Really good crime show. Funny and weird at times. The characters are lovely. It is the to-go show for those wanting something nice that isn't too serious. It feels like mixturing the lightness of friends with criminal shows like CSI, a pinch of lovable characters and Nathan Fillion as the cherry on top. Stana Katic is also amazing, Huertas and Dever's friendship shines as the show goes one. They aren't the perfect bromance like in scrubs, but it is still a nice bromance. Quinn's character is a little weird as she is so perfect that I haven't even met someone that perfect irl.
Overall, watch it if you want something light that you can keep it on while cleaning or even eating dinner-lunch.
This is the what one would call the Golden Age of Cartoons, I would call it more like the roots, the beginning, the Cartoon: Origins. Tom and Jerry are and always is on the same Top 10 Cartoons of all time for me, together with the other classics like Looney Tunes and Woody Woodpecker. But I still haven't decided if I would show this for my kids or any other kid because some episodes are kind outdated and need some explaining so kids understand that things were different during the 40s-60s and what we consider wrong today weren't consider in those days.
Arrow can be considered just another CW Series, and it really is, so if you want to watch it, keep in mind what you'll get. If you usually don't like CW type of series this show may not be the one for you.
Season 5, was so far, the best one, it still a CW series with plenty of cliches and still pretty cartoonish and sometimes pretty cringy with its puns worth of a Tim Burton's Batman movie. But at the same time, Stephen Amell's acting in some key moments was really great, character development was better, the moral ambiguity of the villain and the hero is a nice contrast, Adrian Chase lose only to Deathstroke as a villain (because Deathstroke is too iconic and overshadows Adrian Chase) and the change of cast was interesting.
This may be a Sherlock Holmes story, but at the same time, it would be fine if they just changed the name of the characters and change it for a different series entirely. This, however, doesn't make the show bad, there are boring episodes and some great ones (looking at you S03E24 "A Controlled Descent") and Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu makes a decent job, Miller does feel like an "addicted to mystery detective and ex-addict" and Lucy Liu does look like an "ex-surgeon, now wants to be a detective (and becomes one later)". There are also plenty of nice scenes and talks about addicting, crime etc. It is entertaining, but it doesn't force you to "believe" that Sherlock Holmes is a genius, it actually kind of depicts him as more of an obsessive character than a "genius" detective (while I do agree there are some things that don't make sense), it is at least better at showing how Sherlock Holmes got to a conclusion than the TV Series "Sherlock" since they just throw the word "he is a genius" and be done with it without giving the viewers the chance to realize the conclusion (sometimes Elementary sins on this too).
Dan Harmon, you sunnofabitch, you did it again, Im in. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Now lets make a pillow, no a blanket fort. Erase that, let`s have a 50.000 US$ dollars paintball match.
This show is for those that like flawed likable and developing characters with some surrealism thrown into the mixture. The comedy is similar to Rick and Morty, however, lighter. The episodes, at least in the first 3 seasons, are excellent.
Season 4 is the best so far, it is funnier and looser, it doesn't take itself that seriously and they did try some different types of jokes (with the usual bad ones here and there). But overall is a great season compared with the other four. The first season was pretty introductory and Reverse Flash was just annoying since we don't really know what truly motivates him so worse villain so far. The second season's villain was zoom, he was more interesting and better structured and developed. Savitar was also interesting. DeVos, however, manages to take the cake of best flash villain from this so-so TV series, I'm a sucker for plots "corruption of the good intended".
Amazing. This is the epitome of great cartoon. I also found it to be better than the originals but only because the originals stretch the story too much and some times it gets boring. But this is also expected of a children's cartoon. I also loved the fact this one is a little more mature. Aishi is also interesting and has a similar charisma to Jack's, though Jack is still the protagonist. This is beyond fantastic. This is what Cartoon Network gets for trusting basically the same team as that of the original.
This show, to me, is terrible. The characters are mostly extremely unlikable and in its third season, kills off its most likable one, which isn`t that much likable either. Of course, not all entertainment needs to have a likable character, but the unlikable character usually comes with a message, they are used to convey a message or they use that unlikability to further develop in latter seasons. But in HGAWM, if there is a message, in buried deep in its need to keep escalating the drama in mostly annoying ways.
Season 1 starts with a somewhat understandable drama. A girl is dead, she used to sleep with her college teacher, which coincidentally is the MC s husband, the big shot professor-lawyer that has her favorites based on the hand full of students that compete hard enough. The competitiveness is incredibly annoying to say the least, while It does show some characteristics of each character, it serves to send a message "Look, to be a big shot lawyer you need to be a backstabber" which is, as far as I know, far from the truth, at least in Brazil. Only in Murica, the idea of extreme competitiveness is that appealing, not to say it is just Murica.
Wes Gibbins, one of the MC s fave students start a "friendship" with his neighbor, a girl that was the dealer of the dead girl. She goes to the MC s home to accuse the MC s husband of murdering the dead girl because she was pregnant, he they starts to get hostile, Wes and the rest of the students get their and see him getting violent. What happens? Wes kills the MC s husband, she finds out and… covers for them because he was a cheating bastard. I mean, ok, but seriously, this is the plot here. The second and third season is awful too, they turn the drama way to the top, but what should I expect of Shonda Rhimes style of story telling if not one big pile of drama that keeps getting bigger and bigger. Not drama enough? How about a gunmen get into the hospital and shoot the MC s husband (Im talking about Greys Anatomy). Not drama enough? Let`s make a bunch of doctors crash in a helicopter and have some of them die or extremely hurt. But the difference here is: the characters of Grey's Anatomy are mostly all likable. I mean, George O'Malley, so likable, even the bully gets a redemption story, he starts studying to be a pediatrician, that is a nice twist to the cliched alpha child. But I can state without guilt that HGAWM accomplishes the opposite of Grey's Anatomy.
its about a police drama, but somewhat light compared with CSI, Law and Order etc, that shows the lives of police offices in Los Angeles. It isn't a pure comedy, there have heavy subjects approached in the show like the dangers of indeciveness when approaching certain situations, how much of police work is usually dangerous and really daming for the individual on a emotional and physical level etc etc.
Its MC is played by Nathan Fillion, but instead of a lovable comedian, it plays a little, just a little more serious compared with other character Fillion has played. It is a crime drama, but some moments are worth a shuckle or two.
My experience watching this.
Season 1: Amazing! This is a great series. They did most things right and the cast is amazing. Minnette is an amazing MC and his acting is more than good enough. Sometimes I feel him being a one man face similar to Kristen Steward, but sometimes you get some small surprises. The rest of the cast is also great. I cannot be impartial when rating Langford since I have a huge crush on her, I'm totally biased. Unfortunately, the cast also suffers from what I call the CW Curse; the "everyone is really good looking or at least nice looking" curse.
Season 2: Well, ok, that was... nice. Still entertaining but I'm starting to doubt the motivation of the characters.
Season 3: ................. WTF!?
Season 4: What kind of trashfire is this? Is this fanfiction? Am I watching Shonda Rhimes by accident? Who the hell keeps uping the stakes so stupdly besides Rhimes? Geezus fucking christ man! What is it with Clay obviously having a mental problem and not even the doctors seeing it? What stupid development. This was a mistake. SHUT IT DOWN, MAN! Shut it all down.
Rick and Morty manage to be an original piece while being based on Back to the Future. In an age where most TV shows manage to struggle to keep it generically entertaining, Rick and Morty give us what could be the equivalent of Absurd Comedy mixed with Dark Humor and a hint of gratuitous violence and it became one of the most successful cartoons for adults of the 2010s. Its humor is bold, gruesome at times, hilarious fart jokes at medium and some deep questions that make your skin crawl at best. This is the type of show where the viewer chooses what kind of they want themselves to be, if you wish to watch the show just for the absurdism of their adventure, that is great, watching just for the fart jokes and references? also great! One can even watch Rick and Morty paying attention to its philosophical equivalent theories of what they debate on each episode.
In the end, Rick and Morty is the go-to cartoon for grown-ups.
Happily being one of the very few (I actually can`t think of another TV Series exploring the same theme) polyamorous romances out there, "You Me Her" manages to captivate your attention and your heart with its loving characters and cute situations. This TV Series is without a doubt a favorite of the "Romance" genre to me, together with "Love" from Judd Apatow.
The Plot
Don't get me wrong, I know nothing of polyamorous relationships (nor monogamous relationships either), but for me, this TV Series manages to explore the doubts and insecurities that people in a polyamorous relationship goes through. They explore the insecurities of being just a third wheel ( like Jack in the second Season and Izzy in the third ), the insecurities and fears to face society (not that they explicitly show any strong prejudice) and some other details like friends judging you because of your relationship decisions etc.
It is wildly interesting plot, while it does rely on cliches its cuteness and its pleasant ambiance makes up for it.
The Characters, or why the cuteness extreme
I can't say why, but every single character in this TV Series are loving and caring, they may have their quirkiness and their weaknesses but they overall care for each other. It is a nice change from the base overgrowing post-modern cynical TV Series appearing all over the place like everything on Adult Swim (which I do like, but sometimes its tiresome to always question if things have meaning or not).
Even if I stated that I can say that during the first season I actually didn't like the protagonists Jack and Emma's judgmental friends, but they grow up and stuff doing it.
The Soundtrack
There is very few TV Series that manages to catch my attention with its soundtrack, this is, unfortunately, not one.
Final Thoughts
While I regard this as one of my favorite "light romcom" TV Series, I still see some minor flaws, but its positive message and its interesting subject, while cliched, make up for it. It is a nice romance that everyone should watch.
I understood nothing of this show, I like some of the conversations, I do not agree with the assumption that no way can get better and even if the show comes down on religious extremism they end up doing the opposite in the third season.
Considering that the show starts with the trope of "a part of the population goes missing" and it develops from there, I can't really say after watching all 3 seasons that I don't know how they go missing, why they go missing and even if they are dead. The third season was the weirder of them all to me. And besides the ending, all characters end up a fuck up and by that I mean they don't get better at all.
The conversations and talks about grief got me interested, the character development is nice, and acting is really good. Especially Matt who made such a poor job with as a Doctor Who protagonist and the main villain of Thor 2.
And the religious aspect of the show got really confusing because I can't say if it is all real, if they are hallucinating it all or that whatever.
Holy shit, Luke Cage went from so-so to a really great TV Series. The first season was nice, but it was kind of a mess. It still felt like a Netflix/Marvel TV Series but it lack more structure and a better pace. Season two didn't fix that too much, but it did make it up by developing some characters even more and presenting with a new villain with power. There much to say about season 2, but the main thing that really did like was how it depicted a real relationship (the closest I have seen from TV) how fights can happen, how can one see things differently from different points of view, and how one can lose their temper when your loved one can't understand your point of view (I'm with Clair on this one). Another thing that I loved was how it depicted Luke's fall from grace by trying to make him mad with power.
Final Space suffers from The Walking Dead syndrome in some episodes, you get good moments only in the beginning or at the very end of the episode, the rest is useless things that have no involvement in the development of the characters or are just boring line moments with annoying characters being annoying. The show also has a pacing problem.
It has amazing awe dimension shattering events, though it gets constantly undercut for its annoying one lines and unfunny jokes. This is more in the lines with Regular Show + Adventure Time rather than Rick and Morty, but trying to have the cake and eat it too by trying to be serious while undercutting as stated. We have a key moment with nice pacing being halt because X character needs a funny line or needs to be insufferable. KNV is one of them, but Gary is the worse, while every character having they annoyance moment.
They should've balanced jokes vs seriousness better.
This show is the perfect example - together with The 100 - of how a show can come from mediocre to really good just taking risks and experimenting. From Ep 1-8 more or less, the show is pretty flat and horrible, it is a generic cop drama with a little twist, it is the same as Blindspot, Lucifer (and don't get me wrong, I still like it) and any other crime-solving show with a hint of conspiracy in the main plot. From Ep 9 and so on, they start slowly changing their tactics and experimenting with the show, they purposely twist cliches to try surprising the viewer. While the show in its end is still far from a masterpiece or any real great tv series, it is still a way better series than when it started.
I suppose this series is entertaining enough for a second season. While I wouldn't doubt if they decided, either way, making season 2 or canceling it, since better shows have been canceled, I doubt TNT will cancel this one. TNT doesn't have the best list of TV series out there, so this is a nice addition.
Good TV show that doesn't shy from heavy subject even if some approaches are superficial at worse. All characters are flawed but likable. The series is not very light but also not very heavy. It has a certain balance between comedy vs seriousness.
Overall, people wanting to watch something interesting and slightly funny will have a good time. I can think of only two reasons of why someone would drop or not watch it: a) It has been cancelled and S01 ends in a cliffhanger b) It is based on a Comic Book, depending of how much of a fan the person is, and how it compares with the show, the person may not like it. (I haven't read the comic yet).
Smulders is great in here as she usually is. It usually doesn't feel like Robin from HIMYM, with some key moments I had flashbacks of Robin when she says "Awwww" or some other thing connecting to the older show. But I'm glad that for me, she didn't became typecast.
Jake Johnson was also a pleasant surprise here, since the last place I watched him was from New Girl. It is nice to see him working a "bad boy" type of character.
All the other characters are also likable as stated. Hoffman is a little stiff at first but gets more interesting the more the series goes. Ansel is a nice character that lightens the show quite a lot when he is in scene. Tookie is also great and funny, Cosgrove's actress pick is also good. And having a Indigenous Community in the show was interesting.
Oh, yeah, the soundtrack is also great. Made me sing along many of the songs. Kudos for specially playing a Tegan and Sara song.
I went in expecting nothing above good and wasnt disappointed. It isnt bad per se, but, of course, it isn`t to the same standards to the anime. It is sillier and focuses more on the comedy to deliver an excuse for a cliched drama, missing the point of the character development and the philosophical aspects of the original work. There is a feeling of wonder and reflection watching the anime, while here that feeling is lost. Small differences in the original characters come together to deliver a lesser story.
While the Spike from the anime was funny, he wasn`t exactly silly, at least not silly in such western-way. There was a certain serenity and a need to put himself into danger that made Spike stand a good-to-great MC. That scene at the beginning of the anime was THE PERFECT introduction of the character and they took that and shitted all over. Him playing the gunman trying to use the old lady as a hostage was to show that Spike plays with his cards but he cares at least more than this live-action version, well, at least based on what is shown comparing that first scene.
I was ready to give this a 7 and call it a good job. But then at the last minute they bring Ed and make her the worst character of the just even with just a sec left to end the last episode. One can say it is not enough to determine if the character is bad with just a first impression, well, it depends entirely, but in this case I think you can.
Now, what I liked about the live-action:
Good enough season 1, it has its cliches and shortcomings but it's a nice show. If you have the time, give it a try.
This show is a nice surprise, there is a nice "original" plot. The only criticism is the fact that the protagonist has a sudden "grow of balls" and starts acting more confident really suddenly, if you disregard it (and some other annoyances) this Series can be quite entertaining. The villain is quite interesting too, and makes you feel angry and hate him (it is not Jack The Handsome, but he is a "fueling rage" type of villain). The "victims" and their relations to each other and the villain make you tune too. There are some nice scenes in CGI (in the game). It is interesting and should make you less bored in an "I have nothing better to do" time.
While I like Zoey Deschanel and Alan Cumming, this is really bad. I mean, is not shitty but is not good either. Zoey's acting style (basically her being her own character) feels that she doesn't belong to this fantastical setting. She fits like a glove in her own TV Series New Girl, but here it makes her character looks like an outsider since she acts differently than those around her. It is like she acts in a more relaxed, "real lifey" way and the rest of the cast acts more like the generical type of a fantastical tale with seriousness in their lines.
The plot is entertaining enough, but boring most of the times. The villain is also weirdly boring. She is evil because she is evil. There is more complexity than the original story, but for a so short that complexity doesn't fit right. The ending is also cliched, but it is a bad cliche.
Seriously? Jesus, I still like this kid, it is not so annoying as the one in The Strain, but damn kid, show some intelligence. Though still faithful to his character (since he trusted a murdering robot) is quite annoying when shit like this happens.
Yeah, the show is really mid grade to something a little better. Though still promises something great, it has many shortcomings.
Still better than the emoji movie.
Fine enough movie based on a book I haven't read. The concept is interesting and the plot moves well because of charismatic leads in Holland and Ridley. Mads Mikkelsen is always great, especially in villain roles. The noise effect was interesting and well-made as well as its representation into a visual format. The movie is great for those looking for something curious and well made. The small dirt is that the movie's message was, if that was intended, shallow but I lack interest and motivation to debate about it.
What is funny is that if this episode were made today, the problem would be Cosby instead of Hitler.
Now this one really pisses me off, it will all be resolved by the kid, in the end, trying to find if the robot remembers him. I hope I'm wrong though.
Villian cannot be more obvious and people still cannot see it. I mean, she uses a shitty excuse for ditching the smuggler and Angela in the storm and apparently no one used to know the real Dr. Smith.
Though is still generic, the show is nice enough if you have time to waste. Through the main message, if I'm right would be a family together conquers everything, makes the show kind of worth the time, since it is basically an abandoned concept these days. I rarely see shows with the main message is how a family show take care of each other.
