Here are some shows that I have watched or have been watching

  • Fringe (S04)

    • I’m at episode 9 right now
      I'm really liking

      how they interact with characters from season 1, and from alternate universe

  • Amazing Stories 1985 (S01)

    • This show won some Emmys, right? Somehow it feels like a kid’s show. I was expecting it to be tonally more like 1959’s Twilight Zone, but it doesn’t seem so. Maybe I should adjust my approach to it.

  • Impractical Jokers (S01)

    • I’ve finished the season, and it’s definitely up there as a comedy show. I still feel weird / scared about some of the pranks, e.g. randomly eating people’s food at a Chinese restaurant, but they are hilarious.

  • What We Do In the Shadows (S03)

    • The first 2 seasons were okay-ish, but it seems like the 3rd season is way funnier. The jokes are funnier whenever Matt Berry is involved

  • Castlevania Nocturne (S01)

    • It was suddenly over. I’m just not feeling it. Just like the other Castlevania shows.

  • Love, Death & Robots (S01)

    • Just finished the first episode… it looks pretty. Not sure about the writing yet.

  • Gunbuster (S01)

    • Finally finished all the 6 episodes. I can see it as a prototype for other more bombastic mecha shows like Gurrenn Lagann or Evangelion. It started out low key, then undergo a sudden tonal shift to darker tone.

  • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (S05)

    • Netflix really hurt the season by splitting it into two parts. I’ve just finished watching the episodes where they defeated the invisible zombie guy and started to fight the feng shui geezer. It’s still really good, I still prefer Jolyne’s story arc to Giovanna’s. I wonder if they’d eventually do a Steel Ball Run anime.

  • Oppenheimer (2023)

    • I’m amazed at how much I’m liking it. Somehow social media buzz was making it to sound like a jingoistic nuclear proponent movie. But it’s not, it’s a story about Oppenheimer’s feeling about atomic weapons, the slimy politicians and physicists who became slimy, and surprisingly around half of the movie is about McCarthyan red scare witch hunt.

That’s the recap of my week, how about yours? What have you been watching last week?

  •  cwagner   ( @cwagner@beehaw.org ) 
    3•7 months ago

    Love, Death & Robots

    Some episodes fall flat, but there are a lot of really cool shorts in that series.

    Fringe

    Amazing show, watched it twice, once by myself and then later again with my wife.

    Currently, we are rewatching Continuum. It’s decent, but not as good as I remember. There are quite some writing issues and logic sometimes goes out the window.

    We watched 3 episodes of “The Old Man”, but stopped because it was too much of an action show. We might check out “Blue Eye Samurai” on Netflix, a bunch of people on a Metal Discord were loving it and the trailer seems okay.

    Upcoming shows that we plan to watch once their respective seasons are done:

    • Invincible, we will wait till the whole season is out, as it’s weirdly split.
    • Vigil is returning for Season 2, typical slow British crime drama mystery show, with tons of well-known people because there are only like 50 or so British actors doing these shows ;)
    • Fargo, slightly comedic seasonal crime drama anthology, is returning for a 5th season. The last 4 were amazing, so I have high hopes for this one as well.
    • Slow Horses, an off beat spy drama about bad spies. Not a comedy, though it has its moments. 3rd seasons of a show that is very much character driven.
    • For All Mankind S04, we only recently started watching it. The series feels a bit aimless, but has very strong acting and characters, which carries the often weak writing.
    • Reacher S02 is easy watching, funny and over the top action.