Have been enjoying Invincible season two but how can we already have a mid-season break after four episodes? Does this have to do with the labor issues/strikes in the movie & TV industry or was it always going to be like this?
It was because of the strikes. It got delayed a couple of times and then they announced the split season just a month or so before release. No exact date on the second part yet but Robert Kirkman has said early 2024.
J.K. Simmons may never get the credit he deserves for how fucking good he is in this voice role #Invincible pic.twitter.com/ZAKKSiGD5z— prank sinatra (@KyloCool630) November 24, 2023 Voice cast is very good in general (I also love Gillian Jacobs as Atom Eve) but Simmons, Yeun and Oh especially stand out. Some of Oh's work this season has been fantastic.
I never see anyone talk about them, but does anyone else really love the Mauler twins? Like whenever they show up in an episode I'm always like "Aw fuck yeah more Mauler twins content" pic.twitter.com/sI6A3dvcC1— Schaffrillas (@Schaffrillas) November 25, 2023 That's what they are there for! Not sure how they are in the comics, but in the TV show they are clearly used as comic relief, even if and when they take part in more serious plot lines.
They're the most unchanged characters from the comics, along with Allan. A lot of characters got updates/modernized, but the Mauler's are exactly what they were in the comics. The whole bit about knowing one is the clone was straight out of a comic issue.
I'm rewatching the Jon Lovitz season of NewsRadio, and it's better than I thought when it happened. No replacement for Phil Hartman was going to be good enough, but he was about as good as they could have done.
Frasier has gotten pretty good near the end of the season. It's still not on par with the original series, but the characters and the writers seem to have settled in on how they all fit together.
Not really TV related, and not a movie review, so I picked this spot for the Catherine O'Hara part of Macaulay Culkin's Walk of Fame ceremony.
Slow Horses is obscenely good this season. They set the bar high in the first season and it's just getting better. I'm going to have to hop on reading the books soon.
A Murder at the End of the World is finally over. It's okay. They didn't recapture the magic of The OA, but it was a decent enough story told in a quirky manner until the dud of a finale.
To me it was a show that somehow got worse with each new episode, culminating in that almost embarrassing finale. Not great and a waste of a great cast. Clive Owen can be an electrifying performer, including on serialized television (check out the Knick). The way he was used here alone was a crime. My favorite moment of the entire series had already occurred within fifteen minutes of the opening episode.
I did a quick search and didn't see anything about Reservation Dogs, which surprises me (unless of course I just missed it, which would NOT surprise me). Anyway, this series is trending toward being one of my favorites, ever. I'm only part way through season 2 and it just gets better and better.
Enjoying season 2 of Reacher, and they really got me with the friend surprise this episode. I didn't put it together, at all, despite the fact that they were in Boston.
Slow Horses was excellent, again. The season 4 teaser at the end tossed in a really fun hook for whenever it airs. I'm really enjoying season 2 of What If? as well. They've had some misses with the Marvel shows, but the two season twos that they've done have been excellent.
Why I still buy physical media I've got the same 4k blu-ray player mentioned in this article, but I waited around for a sale and got it for $350. That usually happens 2-3 times per year for that particular model.
Slow Horses greenlit for season 5 Mick Herron is going to have to speed up his writing process if they keep greenlighting seasons.
Extended Family is off to a decent start. I'm not sure how long they can run with the gimmick of the show, but it's nice to have a standard sitcom again.
We've just started, and got a big kick out of a joke in the first episode. Robert Patrick's character is told Reacher and Neagley have checked into a hotel under the names Sarah Connor and Starlin Castro, and he readily identifies Castro but says he "Doesn't give a shit" who Sarah Connor is. That's gold.
Fool Me Once was too convenient by half. I haven't read a Harlan Coben book, but if this kind of ending where the whole story is just a lazy unreliable narrator then I probably won't. It was a compelling show until the last couple of episodes as it felt they were "revealing" things that shouldn't have been hidden and then the final reveal is that we've been lied to the entire time and some parts were intentionally told out of sequence. It should have been really good, but especially that final episode was a major let down.
Monarch has been really good, maybe better than the movies. I'm almost caught up in time for the finale this week, and I've got to say I like the leads in each of the locations/times. Anna Sawai is so good that I think I'm going to finally get around to watching Pachinko soon as it's been on my list but just not quite gotten up to the top yet. Joe Pickett has also been especially good. The Wyatt/Kurt Russell role has been intriguing. It took me too long to realize that the Verdugo character was being played by Mirelly Taylor and not Rose Byrne.