I was watching Dark regular but somehow that got interrupted. I saw that they have a new season out, so I need to catch up. I've been watching The OA with some relatives, a few episodes a week. It's definitely not going to be for everyone, but I like it so far. Into the second season now. Eccentric but intriguing and creative so far. I'm definitely excited about The Boys. I'm really curious how they are going to handle the darker side of Stormfront. It was not remotely subtle in the comic, and some were worried about her being gender bended and made an outspoken feminist and savvy with social media and manipulating the public thinking she would be morphed into a politically correct hero. However, they presented Homelander as a boy scout initially until we witness his first brutal murders. There is a lot of potential with the dark side of the series' version of Stormfront, which I think could actually be much more interesting than an over the top racist Nazi creation from the comics.
I finished watching The OA and am quite irritated netflix cancelled this but flood their service with activist crap I have no interest in watching. They've canned quite possibly their most creative show.
Yeah OA was just getting good. The first season was kind of a drag but the second was picking up quite nicely. After Sense 8 I lost faith in Netflix. That show had something for everyone. Unfortunately it cost something like a billion per episode to shoot.
Season 1 of The OA seemed to start out slow but made more sense after I'd seen both seasons. I read that they had all seasons mapped out in a cohesive narrative that fit together. I think it would actually have continued to get better with each season for this reason. This is the type of show that I subscribe to a service to watch. Netflix has canned The OA after only two seasons and seems unlikely to continue Dark Crystal. It seems like they don't know what to do with their highest quality material. Amazon Video has already renewed The Boys through Season 3; Season 2 isn't even available to watch for another month. If Amazon had produced The OA, there is no way they would have cancelled it this fast. I'm starting to question whether I should even keep netflix at this point considering they cancel anything truly exceptional within a season or two. I'll probably keep it through the end of Stranger Things, but after that I'm going to seriously consider doing some cancelling of my own. The only key draws for me are the shows like Dark Crystal and OA, which they constantly cancel early, and the documentary series of interesting topics like Making a Murderer, Evil Genius, How to Fix a Drug Scandal, and the recent Epstein series.
With that reasoning you should cancel. I’ve read their strategy isn’t making good tv. It’s making new series to attract new customers. They have a track record of cancelling popular shows to make room for new shows. Probably before the actors want too much money. It doesn’t make sense to me but they running their company.
Season 2 of the Umbrella Academy. I'm only a few episodes in and I can see how this show could easily lose it's way, but so far it's good.
Don’t worry, Klaus and Five pretty much hold it all together. And even Diego and ape arms are pretty good. The girls aren’t too overbearing like the first season, but they get their time to shine. There’s plenty to pick apart but it doesn’t take itself serious enough to really warrant it.
1940-50s Superman Like George Reeves, Spiderlady, black and white era Superman. I’ve cancelled WWE and got the DCUniverse app. Mostly to watch Krypton (a lot of services didn’t have season 1 available and didn’t really work well anyways) plus WWE has been kinda missing the sweet spot lately. But it’s a couple dollars cheaper (than WWE) and has a ton of content between animated, live action, and probably every comic DC ever made. I didn’t grow up with comics, so there’s a lot to read.
Down to Earth with Zac Efron Some of the locations, topics, and cinematography are really interesting. The problem is that the hosts are moronic dudebros with nothing intelligent to say. I'm pretty sure Zac found the old blonde guy smoking weed on Venice Beach. Imagine Bill and Ted talking about climate change and clean drinking water and that's this show.
Devs Finished it the other day and enjoyed it tremendously. It kind of reminded me of Primer meets Westworld in a funny way, but it’s a lot less of a mind game. There is action and intrigue, but at its core it deals with a paradox of time travelly movies of how knowing the future can and should change it. And it does so cleverly. It deals with good sci fi topics and concepts but it’s not too hard to follow along and does a fine job of explaining itself. I’ve read that there is only one season and no more and definitely agree with that decision. They kind of nailed it and told the story as well as I could imagine. Anymore and we are reaching Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions territory. It could really only go down hill from here. But there is room for more. Some of the storylines could warrant further exploration. I just hope it just stands alone as one shining season of great sci fi television.
Finished Season 2 of the Umbrella Academy. It was good. Not sure what I think about the season 3 lead-in. Space Force I liked it. It started a little slow, but the later episodes had me laughing a few times.
Trinkets Men are trash, which makes it totally okay for teenage girls to steal shit Props to the one girl for perfectly capturing the look of the queen of the kleptomaniacs Winona Ryder in Girl Interrupted.
Lovecraft Country Two episodes in and so far so good. Feels a little like Buffy the Vampire Slayer with black people in Jim Crowe era. The soundtrack is on some kind of level too. It’s pretty woke, I guess. But that should be no surprise given the mains and the time period. It’s probably gonna be a central plot line even though not all white people are racist.
I've watched the 3 available episodes of The Boys: Season 2, and I'm pleased to report the level of quality of S1 was maintained throughout. New characters are being handled quite well in the direction and manner I anticipated.
I started watching The Boys. It’s pretty ok. I’m having a hard time swooning over it like some folks out there though. It’s probably awesome but I’m not sure if it’s good yet. Like, power corrupts and corporations are bad, mkay? Also watching Raised By Wolves on HBO. Also pretty ok. Seems a little full of itself though. But its got the guy from Vikings and he’s almost the same character so that’s a plus. The show kinda boils down to hippies vs crusaders and who do you want running society. Except the crusaders might be right and the hippies have a murder bot. It’s got some heavy handed eye roll inducing messaging. Kind of bleak and Handmaidens Tale ish so far. As in nothing seems to be working out right for our antagonists in this post apocalyptic dystopian Noah scenario. Hopefully it picks up the pace.
Season 2 of The Boys has been good. It hasn't dipped in quality at all. I like what they did with Stormfront. She's basically the alt-right personified, ie racism repackaged as a new thing with memes. This show which is about heroes abusing their power is highly relevant at a time when police brutality is what everyone is talking about.
The comic version of Stormfront is a much more overt Nazi with a lot less depth than Aya Cash's Stormfront. The show's version is much better, sort of a Palpatine of the show with her lightning powers and manipulating everyone to advance her secret, evil agenda. In addition to being one of most impressive casting choices in terms of performances so far after Antony Starr and Karl Urban, the real alt right Spencer disciples can't really use her as an icon given Aya is Jewish. I'd never seen her in anything prior to the show, but I think she's fantastic in this role. I think they've also continue to do a solid job lampooning political issues across the political spectrum. I've seen conservatives extremely pissed they covered the hypocrisy of "pray away the gay" evangelists who are privately having gay orgies, yet they've also roasted social justice nonsense like diversity hires and phony corporate activism like the intentionally cringey Lifetime caliber TV movie parody segments and corny "Girls Get It Done" PR the female superheroes pressured to push it clearly loathe. I'm sure the majority of the cast and crew are mostly on board the activist left bandwagon but don't push a one-sided agenda in the actual show.
Oh boy. Y’all are swooning over suck a tit Superman and the Nazi storm with a lesbian haircut. It’s an alright show where nobody gets a character arc. The guy who’s gf got ran over is still a pansy. The starlight girl gives neat speeches about not taking shit anymore and goes back to her skimpy outfit and making poses. The butcher keeps whining about “Supes”. Seriously pick any character and see if they’ve done anything different from the first episode. Maybe the fish guy. Let’s be honest. It’s made for 12 year olds who have their phones locked down by overzealous parents.
Yeah my wife said the exact same thing while we were watching it. "This is pretty good, but it doesn't seem like they're going anywhere with the characters." The fish man is the best part of the show. His subplots are hilarious.