Visually, the stop motion is really, really cool. Even when the story is frankly a bit boring for me, I’m still amazed by the aesthetics and my daughter has fun anyway. The lessons are always clearly explained by the main character (many different variations of “Oh, I figured it out: I have to do this and that”), so it can be a bit dull for me, but it’s smart, full of interesting things, and it’s about kids playing outside, learning things by experimenting with stuff and getting their hands dirty. Which is a cool thing I hope my daughter will do more and more, even though she hates having her hands dirty.
So, again, it's only for kids, but it’s good. And there's two or three episodes near the end of the season that I really, really loved, not as a father, just as a spectator: Parachute Play is quite moving, I dare say, while Bedtime Story and A Treasure Hunt are visually and structurally really well made.
Visually great, incredibly cute and emotional, smart, well written and amazingly imaginative. My daughter adores it, after watching it we bought the comic book and it's a constant re-read.
They recently added six episodes as a "Season 1 - Part 2" bundle and I gotta say I think they got quite better. The series was already smart and cute but these new episodes are more fun, confident, even moving at times. I love watching it with my daughter.
It's really cute and visually fascinating, plus the voiceover is quite good. Of course, being clearly targeted to children, it's really on the nose with its "messages", but it's still a nice watch. And my three-year-old daughter loves it.
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.
This is cute, lovely, fun, cute, full of nice teaching but most of all incredibly cute.
Even better than season 2: more experimentation, more narration, more crazy ideas, a bit of continuity and some really moving moments.
Bluey is an amazing show, that makes me and my daughter laugh so hard with its montypythonesque humour but also moves me so much with its approach to family dynamics. Basically, every episodes generates moisture, whether because I'm pissing myself or I'm almost crying. It is so realistic in its absurdity, so creative, full of attention to detail (I love how it uses the tails of its canine characters to express their emotions), always really smart in how it treats characters of all ages, giving them agency, personality, intentions. Sweet, lovely, sarcastic, irresistible in how it characterizes the parents who get bored/tired and in how realistic it is even in the most crazy situation. Sadly, on Disney+ it's censored quite a bit, I guess based on America's tastes, so we cannot see a pony pooping because I guess it's too much (what the hell?) or you cannot have a kid asking about how babies end up in mommy's belly because... because? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4E2s9KhM6w ). Even "better": there's no Dad Baby episode (I found it on torrent and we laughed so hard while watching it) because - OH MY GOD - dad plays with the girls faking a pregnancy and "giving birth" in the garden with the help of a neighbour. But we cannot see that. Because of course we can have decades of Disney movies in which the message is you solve the problem by killing someone but god forbid talking about how babies are made, kids asking questions about that and parents having to answer. Oh, I love the australian accents. <3
I watched this with my (almost) 5 years old and we had to stop after episode 26 because that's what we've got on Netflix. It's a lovely show, funny, visually cool, sometimes it really makes me laugh and my daughter loves it. She already was a huge fan of Wonder Woman but now also loves Supergirl.
Oh, and it's full of nice homages to DC comics, clearly put there for the geeky parent, which I guess is a plus.
Bluey's third season (or at leats the part already available on Disney+) confirms and underlines what I already knew: it's the best show on TV. I already said I everything I had to say when I wrote about it after watching the first two seasons so I got nothing else to add besides bonjour pavlova!
With season 2 they start messing around and experimenting with narration and visual style. Now it's really good. I was even moved a couple of times.
What a crazy, fun show.
I'm not sure how the season progression actually works because the order on Netflix is messed up but this gets better and better.
A lovely show for pre-schoolers, with very simple lessons mostly around the theme of "be nice to each other". Nice art style.
The decision to focus more on the female characters was incredibly wise: everybody and everything benefit from that. This is where it becomes a great show.
The immediate rewatch is making me appreciate much more the character development, how later seasons pick up on stuff that was laid down here and already in the first season. The tale of Donna and Cameron and how they basically start acting like Joe when they realize their ambition, the depth of desperation in which Joe is falling, the pit from which Gordon is gonna have to crawl out...
Plus, honestly, this is such a lovely watch, of course when it's entertaining and fun, but also when it gets really sad, because it's so nice to be with such well written characters. What a show. I'm gonna miss it, when we finish this rewatch.
As an immediat re-watch it feels so much better. The weaker moments are still there but you can see all the basis from the character growth that will come in later seasons and it's fascinating to watch all the little things that the authors then built on. It feels very organic, in a way. Episode 6 is amazing in that sense. I'm also amazed at how much it manages to be emotional, thrilling, interesting, even if by know I kinda know every single thing that's coming. Great show. And it's the weaker season!
Even on a rewatch that made me appreciate season 1 more, the upgrade on season 2 is palpable. After a couple of episodes to start the engines, it becomes amazing.
It's amazing how good and gripping it is even on a rewatch. And it's the weaker season!
Lee Pace talking exactly like Don Draper is a bit annoying, but I guess it's compensated by the kind of Patrick Bateman vibe he gives off. Overall the cast is quite good and the series is really interesting, even though it takes a while to get there. I'm curious to see the second season jump in quality everybody talks about.
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.
This is a good season, quite fun, with many entertaining episodes, the lovely H.R character, some nice ideas and a thrilling final ride after the big reveal. The issues? The reveal itself (come on, it was immediately obvious, after a couple of clues were dropped much early in the season), the dark tone (it works at times and it makes sense but this series works better when it's a bit lighter... it's not Arrow) and fact that the villain was basically non existent for too long (I had the same issue with Ras in Arrow season 3). Anyway, I had fun. Probably, binge watching it helped.
The first half of the season is really good but then, after a great cliffhanger, it kinda loses its force and it seemes like (as usual) they had too many episodes to tell their story. It's still fun, the multiverse thing is quite entertaining, there's a very effective villain (even though its use is maybe too similar to season one) and when it clicks it's a lot of fun, but it's not as good as season one.
It takes a bit to find its rhythm (I honestly found quite boring a few of the first episodes) but then it becomes a fun ride, with lovely ideas, humour, adventure. Characters are great, visually it's lovely and David Tennant is David Tennant.
I honestly think that people is too harsh on Damien Dahrk, but his season clearly had issues, especially in the second half. Well, season 5 is a return to form and for the first time since season 2 Arrow doesn't have long slumps with fillers coming out of the fucking walls. The storylines are interesting, there's stuff to do for everybody and the villain is amazing. Also, the ending is great.
This is probably My Name is Earl at its best: funny, stupid, smart and full of crazy ideas.
Kinda like season two of The Flash, this starts really well, has a great mid season cliffhanger and then loses its momentum in having to fill too many episodes with not enough story. It's still fun, though, more fun than season 3, mainly because of the less crybaby attitude of Oliver Queen and the over the top villain. Actions is always good, the closing stretch of episodes is really engaging and, amazingly, it looks like a couple of deaths will stick. But I have to say the flashbacks are atrocious. It's not a full return to form but it's a fun season.
A really, really good third season, with quite a few standout episodes (4,722 Hours, Closure, Parting Shot, Spacetime, Ascension... ) a compelling storyline, some nice character evolution and a villain that's much better than what I expected. Plus, finally we're seeing a bit more superpowers.
Funny, bizarre, full of crazy ideas, a good mix of slapstick gags for kids and idiotic humour for parents. Adorable.
All the Watchdogs stuff was still extremely boring and hopefully it is now out of the way, but the rest of the season was great. I don't know how it's possible, but Ghost Rider worked quite fine. The separation in three different blocks united by a common storyline was really smart and helped to avoid fillers. The LMD storyline was thrilling and the Agents of Hydra bit was honestly amazing. I like how it made the characters evolve and all the drama it generated, even though Mack has the issue of a really bad actor. And I'm pretty curious about next season: is the space thing related to the new Avengers movie?
