elements that vary things, but I can't deny the show dragged to me every so often. By the end, it feels like it was all a prequel to the more exciting next season, so we'll have to see.
Also, if I ever have to see another horrific birth scene, it will be too damn soon. There better not be a single friggin one in the next season lol
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Tried to watch The Righteous Gemstones, loved the idea of it, good actors involved, but the comedy wasn't working. I like the exaggerated personalities and such, but I wasn't vibing with the tone, the characters are such dicks, but not in a funny enough way. I don't know, it's hard for me to explain, I might attempt another episode or two again, I've turned around on stuff before.
The Last of Us - Did finally getting around to watching the rest of this. I watched the first episode when it aired, but didn't need to keep up with it since I already played the game, so no real point as I knew the story. Overall, probably one of the best game adaptations that's been done. It keeps in everything it needs to story wise, what it changes makes sense in terms of making something better for TV, and they got to add extra stuff that wasn't brought up or maybe only mention in the game. The one big story change that I wasn't sure about, was Bill and Frank. I think that episode is fantastic, the ending basically gives Joel and Ellie what they needed, but it's also a very drastic departure from the original story. It's one I'm torn on, because both stories are good, but we did sorta miss out on that whole area from the game. It's different, but not a bad different.
Loved that Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker got roles in the show, I recognized Ashley Johnson immediately from her voice, I was like "That sounds weirdly like Ellie from the game" and then I realized it was her and it's so smart to bring her in like that. Troy Baker I didn't recognize at all with his role since he wasn't trying to sound like Joel and with the extra beard and such, I didn't even recognize him.
I don't think I have any real negatives, perhaps they could've worked in more interactions with the Clickers, it's such a small element of the TV show. I know a game needs more of that for gameplay sake, maybe it didn't work for pacing the episodes, and that might just be me wanting to see a little more action for action sake, but still, it's a good show and I'm interested to see how they handle the second game with the next two seasons (As I believe it was confirmed that's how they are handling it so as to not rush it).
That honestly going to be more interesting to me, because an issue I had with the Last of Us 2 was how that they handled the two storylines. I didn't like it being big chunks of Ellie and then big chunks with Abby. It felt horribly paced and I feel like a TV show could do reorganize it better perhaps, maybe even making it better than the game because of that, who knows.
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Harley Quinn Season 4 - Still just a fun, goofy show, I enjoy that it gets to keep playing around with all these heroes and villains and just make them kinda either outright absurd or plays around with the kind of character they are. It gives me a lot of Venture Bros vibes, so it's nice to have that with Venture Bros being done.
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Baki Hanma: Season 2 Part 2 - I hadn't even noticed they'd released part 2 of the season until I saw new stuff on TikTok, so went off to binge. The first part was the craziest the show has been I think, the second part is way less crazy, it's only really about two characters, much more stripped back story wise than ever before. Baki preparing for his fight with his father, and Retsu for some reason getting into boxing. That Retsu stuff was okay, it gave me a huge craving to see the Hajime No Ippo anime return, but I don't know why he's doing the whole boxing versus martial arts thing at all really and by the halfway point of this part, it's just sorta over with.
The Baki stuff is where its at of course, leading up to the fight between him and his dad and it's definitely the stuff you expect from Baki. I wouldn't say it's the craziest fight they've done and they aren't really going super hard on the animation still, there's some stuff happening at points, but it still feels fairly budget, it just works due to pretty decent art and pacing.
Also just thought I'd look up to see who voiced Baki in this, because he's pretty great and of course it's Troy Baker. I'm surprised I didn't recognize him.
Hope the series continues as I know there's at least 2 more series of the show and another manga just started. I'm sure it'll continue to be absolute nonsense as the rest of the show has been lol
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Watchmen - Wild show, I had been meaning to watch it for awhile. I was never a huge Watchmen fan, I read the comic, thought it was okay, watched the movie, thought it was okay, but this? This is really good. At first the show confused me, like it seemed as if I came into a story having missed information, but as the show goes on, everything is revealed, everything makes sense, and it's just a crazy show, but really engaging, taking turns I wasn't expecting. Honestly, kind of one of the most interesting tv shows I feel I've watched in awhile.
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Tried to watch The Righteous Gemstones, loved the idea of it, good actors involved, but the comedy wasn't working. I like the exaggerated personalities and such, but I wasn't vibing with the tone, the characters are such dicks, but not in a funny enough way. I don't know, it's hard for me to explain, I might attempt another episode or two again, I've turned around on stuff before.
Gemstones is maybe my favorite show airing these days, but it is a very specific brand of humor that isn't for everyone. I'd definitely recommend giving it another shot when you are in a different mood / mindset, but if it still doesn't click after an episode or two it's definitely not for you.
The newest season of What We Do in the Shadows is the strongest the show has been since season 2. Not a dud in the batch IMO, even if it does not utilize Kristen Schaal to her full potential. Plus, I could listen to Matt Berry read a phone book.
Justified: City Primeval was on ok revival series. Some good characters like the OG series, but the writing and dialogue was not nearly as strong, and the pacing was slacking, especially in the first half. Raylan is one of my favorite characters of all-time, so I was totally fine with it, even if it fell a little short of expectations. A decent 8 hour series that would have been a great 4 hour one.
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One Piece (Live Action) - They finally did it, they created a great live action anime adaptation! And its based off one of my favorite shows! There really aren't many decent handlings of live action anime, Alita is okay (I still don't like her big cg eyes), and I heard the Rurouni Kenshin movies are good, but I don't care about that series, but if there was ever an adaptation that would fail, it would be One Piece. It's an anime specifically designed to benefit from being a cartoon. Crazy character designs, crazy abilities, crazy world. Death Note? That should've been an easy home run, it's basically just a high energy drama with death gods showing up every so often.
The whole cast is great, I think it benefitted certain characters quite alot, like Usopp was not a character I enjoyed till much later on in the series, and Sanji was always grating with his loverboy routine, so dialing both of those characters back makes them way more enjoyable. They aren't different, just less extreme. I loved that we got more Buggy, who kinda stole the show for a lot of people. I actually can't think of anyone that I would point to as being way off base. I also appreciate that they leaned into their character designs. Some look silly, but they are silly characters. Garp gets his silly dog hat, people get their wild hair colors, I've seen folks say that it's very "cosplay", but yeah...there's not much other way to go about it and I'm very glad they didn't dial up the realism too far. One Piece is silly, let it be silly.
Story hits all the major story beats it needs to, there are definite shortenings, and some changes, characters not included, but this has to happen, they can't follow the anime exactly, or even the manga, it would be way too many episodes and unrealistic, but the story does what it needs to and that's what matters most. I've seen some folks rag on the differences, but I think some people are just unwilling to admit that some stuff has to be different to make it work as a live action show. Personalities have to be dialed down, things tweaked, characters and moments dropped that we really liked for the sake of a snappier, better paced story.
I would recommend this to fans and non-fans. I've been dying for a way to rewatch One Piece at a brisker pace and it's a fun experience to see a variation on a story I like. For non-fans, it's a fun comedic pirate romp with goofy characters, that's both light-hearted, but also abit of an edge, much like One Piece has always been. I really hope we get a couple more seasons, like I feel that's a longshot even if it's successful for them, it's a pricey and very involved show, like I would love to at least see up to...Water 7 perhaps, that would be like Season 4, but we'll see.
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The one piece live action looks to uncanny to me. I agree that it looks to cosplay but not in a proffesional good way, but than again I find it hard to imagine how you'd do it otherwise, even with improved budget it would probably not look that much different considering how crazy the original is.
Visuals wise the characters that got hit the hardest are the more monstrous characters. Stuff like buggy is nice though but that's a rare exception. Overall though the show to me is in the cheesy so bad it's good category. It looks ridiculous in a funny way, But I don't feel I can compare it to the original it's just to much of a downgrade for me.
Ironicly I feel that characters like zorro felt more like the character in interviews than in the actual show ::)
But as a one piece fan it's cool to see people enjoy it.
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Story hits all the major story beats it needs to, there are definite shortenings, and some changes, characters not included, but this has to happen, they can't follow the anime exactly, or even the manga, it would be way too many episodes and unrealistic, but the story does what it needs to and that's what matters most. I've seen some folks rag on the differences, but I think some people are just unwilling to admit that some stuff has to be different to make it work as a live action show. Personalities have to be dialed down, things tweaked, characters and moments dropped that we really liked for the sake of a snappier, better paced story.
it's natural for it to be somewhat different but they didn't condense it as much as I thought
ye had 1035 minutes of the anime condensed into 480 minutes which is pretty much 50% which is quite a bit of content still allot more than I expected.
If they do plan to continue this live action route. I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to cut some of the more monstrous or animal characters perhaps even some main ones like chopper or brook. I don't think those would do the live action much good. Seems like a nightmare to work with to make it decent looking
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Fourth season of Solar Opposites was a step up from the third, but still not as good as 1 or 2. The Silvercops stuff still feels like an attempt to recapture the Wall storylines. Enjoy Dan Stevens taking over as Korvo.
Telemarketers - Charmingly amateur and lo-fi docu series about two affable stoners who are feed up with the BS their telemarketing company is getting up to and decide to become whistle-blower. A little too long, like so many docu series these days, but doesn't outstay its welcome.
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Gamera: Rebirth - Unfortunately, I could only get through most of the first episode, I thought it was awful. I don't think it knows what it wants to be. There are three distinct art styles going on, where you have drawn, well detailed, backgrounds, and then you have very flat, stiff, low frames 3D humans and some other elements, and then there's the monsters that are this harsh, over-detailed, higher frames, style, and it's all conflicting with each other. As a story, I know Gamera has had a long history of kid stuff, Godzilla did too for a time, but it again has very conflicting styles. It's an end of summer friendship story between some teens, which is what a lot of the first half of the episode is, and then you have straight military/science stuff for that side of things. You have violence like people getting eaten and quick shots of people getting their limbs taken off with monster lasers, no blood, but also one of the kids is saying "fuck" in the first episode. It wasn't to be harsh and violent, but also very kid friendly and light, but it's also about monsters killing people...
I don't know if I can give it another shot. The bit I saw of Gamera looked fine, but it keeps cutting with jarring art styles and the explosion effects don't feel like they match either I didn't really like most of the Godzilla anime trilogy films, but they were at least cohesive in their art style. It's frustrating, because this was a long needed revival of Gamera, but this show looks terrible. I don't even care if the story is good, I just don't want to watch it. I don't know if this was a budget thing or bad direction on part of the studio. It's rough, I don't even know if I'd recommend it to hardcore Gamera fans, maybe they could put up with it, but my love of Gamera is much lower than my love of Godzilla, so I don't know if I can put up with it.
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I've watched the first 3 Comedy Central seasons of Futurama, and while being more inconsistent with wider gaps between the peaks and valleys it is still really damned good overall.
Second season of 12 Monkeys is generally better than the first. They're doing a lot with an obviously tiny budget on this show. It's supposed to just better with each season, so I'm excited to see where it goes, even ifit does feel kinda like Dark for Dummies.
Finished the Comedy Central run of Futurama, and the final season is the best and most consistent of that era. Game of Tones still makes me cry and Meanwhile is a great finale. Hulu episodes are up next!
Castlevania: Nocturne - Really good follow-up series. Gorgeous animation and great voice acting. It is a bit if a set-up season which was both expected and disappointing. Needs to add a bit more depth to the Big Bad, though, as they are totally outshined by the subordinates.
Finally finished off Ahsoka. It's fine. The back half is way stronger than the front half, but still feels pretty sterile throughout. An OK series that probably would have been better as a movie. Ray Stevenson got a terrific final role with Baylan Skoll, easily the most interesting part of the series.
The long, long overdue third season of Party Down. It didn't miss a step after over a decade. There are two episodes that I'd consider the best of the entire run.
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Super Cub - I've been in the mood for real chill anime stuff, so I finally got around to watching Super Cub, a cute slice-of-life anime, about some highschool girls that have mopeds. Very wholesome, very light, I just have a thing for anime shows that have like this very narrow niche to get engaged by. It's like finding someone who does really involved, over an hour long videos about some random thing on Youtube, I love that stuff. Silver Spoons with its agriculture school setting dealing with farming and such, or Moyasimon with it's agriculture school setting dealing with brewing and the like, yes, I have watched two Japanese anime shows about agriculture schools lol
No real complaints with Super Cub, it does what it needs to. The drama they have in episode 11 is a little forced I feel, but it doesn't take away too much.
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Silo - First time ever getting Apple TV, they really didn't have too much I was interested in for a long while, but there's a couple shows that looked pretty good and the Godzilla show is coming up, so I figured I'd finally jump in. I'm a big post-apocalyptic fan, and the setup for this show feels very Fallout with everyone locked inside a bunker for many decades, but I gotta say this show is great. I don't want to talk about anything with the story in particular, but I thought they did a pretty good job and I'm really interested to see where another season goes.
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The Fall of the House of Usher - I liked this one a lot. It's got more black humor than Flanagan's other shows and probably sticks the landing better than any of the others. Generally pretty cool and interesting takes on several Poe stories.
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Attack on Titan - It's finally finished after all these years. Crazy it took this long and took two studios to do it. I think I need to settle more on things to gather what I really feel on it, I think overall I'm okay with the story, I still think my favorite stuff was the first three seasons, when it's all dealing with stuff on the island. The mystery, the drama, the constant threat of titans, that was always the most engaging to me. But I did get a little emotional towards the end, I'm a big sap like that, but I liked it.
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The new Futurama season is pretty alright. Generally on par with the CC seasons, though the anthology episode is pretty rough. They've not been able to make them work since the FOX years.
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For All Mankind: Season 1 - Going through what Apple has and decided to start up For All Mankind, a realistic space exploration show with the slight twist of changing up history, where the USA wasn't the first to the moon, Russia was. It's not like some big crazy scifi story, it's not Wolfenstein or The Man on the High Castle, it's just a shift to create this concept where the space race didn't stop, tackling the idea of "What if we kept trying to push for more in space?" So more moon trips, building a base, and the hazards and trials of doing so. It's really good, a lot of great drama, covering like a...10 to 15 year time span from the first walk on the moon, to the mid-70's. I do recommend it, a good watch, I'm already starting into the next season.
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Twisted Metal was a total blast. I don't know jack about the games, but this felt like the perfect mix of action, camp, and humor. It gets a little quip happy at times, but I enjoyed it a lot.
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Twisted Metal was a total blast. I don't know jack about the games, but this felt like the perfect mix of action, camp, and humor. It gets a little quip happy at times, but I enjoyed it a lot.
I really need to get back to watching it, I watched the first episode, but didn't get to the rest, but I really liked what I was watching. Still wild that Twisted Metal of all things has a show lol Now if I could just get a remaster of Twisted Metal 2, I'd love that.
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Murder, She Wrote - It's really starting to show the seams in Season Nine. There are still some fun mysteries spaced throughout, but there are also far more stories that are poorly constructed and relying on outlandish or silly contrivances.
Our Flag Means Death - I love this weird little show. I might actually prefer the second season. Briskly paced, and the cheapness adds to the charm. Love the new characters, and laughed a lot.
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For All Mankind: Season 2 - Another good season, this one dealing with the aspects of moon base life and that of a very intense cold war situation. While I'm not always in love with the interpersonal drama that happens outside of the actual space stuff, it does have importance to the story in the end, it's not drama just for the sake of it. Definitely continues to be a solid show, looking forward to this next season and the next era of the space race.
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Watched the final batch of episodes of Disenchantment. It's got several really funny bits, and i like a lot of the characters, but I've never really cared for the serialized bits, and it leans really hard on them in the last stretch.
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For All Mankind: Season 3 - Another good season, dealing with a literal space race to Mars which was pretty exciting. There was one bit of interpersonal drama that I didn't really love in this season coming from the second season, it still works toward the greater drama of the show, it's just a weird story to keep pushing lol Overall still good, been burning through everything pretty quickly really which is always a good sign for a show to me, especially after three seasons and I'm glad I have a fourth to go through to see the next jump into the future of this whole space expedition experience.
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Fourth season of Harley Quinn has a lot of really great moments and finishes pretty strong, but I couldn't get invested in Ivy's story for half the season. Wasn't a fan of how little Harley and Ivy were together along with the lack of King Shark, but they finally realized just how one-note Clayface is.
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Invincible Season 2: Part 1 - Season is going great, always a bummer to get only half a season, but looking forward to the second half.
Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix - So this is way more awesome than I was expecting. I was expecting more of a parody show at first, lots of fun, ridiculous, edgy crossover stuff with Ubisoft properties, but it turns out to have really decent character and story stuff? Like this isn't far off in a lot of areas from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Sure, it's more jokey and tropey, a prominent character is Rayman of all things and some of what is going on is definitely edge for edge sake, but it is pretty good, has a lot of fun with its properties as there's Rayman, Far Cry, Beyond Good & Evil, and more. I'm sure some folks will take offense with some action taken with certain characters, but it shows they are willing to just go nuts with whatever they have.
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I watched the entirety of Reservation Dogs this week. A truly incredible show that had me alternating between laughing so hard that my stomach hurt and sobbing uncontrollably. Up there as one of the best series I've ever seen. Truly astounding.
Blue Eye Samurai - Reminded me a lot of Lone Wolf and Cub as well as Ghost of Tsushima. I don't think it's breaking any new ground with its story, but it really tells the hell out of the one it has. Also some stunningly gorgeous animation. Especially episodes 5 and 6.
Finally got around to watching The IT Crowd. It's really bizarre, in that it feels like a britcom from the 80s, and in some ways that is what makes it really work. The biggest problem is that the character of Roy is an old school misogynistic proto-incel. It gets less pronounced as the series goes on, and the show gets better with each successive season, but it made it really hard to enjoy the show at first.
Took a month or so, but I slogged through John Carpenter's Suburban Screams. The idea of making a series of high production value reenactments is an OK one, but you've got to get real actors. Watching awful performances for 45 minutes wasn't that fun.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always - This was corny and cheesy; the acting felt like plywood in some places or straight over-the-top in others; the choreography was a tad messy; and the CGI part was risible; but man, I freaking loved every minute of it. These were the Rangers I grew up with, and while it was a letdown not having Austin and Amy, although understandable given the circumstances, watching this took me back. Overall, there's no doubt that it could've been better, but it was still a nice special with a good story and dialogue, serving as a great send-off to Trini (Thuy) both as an homage and seeing the character's legacy continue through her daughter. The tribute/memorial at the end—taken from Season 2 of the original series—where Kimberly (and Zack) sang "Down the Road" was very emotional, and then seeing "In loving memory of..." truly hit hard.
And speaking of down the road, I guess now we wait for the next special within a decade or so, where somehow Rita returns anew, managing to seduce Tommy back to the dark side, where we end up getting another kind of/sort of similar outcome, the special this time titled "Forever & Always". Or we'll just have another Fast and the Furious–type deal where, like Brian, Tommy retires to be with his family, which doesn't seem that far-fetched, and it was somewhat alluded to in this special, not to mention that JDF eventually retired playing the character.
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I've watched the first two seasons of Succession over the last week or so. It's really good, and has-been steadily increasing in quality as it goes along, but I'm not feeling that it's one of the best shows of all time yet. The acting is uniformly incredible and it has incredibly natural feeling conversations and dialogue, though.
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Started binging through "Dark Side of the Ring", the documentary series all about darker aspects of the wrestling world. It's a hard watch at times with some of the stuff they deal with. I got through all of Season 1, and jumped ahead abit in Season 2, as a two part opener centered around Chris Benoit was probably gonna be too much nastyness to deal with in one session.
It's an interesting watch, a lot of elements I know as I've been watching wrestling on and off since the 90's, years of stories, online videos, a lot of this is I've picked up in one form or another over the years. A lot of sad stuff, a story or two that have a darker elements but are just exploring a character, such as with Randy Savage or just crazy stuff, like the episode on New Jack is insane, that's a literal insane psychopath who should never have been in wrestling, what a nutjob lol
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I like movies I just don't like chucky.
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Third season of Succession continues having impeccable performances and amazing family dynamics, but it's starting to feel like several plots are just going around in circles. Especially Kendall's.
Succession's fourth season is easily it's best, with one of the episodes being one of the best acted things I've ever seen. I love the characters and I love the performances, but I've basically never been able to get invested in the whole "Who is gonna win?" plot, but this season is where I got the closest.
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Binged through the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen and what an insane season this was. With Attack on Titan done, I feel like this is the show that's picking up the mantle of like that top tier anime bringing in wild animation, characters, and story. Once you get through the flashback story at the beginning, this entire season is practically one long action scene with some of the craziest choreography I've seen and not just well done visuals, but interesting and unique situations to those fights. There's destruction ranging from city wide to an absolutely sick, small scale, fight within a subway bathroom. There's never a fight where it drags or feels too long or too repetitive, it's all good. That's such a rare happening in tv show anime.
It is unfortunately tainted by the fact that to accomplish this level of work with all their other projects, MAPPA is destroying their artists. It's hard not to be impressed by everything going on, the artists are giving it their all, it just sucks to know how bad things are over there in Japan. It's long been known that Japan works their artists to the bone, to the point that many either leave it or suffer from debilitating health and mental issues from the amount of work they are pushed into doing, but apparently MAPPA went above and beyond that for this show. Hearing how widespread it is, there really has to be a point that the anime industry is likely going to see some sort of crash I feel. They can only treat their artists as disposable for so long before something happens.
It's still a really damn good show though. I'm curious to see where it leads as this is not a story I can call what is going to happen.
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Dark Winds is a supernaturally tinged murder mystery set on a New Mexican Navajo reservation in the 1970s. The first season is a brisk six episodes, and overall it's pretty entertaining. The lead is Zahn McClarnon, who is great in everything, but some of the supporting performances are spotty.
Second season of Dark Winds doesn't have as compelling of a story as the first season, but it does have two terrific episodes that are probably better than any in the first. Not a perfect show, but I'll continue watching when the new season comes out.
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The show has a weird release schedule, so just gonna count Hazbin Hotel as it is with the 4 episodes out lol It's good, I was a fan of Helluva Boss and while the art style is clearly the same, the execution of the shows feel different, it comes across much more like a regular TV show, just with a lot more swearing. Which is great, it feels like it has a stronger story focus because of that, where Helluva Boss can be kinda all over the place with the plotlines it wants to deal with. A couple very catchy songs which is nice too. I will say, it took me a short bit to get use to the new voice actors, only a few stuck around from the pilot, but gotta say, Keith David as one of the characters is always welcome, I can listen to that man in anything lol
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Since I've mentioned Nathan Fielder's works in the past, I'll also mention how I've finished watching his latest collaborative series The Curse. For a decade, he's played a terribly socially awkward character to the point where you question if that's his actual personality or not. With The Curse, some of those elements continue, but he was largely playing a different kind of character this time, which was so off-putting as it's almost a total contradiction to the persona he's taken on publicly for so long. This time around, he's clearly acting, where before it was (and perhaps still is) ambiguous.
The show isn't all about Nathan Fielder, as he's only one of three main cast members. Together with Emma Stone and Bennie Safdie, they bring this awful social presence that perfectly combines humor, cringe, and disgust in this scripted drama. I'm not divulging any specifics or really anything substantial about my thoughts because, to be honest, I'm still processing this strange project. At the same time, I think it's best to experience it blindly. I've really enjoyed reading discussion threads elsewhere about the series, though.
I'll also mention how The Curse is only streaming on Paramount+. I opted for a free seven-day trial and cancelled. When you try to cancel, an extra two free months are applied to your account, and you can still cancel with all that credit applied.
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Since I've mentioned Nathan Fielder's works in the past, I'll also mention how I've finished watching his latest collaborative series The Curse. For a decade, he's played a terribly socially awkward character to the point where you question if that's his actual personality or not. With The Curse, some of those elements continue, but he was largely playing a different kind of character this time, which was so off-putting as it's almost a total contradiction to the persona he's taken on publicly for so long. This time around, he's clearly acting, where before it was (and perhaps still is) ambiguous.
The show isn't all about Nathan Fielder, as he's only one of three main cast members. Together with Emma Stone and Bennie Safdie, they bring this awful social presence that perfectly combines humor, cringe, and disgust in this scripted drama. I'm not divulging any specifics or really anything substantial about my thoughts because, to be honest, I'm still processing this strange project. At the same time, I think it's best to experience it blindly. I've really enjoyed reading discussion threads elsewhere about the series, though.
I'll also mention how The Curse is only streaming on Paramount+. I opted for a free seven-day trial and cancelled. When you try to cancel, an extra two free months are applied to your account, and you can still cancel with all that credit applied.
I've been waiting on this to finish its run so I can binge the whole thing before I cancel my Paramount+ account. I've been interested ever since I heard the talent involved. It might be the next thing on my list after I finish Monarch.
Took a short detour and watched Bodies on Netflix. Solid little murder mystery series with a genre bent. It gets off to great start, with an intriguing story and compelling mysteries, but lises momentum towards the end because once things start falling in to place the endgame becomes pretty obvious.
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Binged the last 2 arcs of Demon Slayer to catch up and overall it's pretty decent, though after watching Jujutsu Kaisen, that show is definitely taking shonen series to a new level. Good action, some decent story stuff, though the Entertainment Arc has cemented how much I don't like Inosuke and Zentisu. They haven't grown as characters much at all, and are really only there as comedic relief and occasional badassery.
Sure, the show is more specifically about Tanjiro and Nezuko, but there are characters that get introduced within these arcs that get more character growth than those guys do. Inosuke is still slightly less obnoxious than Zentisu, simply because Zenitsu is just what I hate most in anime characters, which is the crybaby coward who is also kinda pervy. A double whammy for a crappy character...yet he's weirdly popular from what I've seen, I don't get it, maybe it's a manga thing and he becomes less awful later lol
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - I'm a little torn on this, because I really loved all the bureaucracy of monster hunting and monster response plans, but the family drama stuff was mostly a big whiff. They should have done the either secret sibling story or the ex's real identity story, but not both as they create a really saggy paced middle of the season.
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - I'm a little torn on this, because I really loved all the bureaucracy of monster hunting and monster response plans, but the family drama stuff was mostly a big whiff. They should have done the either secret sibling story or the ex's real identity story, but not both as they create a really saggy paced middle of the season.
I still need to watch the finale, but yeah, they kinda flubbed it abit. It's not bad, but I think they struggled to make a lot of the drama work with the modern crew. Anytime it was in the past, or it's with Kurt Russell or the Monarch stuff, it's good, but the girlfriend plot offers up very little and I never was super big on the siblings. They are okay, but it was a struggle to keep engaged with them since they don't add a lot to what is going on in an important way, despite being the focal point of the story. I don't want to say they are "passive" throughout, they do figure out things, but it really feels like they are just along for the ride most of the time. At least that's how it felt. It didn't help that I wasn't a huge fan of most of the original songs either. The covers fared a bit better.
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Like the rest of the MonsterVerse, with the exception of Godzilla and maybe Skull Island, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters was just as disappointing (for the sake of not saying that it was crap). It's always nice to see Kurt Russell, but that clearly wasn't enough.
I like movies I just don't like chucky.
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Black Bird is a very solid true crime drama mini-series that stands out mostly due to some really incredible performances. It's one of Ray Liotta's last roles and he's just utterly heartbreaking, while Paul Walter Hauser was able to say his lines faster than Jamie Taco and won an Emmy.
Schmigadoon! is a musical comedy satire series on Apple TV+ that watched before my trial runs out. I think the first season benefits from a solid single style, but the second season had songs that felt more thematically linked through the episodes. Pretty fun overall.
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Finished up Hazbin Hotel and I think it's a lot of fun. It's goofy and edgy as all hell, but it has fun animation, and some of the songs are very catchy (I've listened to Loser, Baby at minimum two dozen times lol). Don't even really have any particular negatives other than I think 8 episodes is a smidge short. 8 for episodes that are 40 minutes plus in other shows isn't so bad, but for episodes that are the more average 25 minutes here, this season goes by real quick. Not that they don't hit on all the characters and such that they need to, but a couple more to round things out could've been nice.
Oh well, looking forward to more. Hopefully they pop these seasons out faster as it took awhile to get this show.
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I haven't watched Hazbin Hotel, and I've still listened to 'Loser, Baby' several times.
Finished Nathan Fielder's The Curse. Dense and complicated, and not at all afraid to not be for everyone. It can be a difficult watch but if Fielder has ever interested you, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Third season of 12 Monkeys is probably the most consistent overall, but the show really feels like it is spinning its wheels sometime, having character motivations just go round and round and ending up back in the same place. It's also not nearly as clever as it thinks it is with all of its time travel. Maybe that's just because I watched Dark already.
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Finally finished my rewatch of Hunter x Hunter (2021) and it still bums me out there isn't more. It's understandable why, the mangaka has had what sounds like debilitating health issues, so the manga goes on hiatus alot and there isn't a lot of manga to adapt. I do hope he's able to finish it someday though, as I think this is a great series. I don't know how the anime compares to the manga, I glanced at the old late 90's anime attempt they did and it semeed like it started very differently, so a lot maybe has changed, but I like the story.
It starts out very traditional shonen, training/test arcs, then a small tournament arc, but then the whole series drastically shifts once they get to Yorknew City (Goofy name lol) and the story gets way darker, more brutal, and that sets the tone for the rest of the show. Greed Island kinda brings it back into a more standard Shonen formula, but still some intense aspects, and then it gets to the Chimera Ant arc, which is dragged out a tad, but has some fantastic story stuff. Gon goes through a lot, but I think this arc does the most for Killua, who I think is the best character in the show. He has the most depth of the main cast and sees the most personal growth.
I do recommend this series, it's a lot of episodes (Though not as much as something like One Piece or even Dragon Ball Z, and it's better paced than both), but it's a solid bit of Shonen anime and I'd say it's a top 3 favorite in terms of shonen series for sure. At least we are getting a Hunter x Hunter game soon, I just hope it's a decent fighting game and not some bland arena fighter.
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I watched The Vince Staples Show and it's not bad for a TV debut, it's a shame it's too short.
The heist scene and the park are excellent ;D
There is even one of my favorite music in the show : Summertime in LBC 8)
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True Detective: Night Country is fine. Better than season 2, I think but not as good as 1 or 3. It focused a bit too much on interpersonal drama over the mystery for me, and the actual resolution came a little too out left field for my tastes. Same with it leaning a bit more overtly supernatural than the previous seasons.
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I watched the first episode of Avatar on Netflix. I thought it was pretty good :)
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Topped off the 10th season of Murder, She Wrote. Ridiculous plot twists and silly stories keep creeping in more than before, but is still pretty entertaining overall.
Amazon's A League of Their Own series is pretty good. Doesn't hold a candle to the movie and gets a bit annoying with some of the anachronisms, but I like that it covers completely different subject matter than the film. You can tell that there were some production issues based on how the show changes gears and drops characters at weird times, but I think a lot of that was due to shooting at the height of COVID.
Season 13 of Archer is more of the same stalwart series. I was glad they kept mentioning Malory even though Jessica Walter passed away, as too many shows just pretend a character never existed when they have to write them out.
I really liked the final season of Archer. Very solid episodes and I thought Zara was a nice addition to the cast. The finale was one of my favorite type of series ender - where the story is over, but you know that the characters continue on with their lives.
I've watched the first season of The Bear over the last couple of days, and I wasn't really feeling it at first, but it had completely won me over with the final two episodes. It was 100% worth the slow-ish spin-up.
I thought the second season of The Bear was way better than the first. It hits the ground running with more of a sense of purpose while opening up the stories of the characters, and letting the conflicts feel way more organic.
The Muppets Mayhem is a fun diversion featuring Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. All of the muppet stuff is solid, but the human story is pretty underwritten. There are still some fun moments with the real people (Ben Schwartz is a major highlight), but there's a tonal problem, with the muppet bits being way more smartly and maturely written than the human stories and jokes. Closing song is a banger, though.
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Fallout - Binged through this and had a great time with it. When it comes to adapting game properties, it is getting better, as we've seen with Super Mario Bros and Last of Us, but we also still have things like Halo and I was worried this would slip into that realm more, and as a fan of these games, that would've been disappointing, but I think they got it. I think they nailed all the aesthetics, they embraced the period setting, and overall it feels like Fallout. Story is very decent, all the actors in their roles do a good job, Goggins in particular is a standout, and I like that they didn't hold back on how messed up things are. It's a bloody, violent, game, things can be kinda screwed up, while also being downright goofy at times, and that's all here.
I can't comment on how "accurate" it is lore wise, that sorta stuff doesn't bother me as much as long as they get the broadstrokes right. It's possible they are retconning abit of New Vegas, but we won't know about that entirely till Season 2 I guess. Highly recommend this show either way, whether you are a fun, or you just want a good post-apocalyptic scifi show.
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Fallout - This really feels like an adaptation of a video game in a way that I don’t know anything else has achieved? There are health packs, weird power-ups, loot, side-quests, and the best part? It’s not ashamed of that fact.
The tone isn’t quite right. It’s like a 65%-35% drama comedy, when it should be closer to 55-45, though the balance does get a little better as the show goes on, and there's a few too many slow motion montages set to 50s hits early on. Overall, though, I had a really good time with it!
I really liked the fifth season of Fargo, but there a few too many character threads that didn't really amount to anything. Was also not a fan of the more overt supernatural overtones. Juno Temple as Dot is one of the best leads in the whole series, though.