This is a lovely show, funny, smart and with a nice art style. The opening theme has been singed many times in our house and we still sing Simon's improvisation at the guitar (Caca boudin, super lapin, bébé cadum, la tarte aux pommes). <3
A nice second season, with a beautiful short and four other nice ones. Getting only five is a bit disappointing, though.
This is alway funny and entertaining, with amazing moments of completely surreal humor (Santa Claus) that I love and a nice overall sweet soul.
I really don't like and I don't have much more to say.
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...
I watched the first episode and it surprised me in how it was able to (mostly) avoid the easy trashyness it could have gotten into. I also liked the choice of de-masking Master Chief, if only because it would make people angry, even though I see Pablo Schreiber and I think Pornstache. I never watched episode two.
I was watching the first episode, I found it dull, childishly written, incapable of giving depth to story and characters... after 30 minutes I gave up.
This is really cute. Maybe too much.
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 really cute. Maybe too much.
Halfway through the third short I literally said "What the fuck am I doing?" and I turned it off.
My thoughts while watching episode 1:
- this is visually charming;
- how much did they spend for the cast?;
- mh, actually, visually, I like it less than I thought;
- oh, so it's a super super loyal adaptation of the comicbook? No, wait, someone told me there's a twist;
- jeez, keeping the dialogues exactly as they were in the comicbook is not a great idea. They are meant to be read, they feel really stiff in a visual medium;
- this is incredibly boring;
- oh, so that's the twist. I kike it. OK, you have my curiosity.
My thoughts while watching episode 2:
- this is incredibly boring;
- what? We are still at minute 15? Fuck it, I'm giving up, there's no point, I'm literally falling asleep.
Now, this clearly is a superficial judgment and I'm sure that if I insisted and watched the rest of it I wouldn't hate it but I'm at a point in my life where if I'm watching a TV show, I'm incredibly bored and I think the best case scenario is "I didn't hate it", well, I can invest my time in something else.
In all honesty, I only started watching it because I need to practice my French but I have to say it was quite good, decently written and with interesting plots. Now I'm curious about the other ones.
Honestly, this is boring as hell and even my daughter doesn't want to watch it.
Better than I feared, I guess.
It's visually amazing but I watched three episodes and I found it sooo boring.
I watched the first three episodes and it was like looking into the abyss that haunts my soul.
The usual lovely BBC fare: impeccably made and acted, interesting, mature entertainment.
A nice show, well acted and decently directed, maybe a bit too on the nose in the way it talks about contemporary issues.
Ava DuVernay has got the delicate touch of an elephant and the level of cheesiness is out of the park. Still, the first two episodes are really, really good, engaging and moving, quite thrilling if you don't already know how it went. Episode three is really the worst one, too much easy melodrama and really schematic in its structure. It gets a bit better in the final episode, thanks to the "prison drama" approach. Overall, it's an interesting and important series for sure but I think I would have preferred a different approach. Maybe it's just that I don't like DuVernay.
Always interesting and fascinating. Plus, two out of four chefs are not that pretentious. That's not bad.
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.
I was a bit turned off by the rhetoric of the monologues but that's nitpicking. This is amazing TV, impeccably produced, written, directed and acted, incredibly gripping and moving, fascinating, admirable in the adaptation work. Great stuff.
Lovely writing and directing, great production values, excellent acting, this is a deep, entertaining, fascinating show.
The Olaf expo dump was probably the best comical moment in Frozen II and they already reused in the post credits scene, so of course they had to do a miniseries based on different Disney classics. They kinda remind me of those old commercials for Lilo & Stitch but these are even more nonsensical thanks to Josh Gad improvising stuff all the time. And he should do that, this shit is funny. My favourite is the Tangled one.
I wanted to believe because back then I loved the comicbook but this show is nothing more than a decent thing I would have watched ten years ago but is not enough in today's TV landscape. I still wanted to go on watching it but then they canceled it and so #solong
The lack of shame from Marvel is amazing: they said Echo was gonna be completely autonomous and what they meant is the first episode is a long summary of two other TV shows. Meh. Ironically, the new stuff in that first episode (the action sequence and Kingpin doing what any parent wants to do at least once a week by kicking that guy’s ass) is probably the best part of the whole show. Meh. The rest is the usual Marvel fare: a good cast, some interesting themes and ideas, at least one more fun action sequence, but the constant feeling that (1) a couple of hours would have been enough and (2) it’s more interested in making you want to watch other stuff than in not making you regret watching this stuff.
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.
The first three episodes are amazing. Gripping, romantic, thrilling, deep, sexy... it trojan horses a spy story inside a drama/romance/thriller thing and it does it in a wonderful way. Episode four is where it collapses by letting the uninteresting sci-fi/spy element take control. Episode five doesn't particularly get better. Still, the amazing start and the great cast deserve a view.
Funny and clever, it's classic Woody and the characters are adorable, but honestly I hoped for something more.
