The funny part is I had never heard of this show before but I took the plunge one day Netflix recommended it to me and well... I am in the middle of my re-watch. Honestly I can't recommend this show enough to anyone reading this. This show has an unmatched wit and pacing that is pretty hard to beat. All the characters are brilliantly written and executed by their respective actors. Honestly the closest thing to this show is maybe Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (since it's also written by Tina Fey) although its not at the same level.
I'm not a person to throw 10's around but if there is anything that deserves it is this beautiful show. Seriously, go watch it.
My god, I tried CW I really did but I couldn't even finish. This show had so much potential to be a comfy family lite drama/comedy and to an extent it was, but it got clogged and overshadowed by the whole unnecessary Stella, Wes, Dr. Grant, Pippa love square that just killed it for me. Maybe I could've handled a Dr. Grant (who by the way is a homewrecking creep) triangle cause stuff like that actually happens but once they threw Pippa into the mix and kept forcing all the fake drama it was I knew this show was DOA. A damn shame.
Pros:
-Great cast that actually has chemistry.
-Decent/Good acting.
-Has some genuinely heartwarming moments at times.
Cons
-Fake drama by the buckets to the point where it gets physically uncomfortable. So yea just the writing in general.
-Kinda slow/boring at times.
You got a day to burn? yea binge it whatever.
6.5/10
Meh is all I can really say.
Very good return to form after a lopsided Season 2. I honestly watched this thinking it was the last season so since apparently it's not, great cause they did leave some stuff hangin'.
This is definitely one of the Marvel shows I've watched. The pacing was pretty good until episode 5 where it dove off a cliff and didn't come back. It felt like the writers got reminded the show only had 6 episodes after finishing ep 4 and they had to wrap it up in the most neck breaking way possible. A shame really cause I really liked the cast.
The most I can say it's that it's "fine" it has most of necessary the parts there (Ewan and Hayden) but something is seemingly missing (probably some soul) so the show just rings hollow to me. A real shame cause this is the first Star Wars project I mustered the energy to watch since TRoS but I probably should have stayed in my cave. A shame really cause I really wanted this to be good. People asking for a second season are delusional.
Definetly the hasty resolution I have come to expect from this show but hey, at least it wasn't a simulation!
And my GOD that dogfight sequence was amazing... This show ain't as cheap as you may think folks.
Upon rewatching there's some foreshadowing layered in here which I love: Chidi tells Eleanor that he wishes they've met on earth in different ways including "You come knocking on my office door asking for help with philosophy" which they indeed do in the finale!
Damn, my boy Chidi is ripped.
Hi, Emma. It's the year 2020. Are you still enjoying your nap?
I really must commend this show for showing the nuance needed to deal with these grey natured situations and not going all preachy for either side.
Ben left Darth Vader alive a second time. That's just irresponsible at this point. First time I can excuse due to the circumstances but the second time... come on man.
This might be a minor thing but it's really refreshing to see a show with such casual cursing, it really helps to capture the real way humans in this kind of environment actually talk and not be like "oh fiddlesticks my co-anchor got fired!"
Real fun episode, gotta stop leaving Zari and Mick in the bench though.
Heh I guess i only took 4 episodes for me to get annoyed at this show this time.
Honestly Ramsey is such a cringy character and his motivations are complete whack. "argh, none of my cures work and I can't get dark matter, I guess the only way to save people is to scare people and kill em' to get their adrenaline filled blood" I mean who writes this shit? And we're supposed to stomach this guy for a whole season?
This episode was a prime example of the inconsistencies in Barry's running that have plagued this show from the start: "Oh no Frost he has one of the doctors by the neck! I certainly cannot run super fast to pry him off and imprison him in Star Labs, I'll just plead to him to not do it. Oh no! he has killed him and jumped out the window... guess we lost him"
Finally, the whole Crisis thing is getting old already and what makes it even worse is that we know Barry isn't actually gonna die which makes much of the events this season so far moot.
We get it CW, muslims are harmless... relax. We don't need this show becoming Supergirl 2.0.
Nothing like a good Sagan speech to get a bit of hope for humanity back.
Solid opener. The physics/tech gobbledygook was a bit over the top even for my taste. 2 ton cars are flying into the black hole but not the people? sure, but it's a minor gripe. I'm concerned with that Ramsey guy cause if that is gonna be the main villain hohoo this season is in troubled waters already. Anyways hoping this season doesn't spiral into mind numbing chaos like the last few. You got the benefit of the doubt from me again Flash, don't let me down.
For fucks sake poor Steve keeps getting the short end of the stick.
Nobody:
Flash Writing Staff: More B/C plots? Got it!
Oh yea remember that Icicle shit we had for an episode? Well here you have it again and we're gonna fix it with the laziest Deus Ex ever but immediately kill this new character. Oh and you're supposed to care.
The only remotely interesting going on this season is the Eobard thing and even that is getting dull... they introduced some new BS concepts then proceed to not expand at all (Negative Speed Force? Yea they don't need to know anything else about that let's just clutter the episode with garbage no one cares about). Poor Nora's been reduced to a daddy issues, tantrum throwing child. At this point I can only see her dying now. This episode is so batshit that you find yourself agreeing with IRIS. Great job!
Just put this season out of it's misery already.
How did it all go so wrong? Eobard went from ruthless calculated killer to relationship adviser in 5 short seasons. What a joke!
Take a minute to analyze the great writing in this show and let it sink in that Maya died cause Adventurer/Rock Climber Nash Wells didn't have a longer rope.
It was a good ending. Even knowing Eleanor was gonna be the last to leave I personally would have preferred if she would have become the head of The Good Place especially since they had Michael resign to become a human so it kinda bothered me when they decided to not mention who took over, and eventually when he came back it would have been a good parallel to the first episode (as cheesy as it would have been). Even when she went she didn't really convince me that she was actually ready to move on cause she seemed to be the only one with the drive to actually stay there. Did Michael actually keep his memories or not? Jason's exit was kinda watered down with that unnecessary extra appearance but hey whatever. I think in retrospect I would have preferred this season to be about this new system and them ironing out the kinks instead of the time jump even if the ending was the same cause personally the earlier half of this season was kind of a slog.
I'm ready for this nightmare to end
Thank you Barry for this meta line that encapsulated this finale so well.
More cicada shit? Got it. Weird resolutions with little to no context? got it. Selective timeline alterations? got it.
Let's be honest guys the only saving grace this episode had was the Eobard scene (yea that thing we actually cared about that kept being treated like a Z plot. remember?) and even that got ruined cause they rewinded it.Cicada has to be the worst Villain so far, just completely unlikable even as a villain, made worse by the GraceCada version we got later. The plot point that kept ending but never did till some time wimey bullshit. Cisco decided to take the cure without getting a second opinion? yea sure. Why would Nora even disappear? none of the events that brought her to that point were changed in a manner that would make her disappear.
7 for the ep just for Eobard and the angry helicopter sounds. 6 for the season, I hope the supposed writing staff shakeup we're due for next season brings some soul back to this show.
Marvel doing dark stories with their characters? A welcome surprise. I love Doctor Strange and seeing him implode from his own vices was really cool to see. I don't however understand how in this particular one they jumped to him and Christine already being lovers since at the point of his crash in the movie they weren't a (formal) thing.
Count em that's two (2) dead teenagers so far. But seriously it shows that this show is not afraid of having stakes which I find refreshing after so many of CWs stake-less shows (which I fear this will become by S2). I do think Henry is not really dead, it would be weird if they wasted the time that they did taking us through the journey of discovering his powers and the struggle with his dad for nothing. Also he's clearly the only one that could actually stand his ground against Brainwave (c'mon we all know Courtney had luck). But hey maybe I'm wrong.
I did find it a bit ironic than they made a pretty sloppy girlboss scene with Leia and her shitty cousin and then immediately rope her into a damsel in distress subplot. The rest was fine considering this is the first SW content I've watched since TRoS incident.
Man that was a clusterfucky way to end this solid show. I don't know if this was another case of fandom over-analyzing and setting themselves up for disappointment or if the writers really had no idea how to close storylines. I can understand some open ended setup stuff like Agatha being depowered and White Vision (and even that was pretty rushed) but to get no resolution for almost anything is just lazy. Nothing for Monica, nothing for Faietro, nothing for Darcy or Jimmy hell I cringed hard when Wanda walked past all the people she tortured for weeks and apologized to MONICA. Also, Wanda somehow learned to make runes and reverse uno'd Agatha basically in what was basically a deus ex so unless this is some avatar state shit where old knowledge is manifested without her understanding it that scene makes no sense.
That being said it's still a solid opener to Phase 4 and hopefully the rest of this year's lineup is good as well. Also, I'm 100% on board with the new outfit, Lizzie looks killer.
"The real Mephisto was the friends we made along the way."
