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Just finished adolescence.
Really great mini-series that puts focus on what a lot of young men today have to grow up with and how it can cause them to become radicalized misogynists, or more simply put, red pilled.
If you have young kids you should watch this series.
Really great mini-series that puts focus on what a lot of young men today have to grow up with and how it can cause them to become radicalized misogynists, or more simply put, red pilled.
If you have young kids you should watch this series.
Just finished Invincible. I'm a bit lukewarm on it. Like it handles mature themes in the scope a non traditional superhero narrative in a strong way and the character work is usually fairly strong. This feels like a different approach to what The Boys sets out to do, in subverting the superhero genre. This isn't a universe where the "heroes" are actually villains (for the most part) but it's similarly dark and even more violent.
But I think that's part of the rub for me. Invincible, as a character, is essentially Superman if Superman's adversity was turned up to 11. I get that the point of much of the show is testing not the invincibility of Mark's body, but of his spirit and convictions. That's not new ground for the superhero genre. The distinction is that Invincible and the other heroes have to face what the MCU would call an "Avengers level threat" every episode. Ranging from godzilla level threats on the low end to threats that would make Thanos blush.
I don't mind gore and violence and I understand that Kirkman was going for severe trauma and stakes beyond what we could fathom in the real world, but the emphasis on violent slaughter of innocent civilians in so many scenes really becomes exhausting at some point in tandem with how this show never leaves the heroes any real time to breathe before it's time to take on the latest mega threat of the week. By the time I got to the mid point of season 3 I felt just worn out and disinterested in seeing more of the same.
A superhero that faces no adversity is boring. A superhero that exists solely to endure progressively insane hardships and adversity, it turns out-at least for me-is also boring. Yeah season 3 showed cracks in Invincible's moral convictions but on the whole there's no concern that Mark is ever seriously going to turn super villain. So his story ultimately becomes long form misery porn. And after making myself stomach the last two episodes, I'm not sure I have it in me to watch future seasons.
It's still an impressively made animated superhero show and I believe it has merit, I've just reached a point where I personally don't have much interest left in continuing.
But I think that's part of the rub for me. Invincible, as a character, is essentially Superman if Superman's adversity was turned up to 11. I get that the point of much of the show is testing not the invincibility of Mark's body, but of his spirit and convictions. That's not new ground for the superhero genre. The distinction is that Invincible and the other heroes have to face what the MCU would call an "Avengers level threat" every episode. Ranging from godzilla level threats on the low end to threats that would make Thanos blush.
I don't mind gore and violence and I understand that Kirkman was going for severe trauma and stakes beyond what we could fathom in the real world, but the emphasis on violent slaughter of innocent civilians in so many scenes really becomes exhausting at some point in tandem with how this show never leaves the heroes any real time to breathe before it's time to take on the latest mega threat of the week. By the time I got to the mid point of season 3 I felt just worn out and disinterested in seeing more of the same.
A superhero that faces no adversity is boring. A superhero that exists solely to endure progressively insane hardships and adversity, it turns out-at least for me-is also boring. Yeah season 3 showed cracks in Invincible's moral convictions but on the whole there's no concern that Mark is ever seriously going to turn super villain. So his story ultimately becomes long form misery porn. And after making myself stomach the last two episodes, I'm not sure I have it in me to watch future seasons.
It's still an impressively made animated superhero show and I believe it has merit, I've just reached a point where I personally don't have much interest left in continuing.
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Just started Goliath on Prime. How I’ve never come across this before idk but I love it. Top notch acting. BBT & William Hurt in the same show?
Finally gave Shrinking another chance. My debilitating obsession with Severance started because I couldn't get into Shrinking right away.
I think my problem is this show suffers from the same kind of atmosphere you get from Ted Lasso. Where it's a comedy with higher than usual production values, fewer jokes per minute than a sitcom, smarter episodic writing and some heavy dramatic moments sprinkled throughout but a good chunk of the dialogue ends up feeling surreal. Like authentic dialgoue and character interaction but adjacent. A lot of sitcoms lean heavy into this vibe of "people don't really talk or act like this, it's just for the audience's amusement" but shows like Lasso and Shrinking try to present a more realistic and grounded form of conversational comedy where the characters are too quirky to be realistic but not enough of a caricature to be excusably absurd. I'm trying my best to describe it and this is the best I can come up with. Something about that tone turned me off on the first go around.
I think as the actors starting getting more comfortable in their roles, this dynamic wasn't as pronounced which let me enjoy it more. This might be one of my favorite Harrison Ford roles outside of my namesake. He's a delight every time he's on screen. I don't know that I'd call this one of the great comedies of all time by any means but it's a decent comfort comedy with some solid dramatic writing.
I think my problem is this show suffers from the same kind of atmosphere you get from Ted Lasso. Where it's a comedy with higher than usual production values, fewer jokes per minute than a sitcom, smarter episodic writing and some heavy dramatic moments sprinkled throughout but a good chunk of the dialogue ends up feeling surreal. Like authentic dialgoue and character interaction but adjacent. A lot of sitcoms lean heavy into this vibe of "people don't really talk or act like this, it's just for the audience's amusement" but shows like Lasso and Shrinking try to present a more realistic and grounded form of conversational comedy where the characters are too quirky to be realistic but not enough of a caricature to be excusably absurd. I'm trying my best to describe it and this is the best I can come up with. Something about that tone turned me off on the first go around.
I think as the actors starting getting more comfortable in their roles, this dynamic wasn't as pronounced which let me enjoy it more. This might be one of my favorite Harrison Ford roles outside of my namesake. He's a delight every time he's on screen. I don't know that I'd call this one of the great comedies of all time by any means but it's a decent comfort comedy with some solid dramatic writing.
