Convinced to spend an hour watching this absolute pile of crap by literally my oldest friend. Am now questioning whether she's really a friend. But oh, did we laugh at this. It's SO BAD.
@LuckyNumber78, it's your turn.
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.
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.
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.
Average season rating: 6.888…
When it's good, it's truly great. But the questionable decisions add up over the years, which drags down the overall experience.
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.
Of the episodes I rated individually*, the average was 7.125.
It is very much CGDCT, with a couple spots where the cuteness got thrown out the window in favor of pretty over-the-top drama between characters that's barely forgivable given that everything is exaggerated in anime like this.
So yes, there were a couple episodes I just didn't care for at all. Clearly I also had some trouble maintaining interest early on, since I took a year-long break between episodes 3 & 4, then it took SEVEN YEARS before I got around to finishing the remaining 8 episodes.
I'm sure the true average score, if I were able to include those first 4 episodes, would be lower. I somehow doubt that it would be enough lower to change the rounded-off value needed for assigning a Trakt rating out of 10, though.
* — This show started before I was tracking anime here, and possibly even before I started rating every episode I watch.
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 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.
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.
Average season rating: 7.333…
Superstore is a solid show with great heart. You won't like all the characters all the time, and some of the stories are pretty dumb, but that's just life in the sitcom game. At the end of the day, if you still don't care about these people, you have no heart. :upside_down:
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."
Average episode rating: 8.125
Overall I found it an entertaining ride. The characters were the real selling point, especially Hae Jin, the Chairman, and friends.
Nitpicks:
* Overuse of identical musical tracks
* Other lazy audio work (including playing fast and loose with both diegetic and non-diegetic tracks in the same scene)
* Exaggerated fight scenes, especially blood (seems ironic that knife blades must be blurred, but this amount of blood is fine)
I can't seriously fault the series for heavy stereotyping. It's based on a webtoon, so I hardly expect hyper-realistic characters.
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.
Average episode rating: 6.25
It's fun. The cinematography is quite stunning, but I didn't find the characters or plot anything to write home about. It strains believability at times, despite the obvious "people do crazy things when they're in love" justification. (Speaking of which, this show leans pretty heavily on the love-triangle trope, too.)
Maybe the best thing to come from this will be exploring other works the actors in Gap Year performed in.
Skipped posting anything for Season 1 because, well, there's just one. It would be redundant to review both the show and its only season.
More Richard Ayoade is always welcome, and I wish NBC had not dropped its plans to air this…
Average season rating: 7.2166666…
Average episode rating (since it's easy enough to calculate over just 22 episodes): 7.227272727…
No matter how I calculate, it looks like this show deserves a 7 from me.
As I said in my season 1 summary comment, it's not always the easiest show to get into. I'd put off watching it in favor of other things because there's a certain amount of energy that goes into appreciating the humor. At least, for me there is.
Honestly, I thought the show got easier to watch toward the end of season two, but then it ended. :/
This is my customary cut-and-paste of an anime first-season review to the series page, because a sequel seems unlikely to happen.
Average episode rating: 7.69230769
I'm quite happy to round this one up. Early on, my ratings were low-balled because of, uh… Actually, I don't remember why. That's the problem with taking three years to watch a 13-episode anime, I guess.
About halfway through, my ratings really spiked, though. If you can call going from mostly 6's and 7's to mostly 8's and 9's a "spike"… But the show definitely got my attention at that halfway point, and there's no excuse for taking so long to finish except—just maybe—that I didn't want to run out of beautiful P.A. Works art to watch, so I slowed way down. (I've definitely done that before with shows I like, putting off finishing them for months or even, literally, years, to make them last longer. I'm a weird one.)
This is one of a handful of anime that I think would be worth rewatching to see how my opinion of it might have changed.
This was one of the first shows I worked on subtitles for. So, despite it having been years since I started the show, I don't need per-episode ratings to give me a starting point. I didn't much like the show when I was working on it, either.
(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.
Average episode rating: 6.25
It's truly not a bad show—just not a particularly great one.
(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.
