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started strongly and initially exceeded my expectations for turning what was firmly a guest character to the main character but by the end of the season each episode felt rote, like a broadcast version of Poker Face and i mean that derogatorily

the world building in Scavengers Reign is insane

took bigger swings, didn't all connect but I'm generally down w/ comedies just going for weird

only realized this season the credits show "Cre8ted by Meredith Scardino"

also boo netflix auto-playing the next ep and skipping the songs that play over the credits

absolutely clumsy handling of western-middle eastern relations (fertile ground for a good drama exploring the complex intertwining of the two and many many competing & shifting interests in the region), nothing good or new there

Not a huge romcom fan and this isn't gonna convert me but it was a breezy watch whenever I wanted to pop on something simple and the will they-won't they opposites-attract age difference of it all kinda hit at the right time.
A lot of the characters felt like fluff and were no where as interesting or watchable as the main couple although Bruno's friend/co-worker Albert was a welcome presence (after also enjoying Tom in Please Like Me I guess I'm a sucker for the straight-man straight best friend character)

What really drags it down is way too much time apart for the main couple, the chemistry is great between them: both the sexual/romantic tension and the believable chasm of differences between them and misinterpretations and miscommunications driving them apart. The lack of shared screen time between them in the middle chunk of episodes is filled with too many side character plotlines I just don't care about who don't have an iota of the chemistry between Alex and Bruno

first season started off fine with many spooky happenings/monster-of-the-week type episodes with a bit of an overarching plot before it went totally haywire at the end

if the first season finale jumped the shark hoo boy, season 2 jumps lakes, LAKES, of numerous demonic sharks multiple times per episode. it just got so damn stupid and nonsensical and just lurched from one dumb thing to another dumb thing with little connective tissue. demonic/religious horror can be fun (it's the whole selling point/basis of the show when it started out!) but it just got so zany (and not in a fun way) and stupid. Paul Giammatti showing up was a surprise but really adds little, hope he had fun though. Only Macarena Gomez really gets out of s2 with any dignity in tact 'cause she knows how to flip a switch and play that semi-campy antagonistic villainess role

First season was nothing to write home about but Angeline Ball carried that season on her back along with some decent/okay/serviceable supporting performances. The overall international-financial intrigue and the quite decent back-and-forth/reluctant-partnership between Ball's DS Berry and Wouter Hendrickx's Christian De Jong made the show bearable enough as a background noise show.

Remove Ball from the equation and ramp up the dumb dialogue and 3.5x the characters' stupidity and and plot contrivances and you get this season. Absolutely skippable. Hard Pass

having only watched season 4-7 (and bits of 3 during summer repeats) when they originally aired, finally going back and watching the first season was something

definitely way more potential than actually nailing all the jokes but a lot of the comic rhythm was there and just needed to be fine-tuned
interesting to see how prominent of a character Josh was originally and got dialed back (didn't even remember him at all in the later season except maybe popping up in the finale) and the opposite happening with Jenna's character getting more airtime and her own plotlines as they realized what impeccable comic timing and line delivery Jane Krakowski had. ditto for Rachel Dratch's carousel of characters appearing less and less in the back half of the season

for all the occasional hubbub about certain jokes being cut from streaming services due to sensitivities, there's still a ton of spicy jokes i'm surprised stayed in (Tracy's and his wife's favorite bedroom game to play........)

it doesn't look like the 30 Rock I came to know and love but the blueprint is definitely there needing some finetuning

Rebecca Ferguson carried this show(/season)

absolute gem of a show I stumbled on, balances the comedy and drama REALLY well, part crime comedy-drama, part romantic/domestic drama, juggles so many tones and relationships at once and manages to do so with aplomb

when looking for shows that straggle the comedy/drama line without either genre stepping on the other's toes, point to this

generally appreciated s1 but def didn't love it anywhere as much as most people but...s2 is where it clicked for me. way way more into it than the last season, smoothed over some parts/issues i didn't care for and really upped the good stuff

but I spent half the season thinking Richie khs at the end 'cause I saw a spoilery meme and misinterpreted it, made all the scenes with Richie hit way harder mistakenly thinking it was leading towards his end

Can someone refresh the data on this?

There were 19 episodes this season with the 19th airing June 14th

apparently the show has been de facto cancelled at Showtime mid-way through its season and removed from Paramount+ as the streamers continue culling programs to cut costs

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/vice-pulled-showtime-looks-for-new-outlet-1235534626/

another period cable show set in the 1980s/90s featuring a mustache'd scoot mcnairy who should've not only been nominated but won awards for the role

this show/Hjerson almost made me get a foldable smartphone, product placement:100:

they really shoulda stuck to the plan of this being their last season and replaced the filler/side-quests with s6 material
too much of s5 felt like slow-walking to the big Diana thing, discursions felt more discursionary than ever

these episodes absolutely did not need to run well over an hour each

the show went exactly where I thought it would and took its sweet ass time dragging its feet there, hitting the most obvious beats and then hammering home the point over and over and over again with the most on-the-nose dialogue, packed to the gills with cliches, dialogue i've heard a million times over in other sci-fi/fantasy media, and characters largely reduced to fan-service spouting fan-service dialogue

As someone who's aggressively apathetic to all things Star Wars, this was good

Wasn't blown away by the first episode but it was just good enough to keep giving it a shot on an episode-by-episode basis and it got stronger with every episode. All around strong stuff from the production design (what had previously felt like silly laser pew pew space battles and magical weapons now felt real and tactile) to the acting (from known faces to new discoveries, big roles to 2-3 episode arc characters the cast was all-around so, so good) to the music (Niamos! is such a banger) and shout out to the sound design/engineering team (when the bell is struck, when the gears are put together at the prison work camp, the weights dropping from the ceiling and crashing to the ground at the end of episode 3, that dude getting his legs crushed by the pallet of gold bars, ALL of these things sounded like they had WEIGHT). I'm not about to go out and buy Star Wars bedsheets but it's made a believer out of me, if only for this one show

Ladhood season 3 dropped September 5. Brassic season 4 dropped September 7. Queen Elizabeth II died September 8.
I am firmly convinced QEII hung on just long enough to binge the latest seasons of each before going well that's me then

Ladhood season 3 dropped September 5. Brassic season 4 dropped September 7. Queen Elizabeth II died September 8.
I am firmly convinced QEII stuck around just long enough to binge the latest seasons of each show before going well that's me then

not so much a step down from season 1 as tripping and falling down a flight of stairs from season 1

this season very much feels like the Kings were told mid-way through shooting that the show was cancelled and they scrambled to shove in season 7 ideas along with all the season 6 character storylines they started

and another season of Diane zonked out on drugs? :|

A generally watchable--if rather toothless--comedy carried by the likable young cast and may really only be for political junkies. The EU is RIPE for satire but unfortunately Parlement more often goes for typical sitcom beats and broad humor with a sprinkle of political names/references when a show with the biting touch of a Veep or The Thick of It might be more apropos for an institution like the European Parliament

What if we took arguably the funniest/best character of the last season(s) and turned him into a one-note joke

-The writers of season 4, probably

:pray::pray::pray:PRAYER CIRCLES FOR KIM WEXLER:pray::pray::pray:

3000% believe Aisling Bea & Sharon Horgan could be sisters irl, hell i'm still not convinced they aren't

appears to have been fixed now

the dates on these episodes are off by a week starting with episode 11. There was no episode on April 18, 2022 due to Easter falling on the day before. The 11th episode aired the following week (April 25th), the 12th episode a week later (May 2nd), the 13th episode on May 9th and so on and so forth. Each episode stating with episode 11 is showing as airing a week too early.

if the intergalactic wolves don't win i'm taking out every person on the continent