Just watched The Punisher: One Last Kill. I liked it better when it was 13 episodes long, had Pilgrim and Jigsaw as the villains, and was called The Punisher Season 2.
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Um...series 1, episode 3, "Emancipation". That's a doozy of gender issues.
But otherwise, I quite like SG-1, though it could have ended about season 5, and should have ended about season 8.
The Boys S5E7
Oh boy, we're really racking up the body count of the important characters. Honestly, I much prefer these deaths over how they were done in the comics. I guess nobody is gonna be safe for the final episode
I honestly kinda feel bad for The Deep and Ashley. Their desperate attempts to survive has led them to The Deep falling deeper into self-hatred and Ashley losing that one voice of reasoning and becoming more insane.
Oh boy, we're really racking up the body count of the important characters. Honestly, I much prefer these deaths over how they were done in the comics. I guess nobody is gonna be safe for the final episode
I honestly kinda feel bad for The Deep and Ashley. Their desperate attempts to survive has led them to The Deep falling deeper into self-hatred and Ashley losing that one voice of reasoning and becoming more insane.
The Boys 5.7
Whelp I guess all the marbles are saved for the finale. Hate to say it but for a penultimate episode Kripke’s SN had this licked like a wet pussy. It shouldn’t be too difficult to surpass what followed though, considering the last minute Covid rewrites. Right? Hopefully?
Whelp I guess all the marbles are saved for the finale. Hate to say it but for a penultimate episode Kripke’s SN had this licked like a wet pussy. It shouldn’t be too difficult to surpass what followed though, considering the last minute Covid rewrites. Right? Hopefully?
The same person who wrote that wrote a similar episode of Season 1 of TNG; Code of Honour which is even fucking worse than Emancipation.
The Boys S5E7
Could've sworn Homelander had already tracked down The Boys' hideout in the previous episode. Was that a different but exactly the same hideout?
Two episodes left on the show and quite out of nowhere they decide to try and replicate Soldier Boy's depowering "tit blast" by repeatedly cooking Kimiko in a radiation chamber. It's unclear if it works. If it doesn't, that was a waste of an episode; if it does, it'll be the biggest ass-pull since Birnam "marched" on Dunsinane.
There's always stuff that I like. The Deep's unraveling is good schadenfreude, Oh Father is a great if belated addition, Ashley's self torture is always fun. But a lot of it is just going through the motions. Homelander chucking Soldier Boy back into the fridge just feels routine; so does Hughie and Butcher getting caught, again, only to escape, again, while acknowledging Butcher's darkness, again.
Now fair is fair, they do kill off a main character, for once. Hard to feel emotional about it though when there was little else for the character left to do after a couple of very meandering seasons. If this is what The Boys' version of Empire Strikes Back looks like, consider me underwhelmed and less than hyped for the finale.
Could've sworn Homelander had already tracked down The Boys' hideout in the previous episode. Was that a different but exactly the same hideout?
Two episodes left on the show and quite out of nowhere they decide to try and replicate Soldier Boy's depowering "tit blast" by repeatedly cooking Kimiko in a radiation chamber. It's unclear if it works. If it doesn't, that was a waste of an episode; if it does, it'll be the biggest ass-pull since Birnam "marched" on Dunsinane.
There's always stuff that I like. The Deep's unraveling is good schadenfreude, Oh Father is a great if belated addition, Ashley's self torture is always fun. But a lot of it is just going through the motions. Homelander chucking Soldier Boy back into the fridge just feels routine; so does Hughie and Butcher getting caught, again, only to escape, again, while acknowledging Butcher's darkness, again.
Now fair is fair, they do kill off a main character, for once. Hard to feel emotional about it though when there was little else for the character left to do after a couple of very meandering seasons. If this is what The Boys' version of Empire Strikes Back looks like, consider me underwhelmed and less than hyped for the finale.
"Code of Honor", also ep 3 of season 1, though she was only the co-writer for that. But...yeah. Would have thought people would have learned the first time to not do that.
Finished season 1 of Tales From the Crypt. Keep in mind with this ranking/brief thoughts on each episode that I didn't dislike any of the episodes other than maybe the last one.
1 (Episode 3). Dig That Cat, He's Real Gone-Fun Joe Pantoliano performance, with a very solid twist and great dark humor throughout the episode.,
2 (Episode 1). The Man Who Was Death-William Sadler was a lot of fun, and the theme of how it approached the idea of the death penalty made for a very surprising choice of first episode, with a solid ending.,
3. (Episode 2) And All Through the House-Tales From the Crypt Christmas episode, and about as macabre as you would want.,
4 (Episode 5) Lover Come Hack to Me-Great ending, with a decent story throughout, but it did feel a bit loose at times in terms of trying to actually tell the plot.,
5 (Episode 6) Collection Completed-Great ending, with a very solid M. Emmett Walsh performance, but too much of this episode was just watching one person be driven off the deep end by his wife's craziness, with way too long of a wait for the payoff.,
6 (Episode 4). Only Sin Deep-Decent performance by Lea Thompson, but the episode felt a bit generic at times, and the ending was a fair bit unsatisfactory to me.
1 (Episode 3). Dig That Cat, He's Real Gone-Fun Joe Pantoliano performance, with a very solid twist and great dark humor throughout the episode.,
2 (Episode 1). The Man Who Was Death-William Sadler was a lot of fun, and the theme of how it approached the idea of the death penalty made for a very surprising choice of first episode, with a solid ending.,
3. (Episode 2) And All Through the House-Tales From the Crypt Christmas episode, and about as macabre as you would want.,
4 (Episode 5) Lover Come Hack to Me-Great ending, with a decent story throughout, but it did feel a bit loose at times in terms of trying to actually tell the plot.,
5 (Episode 6) Collection Completed-Great ending, with a very solid M. Emmett Walsh performance, but too much of this episode was just watching one person be driven off the deep end by his wife's craziness, with way too long of a wait for the payoff.,
6 (Episode 4). Only Sin Deep-Decent performance by Lea Thompson, but the episode felt a bit generic at times, and the ending was a fair bit unsatisfactory to me.
Good Omens, "Season" 3
If I had a nickel for every Prime Video show that started in 2019 and is ending in 2026 with a messy and rushed final season... then I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, etc.
In this case, the show's third season is really a 90 minute special. After season two there was a lot of will they or won't they in the midst of all those allegations against Neil Gaiman. I don't quite follow the math of greenlighting a third season that's essentially three episodes stitched together, or keeping Gaiman as a writer for that matter. But the result is less than satisfying: somebody goes missing from Heaven, again, and the apocalypse looms close, again, and Aziraphale and Crowley have to kiss and make up, again. Only now they have half as long to do the dance, and we don't get any of those charming little vignettes of the two characters sidequesting throughout history.
Season two was already pretty half-baked, quickly put together from internet "minisodes" shot during the pandemic and the fumes of Michael Sheen and David Tennant's chemistry. Everything else was padding. Season three feels even more throwaway, and the ending itself made the whole thing seem like a waste of time in retrospect.
If I had a nickel for every Prime Video show that started in 2019 and is ending in 2026 with a messy and rushed final season... then I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, etc.
In this case, the show's third season is really a 90 minute special. After season two there was a lot of will they or won't they in the midst of all those allegations against Neil Gaiman. I don't quite follow the math of greenlighting a third season that's essentially three episodes stitched together, or keeping Gaiman as a writer for that matter. But the result is less than satisfying: somebody goes missing from Heaven, again, and the apocalypse looms close, again, and Aziraphale and Crowley have to kiss and make up, again. Only now they have half as long to do the dance, and we don't get any of those charming little vignettes of the two characters sidequesting throughout history.
Season two was already pretty half-baked, quickly put together from internet "minisodes" shot during the pandemic and the fumes of Michael Sheen and David Tennant's chemistry. Everything else was padding. Season three feels even more throwaway, and the ending itself made the whole thing seem like a waste of time in retrospect.
I finished DD: Born Again Season 2, and what a crazy season! The ending is surprisingly fitting and I love the implication that the other Netflix street heroes will be coming back. Starting with Luke Cage.
Behind the scenes photos for Season 3 have Finn Jones and Mike Colter both spotted on-scene.
The Roast of Kevin Hart
First half of the 171 minute run time was better but The Rock was pretty good, effectively playing on the “daddy” angle. Gillis was kinda meh as host but had a few good jabs and got the job done well enough. Kevin kept the outro classy and closed on a high note. Top roasters imo: Jeff Ross as usual, Na’im Lynn, and Pete Davidson.
Dutton Ranch
Basically set up to be the ballad of Rip and Beth. After a wildfire destroys their Montana ranch, they head south to Texas to start over, and encounter some unruly characters that will surely stir up new drama. Chad Feehan is at the helm, who wrote a few episodes of Ray Donovan among other lesser known TV shows like Southland. This already is better than the other spinoff Marshals, by a good stretch. Establishes the setting and much of the supporting cast after two episodes and raises some uncertainty involving the stakes. There’s also enough distance from Yellowstone to feel like its own thing, outside of the main returning cast.
Main caveat so far, right off the bat they kinda glossed over the fact that Rip would’ve been in the hospital after all that smoke inhalation. Marshals writing is far weaker but had a similar instance and least got that right, if not much else.
First half of the 171 minute run time was better but The Rock was pretty good, effectively playing on the “daddy” angle. Gillis was kinda meh as host but had a few good jabs and got the job done well enough. Kevin kept the outro classy and closed on a high note. Top roasters imo: Jeff Ross as usual, Na’im Lynn, and Pete Davidson.
Dutton Ranch
Basically set up to be the ballad of Rip and Beth. After a wildfire destroys their Montana ranch, they head south to Texas to start over, and encounter some unruly characters that will surely stir up new drama. Chad Feehan is at the helm, who wrote a few episodes of Ray Donovan among other lesser known TV shows like Southland. This already is better than the other spinoff Marshals, by a good stretch. Establishes the setting and much of the supporting cast after two episodes and raises some uncertainty involving the stakes. There’s also enough distance from Yellowstone to feel like its own thing, outside of the main returning cast.
Main caveat so far, right off the bat they kinda glossed over the fact that Rip would’ve been in the hospital after all that smoke inhalation. Marshals writing is far weaker but had a similar instance and least got that right, if not much else.
Watched the Gina Carano vs Ronda Rousey "fight" and it lasted exactly 17 seconds. Whole thing could've been a gif. What a rip-off.
The Boys S5E7
Jesus christ what a snooze. I legit don't know how the finale could salvage this overdose of sleeping pills. This season officially sucks. One episode left of the whole series, yet everything's hanging in the air as if we were only halfway through. Boy, I sure am glad we had time for a couple of minutes of butt sniffing gags, and tangents about steakhouses and Billy Joel instead of completing any character arcs, building towards anything or escalating in any way. Great to see that we're still introducing new one-off characters in the second to last episode instead of using the already existing ones, which there are plenty. Such labyrinthine planning clearly went into plot points like "bombard Kimiko with radiation so she gains Soldier Boy's power" being introduced at the eleventh hour out of nowhere. And boy oh boy, that same monologue about how Butcher will destory everyone around him hits just right when I hear it for the 247th time. Frenchie's death was dumb and stupid and dumb.
I wasn't expecting great things, but I'm legit starting to wonder what the everloving fuck happened after season 3. This show's been nothing but wheelspinning ever since. Did they seriously not plan this out at all? They already had the source material, which they've used plenty of elements from, so it's not like they didn't have a blueprint for an ending. I am genuinely dreading the finale now.
Jesus christ what a snooze. I legit don't know how the finale could salvage this overdose of sleeping pills. This season officially sucks. One episode left of the whole series, yet everything's hanging in the air as if we were only halfway through. Boy, I sure am glad we had time for a couple of minutes of butt sniffing gags, and tangents about steakhouses and Billy Joel instead of completing any character arcs, building towards anything or escalating in any way. Great to see that we're still introducing new one-off characters in the second to last episode instead of using the already existing ones, which there are plenty. Such labyrinthine planning clearly went into plot points like "bombard Kimiko with radiation so she gains Soldier Boy's power" being introduced at the eleventh hour out of nowhere. And boy oh boy, that same monologue about how Butcher will destory everyone around him hits just right when I hear it for the 247th time. Frenchie's death was dumb and stupid and dumb.
I wasn't expecting great things, but I'm legit starting to wonder what the everloving fuck happened after season 3. This show's been nothing but wheelspinning ever since. Did they seriously not plan this out at all? They already had the source material, which they've used plenty of elements from, so it's not like they didn't have a blueprint for an ending. I am genuinely dreading the finale now.
The first two seasons of the show relied more on cycling through one-off writers and directors from prestige TV like The Sopranos, Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
Beginning with season three creator Eric Kripke (who also created Supernatural) started brining in writers, directors and actors who were either old collaborators from the Supernatural days or didn't even have previous experience. The show became a matter of routine and stagnated and was basically CW-fied.
Your Friends & Neighbors - Out East
Back to normal and then some after a very humdrum previous episode. Owen Ashe is drawing more heat than ever, and starting to make his compadres more nervous than ever. The broader supporting cast even gets up to some shenanigans of their own. Three to go, and things seem to be unfolding nicely enough.
Back to normal and then some after a very humdrum previous episode. Owen Ashe is drawing more heat than ever, and starting to make his compadres more nervous than ever. The broader supporting cast even gets up to some shenanigans of their own. Three to go, and things seem to be unfolding nicely enough.