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We've wrapped up all the GRET BRITISH BAKING SHOWs as family time. They are great and the most recent champ copped to getting into baking because of previous GBBO seasons, so now it's officially self-fulfilling. Matt Lucas is a huge upgrade, and Paul Hollywood is a tremendous asshole. Enjoy.
I've been enjoying CHEF'S TABLE: BBQ lately as well. Amazing people absolutely busting their asses to make barbecue, which is probably the USA's grandest culinary tradition.
JUPITER’S LEGACY. Superhero family drama, which is pretty rote at this point, but they add in a fun pulp angle, parallel story in the 20s/30s that I’m a sucker for. Very reminiscent of the setting of SPIRIT OF THE CENTURY. Only downside is that it’s pretty slow due to all the jumps between various storylines. But the scenery is gorgeous, characters are good, story is fun.
Watching it right now as well. Juuuust enough hook, especially the last 2 minutes of each ep, like a lot of shows these days (is that a well documented writing/editing trick?). Fortunately it is not YA like I thought, much more like The Boys minus most of the OMG moments. Still, I'm about done with daddy issues being a prime character trait leading to near obsessive compulsive behavior.
The effects budget is a little dodgy but they got some good actors in there. Poor Leslie Bibb plays a teenager in half of her stuff and now is an octogenarian or whatever
jeb wrote: We've wrapped up all the GRET BRITISH BAKING SHOWs as family time. They are great and the most recent champ copped to getting into baking because of previous GBBO seasons, so now it's officially self-fulfilling. Matt Lucas is a huge upgrade, and Paul Hollywood is a tremendous asshole. Enjoy.
I don't know if you go in for GBBS for the baking or the exceedingly charming good nature of the contestants, but I've found the Great Pottery Throwdown to be a good substitute. It's got the same niceness and camaraderie, but here they're making pottery. The host/judge couldn't be more opposite of Paul Hollywood in temperament. He literally cries when he sees great work.
I think GBBS contestants are so cheerful because they're all amateurs. Their professional rep isn't at stake. You see the same thing when Chopped gets grannies, lunch ladies, or firemen on there. Everyone's just glad to be there, and nobody is out for blood.
I think that's true, but if you tried to do that in the U.S. it wouldn't fly. I can't imagine a reality show where the winner receives absolutely no cash reward. It's sort of against our cultural spirit of competition.
jason10mm wrote: Watching it right now as well. Juuuust enough hook, especially the last 2 minutes of each ep, like a lot of shows these days (is that a well documented writing/editing trick?). Fortunately it is not YA like I thought, much more like The Boys minus most of the OMG moments. Still, I'm about done with daddy issues being a prime character trait leading to near obsessive compulsive behavior.
The effects budget is a little dodgy but they got some good actors in there. Poor Leslie Bibb plays a teenager in half of her stuff and now is an octogenarian or whatever
The comparison to THE BOYS crossed my mind as well -- while I prefer their take on "modern deconstruction of superheroes," sometimes the performative edginess gets a little "oh come on." JL is pretty solid mid-tier as far as superheroic TV shows goes. I'd put it on par with the better seasons of Flash or Arrow. Entertaining; hope they continue it but apparently the reviewers are panning it so it might not get another season.
Mid-tier seems the best description for Jupiter's Legacy. The stuff from the 30's with the adults is cool. The modern stuff is like a different show. None of the kids are even mildly interesting and I'm pretty sure I've seen Chloe's exact character in at least one other Supers show. I'd probably watch another season but I feel like the origin story was already the best part.
Edit: I never watched the second season of The Boys so I guess I didn't like it very much.
Decided to explore Apple TV outside Ted Lasso and found Mythic Quest. It’s better than the first episode made it out to be as a rerun Office but in an MMORPG studio rather than a paper distributor. The Nazi episode was a highlight, and I’m glad to see them experimenting immediately with different character pairings. Always happy to see Danny Pudi working and referencing his mixed heritage, and the actress playing Poppy does some solid mugging. The only off part is how disconnected Ashley Burch and her fellow tester feel from everything else.
So it’s above average and worth a look once you’re done with Ted Lasso. Have to do something with that remaining year of Apple TV.
For all mankind is a must watch on apple. That mamoa show See was kinda interesting, that guy plays the same character in every show but every show is radically different. I only had access for a month and that was as far as i got. If FAM s2 is out I'll probably sub for another month.
I just realized why the time jumps in Jupiters legacy are so easy to follow. They change the aspect ratio for each period (and lean into the color grading). A LOT of shows could learn from this because as this style of show editing becomes basically mainstream it can be very hard to follow. Sisyphus was a disaster because of it (for me).
jason10mm wrote: I just realized why the time jumps in Jupiters legacy are so easy to follow. They change the aspect ratio for each period (and lean into the color grading). A LOT of shows could learn from this because as this style of show editing becomes basically mainstream it can be very hard to follow. Sisyphus was a disaster because of it (for me).
The equivalent of this has been standard operating procedure on computer screens for a couple of decades, where different fields, even different screens have a different color background or text depending on what you can do with them. I project I did ten years back had read-only screens that were just the slightest shade creamier than the data entry screens and end-users subconsciously picked it out by day four of production go-live.
Shows I've seen in the past use black and white for flashbacks, but conceptually this can be done across a broader spectrum of tells. Often flashbacks with feature music from the era to announce where you are (when you are I guess) which is also useful.
Finished JL last night. Despite all the jumps, the plotting was easy to follow; really a master class in how to do it. Not just the colors and aspect ratios, but music and writing too. Each scene would build up, end on a minor cliffhanger, and then everything would change when the next section started.
Despite that, I’ll stick with my “solid mid-tier” assessment. I will watch season 2 if they make it, and be disappointed if they don’t (especially given the twist in the last episode), but I don’t feel compelled to rewatch season 1.
I would be all over a pulp superhero show set entirely in the 20s and 30s. Just jettison the modern-day stuff and give me globe-trotting, jazz, Lucky Strikes, speakeasies, and maybe a little Nazi-punching.
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