It feels more confident than season one, with a better rhythm and more consistent overall quality. It's nice that it does not necessarily look for a fairy tale ending, but episode 5 is the only real standout.
Not as strong as season 2, this is already starting to feel a bit too formulaic, but there's a couple of really nice episodes and the final stretch is quite good.
As usual, more episodes mean more diluted storyline. Also, the whole setup of the finale battle and Sunny's behaviour in that situation are quite stupid. That being said, there's still fun to be had from Marton Csokas and Emily Beecham hamming it up, Daniel Wu and Cung Le jumping around, the nice fighting scenes and the whole bizarre mithology. Plus, Nick Frost.
Season 2 feels like the engine has been started and there's less preoccupation with the world building that occupied most of season 1. There are some nice storylines, pretty emotional stuff and a sense of hope against the feeling of impending doom that makes everything nicer to watch. I still have trouble with most of the young actors, but the rest of the cast is quite good.
It's a pity that the show got canceled, because the upcoming personal and professional failures would have been quite interesting to watch in this fictionalized way (and the Betty storyline deserved more closure). That being said, the series finale is great and the whole season is quite good, a return to form after the disappointing season three, though maybe not as good as the first two years. I'm gonna miss it.
They tried to give us everything that made X-Files great. There's a couple of "mythology" episodes, there's the completely silly one (and it's the best one), there's the one with the B movie / slasher feel... it's all there. And they also tried to make it more relevant for this age in terms of themes and with the main storyline creeping up in every episode. On paper, it made sense. The problem is that X-Files is still in the same situation of the last couple of seasons: it's become quite stupid. The mythology episodes are extremely silly even if they don't want to be and the rest only works because there's some dumb fun in it.
Visually it goes from some nice things (mainly in the backgrounds department) to some awful stuff (mainly the characters). The writing is a bit clunky and pretentious, but at the same time the adaptation from the games is well made. It needs a little less silly monologues and a bit more action, possibly with a bigger budget, but the last two episodes show some potential. I kinda think that from season two it could be fun.
A wonderful adaptation if you don't care about huge changes from the source material or, even better, if (like myself) that's what you crave. It's smart, funny, full of surprises, visually interesting without becoming pretentious and thematically strong. And it's a lot of fun, which never hurts. Great TV.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Great writing, great performances, gripping drama and a tiny hint of humour. Louis CK is one of the great contemporary authors.
Well, it's a Joe Swanberg TV Show.
The last two episodes are amazing but for some reason I expected the whole season to be on that level. But still, it's fun and smart.
Great start and finish, a lot of kinda average episodes in the middle, with too many recurring jokes. The animal stuff is always great, though.
Finally a season that fullfills all the potential and is on par with what I've been hearing about this show. The underwater episode and the abortion one are amazing but almost everything is top notch.
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.
This is really amazingly stupid.
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.
This is Girls at its best: abrasive, gripping, funny, adorable.
A wonderful send off for a great series. Really, every single episode is amazing and the way it wraps up everything with the final three is... wow.
This is probably My Name is Earl at its best: funny, stupid, smart and full of crazy ideas.
Even better than season one. The level of not giving a fuck and doing whatever it wants is amazing.
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.
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.
A lovely series, that talks about puberty in a smart and fun way.
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. :(
Michele Placido's direction for the first two episodes is really bad and the older actors are made of pure wood, but if you can tolerate that you will get a pretty good crime drama, quite engaging when it's about the younger characters (which, fortunately, is most of the time).
