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Davia is still kind of annoying, and so is Dennis.

Gael is still trying to figure his shit out.

Luca is still a wee little baby.

I still love Mariana and Evan.

Okay so I’m pleased with the resolution of the current story lines.

But I HATED the expository dinner scene where everybody just goes around the table and tells us how their story ends. Except for Kelly. She doesn’t get an ending, because she never got her own story line to start with. But yeah, what an insult of a wrap. I don’t know what else the writers should do when they suddenly find out the show is being canceled. I almost wonder whether it would feel better to just end on a dang cliffhanger. But I doubt that would feel super good either. Maybe better than this weaksauce ending though.

It was okay!

It seemed like this is supposed to document the transition from the 80s to the 90s or something. It came out in ‘93. They make a big deal about him being out of the dating scene for what, nine? ten years? Things are different now!

The most remarkable thing is that Annie (Meg Ryan) is such a creep! Total stalker.

More remarkable than that though is the fact that for the entire movie, the romantic leads never share a scene opposite each other until the final moments of the movie. And then it ends. Right at the beginning of their relationship. Neat writing, that.

Recurring references to An Affair To Remember makes me want to see that.

Having now seen both classic Hanks/Ryan 90s romcoms, I gotta say that they’re both a little disquieting. This one because Annie’s a stalker, and You’ve Got Mail because Hanks’s character is a gaslighting tool.

Okay here we go.

The first two seasons of Killing Eve are some of the best television out there. You should absolutely watch them.

The show starts to lose its way in Season 3, and Season 4 is an absolute travesty.

Season 3 is nice enough. You can take it or leave it.

But seriously don’t even watch Season 4.

Eve is practically relegated to a secondary character as the focus shifts to Carolyn and Konstantin. And the finale, Villanelle’s fate, is an absolute slap in the face, and one of the most egregious instances of the Bury Your Gays trope that I’ve ever seen.

When I learned after the fact that there is meant to be a Carolyn spin-off series, Season 4 made more sense to me: it was just a long ass pilot episode, and a disservice to a show that soared so high at its beginning.

This is weird. It’s as though Apple wanted to create a flagship show for Apple TV and threw as much money as it could at this. It’s kind of distracting how many people are in this. It feels like they wanted to write a Sorkin-esque behind-the-scenes show about the morning news, but didn’t do it as good. I’m sure it gets better. We’ll see.

Update: Didn’t care to finish it before canceling my Apple TV subscription, so I guess we’ll never know!

This was so good!

It took at least an episode for it to expose itself for what it really is: a nearly slapstick funny (very) dark comedy about a series of failed attempts to murder a man whose sadism and cruelty start out a 10 at the beginning of the show and only take off from there.

It is so very Irish. I don’t think I would have caught all the dialog without captions.

The ending was great! No reason for a season 2 as far as I’m concerned. Any subsequent episodes are non-canon.

weird, sparse, creepy, roomy, expansive

only got 2 episodes in before canceling Apple TV, so didn’t get very far into it. I liked it though. It was captivating and arresting.

maybe i’ll come back to it one day.

This show seems to just keep getting better and better.

Segel is still a joy. Ford seems to be loosening up and getting more comfortable in his role. Williams still makes Gabby feel like the breakout character in this show.

Surprise cameo by Colby Smothers was a delight!

This season revolves around Alice seeking out a relationship with the guy who killed her mom, and then absolutely insisting that Jimmy have a relationship with him as well. Which is entirely unreasonable! I didn’t like this thread.

5/5 stars!

Final entry in this year’s Crappy Holiday Movie series.

This is the one with Heather Graham and Brandy. It was pretty good!

The funniest part of the whole movie is how the husband’s big, dark secret is that he has been secretly sending out tacky christmas letters every year, even though Heather Graham hates those things. Hilarious!

They tried to write the children as funny, precocious, and cute. But they were just really annoying.

You can watch this and have a good time. 5/5 stars!

Out of this world.

For some reason I was skeptical of Ariana’s Glinda going into it, but she absolutely killed it. Her scooting around on her back during Popular absolutely floored me for some reason.

I had no prior familiarity with Cynthia and was super happy with her performance.

Visually stunning. They didn’t have to include all the little details and embellishments, but they certainly did.

“One Short Day” was so over the top surreal and psychedelic I honestly wondered whether I had taken a gummy and had forgotten about it.

Looking forward to part 2!

Second entry in this years Crappy Holiday Movie marathon.

A surprise hit! This movie succeeds where others fail because it goes really hard where others don’t: it is so stupid, but also fully embraces the fact.

Here’s the premise: a lonely, small town shop owner puts a magic scarf on a ridiculously hot snowman, and it comes to life. That’s it! Hijinks ensue. It is, as I said, so stupid. And totally cute! It absolutely works!

The sheriff and deputy were comic relief in a movie that doesn’t really need any comic relief. But again, it works somehow.

The only really negative thing I’ll say is that Hot Frosty has the outlook and reasoning of a small child. And the romantic lead for some reason is really into that. And I’m sitting here like, please do not bang the magical come-to-life snowman who has the mind of a child. That seems really inappropriate.

Anyway, this is fun. You should watch it. 5/5 stars!

First entry in this year’s Crappy Holiday Movie series!

Lindsay Lohan and Kristin Chenoweth are an instant yes. Too bad they cannot transcend the genre: it is still so bad!

There’s really nothing memorable or redeeming here. Total snoozefest. Which is too bad.

I’d skip it if I were you. 5/5 stars!

This is going to sound silly, but I didn’t really realize until recently that TV shows are meant to be merely an approximation of real life. They’re not meant to be like the real thing. That’s why a character can walk into a bar and say, “Gimme a beer” and the bartender will act like that’s not a ridiculous thing to say. And that’s why nobody says goodbye when they hang up the phone. It’s really obvious, but it never really clicked for me until I heard somebody say it that succinctly.

Anyway, I just watched The Dark Tower (2017) and as a huge fan of the books I have to say: it was alright! By no means is it any kind of acceptable adaptation of the seven (eight?) novels. It is an approximation: it contains elements of the Dark Tower. And for that it was enjoyable. But it certainly wasn’t the real thing.

Furthermore I can’t imagine trying to watch this without knowing about the series. It hardly stands on its own as a film. There are a couple of amazing moments: Roland shooting a taheen without looking from 100 yards away? Awesome. Roland’s final shootout at the Dixie Pig? Amazing. That’s kind of all we get though.

Anyway, it was pretty bad and I liked it!

Why is this so good!

Jason Segal is good when he’s big and sad and goofy.

I haven’t really enjoyed any latter day Harrison Ford. He only has one expression (stoney), one tone of voice (growl), and one attitude (grouchy/exasperated). And that is true here. But I can also tell that they’re working really hard on getting him to break out of that on this show.

Jessica Williams’s Gaby is the breakout role in this show. She’s so good.

How stinking adorable is this?

All I want in life now is for Coach Lasso to show up and and give me pep talks every now and then.

Can’t believe Nate’s heel turn! What a tool.

5/5 stars!

This season was pretty good. Adam Brody was great. Kristen Bell was okay. I can’t tell whether she was flat or her character was flat. At first I thought the “loser siblings” getting together was pretty cliche. But then I liked it.

Just started watching. Always wanted to see this. Sounds like modern day Lord of the Flies?

Everytime the creepy vocalization happens, it sounds to me just like the opening of Mount Wittenberg Orca by Dirty Projectors and Bjork.

Oh noooo why did I start this not knowing that season 2 isn’t streaming anywhere yet???

I cannot believe how much happened in the last 10 minutes of the last episode.

Welp I will anxiously be waiting to find out what happens next.

5/5 stars!

This show was medium good. It probably should have been an hour and a half movie instead of a 6 hour miniseries. I know that in the book, nobody outright kills Merrit, but everybody plays a hand in her accidental death. This is much better than what happens in the show. There’s a little too much of Amelia just staring off into space. And a little too much is supposed of her relationship with Shooter: it is portrayed as a thing that never really happened, but also as a deep connection. The funniest and weirdest scene is when Greer (Kidman) starts awkwardly and desperately dancing along to Never Gonna Give You Up when Tag is ruining her book release because she is otherwise powerless to do anything about his going off the rails. It was a little hard at times to keep track of what was a flashback and what wasn’t.

I didn’t realize it until this episode, but I’m really rooting for Eve to snap. Kind of like rooting for Joe in You. Oh snap, Eve stabs Villanelle at the end of Season 1 so V shoots E at the end of Season 2? Damn. Also V crossing the line with Gemma and Niko. Also E going Jack Nicholson on Danny. V vs Peel felt like a weird fugue. Big ole season!

This is really funny. Some of the best television I’ve seen. Sandra Oh is really good. And Jodie Comer? I can see why she got an Emmy for this. Mercurial. Equally hilarious and terrifying in equal measures. Can’t look away from her. They’re walking a fine line with Fiona’s Carolyn character: her alienlike aloofness borders on the terribly absurd. The intimacy and the violence of the season finale was perfect.

let’s goooo

I ended up really liking this. I love the six episode structure: one episode for each of the 5 characters, plus one finale where they all finally come together and team up. Super (supa) cell is an evolution of sickle cell that give black people super powers. This is kind of like Misfits but if it happened to people with real lives and real problems. Struggling with family and obligations and work and money. Revealing Krazy as a traitor at the end was really cool, and I was surprised they (allegedly) killed him off; he could have been a great Season 2 villain. And then also with introducing “the boss” at the end. Before we even got to see the director be a proper villain either. I assume they know what they’re doing, but getting rid of both of the main bad guys at the end of the season before we even really got to see them do their thing seems a little rushed to me. Ultimately, a really good “regular folks get super powers” show a la Misfits and Heroes. But again, more serious and dramatic.

I stopped watching Greys Anatomy and started watching Suits because I don’t have the appetite for a medical drama when my life is suddenly a medical drama. This show is deeply unserious. I don’t actually really like it that much; I basically jeer all the characters all the time. Except Lous Litt. All he wants is a friend, but he’s so unlikable and everybody just shits on him all the time. He’s the only character on the show who is ruled by his emotions. Except maybe for Rachel Zane. The premise of the show is a joke: Mike Ross could do almost anything with his brain powers. Or, maybe the whole point of season 4 (Investment Banker Mike) was to show that having a super brain doesn’t mean you can’t fail. Harvey and Donna’s relationship is very Sorkinesque a la Joshua and (his) Donna. I basically don’t pay attention to the arc plot at all because I can’t keep up with the nuance of the legalese and the double crossing and backstabbing. And the great part is, as long as you can keep up with the “Uh oh, Louis did something stupid and now Harvey’s pissed” bits, then the bigger plot elements don’t matter. It’s all about how the characters react and relate to each other. The particulars of the legal proceedings behind those actions and relationships is less important. I’m going to have Bingo squares made for this show: “You think I can’t x?” “You think I don’t know how to y?” “Don’t my name me.” “Why the hell not?” “I’m gonna goddamn x.” Donna reads somebody. Rachel is annoying.

Wow, I didn’t realize I never watched the final season of Doom Patrol! Let’s go.

I could never really get into Cyborg in this series. But he really shines this season. Big welcome back to Danny, Dorothy, Maura Lee Corrupt, and Candlemaker. Welcome to Casey Brinks. They are really rushing Jane + Casey as we get close to the end. Bored with the musical episode, but good to see Brendan actually make another appearance. And Larry’s actor can really sing! And I did crack up when they started onomatopoeia acapella singing the title song. Okay fine, the musical episode was good lol.

At first I thought this season was pretty formulaic: a minor crisis of their own making is escalated to earth-ending proportions due to their own faults, flaws, and ineptitude; but then they get their shit together act like a family and solve the crisis kind of on purpose kind of on accident. But weaved throughout the tapestry of this tried and true formula is a thread of vulnerability, finality and mortality, and healing and acceptance. The ending does feel rushed, but it’s not weak: the last fifteen minutes are a sort of epitaph for each character, and Cliff’s ending definitely brought a tear to my eyes.

Series review: four seasons of spectacularly fun, top-notch, irreverent and exciting, emotional superhero drama. 5/5 stars, do recommend. It’s tempting to say that peaks in Season 1 with Alan Tudyk’s Mr. Nobody. But in actuality, the first season merely sets the stage for the surreal and absurd antics of the following seasons.

This movie is about how America is addicted to consumerism. It’s not that great. But it’s pretty okay. The best part is maybe how Abe Vigoda and the Where’s the beef? lady make a cameo together in a tv commercial for The Stuff.

This is a movie where Sandra Bullock blindfolds 2 five year olds and yells at them for two hours telling them they’re going to die. Malkovich was fun to watch but when is he not. The ending was kind of convenient, but didn’t detract from anything. I enjoyed it quite a bit! 5/5 stars!

This movie is one part very silly and one part very cool because we get to see Michael Keaton reprise his role as Batman. And we get to see a bunch of cgi supermans: George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Adam West, even Nicholas Cage who didn’t even get to be Superman because Tim Burton’s Superman was never made. (Which is actually a very clever way to demonstrate the whole “all possible worlds” thing.) Without all those cameos I don’t think this would have been much of a movie. The Flashpoint Paradox arguably did this story better. It was especially distracting watching Ezra Miller knowing what we know now.

I really am not that into “superhero” as a movie genre. But I’ve always had a soft spot for the Flash because I used to watch the 1990 television series when it was on. So I’ll probably always watch any Flash series or movie that comes out. This one was enjoyable because of references and nostalgia. It is the Ready Player One of its genre.

WARNING: this film is 1960s sexploitation / softcore pornography.

There’s nothing in the world Vixen likes more than fucking. And there’s nothing in the world she hate more than black people. That’s pretty much it! That’s the whole movie. She has sex with her husband, her husband’s client, the client’s wife, and her little brother. All for no real apparent reason but for fun, power, and to fuck with and or manipulate people. Also she’s suuuuper racist. It’s really uncomfortable. This was allegedly the first film to receive an X rating. So it has that going for it.

https://archive.org/details/vixen-1968

I thought Natasha Lyonne was doing a bit when she played Nichols on Orange Is The New Black, but apparently that’s just who she is. And it’s kind of a lot! But this show was good. Like Groundhog Day but a lot darker. The premise started out kind of dark, then got funny, then got really dark by the end. The ending was particularly satisfying. 5/5 stars!

I started this show as something to watch in the background while working on something else. But then I had to stop doing that because the show was so good and so compelling that it demanded my full attention. It’s about family and relationships, and how hard it is to really connect with somebody. And how precious it is once you finally do. Emma Stone is of course insanely watchable in everything she does. What i did not expect is that Jonah Hill is insanely watchable in this as well. Surreal and ridiculous. There’s no telling what time this is supposed to be set in. There are anachronisms all over the place. Funny nod to Quantum Leap when they’re at the taxidermy shop trying to save Wendy. It must have been so fun for Stone and Hill to get to play so many different roles. 5/5 stars!

Edit: Here’s the thing. Maniac’s low-key, background, 1970s retro-futurism is uncommented on and unexplained, but it’s actually what makes the whole thing work. Consider the Ad Buddy. Consider the Proxy Friend. These are the artifacts that make this show work. People are so desperate for a genuine connection but relationships are so superficial they’re literally commoditized. And it’s normal. It’s unremarkable. I think the rest of the retro tech in the show—campy, delightful, and glorious as it is—is just a happy accident that we get because the story required normalized and widespread, over-the-top, crushing loneliness, without it seeming too alarming or out of place. And so the creators were like, “Let’s just distract the viewer with a bunch of weird stuff and pretend it’s normal. So that when the truly sad and awful bit comes along, we can just portray it as part of the background weirdness they’ve already accepted.”

It’s pretty okay! A band of misfit kids solve supernatural mysteries for Dr. John Watson. Good spooks. The first half is a good monster of the week kind of show. The second half is kind of weird family mystery. The weak point was the irregulars themselves. The two sisters are the main ones. Leo makes sense as romantic interest. But Billy and Spike a lot of the time were just kind of, there. They were all good archetypes. There was the leader (Bea), the weird (Jessie), the muscle (Billy), the outsider / brains (Leo), and the face (Spike). Some of the twists are predictable, some aren’t. Anyway it was pretty okay, I enjoyed it. 5/5 stars!

Really neat movie about a Bad Guy who is traveling backwards through time killing people (with some kind of gruesome brain melting injection) and the cop who keeps encountering her every ten years or so. Very mysterious, good action, good drama watching the cop slowly descend into obsession and madness in his single minded pursuit over the decades. Very interesting, very entertaining. 5/5 stars!

The second installment in the Unbreakable, Split, Glass trilogy. The first “stealth” sequel I’ve ever seen, where you don’t know until the last 60 seconds of the movie that it is actually a sequel to a previous movie. Tremendous acting props to McAvoy who not only had to play half a dozen or more different roles as Kevin, but also at one point had to play one personality playing a different personality. Lots of tension, plenty creepy. A lot left unresolved. I preferred his portrayal in Glass where the question of whether the Beast is really super powered or just a deranged man is definitively answered. Major points off for spectacularizing and villainizing dissociative identity disorder. 5/5 stars!

1. Night Shyamalan presents … Glass! The final installment of the … I don’t know what it’s called, the superhero trilogy? Pretty good build up with Dunn / Unbreakable and the Hoard focused on each other while Mr. Glass masterminds the whole thing. It’s Shyamalan so you know there’s going to be a twist, but I think he did a good job at having three twists, one for each character: the reveal of the ancient secret society of superhuman hunters, the fact that Glass was (predictably, but not expectedly) playing at a whole nuther level, and finally the death of all the main characters. Bold, that. This works 90% as a standalone movie, but works better if you’ve seen the previous films. Having not seen the 2nd film at this point, I was left wondering about some of Crumb’s personalities and their relationships with ATJ’s character. 5/5 stars!

meandering. web’s precognition was pretty fun to see play out, but after the second or third time you really lose all investment in anything that happens and instead expect the cosmic rewind button to kick in and save the day. it was especially poorly executed in the final, climactic scene in the abandoned warehouse where nothing really happened. this was definitely poised as an origin story for a series of movies that we are certainly never going to see. But hey it had sydney sweeney in it? 5/5 stars!

Best movie I’ve seen in recent memory. Absurd, surreal. All about the relationship between a mother and a daughter, and how love is the only thing matters. If I hadn’t already known Jamie Lee Curtis was in this movie I would never in a million years known that was her. 5/5 stars!

My first godzilla movie! Deeply symbolic and metaphorical. All about trauma and how to survive and overcome it, and chosing to live. Very bleak, very sad. 5/5 stars!

What good fun! I really liked it. I enjoyed the Dead Boys' first appearance on Doom Patrol. And this was a great world for them to “live” in and inhabit. Great secondary and tertiary characters. Can’t wait to see what becomes of them all.

Uncomfortably good. Infinitely quotable. Could easily have ended after episode six or seven. I liked it a lot. An incredibly Shondaland cast of actors, which made it feel comfy and familiar. 5/5 stars!

This was roughly half as good as Amazing Spider-Man 1. They just tried to cram too much in. There’s no excuse for having the Crocodile AND the Green Goblin be the main villain AND ALSO managing to slip in the guy from Sideways as the Rhino???? Too much man, way too much. The death of Gwen Stacy was too sad. 5/5 stars!

I’ve never seen the Andrew Garfield spiderman movies. Only ever watched the Tobey Maguire ones. Delighted to get Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Martin Sheen is so great. He didn’t get to deliver the iconic Uncle Ben line. But instead said something like, “If you have the ability to help somebody, you do it. Responsibility!” Emma Stone was pretty good as Gwen Stacey. Couldn’t stand watching Dennis damn Leary as the police chief. I wish there was a little more to bridge the characters of Peter Parker and Spider-Man: Spidey was so confident and wise-cracking and kind of egotistical, and Peter was such a mumbling, unconfident kind of character. The villain (The Lizard) was pretty good. Sympathetic to a degree. It was good! I’d watch the sequel.

this is a fun and silly show! total fluffy, guilty pleasure. big old nothing burger. lovely sets and outfits. here’s the royal pains drinking game: 1) somebody passes out, 2) “CFO of Hankmed”, 3) Divya says something sassy or withering, 4) “Kuester von Jurgens-Ratenicz”, 5) awkward Dieter, 6) Jill’s bad/awkward acting

This show is really silly and fun. I started watching it because Alan Tudyk. And I think because I read somewhere that the alien alphabet used in the captions is a tranliteration of poorly spelled Esperanto, written backwards. This season is cute. I chuckled. It started to drag in the middle a little bit, but then it picked up again for the season finale. Tropey, but entertaining.

Put this on for a Valentines Day watch. It was not really what I expected. I found it hard to believe parts of it. Like when Paige initially believed there was no evidence of her and Leo being in love, when there was in fact an entire house full of their life together, including a video of their wedding. I was pretty sure about halfway through that Paige had left her previous life to find out who she is on hew own, and that she would do the same to Leo. But what brought her back to him was that he gave her space to find out who she is on her own. It was cute, and sad. Not a straightforward, stereotypical, formulaic romance. 5/5 stars! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606389/

Ten short episodes of varietally correct teen mutant superpower drama. It was super fun and I liked it. Rhys Nicholson as Alex Sarkov was really good for the first half of the season when he wasn’t in the show that much. You get to have a little Sarkov as a treat! But then when he was back as a main character again, he got to be a bit much. But then I adjusted to his over the top presence, and grew to really like him again.

It wallowed quite a bit in the waters of “What makes us monsters, vs. What makes us human?” and “Would you give up your powers to be Normal again, or are we meant to embrace our gifts?” but stopped just short of overdoing it.

Tilda really started to outshine the other two “imperfects” by the end. But maybe that’s appropriate because she was the only one who embraced and really turned toward and tried to explore her abilities. I liked the end where she left the gang to basically go be a solo superhero on her own. The final five minutes of the last episode were obvious Season 2 teasers, but they were so fun and entertaining. I wouldn’t mind a Season 2 to explore these cliffhangers, but I also wouldn’t hate it if it ended here. 5/5 mutated DNA sequences!

Started watching this on my local library’s instance of Kanopy after it was recommended at book club. It is super intense, very violent and disturbing. But also very compelling televison. Watching Catherine’s slow burn spiral is captivating. Definitely have to watch with the captions on. Their accents are so thick! Kanopy dropped it before I could finish Season 1, so now I need to rent it I guess if I want to find out what happens.

i can’t believe i haven’t logged Ragnarok seasons 1 and 2! this show is awesome! I’m excited about season 3. there’s only 6 episodes i think? Loki is Really good in this show.

This was an odd little movie! Cher was pretty good in it. Nick Cage was pretty good in it. It was all about people being in love and not in love and crashing into each other and being afraid of death. It was very bizarre and chaotic.

Okay hella good. This is one of my favorite series. Based on one of my favorite comic books. But I did not remember enough about Season 2 to understand what was going on in the first part of this season with Harlan. And I did not understand the beef between Alison and Viktor. Truly enjoyed how Eliot Page’s character changed genders and everybody was just like, that’s cool. Nice to see Klaus come into his own. I think this is supposed to be the final season which is sad.

Hot damn this was good! Better than the original even!

this was as good today as it was back in the day! so good.

the taylor swift movie was pretty good! i enjoyed watching it!

I watched the Barbie movie! It was hella good.

This one was hella bad! No chemistry. No tension. Total snoozefest. 0/5 stars!

Did not finish at ~1:30. Why is this movie three hours long??? I’m super glad that they scaled back the stupid Christian Bale batman voice. Just one small step in a series of decisions that made batman seem more vulnerable and more human: give him a normal voice. Also enjoyed seeing Bruce as kind of traumatized and vulnerable. HATED the character design of the riddler. He was basically an original character the way he was designed and portrayed. Ultimately just didn’t care enough to put in another 1.5 hours.

A Christmas musical! Christine Baranski is the villain who is evicting the whole town right before Christmas, but is there some secret in her heart that she’s guarding? And Dolly Parton is a magical angel. At first I was utterly delighted by this movie. But the pacing is way slow. Too many musical numbers. And also verrry Christian. It was cute though! 3/5 stars!

maybe i was in a Mood while watching this one, but this was the worst of them all so far. most of these so far have been so-bad-it’s-good, or at least fun to watch in some way. this one wasn’t interesting enough to even elicit any negative opinions. just a waste of time. -1/5 stars!

Much more cute and adorable than.. good. There was really no reason for Jennifer Coolidge to be in the movie at all. Except that she directed it. And to get people to watch it. Pete was clueless, Nick was adorable. 3/5 stars!

It was kind of cute? They oversold the kiwi joke at the beginning. Jimmy O. Yang was good. The Die Hard + Love Actually mashup at the end was satisfying, but the ending overall fell kind of flat I think. Quirky grandma was obnoxious. 3/5 stars!

On the tin, this looks exciting! Brooke Shields! That guy from The Princess Bride! But it took less than 10 minutes for me to utter the Eight Deadly Words: I Don’t Care What Happens To These People. It just didn’t pick up any drama or intrigue. The main characters had zero chemistry. The plot wasn’t interesting. The ending wasn’t satisfying. -1/5 stars!

This one was actually pretty damn cute. It has Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms. It is a self-aware Freaky Friday alike. (They 4th-wall mention Freaky Friday, Big, and 13 Going On 30.) They struggle to fix their family relationships while learning about themselves and each other, bla bla bla. Formulaic. But varietally correct. 3/5 stars!

wow how did this movie even get made in the year 2021. the filmography looks like it was shot on a couple of iphones by some art school students. the music is a bunch of mouth noises that jerk the watcher away from being able to pay attention to the scene. the writing is ridiculous: the entire plot revolves around which song the cousins will sing at their grandmother’s funeral as though you can’t sing both silent night and also amazing grace. also it should have been called 4 cousins and a funeral because it could have happened in the middle of july because the fact that it’s christmas is mentioned maybe 0.5 times and it has no relevance to the movie whatsoever. it’s not a christmas movie, it’s … i don’t know what it is. it’s like if a high school freshman attempted to deconstruct the family comedy drama movie genre and then a million years from now the apes that inherit the earth found that script and tried to reconstruct not just that genre but motion pictures altogether as a medium. all of the things that are supposed to come together to create an enjoyable cinematic experience? each one of them independently fails in its own spectacularly in-your-face way and the result is a disjointed mosaic of discomfort and unease that should never have seen the light of day, but instead is inexplicably a featured hulu holiday movie. 0/5 stars!

this was a weird quasi knock off of you’ve got mail. the big box bakery comes in and tries to put the small shop out of business that the baker just inherited from her grandmother. she was like, Why are you trying to put me out of business?? and then she was like, I hoped it was you!! the funny parts are: 1) the entire town randomly did a bowling tournament together for some reason. like the entire town. and 2) wendy “from the news” showed up and kept introducing herself as Wendy From The News. 2/5 stars!

this movie was boring! i feel like cameran diaz and jude law were the main story line, and kate winslet and jack black were just kind of intruding on it. i guess i feel like that because cameran and jude were falling in love since the beginning, and kate and jack didn’t really get together until the very end. not enough time for either storyline to really launch i feel like. i expected more from a major motion picture holiday movie with an all a-list cast. but this was kind of hallmark tier instead.

this is a movie about a rich white guy who bullies a small business owner out of a job, and then gaslights her into falling in love with her. and dave chapelle was there too. 1/5 stars.

this show was deleriously unfunny and boring until the final four episodes, when it suddenly got kind of funny and interesting, and then the series was canceled forever. oh well! victim of the writers strike?

watching buffy! never watched this show thi first time around. i know it’s a whole THING and it starts out really good so i get it. funny seeing sarah michelle geller and allison hannigan, such babies. dialog is kind of heavy handed. trying to be super teenager socal. oh, they just fixed their mouth prosthetics halfway through season 2 so luke can actually talk without lisping now lol

gay icon and embodiment of mental illness, Mr Babadook, stars in his very own movie, The Babadook! This was a great psychological thriller about how the mom’s grief and depression isolate her and her son and wreak havoc on both of them. The trick to mental illness is to not deny it, and to feed it worms every day. Probably the best horror flick i’ve seen this year

Spectacular! The lack of dialogue felt gimmicky only once or twice. The rest of the time, I feel like you barely noticed it was missing. Good action, good scares, good monsters. Good heroine. Excellent ending! 5/5 spooky aliens.

The premise was interesting and the trailer looked good, but uh oh! all the reviews are really bad. So we’ll see what happens.

… so it never quite, stuck the landing.

it was okay. but i never really understood what the hacker kid had to do with anything..

Second Peter Straub flick after Ghost Story. Although this one came first chronologically. It was Straub’s first movie adaptation in fact. Starring Mia Farrow as Julia. She gets haunted!!

kind of a snoozer this one. neat seeing fred astaire in a modern movie. i can never imagine him outside the 30s/40s. the reveal/ending/climax was very anti-climactic

Film number 2 this spookerween. A monster story, a haunted house story. Pretty spooky! Pretty scary! I feel like we’re meant to be sympathetic to the monster, and ultimately by the end I am. But the origin story flashback in the middle, while establishing who the real monster is, seemed mostly to just mess up the pacing. What a very abrupt and final ending!

But wait who was sending the people to the airbnb in the first place?? was it bonnie? was bonnie in on this??

Last year around this time i got covid, and laid in bed for a couple weeks watching scary movies.

This year i will repeat this tradition, minus the covid (I hope!), starting with Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979). Which I’ve never seen. And which I will be liveblogging here.

This season was maybe overall better that season 1. But the ending was hot hot garbage. FIVE YEARS??? seriously wtf

i just really love this show. it’s so funny.

it’s trash and i love it

slow burn but what a hoot! everybody DIES and then comes back as ZOMBIES and michelle gomez is amazing in everything i’ve ever seen her in. i feel like we’ve been waiting for like 2.5 seasons for larry to figure his shit out. and giant robot cliff! lol

scissors for the drifter!! kind of over charlie’s constant old guy young guy transformation. i get it, he literally preys on youth. now just keep him zach quinoa aged. EDIT: Wait WHAT, I cannot believe that Scissors For The Drifter was not the season finale, there are three more damn episodes?

could not be more excited for this. I thought Dream was a little too young and handsome, but he really grew on me. Wowzers the whole scene with Lucifer was magical. John Dee is really growing on me. can’t waeit to see the diner scene.

started the original series. now i know who penn badgley and blake lively are. surprisingly funny. penn is especially fun to watch.

dnd sesh turned into movie night when chaz unexpectedly dropped out. super entertaining!

season 1 = good as hell. season 2 = also good! loving this.

the final season! ended on a good note i guess.

what a trip! first half, was rooting for joe. 2nd half, madness madness!

finished the series! good run. the ending was dumb

an ensemble feel-good holiday movie that i’d rather be poked in the eye than watch. we literally skipped the entire middle 60 minutes.

total agony. just broken people being broken, hurting themselves and hurting each other. exploiting and being exploited. exploring the violence inherent in imbalances of power. it was beautiful.

Just browsing movies on archive.org, and popped this one on in the background while working on other things. I don’t know if it’s just the part of the collection I’m browsing right now or what, but there seems to be a lot of low budget Australian horror. The opening ouija board / seance scene was good and spooky, but then a whole heck of a lot of nothing happens for the next hour. Not even in a building tension / suspense kind of way. The ending is actually spectacular, but it all comes to a head in the last 15 minutes which, for a 95 minute film, is not really enough pay off. Great first 15 minutes, great last 15 minutes. With an hour of ho-hum in the middle. https://archive.org/details/alisons-birthday-1979

wow this show has really been on for six seasons now? this season is much better than last season. last season was fucking weird. this one has interesting work drama. surprise teenaged children. the angry one’s anger issues. the “other one” has a lot of story line this season. which isn’t interesting. she’s cut off from the other characters so much. like, why do we have her? super sad that kate and anne had a friendship breakup. i expected anne to flip out way more at the crazy lady stalking her daughter. also, did crazy lady murder anne in the last scene????

a whole lot going on this season. I feel like they tried to pack too much in. It was good, but kind of scattered and unfocused. Lots of meta self-references. Funny though! Do recommend!

tried to get phoebe to watch this with me because i remember adoring it the first time i watched. I did not remember how weirdly scary the first episode is though with the woodcutter and the dog with the saucer eyes. they did /not/ like it. The episodes are only 10 minutes long!! gonna finish this one by myself.

settled on this trying to find a halloween movie we could both watch together. first part is boring. but it has a baby Mark Feuerstein for like 2 minutes before he gets killed off. and more importanted 1998 Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and Stockard Channing? What’s not to like!! Later: finished it. It was … not good! But a nice waste of time if you want to eat popcorn and sit on the couch.

i didn’t know there were a bunch of sequels to the original movie! the aftermathematicians were streaming it this afternoon. Perkins plays a very watchable nervous, fidgetty norman bates. (later..) Okay yeah this is maybe the best horror/suspense movie i’ve ever seen. slow burn. plots within plots. crazy norman is a show stealer. “That’d be a great load off my mind” had me rolling.

I didn’t know this was a show! Read the book a long time ago and thought it was weird and fun. There’s 2 seasons on hulu. So let’s check it out! followup: that was cool! i like seeing zach quinto back in a villain role.

delightfuly quirky and violent. can’t stand how out of sync the subs are though

kind of a closed room horror, where people slowly lose their minds. The opening scene when they all walk into the bathroom like players walking onto a stage was kind of brilliant. In fact, this whole thing could have been a theater production. So very very much happened off camera: the end of the world, the monster whatever it is, the death of the would-be savior, the mom’s infidelity and cheating, the dad’s entire fatherhood apparently. the whole thing was kind of amazing.

Okay this movie is basically “Nicholas Cage stars in Five Nights at Freddy’s” and I was really excited about it, but it was in fact the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t even good in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way. Just bad. The only funny part was the janitor walking away from the chameleon fight because it’s his break time. 0 out of 5 stars, do not recommend.

the 2022 Spookerween Horror Fest continues with Books of Blood! Books of Blood is the collection of short stories by Clive Barker that Hellraiser comes from. And this movie is an adaptation of sorts about the core framing story, which is a variation on Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man. In this case, the one who bears the stories of the dead carved into their skin is the eponymous Book of Blood. I’d say I’m a Clive Barker fan. I read Imajica recently and really liked it. Thief Of Always was a favorite of mine as a kid. So I was stoked to check this one out. It’s one of those stories that is three different interconnected stories, and you get to find out how they’re related as the story goes on. I enjoy this format. Ellie’s garden was uniquely creepy. Simon’s ultimate transformation into the book was satisfying. Probably the most entertaining and engaging horror movie I’ve watched so far this season.

a monster movie staring Keri Russel and some creepy kid about the WENDIGO. very good! interesting watching this one right after Evil Dead, which was all effects and no plot. This one is all plot, with sparce—but excellent—effects. and this was better. It was weird seeing little Felicity pulling the beating heart out of a beast and then murdering a little kid. Whatever actor played her cop brother … I don’t know if he was perfect, or completely miscast. Kind of doofy and ineffectual. Also the abusive father plotline was … important because it gave Keri’s character a motivation and a way to bond with the abused kid. But they explored it and showed us just enough that it was like, either take us there or don’t. Either establish it as background and then build on that, or spend ample time exploring what that was like, but don’t do something weirdly inbetween those. the monster was great. I liked watching the transformation from meth head dad to fucked up dad to wendigo. not positive about the token Wise Native American. felt tropey.

I thought Evil Dead movies were supposed to be kind of funny. This was just gore and blood spatter. The plot was … not really there. Young adults go to a cabin in the woods, release an demon, and get picked off one by one. It was literally all just gore factor. Not that impressed

spookers! I recognized that Pinhead was Nomi from Sens8 by her voice. that was cool. Not jump scare scary. But lots of gore and body horror that made me kind of squeamish. The story itself was okay. Classic hellraiser stuff. Kind of a buddhist parable isn’t it? Desire and longing leads to suffering.

okay as soon as i finished writing the last entry about B&PC (#133) stuff did get a lot more meta arc. AND IT WAS GREAT. i loved getting to see the warlocks. Mouly coming back was really neat. finally getting to see some Space Outlaw (and Violet and … Baby?) was rad. (Cardamon = Baby?) Still don’t know what Bee is. Maybe the ship itself? Like the ship’s AI? and who is her dad?? Cannot WAIT to see more of this weird ass story.

a couple of my friends always reference this show. popped it on hulu after Paper Girls ended and I didn’t have anything else i was watching. It is funny! Fast, quick, witty. I shall continue to watch it.

okay so Felicity got canceled and they rushed the ending like mad. The result was a kind of stupid episode that was really unsatisfying because the friends all break up, Ben suddenly has a baby, they get engaged and then they split up. And then he magically shows up in Palo Alto. There was a lot of satisfying symmetry between the finale and the pilot. But the writing was rubbish. SO NOW WHAT HAPPENS is that the show gets extended for another couple episodes after the finale, and the writers go OH SHIT and try to squeeze a few more drops of content out of an already wrapped up show. I’m told there is time travel involved lol. can’t wait.

If season 1 of B&PC was a cozy nap, then season 2 is a hectic fever dream. Totally surreal, much more “anime”. Very random. Glad we got to see more of the wizard family. Toast is actually funny this season. Being spoonfed tiny portions of the meta stories, which I am sooo curious about. Can’t wait to see how this ends. I wonder if we’ll get a tight conclusion, or whether it will continue to spin off. The racetrack planet and the vacation coconut planet are two temp jobs that are satisfying at face value, and which are also rich with meaning and nuance. Especially racetrack planet.

Well that ended stupid. I didn’t even know it was the end of the season. No rising action, no tension, no climax, no nothing. If the entire show is about time travel, you can’t have the “cliffhanger” ending for the season be that they time traveled. No duh.

i really enjoyed the book. and the show is also really damn good. I like all the time travel shenanagins

this is a really good show

IS THIS THE BEST TELEVISION EXPERIENCE THERE IS? update (finished): it was okay lol

meh glenn close was fun to watch way early 90s period piece. lots of pre-iphone cellphones (which I love). but also the opening scene had 2 musical montages. just kind of dated romcom adjacent. the boyfriend said it: the real relationship was between andy and miranda. no real romance to be had took her way too long in the ‘search’ phase to get to the ‘find’ phase. ‘return’ and ‘change’ were smooshed together in the final 15 minutes. honestly the whole movie was watching andy adapt to this world that she didn’t want and that didn’t want her. honestly glenn carried the movie. she was fascinating to watch. little nuggets like, “I’ve only ever seen her smile once,” and then her smiling in the final scene. That made the whole movie. and her varied delivery of “That’s all”, from dismissive and condescending to her wrapping up her own fucking marriage.

it was good. after re-watching the alternative ending, i really don’t think they needed to kill the mother probably won’t ever watch this one again, despite how hilarious it is. Too fatphobic, transphobic, misogynist, and all around problematic

hell yes, good show, would watch again, can’t wait for season 2

caught up! the last two psyche ward episodes were sensational. lots of feels. potential best line of the series: “Did Mark create Steven to protect him? Or did Steven create Mark to punish the world?”

okay that was fucking cool

always surprised to see who all is on this show. this time, martin short! okay also with the return of victoria comes the return of ted and victoria’s theme song, spit on a stranger. it’s a beautiful rendition, but that doesn’t change the fast that SOAS is a song about a relationship turning into bitter hatred, and it is super duper distracting for this to be a sweet song about their breaking up because it’s supposed to be a sweet and tender moment of understanding and regret, and here’s this song about growing to hate the person you were with.

countdown to the series finale! feel like we’re rocketing towards it. Wrong Hordak is really stealing the show. Much more interesting than actual Hordak at this point okay listen i’m not “into” anime like that but the episode where mermista and perfuma and scorpia dressed up like dames from the 1930ss and went to a speakeasy was something really special at first i wasn’t sure that spinnerella and netossa should be these super powerful adeversaries, but on the other hand they were the only active members of the princess alliance for a long time, and probably the entirety of their field agents

okay i feel like i’ve been kind of binging this lately because i want to see the part where adora and catra get together, and it used to feel like it was going to take a long time to get there, but now it feels like we are rocketing in that direction. now they both have feelings and are doing crying, and catra is like, I’m sorry for everything, waaaah! entrapta getting to go to spaaaaaaace was fun hordak prime has a crazy messiah cult thing going on, but also is the most messed up looking of his ‘perfect clone’ with his random mutated eye holes

hate watch is not remotely the correct word because i love this show, but also a small piece of me is only watching so that i can see adora and catra profess their love for each other, like c'moooon.

Finished it up! Again, I know nothing about Critical Role. I think I listened to 3 or 5 episodes. But I always considered Percy the least interesting character. Well no more! That story was cool as hell! I like it. Makes me want to maybe go listen to the podcast. Hope they make another season.

super spooky vampires, percy is spooky. I wonder whether they were unable to make a deal with Wizards because Pike worships the everlight and Scanlan casts Scanlans Hand.

Forgot to mention we did a rewatch of all of Pushing Daisies a little bit ago! Still one of my favorite shows. Very pretty, very fun to watch. Forgot how boobtastic it is at times. Ended way too soon. tragic.

Never really got that into Critical Role. This show starts off irreverent and crass to show that it’s not a kid’s animated show, I guess? In the first two episodes they summarily slaughtered an ancient blue dragon, which is a legendary achievement. It’s fun. I’ll keep watching it.

a new kind of reboot of How I Met Your Mother? It doesn’t really bring the funny.

started a rewatch of HIMYM. this show starts off so good. It knows exactly what it is, and so many great gags and scenes start right off from the beginning right in season 1. That said, a lot of it does not hold up. Kind of fatphobic, transphobic, misogynist, homophobic. That was 2005 I guess?

this is wacky tobacky. what is up with Donna’s bad girl transformation?

cooper said, “as long as you can keep the fear from your mind” at 16:00 which is a brilliant parralel to his character in Dune with the mind killer litany lucy: leo was shot, jauc was strangled, the mill burned, shelly and pete got smoke inhalation, catherine and josie are missing, nadine is in a coma. cooper: how long have I been out?

45 min this was a tough one. lots going on. oh no cooper got shot!

can’t believe Leo shot that bird!

They broke down the wall to the old hang out room and there was a huge poster of the cover art of Radiohead’s The Bends What if you took out your fear? What would you do.

power corrupts: kinsey being vengeful, kids finding a memory of their dad clubbing somebody. mama starting to notice weird stuff: keyhole scars starting to see the teen drama stuff mentions on tildes. The school bully really kinda came out of nowhere. We haven’t seen her in several episodes, and when we did she seemed like a really minor character, and also like she was not a high school cliche but just a throwaway character.

wonder if Tibbetan Buddhism was just a more alien concept in the 90s. They’re kind of making it a huge part of Cooper’s quirkiness The Meals On Wheels scene was Eraserhead levels of surreal THE OWLS R NOT WHAT THEY SEEM that “just you and I” song was sweet

I never knew that Sabrina the Teenage Witch was part of the Archie and Jug Head universe. I only knew the MJH show on Nick. Fuck I love this intro

I just love the aesthetics of this show. Adore the intro. Love Michelle Gomez

anti-bullying episode! No Harrowing didn’t know Prudnce is the ~principal’s~ High Priest’s daughter really cool cliffhanger with the sleep demon

Watched the 1st episode of The Magicians! It rocked. The introduction of the Big Bad was awesome. He reminded me of somebody from American Gods, or the man with the cloak (briefcase?) of flies in Welcome To Nightvale, or I think there was a guy in the Sandman comics whose face was always obscured. Quite liked it altogether. watching S1E2 now. it’s like if Shaggy and Velma have their own spinoff series

kind of rage quit Twin Peaks the other night. Even anger posted on masto. It’s just too much. Too hokey, too campy, too much.

This is still a fun silly good little show

I think I’m watching the season finale right now. It’s intense!

This show is fucking dope! I’m on episode 5 or 6.

Still watching magicians. in the middle of s1e10. Still enjoying it a lot, but the novelty has started to wane a little bit.

Elton John, the movie! Okay so far. Kind of watching it 20 - 40 minutes at a time. Didn’t expect it to be such a musical. It’s kind of like Elton John’s Greatest Hits, with a little bit of biopic movies thrown in. Lots of cheese. When he first named himself and saw a photo of John Lennon, shining, with strings in the background, like he was the damn messiah, I almost threw my laptop.

Ugh, I said I wasn’t going to watch this show any more after the horrifically horrific first half of the first episode. But logged into prime video and there was the unfinished first episode just a-taunting me. I hear that all the villainous heroes get their comeuppance at some point. Well, I finished episode one finally. Only margainly interested in watching more.

3 episodes in. what a weird, delightful little headtrip. The process of converting a podcast into an animated show means that the dialog is upfront and constant, and is the main dish here. And it kind of weaves in and out of actual relevance to what’s physically happening in the show. And bodies and identities and life is so ephemeral and so easy come easy go in the simulation. It’s a trip. Episodes are short at ~20 minutes and highly consumable. 5 stars, would recommend. So delightful. Simultaneously whimsical and also incredible earnest in discussing the nature of life and death and existence.

Watched all of the new season of The Good Fight. What is memo 618! WTF at Jeffrey Epstein’s penis floating in a jar! what was with that finale!! Apparently there were going to be another 3 episodes but they had to shut down filming because of covid. Shame! I guess I’ll give them a pass

also finished the 1st season of The Magicians. Feeling kinda eh on continuing. Sudden time loops, sudden goddess turned mass murder + rape scene. yikes. and now julia just kidnaps the BBEG and kind of blackmails him into working with her? At Chuck E. Cheese? Weird. What is even going on here with the writers.

finished The Midnight Gospel. Phenomenal! That last episode with his mom was a real tear jerker.

Kinda sorta lost interest in season 2

Imma watch this because A) Netflix is shoving it down my throat (along with Warrior Nun whatever the shit that is) and B) it’s a dope looking fantasy series with a woman lead. So, in the name of feminism, why not? update: wow they really buried the lead that this is a King Arthur story. I almost quit out of boredom until I heard the words “Uthur Pendragon”

Big news though: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! Possibly the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen. Super entertaining, super fun to watch. The color and the animation, and the incorporation of comic book frames. And Jake Johnson really stole the whole show as Fat Old Peter B. Parker. Super great all around.

Did I tell you I gave up on Rocketman? I gave up on Rocketman. It’s boring as hell. I wanted an Elton John movie. Not a musical of Elton’s Greatest Hits, with little bits of biopic interspersed.

well that was certainly quite the descent into madness. left me in a weird mood.

Going back to Cursed now that Umbrella Academy is done. It’s like spooky good fairey tale fantasy.

Kind of have given up on Magicians. Started reading the book. Enjoying it.

The totality of the second season. It was so friggin good! Diego and Klaus and Alison looking so good with long hair. Vanya grappling with her memories and coming into her own. Cool time travel shenanagins. Expanding of powers: vanya, hello. The season long promise for No. 5 to learn micro scale time jumps. Hated Lila when I met her, but ended up being a delight. Hargreaves. The Swedes. Carmichael. The Handler. Just all so, so good.

Finished Cursed the other night. Outstanding final scene. Coudn’t hate Iris more. The most petulant, punchable face. Started to see some leadership from Arthur the conman. Merlin getting his magic back was as epic as I had hoped it would be. Didn’t really feel Nimway’s corruption that much, but her fall was tragic. Loved the final seen between Gawain and Percivel. Powerful. Five stars.

Went back and finished up season three. It was okay. Billy was a great villain. I liked how they sniped El’s powers so she’s not such a deus ex machina all the time. The entire Russian thing was so over the top 1980s red scare that is was kind of farscical and distracting. Weirdly nationalistic. Crazy that Hooper dies at the end. It was pretty good, nothing sensational. I don’t know if I’ll go out of my way to continue watching season 4. Season 1 was a watershed. Season 2 struggled to compete. and Season 3 was just pretty good.

Good season. Kind of a spotlight on Jared, which I like. The final scene (in which Richard loses the thumbdrive) was out of character in how unsatisfying and unresolved it was.

Penultimate episode: we were the real monsters all along! Ultimate episode: the real treasure is the family we choose along the way

seasons 1 and 2. binged it. Season 1 was fantastic. Season 2 was also good. very watchable. I like their unique spin on lycanthropy. Kind of sad they dropped the Good Will Hunting kind of vibe of “unexpected boy genius” after the first two episodes. The cliffhanger at the end of season one was amazing. The Season two ending was more divergent, less convergent, but also really good. Really enjoyed watching Vera’s character evolution. Super hate the head of the council. Glad Randall took her out. Super hate Gabrielle Dupris. I think her channeling of Midnight was really dumb. Jack wore Midnight and didn’t get all super crazy. If that’s the direction they wanted to go they should have made the Midnight vs. Silverback fight over Jack feel more personal. Also the show was really funny. Overall 5/5 stars, would recommend.

The year Netflix won its first primetime Emmy for an original online program, it won three of them: House of Cards, Arrested Development, and Hemlock Grove. Never heard of Hemlock Grove, but it keeps good company! I’ll give it a spin! Episodes 1 and 2: - Visually appealing. Good colors. - Twin Peaks levels of dramatics and overacting over cheesy music. Very much a spiritual successor. - Am I missing somthing or was the jump to “Can I Watch?” out of absolute nowhere? Are we doing chaotic leaps forward? Does the plot advance off screen when the viewer isn’t watching? - Was that the best werewolf transformation of all time? Yes, perhaps it was. Episode 3: - They keep calling this kid hirsuite and he is practically smooth! - the music on this show is really quite something

Ended up finishing Season 2 after all after raging against the misogyny. I ended up kind of liking it after all, which I kind of hate. There’s a not so subtle connection drawn between Homelander’s nationalism and actual, living, breathing Nazis, which I kind of love. Love Howie’s commitment to Billy Joel. The “Girls Get It Done” bit was unfortunately steeped in homophobia (or maybe just blackmail? Which only works because of homophobia) and, again, literal naziism. Only Starlight was left as the normal one, and while she fights against fascism and tyranny in general, there’s no denouncement of the rampant misogyny and no real redemption to be had. The whole thing continues to create a feeling of helplessness and powerlessness and frustration in the face of overwhelming odds. But Queen Maeve taking out Black Noir with an Almond Joy? Slapstick.

Visually great. Orlando Bloom! Fanciful. Narnia meets Jack the Ripper. Can’t seem to really get into it :(

Haha. Lol. Lulz. Liked that they gave us 0.5 seconds of SPOOON. Arthur’s character was redone and good. I liked how in the 1st 2(?) episodes we were lead to wonder whether the Tick was real or a hallucination.

Holy shit, timely zeitgeist much? So good. I adore a show that is not afraid to land its punches: killing a main character, torturing and disfiguring another. Rainn Wilson + John Cusak are super watchable. Plus the reveal of Mr. Rabbit’s motives was great because, while I may not agree with the means, I super agree with the end. The tie in of that reveal and his catchphrase, “What have you done to earn your place in this crowded world,” was also super satisfying. My least favorite part was Jessica Hyde herself. She sucked

Half way through episode 5 of 10. After having played Call of Cthulhu with the gang. I like how it goes back and forth between “The real monsters is racism!” and “The real monsters is MONSTERS!”

watching a couple episodes with D as she’s rewatching it. Teddy Altman is good. And, Brooke Shields! I’m curious about the story of how Teddy Altman and husband were having mutual affairs and then the pregnant mistress marched in and demanded compensation. I don’t imagine I'de be a fraction as charitable to her as Teddy Altman ended up being. body: Also Teddy Altman was on Sesame Street??

Finished this show btw. Amazing middle game with Hippolyta’s adventures in space and time, and Topsy and Bobspy = supremely creepy. The ending is wild, with cutting off magic from all white people, and then Diana’s birthright = Bionic Commando + Lovecraftian beast tamer. wuuuuut This is a show by black people for black people, more unapologetically so than I’ve ever seen. A lot of the comments on reddit were super distateful, crying out about reverse racism and moaning about how every white person had to be evil, while missing the fact that not only is This Is America but this is America in the 20s - 50s where sunset tows and segreation and lynchings were actually real and so by taking part in the system, yes, all white people were somewhere on the spectrum between implicit and actively awful. So in conclusion those commenters can fuck off with their white fragility Anyway, good show. 10/10. Would recommend. Would watch again. Anxious so see a Season 2, but sadly doubt it will happen.

Absolutely stunning. The actress who plays Beth Harmon has the most expressive eyes I’ve ever seen. The show is gorgeous. It’s making me feel really romantic about the game, and it makes me want to play more. I can’t believe the kid from Love Actually is some Johnny Depp cowboy chess pirate.

Watching episode 1. I’ve already watched it once. Still enjoying it nonetheless.

Suuuuper intrigued so far. Didn’t realize this was made by the Wachowskis. Would have started it long ago had I known. Mel played this funny game during the first 30 minutes where she tried to guess the dialog based on the watching the scenes with no sound. She was correct 80% of the time.

Finished ep1. Great! Half watched Ep2 Meh.

Done. Amazing. I’m pretty sure this is required viewing for all people. Simply gorgeous. “I loved bisexual recovery chess rocky” Interesting shots. So much silence and heavy looks The lady who played Beth Harmon is so wildly expressive and was just perfect for this role My favorite part was how Beth’s mom, right before she died, said something about “I’m fine as long as I’m playing for fun” in regards to her playing piano. This was interesting to me because Beth never played for fun. Until she was able to free herself from having to prove herself by becoming the world champion. Which, you know. Is one way to free yourself from having to prove youself. It was great

Literally Feris Bueller’s day off with zombies. Cute show.

Story time! Once upon a time there was a tumblr blog of pictures of celebrities eating food, and Arnold always looked fuckind stupid/hilarious eating food, and the author of the blog alwas gave him funny captions that usually involved him saying, JINGLE ALL THE WAAAAY as he scarfed down a burger or hot dog. Anyway this movie was crap. Arnold sucked, Sinbad sucked, young Anakin sucked. Phil Hartmon was barely good, and Rita Wilson was the only sans character there. Weird trivia: this was apparently the last movie Phil was in before he was murdered.

Finished this at some point. It was hella good. It was sexy and beautiful.

Okay newer show in my lineup. It’s artsy. Non-linear storylines, creative framing, fake starts, sudden overdubs. It’s all really fancily done. And the story is good too. Intersectional pay gap in the tech industry. Racial justice. Etc.

Watched the 3rd season after the 2nd ended fucking weird with an extended prolonged penis joke. This one hit really heavy with expendible black lives during covid, and political correctness making it so that jokes are commodities. Dianne’s white guilt is a recurring theme as is the idea of neighborhood courts: where does justice actually come from?

Definitely loving this show. Its artword is very eastern meets western. It’s a little bit Steven Universe both in style and animation, and in subject, in the sense that I’m looking forward to some LGBTQ+ subject matter come up, and am already enjoying some body positivity via Glimmer.

The final season came out just recently. So I’m watching it from the beginning now. On Season 3 now. Zombies are funny because they are such a blank slate of a metaphor. They can stand for literally anything. Collapse of society, disease, fear of the future, fear of being forgotten, loss of control, seeing your loved ones become something else.. I think there was a good Mixed Taste about Slavic Zombies on the subject.

This show was great. It packed a whollup of nostalgia feels. My favorite part was the big switch-a-roo in which He-Man basically wasn’t in the show at all. It was in fact the Teela show. I was worried that Alicia Silverstone was going to ruin the show because she has a distinctive “Clueless” voice, but she did pretty good after all.

Just watched the first 3 episodes. I love it! The casting is amazing. Nobody has tugged on their braid once. Padan Fain looks like he will be terrifying later. Hate the look of Thom Merrilin. He’s supposed to look more like Mark Twain than like … some sexy country rock star. Visually it’s amazing. Love the trollocs and the magic of the Aes Sedai.

I usually watch an episode or two of She-Ra after Walking Dead as a pallet cleanser. Loving this cute show.

Let’s see, they survived the Governor, the cannibals at Terminus, the cop hospital.. Taking the mullet to DC was a weird sidequest. Can’t believe that’s how Beth goes out :(

The new Sex and the City where everybody is 50 years old and problematic! Very compelling and kind of a hate-watch. Miranda having an ongoing illicit affair is bonkers nonsense after almost breaking up with Steve for having a one-time fling in the first movie. Also Steve is such a muppet, they really did him dirty. Didn’t know (actress who plays Che and Callie from Grey’s Anatomy) is non-binary IRL.

Finished it. Super great, loved it.

The Alexandria story arc is actually pretty great. It’s an effective kind of time travel: what if the Atlanta crew finds survivors who are experiencing the pandemic for the first time? Rick’s descent was hard to watch, but well done. Carol going Stepford Wife mode is creepy. She’s stone cold. This is the person who single handedly liberated the prison from the Governor’s goons. The monk called her out on it too: “Were you a cop? You’re always watching. Ready.” “Tee-hee, I’m just a girl.” That scene was great. Finding the herd at the beginning of this season is good writing. Small to medium groops of zombies aren’t dangerous or interesting any more. Now we need an army. Glen redeeming Nicolas is fun to watch. Edit: fuck I can’t believe I just wrote that and Nicolas literally got redeemed and also got Glen killed anyway 😭😭😭 That was one of the worst, most needless deaths thus far.

Just finished it tonight, and I gotta say, it was crap! Miranda is a joke. Steve is a joke. I don’t even want to talk about them. Total bullshit. Charlotte’s storyline finally makes sense at the final moment when she finally “becomes a woman” but–and this is the problem with the writing the whole season long–the writers never at any point bring the story. In retrospect, sure. She has allowed herself to be defined by those around her. Her daughter gets her period and becomes a woman. Her other daughter rejects womanhood and is instead non-binary, but also comes into their own adulthood. So Charlotte’s journey is all about rite of passage and coming into your own. Which she finally does at her own bat mitzah. She also creates some distance between herself and Harry by whooping his ass at tennis and refusing to apologize (a scene which at first I hated) and possibly also, though it wasn’t by her choice, by failing to give him a blowjob in the bathroom. (That episode was weiner-tastic. Two dudes showed peen, and for some gratuitious reason they decided to give Harry a horse cock.) Carrie’s storyline was satisfying. She put Big to rest. She got to reclaim her brand and return to Sex and the City, literally and figuratively. She’s juggling two boyfriends.

a disappointing series starring Kristen Bell that was not good. Supposed to be a parody of the “Lonely woman who is a shut-in who thinks she sees a murder but doubts herself and also nobody believes her” trope. But it doesn’t go hard enough. There’s one or Police Academy style gags throughout the series, but again, they don’t go all in. A couple episodes they just don’t bring the funny, and when a parody fails to satirize, it’s just a lame imitation. There are two good parts of the show: the over the top way in which Bell’s character’s daughter died (killed and eaten by a serial killer in the middle of a maximum security prison) and during the finale when the real killer is revealed (the sweet 8 year old girl next door) and the physical struggle that ensued. The finale specifically almost makes it worth it, but not quite.

I might be done with this show. I feel like it just jumped the shark with Daryl fucking destroying an entire biker gang in one hit with a bazooka. And with showing Glenn getting ate not once but twice. And Rick and the gang deciding to just go outside and stab the horde to death. Like, what? The death of almost the entire (kid Sam’s) family was heartbreaking and bold. I feel like W’s redemption was half-assed. I just don’t know if I have 4 more seasons of this left in me. It’s getting really repeditive.