Like it happened with The Good Wife, after a first season to warm up, this is getting better and better.
The first half of the season is really, really good, then it tragically falls back in the usual "not enough stuff to fill 12 episodes" problem. There's still a bunch of good episodes and great moments, though, plus the finale is spot on.
Fun, surprising, fresh, visually striking, full of nice ideas... it's a different and interesting way to do the superhero thing.
This is brilliant, cute, funny and surprisingly deep in its themes. Plus, my two years old daughter loves it.
Far from being as good as the two previous season, this still is great television and one of the best shows out there.
A lovely ending for a lovely series.
A good and fitting ending, I guess. I though it was a bit funnier than the previous one, but still it's far from the enjoyement of the first couple of series.
Like season one, with the added bonus of continuity.
It's still really funny when it wants to be and the final bunch of episodes, with all their drama, work very well, but I agree with people saying it lost some bite.
Nice and fun until it finally becomes great. But jesus I hate how it uses songs. Not always. But most of the time.
So much better than everything Marvel/Netflix did after the first season of Jessica Jones.
Even better than season one: the humour is more on point, the themes are very well tackled (and probably more relevant now than when the show was written) and the acting is getting better.
The whole web of mysteries is quite fun, even though a bit predictable in the actual twists. The whole philosophical part is frankly really basic, but also decently fun. What is missing is the human element, a bit of fun, some deep characters and some really engaging storylines. It's made this way on purpose because of the themes, of course, but still, I feel it's lacking. I mean, "that guy" shooting himself was powerful, but it instantly deflated because it didn't really mean anything. And that's just an example. And - jesus - too much exposition. Info dumps after info dumps with no elegance at all. They know it, they joke on it with the "show, don't tell" line, but that doesn't make it better. That being said, the production is amazing, the cast is great and I think this could be a good prologue to a much better second season.
It's a slow burner and episode 7 is atrocious in spite of its good intentions, but overall it's almost as good as season one, even though it's even more derivative and predictable: the cast is still amazing, the characters are still adorable and it's nice that it gives more time to the ones that had less space in season one.
Two episodes to warm up the engines, then that fight and only love for the rest of the season. Amazing.
Basically it's like Masters of Sex but with people getting to intercourse through rape and murder instead of counseling.
It's the worst season, lacking the creativity and the crazyness of the previous one and with a cliffhanger that never got resolved, but it's still quite fun and with some occasional stroke of genius.
Maybe it's not as good and crazy as the first two seasons, but there's still a bunch of amazingly creative episodes, plus the whole prison and coma storyline ar quite fun and inventive. Also, there's a good ending, which I guess is not what we had with season 4 and the whole series. :(
I'm not sure I dig this "necessity" to reboot everything with an edgier, sexyer, whateverer approach, especially when the recent Archie comic book is such a smart reinvention without giving up the upbeat spirit. That being said, this is very well made. Great visuals, decent acting, a funny parade of guest stars from the old times, smart, witty and entertaining in its reinvention of a classic. I hope the upgrade to 22 episodes for season 2 is not a mistake.
Still a deep, funny, emotional, greatly written, directed and acted series. And that final episode, gosh, I was a mess. Such a pity that it's been canceled.
This is probably My Name is Earl at its best: funny, stupid, smart and full of crazy ideas.
This is Girls at its best: abrasive, gripping, funny, adorable.
The production value is always high and Idris Elba is alwasy Idris Elba, but this honestly felt like an empty filler. Plus, I miss Ruth Wilson.
The whole nodding to the eighties is a bit too heavy at times, especially when it clones scenes, costumes and stuff, but it's a lot less annoying than I feared. That being said, it's a very entertaining show: fun, well written, acted and directed, it uses all the cliches but it also subverts some of them. And thank god it's only 8 episodes, with no fillers at all.
Well, it's a Joe Swanberg TV Show.
Fun, smart, ambitious, maybe a bit pretentious, beautifully shot and crazily over the top, it's most of all a showcase for the great Ian McShane and the very good bunch of character actors that surround him. Sadly, Ricky Whittle is not on their level but I can live with it.
It's not as focused and balanced as season four, sometimes it drags, and the jumping around betweend drama and comedy is messier than usual (even though I generally still love it). But season four was almost perfect, so... That being said, when it works, it's still up there with the best TV around, brave, important, deep and smart. And funny, which in my book is never an issue. Because, you know, life is funny, even stupidly funny, even when it's not. And the final episode, once again, is great.
Another great adaptation (even though I kinda miss the dialogue about penises size between Hap and Florida) and a more emotional story than season one. It's fun, tense, thematically strong, visually interesting (even though Jim Mickle is clearly missed) and very well written. The cast is fabulous and the atmosphere is great. I can't wait for season three.
A great adaptation that gets basically everything that counts right. The cast is perfect, the feel is sweaty, dialogues are spot on and it's a lot of fun.
