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I was hoping for some kind of Parasite or Cohen Bros. type of crazy ending, at the least, but basically, nothing changed. The rich entitled people stayed rich and didn't learn much of anything, and the poor abused people got nothing and stayed abused. Even the kid who ran away is probably going to be found by his parents. And if he's not, is this kid going to struggle in life? At the end, he just paddles off into the sunset like some colonizing missionary thanks to the generosity of some local people. Like, what was the point of this show? What's Season 2 going to be? A new batch of rich people exploiting people?
I am mostly through with JEREMY CLARKSONS FARM on Amazon Prine and its pretty good. For once you see the usually bombastic Clarkson clearly out of his element most of the time and while there is the predictable bitching when stuff goes wrong, there is also a clear understanding on his part of how hard farming is as well as appreciated for the fruits of his labors. Of course he disdains the small used tractors he could have bought and instead buys a huge Lamborghini model instead .
Finished the second season of Mythic Quest. I enjoyed it. The storytelling was a little weak as characters felt siloed in their own stories with minimal crossover, but the characters and performances are well defined and strong enough to carry the series.
Can’t imagine there being a third season without a huge cast reset, but I’m glad I got to hang out in this world. It got me through between Ted Lasso releases.
Titans season 3 is actually decent so far, though with a surprising focus on Gotham City. The whole team relocates there after dramatic events involving Batman, Robin II, and the Joker. The team is actually using teamwork now instead of spending most of their time snarking at each other and heedlessly rushing into danger alone. New cast member Savannah Welch plays a very interesting Commissioner Barbara Gordon, reinforcing that this show takes place in a later timeframe than most DC stories taking place in Gotham City. Welch is not conventionally pretty, but has an interesting face that is great at conveying a variety of negative emotions. Welch was in a terrible car accident in 2016 that resulted in the complete amputation of one of her legs, so her selection to play Gordon implies that some version of the infamous Killing Joke story took place in this timeline.
There is a big splash page of all the Titans S3 characters every time I open HBO max and I have been amusing myself trying to figure out who they are given the deviations from traditional comic looks.
Is this show doing any cross overs or even nod/winks at other CW shows?
Yeah, I totally don't understand people not liking The White Lotus. I guess I can understand people not being into shows where the majority of characters are contemptible in some fashion, like Succession. But White Lotus is hysterically funny, first off and, even better, has fully-realized characters. They have actual texture and react in very human (and, yes, quite contemptible) ways. Plus, there's more going on than just what happens in each scene. We don't learn about the subtle conflict between Paula and Olivia until we're three episodes in. That's telling a story about actual people as opposed to setting up character A, B, and C so that everyone has perfect information and just sits to get spoon-fed the story as said characters go through the motions. Plus, it's kind of perfect casting to have Jennifer Coolidge (Tanya) essentially doing an aged continuation of her character from Best in Show. We're still only on episode 4, but I think it's great. Does it rise to the level of an HBO best ever? No. But it's hugely entertaining.
Really digging Reservation Dogs. New FX show produced by Taika Waititi about four kids in a gang of sorts committing crime around their reservation housing projects. It's serious but doses of humor and style.
jason10mm wrote: There is a big splash page of all the Titans S3 characters every time I open HBO max and I have been amusing myself trying to figure out who they are given the deviations from traditional comic looks.
Is this show doing any cross overs or even nod/winks at other CW shows?
Doom Patrol is a spin-off from Titans. There was a Doom Patrol episode in the first season of Titans, and they ended up using most of the same actors for the subsequent Doom Patrol series. Titans might be pulling together into an okay show in third season, but Doom Patrol was great from the start. Titans features a bunch of young superhumans somehow making their own lives epically awkward and bad. Doom Patrol features characters with extreme actual mental and physical problems. Sometimes the members of the Doom Patrol struggle heroically to save the day, and sometimes they struggle heroically just to get through the day.
Doom Patrol is easily one of the weirdest tv shows ever, but the pace is slowed to a point where viewers must face the weirdness instead of just letting it pass through them. Sometimes Doom Patrol is funny, sometimes sad, sometimes both at the same time. It all works because the characters are fully-realized people going through the weirdness. Even Alan Tudyk's bizarre meta-villain Mr. Nobody got a humanizing scene in an that I just watched.
Brand New Cherry Flavor - Definitely not for the squeamish. Body horror in spades. Not for the kids. Heck, maybe not for the grownups. It takes a while to get rolling, and the first couple of episodes was, "WTF am I watching?" But once it gets going it's pretty good.
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Has season 2 of Ted Lasso improved? I watched the first couple of episodes and was underwhelmed and stopped watching. But then I did recall not being too impressed with the first couple of episodes of season 1 before being completely won over.
Ancient_of_MuMu wrote: Has season 2 of Ted Lasso improved?
I felt by the 3rd episode it was at least as good as the first season, but if you didn't like the start you probably won't start liking it now. The setup, characters and jokes haven't changed, the topics became a little more meaningful.
Depends on what you liked about the first season, I guess. If it was the characters and general tone of positivity, those are all still there and strong. If it was those things pushed against real conflicts and storylines that lasted more than one episode, less so.
Season two so far feels a lot like the last season of Parks and Rec: everyone gets what they want with no struggle. I still like the characters well enough, but what made it superior is lacking.
Watched the first epi of Brand New Cherry Flavor. Intrigued, but the 'origin story' was an expected one. There are cats, so I may have to save the rest of the viewing to watch with my wife.
DarthJoJo wrote: Depends on what you liked about the first season, I guess. If it was the characters and general tone of positivity, those are all still there and strong. If it was those things pushed against real conflicts and storylines that lasted more than one episode, less so.
Season two so far feels a lot like the last season of Parks and Rec: everyone gets what they want with no struggle. I still like the characters well enough, but what made it superior is lacking.
I liked the positivity and fun, with everyone becoming better people through knowing Ted, while still being real. Ted's marriage collapsing and the surprise of the finale were really good.
But then season 2 began and Roy Kent and Keely were still main characters who should have been written out and a new character was introduced to create the conflict missing after Ted and Rebecca worked things out. It all felt forced and missing the natural flow of the previous season.