The usual MCU good but not great stuff.
I'm astonished by the rapidity with which this goes from "Interesting, fun, at times quite deep" in the first half of the season to "What the fuck, this is a masterpiece" in the second hallf of the season.
A very good adaptation of the source material, with great ideas in visual terms and that "voiceover plot twist" that works particularly well. At the same time though, I think the structure based on alternating comical sketches with the drama part doesn't always work, especially when the humor gets a bit stale in the second half and becomes something you have to endure if you want to see how it ends. But I remember feeling this was an issue of the original graphic novel too so...
Probably the funniest thing I watched with my daughter. Lovely.
This is really cute. Maybe too much.
This is really cute. Maybe too much.
I really don't like and I don't have much more to say.
This kinda weirdly reminds me of the japanese robot cartoons I used to watch as a kid. It's fun.
Great acting, great writing, so many funny scenes and so much depths. Plus, I so want to spend many years with these people. It's one of those shows.
What a great, fun, lovely show. The cast is perfect, those two guys still have impeccable timing in their comedy instincts, the mystery plot is interesting and fun with all the misdirections and on a couple of occasions it made me almost suffocate with laughter. I hope they don't mess it up in season 2.
Such a step up from the already great first season in how all characters evolve and are dissected. Even the minor ones.
Friday Night Lights but silly, optimistic and fun.
Lovely writing, direction and acting, a smart, funny and moving story, relevant themes and the right length. Twenty years ago it would have been a movie, now we get a TV show. It's fine, I guess.
Well, first of all, how nice it is to "be" in Hawaii for six hours. That being said, this is a very good show, wonderfully acted, funny, entertaining, sad, with lots of stuff to say, even if sometimes it's a bit goofy in how it says those things. It kinda does the Succession trick of making you care for people you despise because you nonetheless can see some humanity, some part of yourself, in them. And Alexandra Daddario deserves a better career.
Relevant, funny, moving, incredibly well acted, written and directed, so dense, human, full of thought and deep but also visually inventive and fascinating. Wow.
A nice second season, with a beautiful short and four other nice ones. Getting only five is a bit disappointing, though.
A lovely collection of shorts. Some are beautiful, some are very good, some are just fine, but they are all interesting, well crafted and different in terms of style, themes and emotions.
A fun show, full of lovely easter eggs, with some nice surreal humour and a plot I actually ended up almost caring about.
1 & 2 were interesting but kinda dull, 3 & 5 were very, very good, 4 was amazing, 6 was quite good despite the 15 minutes exposition monologue by Jonathan Majors (who makes it tolerable by hamming it up to a hundred... and anyway, they had to do it, since they had decided to hide him for five episodes). Overall, even though Wandavision still has got some of the best ideas and scenes, Loki was the best and most consistent Marvel TV show, with nice characters and interesting storylines. I loved being with those three weirdos, I thought the romance was bizarre and cute and I can't wait to see Majors going wild in season 2. Also, they did what I feared they would do with the ending but it actually worked very well, much more than I expected, because its' first of all a season ending that introduces the villain for season 2, and only on a secondary reading it's also the setup for other MCU stuff. What I feared is that this would only be a setup for the movies, kinda like a longer version of the Thanos stinger in Avengers 1, but no, it's a proper season ending that also works as an MCU stinger. Which is how it should always be. And it made me excited for things to come more than most MCU stingers.
Impeccably written, staged, acted, directed, amazing performances from everybody, so many great faces, so much raw emotion, so ambitious from a visual storytelling standpoint, so good at mixing up fun, tears, laughs, all range of emotions, so perfectly timed in every beat, what a fucking masterpiece. The final episode destroyed me but the whole show is out of this world. Episode 1 perfectly introduces a huge amount of charachters with just a couple of strokes, you instantly love them, you want to spend so much time with them and then... and then... Jesus.
Amazingly written, directed and acted. Kate Winslet is on a different level but the whole cast is really great. And the best thing about it is that even though the mystery is quite interesting, I didn't really give a fuck about the whoddunit, I just wanted to spend time in that place, with those characters. But still, the mystery works. Amazing.
I understand it being a disappointment after the masterpiece that was season 4, but this is still an incredibly good ending for this show, that ties up everything in such a lovely and moving way.
I'm not sure who needs someone else saying that this is the best season of The Wire and one of the best seasons of television ever but fuck yeah it is. The school theme is amazingly added to the show, it merges perfectly with everything else going on and it's excruciatingly perfect drama. By the end of the season you are literally scared to see what's gonna happen.
It's fine. It's just fine.
It ties up a lot of storylines from previous seasons in a great way, while also introducing a whole new universe (the politics stuff) and some new characters and plotlines for the following seasons. The Stringer Bell/Avon Barksdale plot is really great but I also loved all the arcs for the cops. One of the best things? McNulty arrived in season 1 looking like (and thinking he was) the great white saviour but in the end he's the most messed up of all of them.
This is where it goes from great to amazing. The whole docks storyline is incredibly well written and acted and the way it also works on moving everything around for the overarching plot that will go on in the following years is great stuff.
Interesting themes, good action and production values, some good writing, lots of ambition, mixed up with lots of misses and clunkyness (especially with the whole flag smashers plot). Overall it's a watchable show that tackles deep stuff while still being a traditional superhero action story. Which is what should be expected from an MCU production. It tries to do too much and sometimes it fails, but it's fine. It's never as good as the best moments of Wandavision but it's more cohesive and consistent, plus never as bad as the worst moments of that show.
Certainly not a masterpiece but so much better than I expected. Good writing, great acting, nice twists, a couple of smart homages to the original story, the multi-language international setup and the right level of cruelty make it an intriguing watch. It's basically a version of The Walking Dead that doesn't pull any punches and doesn't dilute itself in too many episodes. Also: I'm in love with most of the actresses.
Initially I had big issues with the low budget visuals and I wondered if maybe by spending a bit less on the voiceover cast (do we really need Jon Hamm for two scenes?) they could have done better in that department, but by the end I got over it. And the writing and acting are quite good, so it works. Plus, I mean, the comicbook is Robert Kirkman's real masterpiece so I think I'm gonna be here next season.
It's got that amazing quality of being great without being obnoxious about it.
