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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
It's not a cerebral challenge - but for a "weeknight watch" I am enjoying Cobra Kai SE2.
Somehow they hit the exact right mix of retro playfulness for me, which helps it edge away slightly from the cliff, avoiding the free fall into a twee family melodrama (with karate!)
I really like this show. The one thing I don’t like is how sloppy the actual karate is. Once you notice it becomes a distraction.
Does direct to video count? Because i am in love with scott adkins. His work with jesse johnson is especially awesome. Serious blood and guts but damn fine entertainment for low cerebral activity.
Scott Adkins is amazing! I don't watch everything he's in, but everything he does is so tight.
Finally finished Westworld S3. Was exactly as good as I expected it to be. It completely felt like Person of Interest, and POI just gave me essentially a heads up of how things were going to play out in S3.
Still working through S2 of The Boys. I'm waiting for my friend as we're watching it together. I'm a few weeks behind but so far it's fantastic.
I binged the final season of The 100. I think they did a good job of getting out of the panicked writing of the previous season and figure out where the plot was supposed to go. The ending, though, gave me existential horror in spite of being a "good" ending.
spoilers and complaining
So in the end, Raven manages to somehow manage to change the minds of the aliens to not kill everyone and they somehow figure that should mean that humanity should ascend. So now all of humanity is part of a hyperdimensional thought being except for Clarke. She gets left behind because it's the slap on the wrist she gets for all the genocide and murder she did. And then she finds that her friends decided to stay behind and stick with her for the rest of their lives, with the caveat that they will not be able to reproduce.But the thing about that is that is a recipe for misery. Imagine living long enough to resent your friends - you will have nobody else in the world to talk to. Imagine that you're old and they're all dead and you have nobody to take care of you - you just rot away until you die. Technology will never progress. There will be no new art, and if they do make new art it won't really matter - even if it does survive them, there will be nobody to enjoy or understand it. They will never know the joys of parentage. They don't even have the comforts of modern life. They are doomed to die in the wilderness.
And for all her efforts, Clarke doesn't get to stay with Maddie. But it perhaps would have been worse for her if she had stayed behind. Soon enough all of Clarke's friends will resent her for taking eternity from them, even though she didn't really have any say in their decision.
I'm also a bit disappointed that it isn't Maddie who vanquishes Sheidheda. It would have been quite a symbolic victory.
On the positive side, I think that Clarke's actress really did a good job on this season, and I really enjoyed how the writers fleshed out Diyoza and Indra's personalities, because they always seemed a bit too underdeveloped for how interesting they were. It feels like this season made me really respect them as people instead of just being badass killers.
Finished The Boys and while the season was very satisfying, the lack of conflict resolution in the finale left me feeling a bit empty. It's clearly going to have a season 3, though, so I'm excited to see how they carry the social/political commentary that hit the spot oh so well this season (for those unaware, it touched on neo-nazi uprisings through populous movements).
I'm halfway through Raised by Wolves, and it shows good promise. The first two episodes are directed/produced by Ridley Scott, and the subsequent episodes still are able to keep good elements of sci-fi running.
Lovecraft Country is a show I continue to watch, but have lost a lot of interest in. The plot, while it makes sense in broad strokes, loses coherence pretty quickly when you probe too deeply into it. Character motivations are sometimes displayed very heavy-handedly, and sometimes not at all. The struggle with trying to follow this show isn't very fun, but I do want to see the whole season out before writing it off.
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal has returned for a few episodes this month and I could not be more ecstatic. The show has no dialoge, gorgeous background art, and enough plot to keep my satiated. Perhaps it's because I miss the days of Samurai Jack, or perhaps it's the lack of dialogue that keeps a somber tone, but it scratches a nostalgia itch for a show that is still new.
While I'm not normally one to be a fanboy of Saturday Night Live, I do enjoy seeing it return back to its original form. Those quarantine episodes were a little cringey. The latest episode with Bill Burr as host got a lot of social commentary (and pissed a good number of people off I think), and I love it. The uncomfortable laughs are a great way to analyze the truth behind the jokes that makes them so uncomfortably funny.
Completely unrelated but my nvidia shield updated this week with a fix for the remote IR volume speed and this is like the most excited I've been about my tv this week.