I made it about 30 seconds into the first episode before deciding I couldn't bear the awful deinterlacing job Crackle did. Yes, it's available for free (at time of writing), but that's no excuse. Combing looks terrible. Deinterlacing video isn't a difficult art or science; it only requires applying the correct filter when converting the video from source to streaming-ready encode.
We'll see if anything comes of the support request I just sent in about this. I'll certainly return to the show sooner if I can view a decombed copy instead of the mess that's currently the only legal option.
I just (manually) imported my history for this show from MyAnimeList.
Writing a detailed review would be impossible now without rewatching the show (I watched it 6 years ago, in 2012), but I can say this: It must be a damn good show, because I watched it all in one day.
Well, it was technically the same day. From my perspective it was two days—first four episodes late at night, then sleep, then finished the show that evening—but even with time to sleep and do other stuff that day, from start to finish, it took me less than 18 hours.
You should probably watch this anime.
Arithmetic mean of my scores for the season: 8.2727…
What I think the show as a whole deserves: 9.8
10 it is. What a stunningly beautiful series.
I would happily welcome a second season, but I highly doubt that will happen. The story is finished.
M*A*S*H has been in and out of my world since I was a kid and my parents watched reruns when they came on the local TV networks. I'm starting on a real watch-through (only a few episodes in yet) and it's really exciting to think about going from start to finish with this, especially now that I've seen the original film.
(Updated Jan 15, 2017, to fix trakt picking up the *s in the title as italics.)
Average episode rating for the first season: 8.0
If this gets another season, someone please ping me!
With the exception of that frustratingly stale final episode, this is a really fun and cute watch. I certainly hope it can get a second season, even if it didn't seem to hint at one.
(Cross-posted from season 1, as I usually do when finishing single-season anime that don't have existing or upcoming additional seasons.)
Average episode rating: 6.58333…
One of the rare occasions when I'll refuse to round my rating up, even though the number technically qualifies.
Darling in the FranXX (I have no idea where Trakt's data sources got that weird all-caps thing) is actually a pretty good show, for roughly the twelve middle episodes. I found it "meh" at first, and the last 6-8 episodes were made of "WTF?" in my opinion—but when the show is focusing on the characters' relationships and not a universe-spanning "AI YO" deus ex machina, it's an enjoyable watch. Even though Zero Two annoys the absolute living fuck out of me and the way she's written doesn't make sense half the time.
9.5/10 (if only trakt supported that)
By rights, I should give this season an 8 (my per-episode ratings average out to 8.41). But I enjoyed it a lot more than that. I don't feel like a 10 is completely justified, since I did have a few bones to pick with the narrative, but a 9 is a bit shy of what the show deserves.
Given the "SEE YOU NEXT LEVEL" tag at the end of the season, I can only speculate that a second season is planned (or at least, pitched). I would gladly watch more of this.
The girls are cute, but suuuuuper flat characters. Rein's even worse than Kirito for plot armor and always conveniently having the right knowledge of some rare skill.
Average season rating: 7.6
It kills me that the spin-off of this show (which one of its co-creators left to pursue) centers on one of the white regulars. Doesn't that fly directly in the face of what Kim's Convenience represented for Canadian (or any other) television? More stories about more diverse people?
Such a shame. Give us a Janet or Kimchee spin-off, smh.
Average season rating: 8
(also the median and mode, but who's counting?)
Boy Meets World makes some oddball choices along the way (e.g. recasting Topanga's parents three times, for example), and takes off in a few really dumb directions (e.g. Cory the jealous asshole, or Eric as competitor with Wheatley for Best Moron) in the later seasons. But it's still part of my childhood, and there are a lot of good parts to counter those pieces that—now that I'm more practiced at actually watching TV instead of merely viewing it—bug the adult me to no end.
Average season rating: 7.625
I don't know what to say that I haven't already said in the comments for individual seasons. Brooklyn Nine-Nine got into a bit of a slump near the end, as many sitcoms do. Perhaps it would have been better to delay production after scrapping the first four scripts of that final season in June 2021 instead of rushing ahead to release in August, but I can understand not wanting to push back what would be the show's final batch of episodes. Ultimately, I think the rush only affected the first few aired scripts, and the series still managed to end on a high note.
Happy Endings most certainly didn't get one (it was canceled after three seasons), but it still put in some solid work along the way.
The characters manage to stay likable despite an excess of silliness, and somehow the writers avoided pigeonholing (most) of the characters based on stereotypes. (Alex seemed caught in the "dumb blonde" role, unfortunately.)
If Happy Endings wanted to do itself one favor, it should have been pushing the big story arc along. Three seasons of playing "will they, won't they" with Dave and Alex got pretty long in the tooth by the start of season 3.
The ride is fun. Ted Danson (Michael) was a nice treat, and I'll hopefully find some more things in which to watch William Jackson Harper (Chidi) perform. Just don't expect rock-solid philosophy; the last season really left some holes there, I thought.
Average season rating: 7.6363…
I'm sure that would be a more interesting number if I went and averaged all of my individual episode ratings, or at least the raw season averages (instead of the rounded versions I set as my Trakt ratings), but it's still interesting that ultimately, my rating rounds off to the current site-wide average of 8/10.
Of course, Cheers has flaws. Sometimes the writing (and therefore characters) was a bit inconsistent, but it's not about the individual episodes. Watching Cheers really is comforting, like walking into a bar "where everybody knows your name."
More Richard Ayoade is always welcome, and I wish NBC had not dropped its plans to air this…
(Cross-posted from the season 1 comments, since the show ended after just the one season. In doing so, I noticed that the current average Trakt series rating of 76% precisely matches my average episode rating. Quite interesting…)
Average episode rating for the first (and only) season: 7.6
I'm happy to round up. I wasn't sure about the show at first, but it grew on me. Then, when I had really started caring about what happened to the characters, it ended on a season-finale cliffhanger.
Network television disappoints me, when they don't give a show enough advance notice of cancellation to at least avoid setting up for a payoff they'll never get the chance to deliver. Even if there's not enough time to tie up all the existing loose ends, they can at least avoid creating more if the upcoming end is known.
(Cross-posted from season 1 to the main series page, for visibility.)
I started watching this show so long ago—2,063 days!—that I wasn't rating individual episodes yet. In fact, I didn't even add anime on Trakt yet, preferring to keep anime exclusively on MyAnimeList at the time.
But I did rate 5/12 episodes, which I watched after starting to rate every episode I watch, and most of those got an 8/10. So I really don't know how it took me five and a half years to finish this anime. It's a lot of fun! Guess I'm just as distractible as Yuzuko…
I enjoyed this show for what it is. It's perfect for throwing something on while eating lunch or the like—entertaining without requiring too much focused attention. In return, you get scattered rewards in the form of really nice character development, some A+ jokes, and a good feeling when things inevitably turn out fine in the end.
Honestly, I'd rank this among Disney's better sitcoms.
Rating average: 7.46153846
I see great strides here from the studio that inflicted Sora no Method on the world. There are echoes of the same writing problems—the story's pretty convoluted, and you'll be lost easily if you miss any details—but less pronounced than the previous series. (Dimension W, I can't speak to…it's still on my watchlist.)
Flip Flappers has a lot to recommend it, even if it's only for the visuals. Papika will worm her way into your heart if you let your guard down even a little, and you'll get to visit a number of fantastical worlds with Ichimichi Mao's voice to guide you and Cocona along. While I don't know if I would call it "Superb" (a Trakt 9) or even "Great" (8), it's definitely a solid "Good" (7) plus—if Trakt allowed half-points I'd be giving this a 7.5.
Episode rating average: 7.333…
The show feels kinda slow for most of the season, like more should be happening. For the pacing, I'm knocking the score down a point. Would be more, but the ending ties it up nicely enough to make up for some of the slowness.
Average rating across episodes (season 1): 6.5
Subjective rating based on enjoyment: 3
5 it is, then. Had its good parts, but was far too bloody overall and didn't give any characters any depth. Not even the protagonist, really. Tried to be another Madoka, but fell far short.
I'm not normally one to complain about slow pacing, but it's warranted in this case. This story could have been told in half the time. Not that it's anything to write home about. There's some potentially interesting backstory that gets no screen time whatsoever. The only interesting part is about ten minutes in the third episode when we spend some real, quality time with the Overlords.
Granted, I haven't read the source material. But given that this miniseries' contemporaries include The Expanse, I know that good sci-fi can still be put on TV in the mid-2010s. This just…isn't it.
Average season rating: 6.857142…
Really starts to lose the plot with the abrupt changes in later seasons, but starts out nicely enough. By the end I really was just watching for Salem.
Average season rating: 6.5
(I do not feel like averaging all 79 episodes)
There's no doubt that the performances are always great. Everyone in the cast inhabits their respective roles so well, it's often impossible to think of them as actors.
Comedically, though, it's a different story. Obviously there are as many different tastes in humor as there are people on our blue globe, and not every joke will appeal to all of them. In this show's case, its style and my taste in humor didn't always see eye to eye.
Ans that's OK. I still am glad I watched Schitt's Creek for all the little character-based inside jokes I can use around the Internet in memes and such.
It's OK. Much as I liked John Ritter's comic acting, unfortunately more of 8 Simple Rules was produced without him than with.
In that very sitcom-like way, the characters seem to change without changing. They'll change jobs, change schools, but still return to the same established rivalries.
Plus the show was abruptly canceled on a relationship cliffhanger, so that really soured the final season.
Average season rating: 6.428571…
(nah, I'm not going back to average all 146 ratings together; we need https://forums.trakt.tv/t/average-ratings-for-seasons-entire-series/1902 to happen)
As others have already said, this show starts out pretty good but falls into mediocrity after a few seasons and never really recovers.
Average episode rating for seasons 1 & 2: 7.96875
I'm hedging by specifying which seasons this applies to, in case there's a surprise third season, but after almost 8 years it seems quite unlikely.
The average would be higher if the series was a bit less fast-and-loose with the rules of its universe. For example, some episodes pretend like cell phones don't exist, which gets pretty old the tenth time Kotoko is late for something but for some reason doesn't text or call Naoki to tell him. It doesn't help that Naoki in real life would be lucky if his parents even tolerated how uncommunicative he is, let alone a wife he vowed to love for the rest of his life.
Just in general, it's ridiculous how often stuff happens just because one character or another just doesn't communicate some important piece of information. I can suspend my disbelief only so much, even if this is a live-action manga adaptation.
Even so, the show's cute as heck, and it's a great feel-good watch. Even if I'd feel like punching Naoki five times a day if I lived in this show's universe, because he's such a schmuck sometimes.
Average episode rating: 8.0
I started this show in late 2017, and continued through episode 22 in early 2018 before taking a five-year pause. There's honestly no good reason for that. Initially I held off on the last two episodes so I could watch them together with a colleague (we were both in a community theater production, and this would have filled the time between performances on our double-show Saturday). There were several reasons for that plan not working out, unfortunately, but I kept waiting like an idiot.
Meanwhile, for most of the last five years, one of the insert songs has been my default alarm ringtone—across two phones. Thrice during the last episode, I looked at my phone wondering what alarm I'd forgotten about setting. :joy_cat: (That song was used a lot in the finale.)
Having finally finished the series, I wish I remembered the plot details better. The wrap-up leaned heavily on certain characters getting "big reveals" that the audience already knew, so the show skipped over the actual information to avoid annoying viewers with old information. If I need to fill 18 hours sometime, I'll consider rewatching.
Average season rating: 7.1923077
It's fun. Pretty superficial humor, even by sitcom standards, but funny enough in places.
Watchlisting, in large part, because this is early work for Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Elyse Levesque (Stargate Universe, and also a bit of Orphan Black). I can only hope to find the show somewhere.
