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2023/01/15 10:10:27
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Caught up on season 4 of What We Do in the Shadows as I didn't realise that had come out. Still excellent and hilariously funny. There is something deeply funny about "The Boy".
For the first time in my puff, I’m watching Beavis and Butthead spin-off, Daria
This is pretty damned good. Almost an invention of the B&B paradigm, where their gross stupidity is the joke. For Daria, it’s her higher intelligence and cynical worldview.
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: For the first time in my puff, I’m watching Beavis and Butthead spin-off, Daria
This is pretty damned good. Almost an invention of the B&B paradigm, where their gross stupidity is the joke. For Daria, it’s her higher intelligence and cynical worldview.
It is indeed very good. Hence why I put it in the thread 'Actually Good Spin-offs'.
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2023/01/16 15:21:16
Subject: Re:Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
I signed up to NowTV, just so I could start watching The Last of Us in UK, but that has given me an opportunity to start watching:
YellowJackets
High school, women's, soccer team in 1992 get to the Nationals. Rich dad of one of the players hires private jet to fly them to the big game. Plane crashes, leaving the survivors stranded in the wilderness for 19 months...
The series is set in 1992 and 20 odd years later with the survivors now adults. None of the survivors have ever fully explained just how they survived in the wild for so long, but many suspect cannibilism.... and they might be right, only the bodies they ate didn't necessarily die in the crash.....
I'm just over half way through and I have to say I'm enjoying it, but I'll wait until the end until final judgement as I have a feeling it may jump the shark. But good performances from the main cast and the casting for their older and younger selves really works. So far, so good.
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2023/01/16 17:21:59
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
You can more or less relax about the shark jumping, the tone is consistent all the way through.
S2 must be due pretty soon, just concerned it'll be on Paramount+ exclusively as it's a high profile show and that service needs reasons to subscribe desperately.
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
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Azreal13 wrote: You can more or less relax about the shark jumping, the tone is consistent all the way through.
S2 must be due pretty soon, just concerned it'll be on Paramount+ exclusively as it's a high profile show and that service needs reasons to subscribe desperately.
Ah, that's good to know.
"Dig in and wait for Winter"
2023/01/17 18:34:05
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Three body just started streaming on the 15th. I've just caught a bit of the first episode so far, found it on Youtube, looks like ep 1 and 2 are there. I enjoyed the audio books, I've been waiting for this show. there will also be a Netflix versions at some point.
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2023/01/17 19:00:27
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Azreal13 wrote: You can more or less relax about the shark jumping, the tone is consistent all the way through.
S2 must be due pretty soon, just concerned it'll be on Paramount+ exclusively as it's a high profile show and that service needs reasons to subscribe desperately.
Ah, that's good to know.
As if on cue..
Slightly more shark.. hoppy? than I'd hoped, but then some of the S1 was pretty out there without context.
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox
Finally got to see the whole first episode of Three Body. Not bad. Faster than the book so far, more right to the point but I do hope they get deeper into the revolution in the 60's as the story unfolds. It's foundation for character motivations and so far they've touched on it but not gotten into it. Da Shi's been interesting but so far I like him better in the audio book, mostly because of the voice acting.
Anyway, it look like it's off to a good start.
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2023/01/22 17:36:22
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Sylvester Stallone stars in a sort of mash up of Goodfellas, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad and similar.
Whilst the show reminds us Stallone is a genuinely good actor, there’s nothing here we’ve not really seen before. However, whilst far from original, it’s at least competently made.
Probably worth a watch if you enjoy your crime thrillers.
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It's still trying way too hard to be dark and edgy, but I'm enjoying it. It's basically an Arrowverse series but stripped of all the padding, wheel-spinning and general repetitiveness that ruined those for me (at least so far).
It's season 2 of Doom Patrol next. I'm hoping they've cut back on the swearing, but I doubt it.
2023/01/28 15:27:44
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Up to ep 15 io Three-Body.
I like that the show is flushing out character relationships and that detective work is going on where it was all behind the scenes in the book.
It's added a bit of depth in a good way. I was skeptical that I would like this version of Da Shi but he's been almost as good as in the book, maybe a bit better. Mostly because we see more of him doing his thing. They've laid in the back story around red coast base well too. This has been very enjoyable so far.
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2023/01/29 19:36:55
Subject: Re:Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Nice creepy Danish detective show about a murderer who leaves little chestnut figures by the victims. We watched the whole 8 episodes in one sitting and really enjoyed it. Same scriptwriter as who did The Bridge.
Struggling hard with Season 4 of Dragon Prince (I'm on episode 2).
Getting re-accustomed to their animation style is bad enough (though it seems worse, particularly with lighting- the main character's hair doesn't seem well-lit in torchlight, it just looks like he's a redhead), but the writing seems to have amazingly gotten worse.
The bad, childish and ill-timed jokes are constant, no matter how serious the situation is, and the frankly juvenile theories of philosophy and governance have bottomed out to absolutely wretched (why not terrify your population with a dragon visit? Why not plan a state wedding without telling anyone, including the bride?)
Whatever motivations the characters have are obscured by all the junk jokes, and tons of backstory and character development was lost to a time skip. The beginning of the season is apparently about the boring stuff that happens after the far more interesting things they decided not to show.
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2023/01/29 23:24:36
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Ok, I'm calling it, I've given this steaming pile 4 episodes and I can't watch another one. I'm normally pretty forgiving for first seasons, I understand it can take a minute for everything to gel, but.. I just.. can't.
How this show gets made when other streaming services are dropping infinitely superior shows left right and centre is beyond me.
How this gets made now is even more baffling. This would have been an average show 20 years ago in the wake of the success of Lost and it's many imitators, but how such a low budget, poorly realised, derivative show makes it to pilot, let alone series, during 2022 defies explanation.
What is confounding beyond reason is this heap of steaming horse gak not only got renewed, but got an order for MORE EPISODES.
If somebody is prepared to tell me this turns into Breaking Bad with Sabre Toothed Tigers, I'll listen to your argument, but for now, this show singlehandedly notably lowers the average quality of all TV ever made just by existing.
NBC will once again head down the primordial rabbit hole in a third season of La Brea, the network has announced. This renewal comes as the show prepares for the return of its second season later this evening with two new episodes.
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2023/02/01 17:25:57
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Up to EP. 20 of Three-Body.
In the last two episodes they have finally revealed the ETO in name. I'm not sure how many more episodes are left. if it's more than 4 I will be surprised but I can't say just where the story is as it relate to the length of the book.
I've also enjoyed the General unwittingly being part of a comedy duo which Da Shi on a few occasions.
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2023/02/03 23:34:20
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
Dawn French stars in an anthology series of Murder Mystery Spoofs, first aired in 1991.
It’s kind of showing its age, but in a comforting way. Also, given its sending up tropes of the time and earlier, perhaps it always had a certain nostalgic feel to it.
Dawn French as ever is excellent value for money in the comedy department, and shows a decent range of character acting across the episodes.
Pointless Fun Fact? S3, E1 is set in my works office. Did a double take at first. Kind of weird to see how it looked 30 odd years ago.
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Bored so I tried it. Meh. It's not bad so much as the kind of show I'd probably have liked when I was much younger but relies heavily on cliches that I now find annoying (irrational stupid teenagers denying the obvious to pad out the drama most of all).
Bored so I tried it. Meh. It's not bad so much as the kind of show I'd probably have liked when I was much younger but relies heavily on cliches that I now find annoying (irrational stupid teenagers denying the obvious to pad out the drama most of all).
I was kinda enjoying this until the "special" effects appeared.....
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2023/02/07 21:13:51
Subject: Re:Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
A simple premise this one - what's it like to live in a world where everyone has superpowers except you?
Jen is in her twenties and still waiting for her superpower to develop, something that normally happens around a person's 18th birthday. She's surrounded by people who can fly, rewind time and 3d print things with their arse, and feels like her life really can't begin until she finds out what she can do.
This twist on the typical twenty something ensemble comedy, alongside decent writing and performances, helps to lift this show above many of its peers. A UK produced Disney + Original, it feels very much like anyone familiar with Channel 4's particular style of comedy will recognise.
Already renewed for season 2, I'll be happy to see Jen, Jizzlord and the rest of the gang return for more adventures next year.
Lockwood and Co
I'll often grumble to anyone who'll listen about the preponderance of poor quality tween content on Netflix. It's especially egregious when I think I'm embarking on a show aimed at adults from the trailer or other marketing, only to find an angst ridden conversation by the lockers happening within the first 15.
Thankfully, well told stories, well acted and supported by good ideas don't really rely too much on being in the target demographic to be entertaining, so when things like The Midnight Club or, thankfully, Lockwood and Co are released, I don't have too many grounds for complaint.
Adapted from the books, with heavy involvement from Adam Cornish, Lockwood and Co takes place in an alternate timeline where for the last 50 years ghosts have been returning for the grave, and in this universe a single touch can kill or place you in a lifelong coma.
Thankfully, a percentage of children exhibit talent, an ability to detect or otherwise interact with ghosts, allowing them to qualify as 'agents' until they age out and lose their abilities, assuming they make it that far.
A curious blend of Ghostbusters, Young Sherlock and the BBC Freeman/Cumberatch adult Sherlock Holmes, Lockwood and Co rattles along fairly rapidly (it's only 8 rather than 10 episodes, which is apparently a new Netflix standard) and strikes a nice balance between being solidly entertaining without being too taxing.
But it ends on a (minor) cliffhanger, so Netflix will almost certainly cancel it..
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Howard Clark
The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox
greenskin lynn wrote: started to watch lockwood and co, but people aging out of their powers is a trope i loathe almost as much as surprise amnesia
Hollywood amnesia should always be met with scorn and contempt. Its really rare to be even remotely accurate, and is often just grounds for a creepy and exploitative relationship story (see Overboard with Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell).
Aging out of powers I don't see often, but still hate the related 'the Age of Magic has come to an end, and we must leave now.' It was pretty common in older fantasy titles I read as a kid, and I always hated it. It feels like the characters left behind got stuck with the bad ending. Rather wrecked the otherwise excellent Prydain Chronicles, which was my first fantasy series.
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2023/02/08 05:57:46
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
greenskin lynn wrote: started to watch lockwood and co, but people aging out of their powers is a trope i loathe almost as much as surprise amnesia
Hollywood amnesia should always be met with scorn and contempt. Its really rare to be even remotely accurate, and is often just grounds for a creepy and exploitative relationship story (see Overboard with Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russell).
Aging out of powers I don't see often, but still hate the related 'the Age of Magic has come to an end, and we must leave now.' It was pretty common in older fantasy titles I read as a kid, and I always hated it. It feels like the characters left behind got stuck with the bad ending. Rather wrecked the otherwise excellent Prydain Chronicles, which was my first fantasy series.
Funny enough, i think the prydain chronicles might be what started my dislike of it
2023/02/08 09:29:20
Subject: Tiny TV Reviews - Short Reviews For The Small Screen
As with any 70’s sitcom or indeed comedy, times have moved on, and for better or worse you can’t exactly have Basil assaulting whomever is standing in for Manuel. Prunella Scales sadly won’t be in it due to serious ill health, so that’s Sybil out as well.
I’m genuinely expecting a disaster here, but as ever am open to being pleasantly surprised.
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