This season has some really good side plots, like Francesca looking for a match (I ADORE her and John!) and struggling to fit in with her loud and chaotic family, and Eloise and Cressida’s unexpected friendship (who would’ve thought I would LIKE Cressida? Not me). Even the Featherington girls are a really fun comic relief.
Unfortunately I don’t vibe with Colin and Penelope as a couple lol. All this talk about Colin being this sensitive guy who lives for others… all I remember of him from previous seasons is him traveling and blowing the family money to indulge his own whims lol. And I don’t mind a character whoring around a bit but for me if a romance is to work I don’t want to see that character STILL whoring around once they realize their feelings for their one true love. Colin is not a true yearner and I don’t respect him! I also just find the chemistry between him and Pen lacking. I can see why they had to send Kate and Anthony on a second honeymoon because their chemistry would make the lack thereof between the season’s main couple obvious. Even Fran and John are outselling them without speaking to each other.
Interestingly enough, as much as I thought the show was going to be all about SEX, after they wrapped it all up with the second season, that's not its main topic. The first season was a rather 50 shades-type of fantasy, and it took a turn (or well, they elaborated and emphasized other aspects further) for the second season to tell about loss, marital problems, mid-life crisis, addiction, and to be a - in some ways - surprisingly candid and more or less realistic approach to people in their late 30s.
Most of the second season was honestly quite depressing. I don't want to see more into this series than what it is, but it was more profound than I anticipated it to be. I didn't think they would manage to wrap it all up, especially nicely, but they did, and I'm happy with how they left things.
What I didn't like at all is Sasha's painfully long and very extremistly parodistic/stupid "independent woman/extreme feminist" arc. As a (I'd say normal) feminist myself, to me, it felt as if someone dumb and clueless would try to come up with a feminist manifesto without actually talking to any woman in the world. I am aware that there might be people who would act like Sasha and her followers did, but the arc and the interviews with her as an author and empowered woman were a disgrace to feminism and empowered women. They could have at least resolved it earlier. Anyway, boyyyy, how Sasha and Kam look good together!
All in all, I liked Sex/Life for multiple reasons, and even though it started our as a regular 50 shades for mid-life crisis, it became a bit more. By the second season, I found myself caring about the characters, and rooting for Billie + Brad, and Sasha + Kam. I liked Majid too though.
"Ein Fehler in der Matrix"
Dark. The show that will make you use your brain more than you've done in years. I really missed the feeling of confusion this show gives. If my mind had subtitles when watching the show, I don't know if I'd even understand what I thought.
Let's try to recap. So, mirror universe, Martha is Jonas, Mikkel is alive, Franziska changed places with Elizabeth, Ulrich is still cheating, Katharina has a new look and divorced Ulrich, Bartosz has long hair and looks like the kid of a wealthy family, Erik's still missing, Kilian is dating Martha, Regina is dead and Jonas' more confused than he's even been before.
Also, I couldn't help but laughing with the long shot of two-eyed Wöller and that slow zoom out showing he's missing a limb. Over my laughter, all I thought was "damn, writers! I want to know the story behind his eye". I always thought it was supposed to be important for the plot and, at that moment, I thought it was gonna be nothing. And then they showed us Helge missing an eye instead of his ear and I thought that the eye, somehow, is still important.
Also, if Mikkel doesn't travel back, Ulrich doesn't, so, who destroys Hemge's eye, in this case?
Now, one thing I loved was the weird generation trio. Traveling together with yourself from different generations and killing people in the process with choreographed gestures sounds like a nice trip. The trio crepped me out but somehow I was drawn to it. Like I need to see them more often. The kid freaked me out. He doesn't even blink! And I loved how he and the old version just made the same gesture at the same time.
I just recall that Noah said the same exact words to Helge as middle-aged trio said to Bernd. "Nothing is in vain. Not a single breath. Not a single step. Not a single word. Not pain. An eternal miracle of the One"
I loved that the ending confirmed my suspections last season. Young Jonas was given two choices: stay with Martha or follow Adam. He chose the former and Alt-Martha brought him to Alt-World. Buuuuut Fremder Jonas doesn't know she's not the real Martha because he's never been to Alt-Wolrd soooo, we've got two different timeliness with one Jonas traveling and meeting Alt-Martha (which will turn out to be Eve) and Fremder Jonas traveling supposedly following Adam. And this is only the first episode.
Do you know what's sad about Ulrich and Hannah? That no matter the universe, Ulrich never says "I love you" back to her. I get that Hannah was a manipulative bitch in our universe, but she seemed sweet in this one. I can't believe I just said that. Also, instead of rich and Hannah I want to know more about Egon and Hannah. I really need to know what happened then.
I'm no expert on pregnancies but Hannah looked very pregnant. Maybe it's twins? Agnes und Noah? I don't know. My theory that everyone is a Nielsen will still be real until they tell me it's not. But after Elizabeth being her own grandmother, I can believe anything. Well, that or that she gives birth to the creepy trio.
Overall, great episode. Quiet for a change but it's just the beginning and the mirroring is just so compelling to me. I'm not so sure about the whole whoosp thing to tell us when the worlds change. But let's see. I could be talking for hours and hours but I've made a commitment with myself to just watch an episode a day. Otherwise, I'll feel guilty once I finish it.
"Die Frage ist nicht, aus welcher Zeit, sondern aus welcher Welt"
Can I borrow someone else's neurons? I think my brain is in the process of melting. I'm gonna create my a family tree in the wall, with strings. Like a freaking lunatic.
This show is beyond words. The writing is fantastic and the music choices and ending scenes are some of the best I've seen. I'm gonna be rewatching this episode a couple of times. It felt appropriate but there were a couple of things that were rushed. The reveal of Elisabeth being both daughter and mom felt rushed. And who would've thought I would feel bad for Noah. Jesus, at the end of season 1 I literally thought he was evil incarnate and look at me now. What an arc. The ending with different universes felt a little bit cheap. But then again, what if this new Martha, and thus, her universe, didn't exist u til that moment? Old pizza crust Jonas told him to either follow him or try to save Martha. And then he added that Jonas will know what to do. Did old Jonas already know that Alternate universe Martha would come to the rescue or is this new Martha's universe this New World that old Jonas wanted to create? That would explain why middle age Jonas was so hellbent on bringing Martha to the bunker, if he knew she was gonna die in his arms. This is getting really confusing.
I love and hate the writers at the same time. I love how they go full Ophra Winfrey with the whole "you get to time travel" and "you get to time travel".
The ending was way too much. I feel like the ending in season 1 was better tied up. Like there was a cliffhanger, but not this mindfuck. I don't even want to know what's gonna happen to my brain in season 3.
As if it wasn't complicated enough to follow the adventures of dozens of characters through three different timelines, now wait to see that in different universes. I love (and by love I mean adore) when a show makes my head hurt this much. So I already know I'm gonna love the shit out of season 3, which, btw, can't come any sooner.
The whole Doppler family is going full circle. Seriously, come to think of it, Peter just created his own granddaughter. He basically slept with his granddaughter in order to create his daughter, which in turn created his granddaughter-wife. This is so messed up. Honestly! So damn messed up. I'm literally not even holding him responsible for hooking up with the prostitute.
Also, are we like ever gonna find out what happened to Wöllers eye? And also, the casting in this show if golden. I'm on the verge of believing that all of them are somehow related and that they've been patiently waiting to shoot the show. Specially Ulrich's evolution. Normal and old were so alike that I thought he was normal Ulrich with some prosthetics on.
Overall, this show has been a discovery for me. Maybe I'm talking out of emotion but this is one of the best shows I've ever seen. I can't recall a time I've been more confused while watching a show and had a wtf face throughout. Besides, the German language and the atmosphere give something greater to it. This show has helped me with my German learning (up to the point were writing this is English is getting seriously tricky) and it's also provided me with entertainment and constant wtf. I tried to explain season 1 to my sister to help me connect the dots and the confused look on her face was priceless. Trying to explain this show to a non-starter is starting to get really tricky. I feel like I could be talking hours and hours about possible outcomes or discussing timelines, so I think I'm gonna get back to the family tree to include new findings after this episode and back to the board to try to connect everything.
Maybe it‘s because I just re-read the novel before watching it again, but this movie is jarring in its simplicity compared to the book. I get that you can‘t cram all the contents of almost 800 pages into a normal-length film, and some plot points need to be made more plain because exposition isn‘t as easy in this medium*, but it felt like they left out some scenes for budget reasons (like the world cup) but then over-dramatised scenes which didn‘t really need it (like the first task) or added completely superfluous ones (like the dance scene) - and of course, there‘s the parts changed for no conceivable reason, like the Beauxbatons/Durmstrang gender separation (are there no male French wizards??), the maze (surely the special effects budget was taxed just as much by this as it would have been by a Sphinx?) and the much-criticised angry!Dumbledore.
*I get leaving out Bertha Jorkins or Neville giving Harry the Gillyweed, for example, it‘s unnecessarily convoluted for a movie, but I hate the parts where they change things for „clarity“ (because they think viewers are idiots) and then ruin the whole point - like Polyjuice Potion not transforming your voice, which they thankfully changed for this movie, or someone‘s eyes glazing over under the Imperius Curse (despite Moody saying you couldn‘t tell who was under its influence).
Okey, i'm gonna be honest and say that I really didn't have like a lot of expectation with this because when I saw the trailer I just tougth that it's just a TV show of a bunch of depressing teenagers with first world problems (like mostly of the shows that Netflix loves to create)... and, I mean, there is no a biiiiiiiiig difference beetwen that and the whole situation of the serie, but now that I watched it all I have some things to say. Please take a sit.
1. I have to let it clear that this is an ADAPTATION, and the funny thing of everything is that the creators can actually take all the bases, all the main trama, a lot of the original characters and create something new to the grown children that saw the animated show. I think that i'm actually satisfaed with it... I could enjoy all the main story with Bloom, her past,the discoverment of her powers, etc... when I was a little girl and now being a young adult.
2. NOT AND INFANTILE SHOW. Don't let kids watch it with you, please conserve the innocence of Alfea with them.
3. Maybe it's too "mainstream" or "millennial" for some people a lot of thing that were on the show (like the existence of Instagram or smartphones and texting messages in case of danger, in every single person in the fairy magic world... even teachers) but I think that this just make that the story would be light, funny and accurate to our times. I feel it REAL.
4. Story is DEEP. And that's why I feel it real! 'Cause we all know the main characters of the original version, yes, but not in the sense of talking and treating a LOT of topics that put this show in a range of +16 public (violence, revenge, sex, alcohol and drugs, etc, etc). All the whole situation of Bloom and her powers and family... it was deep sis...
5. FINAL CHAPTER GOT ME SHOCK, no more comments.
6. I think the show deserves a chance, just like Shadowhunters did (wich actually I find both REALLY similar... weird), it's just the first season and I think that it was a very well-doing beginning, I honestly want to see more...
