Reacher S2….I think I preferred it when he worked alone but I’m not gonna complain with Serinda Swan.
Definitely a different feel from season 1, but still enjoyable. Kicking the hood is a visual I'll never forget.
I cannot watch Reacher S2 as it is just a vehicle to glorify his violence. Hell, that was Reacher S1 after episode 3 (or maybe 2). Suspension of disbelief and all that, but having worked in an environment in which violence was casually promoted and endorsed, I can't see Reacher S2 for anything but that.
My main gripe about Reacher is that they are making him kind of boring by not giving him even some of the few weaknesses Lee Child gave him. e.g. his dislike of driving and how he is genuinely bad at it.
I made it halfway through the season and - even acknowledging violence is a large part of the Reacher universe - didn't want to continue for just this reason.
Shogun had 9 million views in its first 6 days, a record for Hulu. https://thestreamable.com/news/shog...ulu-how-to-watch-the-series-with-a-free-trial
The Signal on Netflix was right up my alley. 4 episode miniseries, about 1 hour per episode, and just a really tight story that was well told. Enough twists and turns to keep me interested and the acting was stellar. This is the second thing I've watched with Peri Baumeister, Sleeping Dog was another German Netflix series she was stellar in last year, and if she was a primarily English speaking actress she would be a huge star. I watched with the regular English subtitles but actually kept up with a bit of the German.
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Masters of the Air was brilliant from beginning to end and earned its place with Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Just a beautifully brutal show.
Watched the first episode of "The Brothers Sun" on Netflix and it was fun. We;ll watch the full eight hours.
So X-Men '97 is kind of good? Certainly better and more interesting than I thought it had any hope of being after 25 years.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/welcome-to-wrexham-season-3 Welcome to Wrexham season 3 release date The past two seasons of Welcome to Wrexham debuted during the fall TV season after the previous soccer season ended. Season 1, which mostly covered the 2021-22 National League season, aired in late August 2022, and season 2 debuted in September of this year after the 2022-23 Wrexham season ended. But for season 3, the showrunners are throwing us a bit of a curveball. Instead of a fall kickoff, season 3 will be released on FX on Thursday, April 18 and arrive on Hulu the following day (Fri. April 19).
Winter Anime Round-up Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ~ Madhouse I picked up a subscription to Crunchyroll in the fall largely based on the hype for this series, and it somehow exceeded that hype. The hook is that it's a fantasy series that starts after the demon king has been defeated. The elf mage, Frieren, of the hero's party has an almost infinitely larger life span than the human members of the party and must grapple with loss and what that 10 year journey meant for her. It's a slow burn often focusing on small moments and interactions, but when the anime does big action set-pieces, they are fantastic. 10/10 The Apothecary Diaries ~ OLM/Toho Maomao, the adopted daughter of an apothecary, is kidnapped and forced into indentured work in the rear palace (housing for the emperor's concubines). She quickly distinguishes herself by solving mysteries with her knowledge of medicines and poisons. Very fun detective-like story, with a great main character. 9/10 Shangri-La Frontier ~ C2C In a near future where fully-immersive VR games are the norm, a high-school student who loves beating "trash" games (e.g., broken, glitchy games) decides to try to popular AAA MMO game, Shangri-La Frontier. His skills and unorthodox approach quickly give him access to a unique scenario and the unwanted attention of all the other players. That description probably doesn't sell this much, but this anime is hilarious and gets a lot about video games and gamers right and has been a joy to watch every week. 9/10 I feel pretty lucky to have picked up all three of these that ran through both fall and winter seasons and am worried spring will be bland without them. Others: Solo Leveling ~ A-1 Power fantasy, where main character goes from weakest to elite due to his life becoming a literal video game. This is just okay. Cool action, but lousy character development. 7/10 Metallic Rouge ~ Bones Sci-fi where a super-powered nean (android) is on a mission to destroy other neans who are seeking to free all neans and overthrow humanity (maybe?). Very cool animation, but the story is near incomprehensible to follow from week-to-week. Maybe easier if binging the 13 episodes. 6/10 The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic ~ Shin Ei/Add Isekai where a kid gets accidentally transferred to a fantasy world with his two classmates who are expected to be heroes. Turns out he has special healing magic in this world, though. This was okay for what it is. It's not deep or thoughtful in any way, but it's enjoyable. 7/10 Ishura ~ Passione Fantasy where demon king has been defeated and now humanity is vying for someone to take the helm as hero of the world, or something. Like Metallic Rouge, the story was all over the place. They introduced a ton of characters and killed a lot of them off . In the last 5 minutes of the final episode, they show a flashback that explains what's been going on and that pretty much the whole season was a preamble for something else. 5/10
Three episodes into 3 Body Problem on Netflix and I'm utterly intrigued but my ultimate reaction so far is "huh?"
Damn The Regime is becoming a hard watch. Even Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts and Hugh Grants obvious effort cannot hide that this is essentially an Armando Iannucci show without anyone of the talent of Iannucci involved. The attempts at satire are so flat and uninspired.
So...when I watch the VOD version of Night Court and Extended Family on YouTube TV, instead of the DVR of the episodes, something bizarre happens. Night Court has all the commercial in English, but Extended Family, which has a much less diverse cast, has all the commercials in Spanish. I don't get it, and I'm sure it's somehow related to being in Lubbock, but I can't figure out what part of the algorithm is doing that.
Invincible is honestly consistently one of my favorite things to watch every week. My only complaint is that an eight episode season is way too short. Only consolation is that it appears we might get season three in 2024 as well.
The meta commentary about the difficulty of animating things and the shortcuts they take had me howling. They've made just enough tweaks from the comics to take one of my favorite stories ever and turn it into something even better.
Constellation certainly finished their season. I'm still not sure exactly what they were doing, or what they set up if they get a second season, but it kept my interest the entire time. Just now starting the first episode of A Gentleman in Moscow. Hopefully it gets the major points of the book across while taking advantage of what the TV medium offers. The cast looks phenomenal.