You know what, Netflix, just stop suggesting cancelled shows to me. The humor in this show was so well nuanced, the action scenes felt fresh and nicely punctuated, and the romance bits didn't drag nearly as badly as they do in other shows. The pacing leading up to the cliffhanger was as close to perfect as you can get. Then flush
Following @renew_TBH and hoping another service picks this up.
If you've read the book(s), don't approach this show expecting a direct adaptation. A few characters have been redefined, but moreover it's missing the wry humor that makes the source material so endearing. Having said that, it still beats most "average people with powers" shows. You'll only find it boring if you don't like the pacing of British television.
If you did enjoy this, I recommend Syfy's sadly truncated Alphas and neatly-concluded Haven.
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Mostly an homage to homages like Shaun of the Dead. Fun enough, but also another sad reminder of all the 2019 content that was cut short in 2020.
I don't usually cry watching stuff. I cried more during and after this than I have for any full-length feature film.
This special was just the best kind of fanservice. Katy's facial reactions while sex-chirping with Dax and Ron are deliciously nuanced. We even saw a degree of mutual respect appear between Wayne and Stewart; maybe that'll be explored further in the next set of episodes.
This wouldn't be a good sample of the series for a new viewer -- definitely one to watch once you've bonded with the characters -- but it reassures me that the show isn't losing any steam. Fantastic.
Plenty of fun to be had here, but the lack of motivation for the deaths of so many staff strains plausibility.
Very serviceable horror-comedy that only occasionally gets too comic-book. I think it's also the only movie I've ever seen with outtakes of nude scenes in the credits.
Slowest episode of the series so far, and not much of a payoff for it.
Mean Girls/Heathers/Cruel Intentions flavor functions well in the first season but muddles the second. I would rate 7 if the whole series weren't riddled with plotholes far beyond the scope of homage or satire. Characters' actions are too nonsensical, too often.
Fun fact: the DJ at the school dance is turntablism royalty Cut Chemist.
The official description is grossly misleading. 1/1 is simply a forcefed tale of woe, dressed up with smash cuts and monotone voiceovers and offering almost nothing in the way of a "brighter path ahead."
Lissa is miserable because she's stuck in a small, economically depressed town, possibly pregnant, her mother estranged and her father lost to suicide. Exposition on these topics last until the final five minutes of the film. At no point does "the structure of the film mature," and the "brighter path" is simply that she isn't pregnant and she's on speaking terms with her mother again. Yes, really, that's all. No great revelations, no life-altering decisions, just an existence ever-so-marginally less bleak.
If you'd like to wallow in pure unhappiness, the films of Todd Solondz will at least respect you as a viewer.
Dark comedy/suspense in the vein of Very Bad Things with a heavy(-handed) dose of Macbeth. I was hoping for more of the heart I saw in the trailer. Kenneth Welsh is a brief treat.
Easy to dismiss if you're not looking closely, Goon is far more self-aware than almost any other entry in the small-town-kid-joins-the-big-team genre.
Also, they told me this movie inspired a lot of content in Letterkenny, and they were not wrong.
Best episode since the first one! Gestalt shines in the field and expresses emotion that's finally believable. Conrad steps out of his ebony ivory tower and gets his hands a little dirty, at least politically, and Farrier takes a similarly large step forward. Monica remains wrapped up in her own B-story, but she's been furniture the whole season anyway.
It was great to see Myfanwy use her power with some control, but it's still only as a weapon; she's not yet harmlessly exploring and manipulating musculature as featured in the book, and that's the more interesting side of her ability. I hope that's where season 2 is headed, assuming this season had enough viewers to greenlight another one. The ending was as satisfying as a first-season finale can ever be, which is to say far better than most -- as an end to the season or to the series.
I still would have preferred a direct adaptation of the book(s), because this is so different that it's really more of a "based on" than an actual adaptation... but at least they got rid of Stephenie Meyer before production began.
If we're supposed to buy Gestalt as the somewhat scorned romantic lead, it's annoying to find out they spotted Myfanwy drunk and attempting to leave, then came at her successively in multiple rooms until she stopped saying no -- especially since that's the event they're acting scorned about since the first episode.
Encouragingly close to the source material so far, especially in those crucial first few scenes. Good casting, too. Can't wait to see where they take this adaptation -- there's already a second book in the series.
The only sympathetic character in this movie is the accident victim (Rea). Everyone else, including the people who could have saved him (with the small exception of John Dunsworth as a cab driver eager to help with car trouble), will quickly earn your contempt or indifference. Occasional attempts by Suvari and Hornsby at comic relief repeatedly miss the mark.
The accident itself is strikingly well depicted. Unfortunately, it turns out to be the culmination of a Kafka-esque bad day for the victim, as if the writer was halfway through reading the book of Job; I say "unfortunately" and "halfway" because there is no payoff, in fact barely a resolution, before the credits roll. Unless you're a fan of gratuitously farfetched gore porn, which characterizes every scene featuring the victim after the accident, I assure you this movie is not worth your time.
Big letdown if you're expecting something on par with the original UCB show that was on Comedy Central. Does not feature those four trailblazing geniuses except during a brief intro.
