Started watching Halo (haven't played it). From a production standpoint, it's very impressive. But the introduction of Bokeem Woodbine's boring-ass character in the second episode just saps all the energy outta the show, and there are also some weird plot beats that probably should've come later in the season. Still pretty dope scifi action fare.
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WoT was a major disappointment.
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Moon Knight—puzzling blend of excellence and garbage saved by good acting and direction. The writing is incredibly heavy-handed at key moments, but the relationships are portrayed very well.
Picard—really enjoyable, miss it already.
I just wanna see someone kick him in the balls over and over again whenever I see him
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TheBoys starts off with a bang! Its pretty impressive how they keep managing to top their already over the top scenes every season.
My wife and I have 3 free months of Apple TV, and man was Ted Lasso awesome. I am now working my way through Severance as well. Any other recs?
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)
first season of the Leia Organa show was pretty good, great supporting cast (esp. McGregor and Christensen), plotholes galore obv. but they really nailed the vibe. Reva's character was just very poorly written and directed for most of the season. Leia was an incredible lead. This was my favourite scene, just incredibly emotionally impactful (sound on): https://imgur.com/gallery/k0lojpl (spoilers obv)
we've been binging s3 of Umbrella Academy and it's great saving the last 2 eps for tomorrow, hope the finale holds up to the rest of the season.
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First episode of Ms. Marvel is a masterclass in effective scene-setting. Two eps in and I desperately wanna binge it, but we don't have time -_- the casting is spot on, the writing is surprisingly solid, the direction is pretty great so far, and I'm absolutely loving the vibes. Just hoping it doesn't fall apart like these shows so often do at the halfway mark. I know there has been/will be criticism about lack of authenticity, but, afaict, it's precisely as authentic as it needs to be for what it's trying to do. Bruno's brilliant plan B for going to the con was an especially impressive flair.
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Anyone else getting annoyed with the annihilation of linear story telling in West World?
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Decent casting, awful writing so far. Hope for improvement
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Trying to watch The Rings of power and before the proloque was over I started to loose interest. They try too hard to please the fanbase and logic doesn't seem to have been a consideration in the writing of the voice over.
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Just got into it and this is roaringly fun!
Agreed. Finished season 4 and it was better than season 3, but they are right to end at Season 5. It remains pretty strong but suffers from the Amy Sherman Palladino trope where one young girl is "the one" who effortlessly does hard things but can't make basic life issues come together. Sort of like Gilmore Girls, which might be my all time least favorite show.
On the one hand, it's pretty unbelievable that Jeff Bezos being a Rings fan got almost a BILLION US DOLLARS for this thing.
Then again he also revived the Expanse so I owe him my firstborn.
And then they claim the negative reviews are the result of trolling.
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Oh no it's definitely also being review-bombed by racist incel dullards. Rest of the first episode was better, but, like most of these over-produced white elephants, not particularly gripping. Think later episodes are/will be better but overall probably meh.
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Wait until the incels migrate to Rick and Morty again.
Rings of Power steadily improving. Guessing it'll peak at episode 5. 6 and 7 usually kinda crappy, 8 will probably be a mixed bag
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TV has really gone to shit since Thursday.
There's a man goin' 'round, takin' names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what happened on Thursday that would have made that be the case.
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)
Finally got around to watching the bonus Sandman episode and
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I watched Arcane after I saw they were nominated for a Hugo. And while I haven't played LoL in ~a decade (and hence know nothing of the lore), I really enjoyed it! I thought the artwork was pretty solid, the character development not awful, voice acting was great, and music was pretty good too. Wasn't expecting much, but I really liked it.
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HOTD is so damn good.
lil s2 teaser now up:
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