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Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible

A criminally unremembered Steve Coogan vehicle. A weekly anthology show spoofing Hammer, Tales from the Crypt etc in half hour stories.

They’re camp, they’re silly, they’re sometimes a little racy. And definitely worth checking out.

Even better, seems it’s on Prime in the UK!

Fallout (Amazon Prime)

Thanks to the Engakification of Everything I'll be cancelling my $125 Amazon Prime soon. Next day shipping is now next week shipping, and the streaming service has ads. Forget that.

But this... I never played Fallout (have played a video game in years), never learned any of the fluff, but this is really, really good. I can see why the game is so revered.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible

A criminally unremembered Steve Coogan vehicle. A weekly anthology show spoofing Hammer, Tales from the Crypt etc in half hour stories.

They’re camp, they’re silly, they’re sometimes a little racy. And definitely worth checking out.

Even better, seems it’s on Prime in the UK!

A fun program! I must give a rewatch!

You sir….are a large crab.

I've been exclusively watching anime for the past few months.

-Frieren might have the best small-screen animation I've ever seen, particularly the battle. It's absurdly good on all levels. I'm completely baffled that no one has mentioned it. The manga is very good as well, but the action scenes in the anime are staggering.
The OST is incredible as well.
-Yagete Kimi ni Naru was excellent.
-Bocchi the Rock was not something I expected to love, but it was so good that I am rewatching it. The cutaway gags are solid and the music is actually good. I wish season 2 would hurry up. Normally I'd go read the manga, but I loathe four koma.
-Girls Band Cry and Jellyfish Can't Swim In The Night have been great through 9 episodes. Didn't expect to love Girls Band Cry because of the 3D aspect, but it's been solid from start to finish and actually has some surprisingly funny moments. The opening is also amazing.
-SasaKoi is an absolutely abysmal adaptation because the budget is nonexistent apparently.
-Steins;gate was decent. I didn't love it because it had too many negative `anime` tropes and nothing about it blew my mind, but it was still decent enough.

The Ones Who Live

Finally getting to watch this, as it’s on NowTV. Yes I did sign up just to watch this show, but will also do House of the Dragon.

Pretty gnarly opening scene.i


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Into episode 5/6, and there’s a distinctly Fallout feel to the show. In a positive way.

You can tell this was originally intended to be a feature film, and there’s an amount of filler. But, most of that is character development. Given this may be a viewer’s first exposure to the franchise, I think that’s forgivable.

The most important thing of course is our two lead actors continue to have solid chemistry. And it’s still miles ahead of Fear The Walking Dead.


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Ending is a bit meh though.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ending is a bit meh though.

Yep. There's a reason you don't bring all of your co-conspirators together for a meeting where you're keeping all of your chlorine gas...

Not so much that bit, as the head honcho is clearly completely mad, and thus probably a bit hard of thinking,

But it’s the radio report of “suddenly it all cool, because”.

Still enjoyed it, and I understand NowTV will have all the spin offs apart from Tales Of before the year is out. So I’ve more to look forward to.

Finally getting around to watching Supernatural.
It's fun. Not great, but it's entertaining. I like ye olde "monster of the week but still with an overarching plot" season format.
...

And there's 14 seasons. That's my binging sessions for the next year or so...

I love Supernatural. Something you may notice as you go through it, is how consistent it keeps its internal lore.

Though be warned, it does have a couple of duff seasons in the middle. They’re still watchable, just…not as good.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Not so much that bit, as the head honcho is clearly completely mad, and thus probably a bit hard of thinking,

But that's par for the course in The Walking Dead universe. The Big Bads are all either lunatics or megalomaniacs (or a mixture of the two). Zombie apocalypses tend to be bad on the population's mental health as a whole

We just finished season one of Rome.

I've been watching a lot of It's always Sunny and other factors. Rome has seemed like some kind of wild Sitcom. I know it's not meant to be taken that way but I also wonder if it was ahead of it's time. Almost wish it had a laugh track not that it needs it.

We really enjoy Rome. Just starting season 2 in a day or two. Wish we'd gotten more.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Not so much that bit, as the head honcho is clearly completely mad, and thus probably a bit hard of thinking,

But that's par for the course in The Walking Dead universe. The Big Bads are all either lunatics or megalomaniacs (or a mixture of the two). Zombie apocalypses tend to be bad on the population's mental health as a whole

I think my main criticism is that whilst the show is perfectly fine? It’s too much of a retread of the last season of the main show.

National Park Zombies were pretty interesting though.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I think my main criticism is that whilst the show is perfectly fine? It’s too much of a retread of the last season of the main show.

Most definitely. They had pretty much done everything there was to do with that corner of The Walking Dead Universe, which is why moving Daryl Dixon to France was what the franchise needed.

That’s a treat for later in the year. Same with Dead City.

Still no immediate sign of “Tales Of” though. Which sucks. Because I understand one episode stars Terry Crews, and Terry Crews can do no wrong.

Crispy78 wrote:
Not a review as such - but really excited about Shardlake, which hit Disney+ today.

Tudor murder-mystery, based on a series of novels by C J Sansom - who sadly died just a few days ago. I love the books, and previews saying that the series does them justice have me very keen to watch ASAP.

Watched it - it's great. Very close adaptation to the book - biggest change is introducing the 'main' sidekick character early (in the books, Jack Barak does not appear until the second), but it makes more sense editorially. Certainly does the book justice, and I want them to make more. Please watch it!

It was very good. Good acting sets, story. Quite short, compared to other shows,

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I love Supernatural. Something you may notice as you go through it, is how consistent it keeps its internal lore.

Though be warned, it does have a couple of duff seasons in the middle. They’re still watchable, just…not as good.

I've found that the seasons I hated the most (like the leviathan season) are actually much more watchable when I'm binging. I think it's because 1-3 bad episodes don't take up an entire month of my life but instead less than 3 hours before I'm back to decent content.

On Season 4 now. I like how they brought Dean back and not have it be done and resolved immediately. I wonder what that angel's up to; I very much suspect All Is Not As It Seems with that one.
(No, don't spoil it. But teasing's allowed.)

And interesting throwbacks to Yelloweyes and his plans. I'm sure there's more to come there as well. I hope they can deliver the goods.

So the first 5 seasons were very much a contained arc. They are what the original show runner (Eric Kripke of now The Boys fame) had for what he saw as THE story. He exited as the showrunner after season 5 (stayed on as an EP but I don't think he was much involved after that outside of little stuff) but they overall do a good job of being consistent with the lore and there are a lot of fun new arcs they follow. Some were meh but it was still better tv than 90% of tv you find before the streaming wars really got started.

It’s part of my general rotation of shows to watch whilst I’m working and there’s nothing new dropping.

It’s genuinely impressive how it balances acknowledging its inherently silly premise, and being really quite solid drama.

Though for my money, the best two characters don’t appear until Seasons 5 and Season 10.

As we’ve a new watcher in our midst, I’m not gonna name names. Not even in spoiler tags.