Well, I know what I will be watching this evening!
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And this is why: I wanted to see how they handled her realization of how badly she messed up. Apparently, she’s not realizing it at all yet. She needs a story arc where she learns about her own privilege and that she is the one who owes a huge apology.
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This is why I’m not planning to watch. The mess at the end of the last season was the second time she’s done this. The friend’s wedding episode was really bad, and apparently she doesn’t learn from past mistakes. Or maybe she just doesn’t care about other people and will tell everything she knows - about anyone - just to make an audience laugh/make herself successful. Either way, that’s not a character I want to watch.
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Finally watching Cobra Kai, and I’m enjoying it. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s well-done and a fun revisit of a classic 80s film series.
William Zabka does a great job carrying the emotional punch (hahaha) of the show.
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Good summary of a lot of why i too lost interest in that show. Her manager is a great character, but the rest of it feels contrived and stagey to me.
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I’m picking up Raised by Wolves again to give it a second try. I hear the second season is the payoff for all the confusion in season 1.
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There is a Season 2? How did that happen?
Wikipedia says it was picked up for a second season early during the first season. Apparently, it’s getting a much higher rating for the second season on Rotten Tomatoes, also.
All I can say is Marcus is really going off the deep end, and I am here for it.
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It doesn’t seem like the kind of production where they give a fuck what anybody thinks, they’re just doing their own thing 
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Missed this the first time around, but got to it in our latest round of Shakespeare viewing:
(Tennant and Tate in Much Ado About Nothing)
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Severance on AppleTV+ is interesting so far.
Do not go into it thinking that it will be funny because Adam Scott is in it. It’s a very dark, very disturbing contemplation of the dehumanizing nature of corporate work. The comedy that is there is very black and used to highlight how dismal the character’s situations are, not to lighten the mood.
It might sound from the above that I mean this all in a bad way, but I really don’t. I am digging what they are saying and how they are saying it. I am really looking forward to seeing where it goes and after hitting the end of the two released episodes I find myself thinking about it and wanting more.
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Cobra Kai is a fun show. I enjoy despite its ridiculous premise.
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Cobra Kai envisions a utopian version of America where everyone solves their disputes with good old-fashioned karate because guns do not exist.
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Yeah…I didn’t know anything about the show and tried to watch an episode this evening…I found it interesting but had to turn it off as I wasn’t in the mood for that type of show. I plan on watching it soon though.
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I just watched the finale today. I have to say that I had no interest in it at all before the word of mouth started taking off a few episodes in. Wow though, what a great run it turned out to be. James Gunn’s Troma background pays off in every scene, and the characters are all broken, but appealing. I know I should not like a show who’s lead character is a murderous facist, but darn it I can’t help myself.
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I’m just now starting Severance. I’m getting a strong Homecoming meets Devs vibe, so very high expectations.
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Yes, for sure. I am also getting a very “Resume with Monsters” feel. Not the Lovecraftian part, but the existential dread that comes from corporations as artificially animated inhuman entities, and the rituals that must be mindlessly performed to placate and appease them.
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Halfway through this, never read any of the books, only saw the first Tom Cruise movie. It’s serious but deeply silly, just a nudge from McGrubber territory. Reacher’s coolness is sooooo close to lampoon, he’s like Sherlock Holmes and Wolverine in the same Hulk body.
And is it just me, or is the guy playing him as slightly autistic?
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I totally hear you, and now that I’ve watched the first two episodes of this new season I feel able to respond.
I think they’re working toward what I had hoped, which is that there will be a reckoning. The seeds are being planted. Suzie is a phenomenal character, and she’s not being quiet about recognizing that selfishness and obliviousness.
Also, there’s a path forward with showing how it doesn’t actually harm Midge’s career in the long run to throw so many people in her life under the bus for the LOLs. After all, that is real history: jokes being told about marginalized people is the standard in every culture I know of. However, so far I’m not seeing enough evidence of that tack being taken.
The part that gives me pause is that there’s an undercurrent of suggesting that Mrs. Maisel is like Lenny Bruce, and so we’re supposed to understand that she’s just pushing boundaries that need pushing. But of course, that’s not true: Bruce punched up, whereas she’s punching down.
So, the jury’s still out, but the Jewish repartee is worth continuing to watch, for me. If she doesn’t start paying for her sins in the next few episodes, however, I’ll have to reassess.
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