Oh, and The Bear is really good, too. A little bit of sensory overload in the first few episodes, but that tapers as they get less into scene-setting and more into the characters--plus it captures what it's trying to capture extremely well.

Clodfobble wrote:

Oh, and The Bear is really good, too. A little bit of sensory overload in the first few episodes, but that tapers as they get less into scene-setting and more into the characters--plus it captures what it's trying to capture extremely well.

The Bear is great.  And I almost couldn't make it through the first couple episodes.

The Russian Dolls finale reminded me that I need more David Gilmore in my Spotify mix.

So hey that new Lord of the Rings dropped. Two really good episodes, I can't complain. Tolkien didn't write much about the first age, so there's plenty of room for artistic license, and they're not fvcking it up.

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The second episode of The Ring was better.

Watched the first episode of Andor, I like it so far.

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Just finished 12 Monkeys. It was OK but especially toward the end there were way too many weak writing cop-outs where characters would go out of character and do something contrary to their nature to pad out the story. A lot of I won't shoot this guy even though I've just been shooting everyone every time I had a chance, no. I'll try to have a fist fight with him instead, then I'll try to reason with him instead of just shooting him when he didn't see me. OH! Rats! he got away. tune in next week. So yeah, it was OK.

Also just finished Reacher on amazon prime. some very funny moments. Great acting and action/mystery stuff. A little lame at the end, again, characters making poor choices that are inexplicable given their previous actions.
 

Chernobyl and Handmaid's Tale are in the category of "looks good, but I'm never in the mood to start a depressing series".

Andor is awesome.  It's the first Star Wars since the original trilogy to have that original Star Wars feeling.  It feels like a show set in the Star Wars universe, rather than a "hey look here's a Star Wars" thing.

I liked Rings of Power, but I sort of felt like the season finale's message was "OK, now the show can start", which was sort of the "buildup" feeling I had throughout the series.  I still have the "hopefully the payoff works" feeling, and am glad it is Bezos' baby, so it will have a chance to do it. 

I'm very happy Sandman was renewed.  The next storyline may be my favorite, so at least we'll have that, even if we don't get the whole thing.  But I want the whole thing.   I also listened to part 3 of the Sandman audio play on Audible; it is excellent.

Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities was pretty good.  Some Lovecraftian stuff, some actual Lovecraft, and some other various horror.  Twilight Zone adjacent.

Happy Monkey wrote:

Andor is awesome.  It's the first Star Wars since the original trilogy to have that original Star Wars feeling.  It feels like a show set in the Star Wars universe, rather than a "hey look here's a Star Wars" thing.

Confirmed

this is un-American

do you wake up this wrong, or do you guzzle a big glass of wrong juice first thing

Andor stuck the landing.  Amazing tension during the buildup to the climax, and excellent storytelling throughout.

I watched Wednesday on Netflix.  I didn't think they got the Addams family dynamics quite right, but the rest of the family isn't around much, so that's not a huge issue.  Wednesday herself is quite good.  It was fun that Christina Ricci was in it.  Also, between this and Cabinet of Curiosities, we had Garfunkel and Oates as well.  Fairly "Young Adult" plotwise, but gorier than most in that genre.
 

Seems to be general consensus, and I agree, that The Last of Us is amazing.

I've enjoyed this season of Carnival Row quite a bit, but I never see any mention of it online, and they're releasing them two at a time, so I suspect it's not long for this world.