What an amazing show! Visually stunning, full of ideas, easter egg, homages, and so frigging funny. I loved watching it with my daughter.
Like season 1, this takes a couple of episodes to really become good and I have to say after the beautiful ending of season 1 that was a bit hard to swallow. But then it gets back on track and delivers some great moments. I cannot stand the therapist, though. I don't think he's that funny and it's the only character with no real development or usefulness in the overarching story.
It takes a couple of (quite good nonetheless) episodes to really get on track but then it becomes a very, very, very good show, extremely funny, sad, deep and light at the same time. Really lovely. Plus, it could have absolutely worked as a single season, with a very nice ending, so I'm curious to see what he did in season 2.
They should have squeezed the first three episodes in a bottle episode during The Mandalorian season 2 and then they should have used the storyline of the last three episodes as The Mandalorian Christmas Special. Maybe, that way, it wouldn't be boring as shit. Instead, we got the usual, well produced, moderately fun, moderately boring, kinda wasted opportunity we tend to get from Star Wars/MCU TV shows, just a little more boring than usual.
Do not get me wrong: there's some good stuff and some fun stuff in here and I'm kinda fascinated by the idea they are basically making one big "Tatooine Tales" TV Show with different titles in different seasons, but really, this was tolerable only because I decided to watch it while doing laundry.
A lovely show, that makes both me and my daughter laugh so much with its monty pythonesque humour but is also touching, lovingly real, crazily imaginative. What a huge surprise.
A return to form from first to last episode.
Lots of ups and downs for half a season, it gets back on track in the second half, when it starts fucking around with the formula.
Six episodes of slow, masterful buildup and then three fucking masterpieces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What an incredible way to manage something that has an only possible ending, which makes it predictable, by still make it amazingly perfect. Pluys, it's 5 more episodes than season 3 and it still didn't feel too long.
This is where it goes from a really good show to fucking amazing. I laughed to tears and realized they were tears of sadness. The musical numbers are out of this world, the themes are interesting and everything is so well written. Amazing show, even though I kinda feel it sometimes feels a bit stretched, with too many episodes.
A very, very good second season, that doesn't sit on the accomplishments of the first ones and instead constantly moves forward with new inventions and great plot developments. And the musical number are out of this world. And it makes me laugh so hard. And Vella Lovell.
