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Gen V Season 2. Also checking out Black Rabbit, and catching up on some Chef’s Table.
Ooooh how’s s2? I’m waiting till it’s all out to binge, I thought s1 was good fun
I watched the first three episodes of Gen V last night (three episode premiere) and it was generally good, but a little bit of whiplash.
The first episode did a recap of season 1, but season 2 takes things in what seems like a different direction compared to what was set up at the end of season 1.
I think the passing of season 1 actor Chance Perdomo may be part of the reason, but also because the events of The Boys (season 4) largely continue the overall storyline and when we get back Gen V it’s time to just pickup where The Boys left off, which means a lot of pieces moved around, but Gen V was just frozen until we got back to it.
We needed a “this is what Gen V was up to during the events of The Boys” episode that we didn’t get. But… since Chance Perdomo passed away you can’t show us, you have to tell us, and it makes the start of the season a little weird.
Thanks mate! I was wondering how they’d manage him passing… looks good hope you enjoy the season!
Still watching Alien: Earth. Still enjoying it, despite the same lazy writing flaws continuing to pop up. If anyone else is still watching, feel free to share your thoughts since I am fully caught up.
I’m also watching the second season of Wednesday, which is pretty all over the place and already feels like its had two conclusions despite the fact I’ve only watched 5/8 episodes. This season also feels quite desensitised to violence/death, which I know is the show’s thing but there are so many people dying without any sort of black comedy angle that I am actually finding it off-putting. The show expects me to care about the lives of a minority of plot-armoured individuals whilst simultaneously murdering scores of people simply to progress the plot. Callousness without wit is not entertaining.
I will finish out this season, then I’m out. It’s just not appealing to me. I will say Timothy Oliphant is a bright spot though. They need to give him more to do.
Timothy Oliphant is definitely delivering a great performance, but i feel like him having limited screen time benefits the character as it helps sustain some of the mystique of what he is scheming.
Picked up MGM+ on the cheap and have been watching “Beacon 23”. This show deserves much better than a fringe streaming channel.
I am about halfway through Haunted Hotel. I enjoy Will Forte’s bit of flair to things, even in voice acting. It’s been fun enough as an animated zone-out-but-still-chuckle sort of show, in my opinion!
Keeping along with S2 of Peacemaker after having just binged S1. I’m liking it a lot, and am not necessarily a fan of the superhero universes and their things. Yet I still enjoy the cast and storyline of this!
Just finished this and it was great!
I am a huge fan of everything Ingelsby does (Mare of Easttown, Into the Furnace) this is so far has been another entry into his list of excellence.
I am on episode 11 of S2 and it still top tier. Of all the shit that has been Disney Star Wars, This is not one of those pieces of shit.
Finally I watched Aka Charlie Sheen. Yes, he is an absolute utter fucking train wreck, But this documentary is so engrossing. It’s really impressive how well it brings you into the madness that is Charlie Sheen’s life. It’s wild how interconnected Hollywood is Charlie Sheen grew up with Sean Penn. He went to the same high school that George Clooney went to and CharlieSheen‘s early life. He spent a year and a half living on the set of Apocalypse now. It really is worth watching.
Just watched, Black Rabbit. It was released on netflix a couple days ago. Put it on when I got home from wedding last night drunk and couldnt stop watching. Literally took some adderall at 1am to finish watching the whole miniseries. Its prolly one of the best written, best produced, and best directed shows I’ve seen in a very long time. For movies or TV. No joke even the soundtrack made me google every song the music is thru the whole show is so fuckin good.
It stars Jason Bateman and Jude Law who both play very different characters than they normally get cast for but they fuckin kill it. But for me that is what should be expected from any starring or costarring protagonists. What sets a show above the rest is when there doesnt seem to be a single miss casting the entire show. If the character in the show is written to be a junkie, they casted an actor who physically looks like they spent months prepping for the role by booting up real life speedballs and sleeping in the gutter.
The story is hyperbolic to anything that normally happens in real life, but it is so spot on to the absolute chaos and familiarity amongst staff, good or bad, that it takes to keep the wheels from falling off an established well known restaurant in any metropolitan culinary/hospitality market. To have that love hate familiarity to come across the screen as strongly as it did can only be credited to the performances by every actor in any scene cuz it would only take one actor in one scene to miss for the whole emmersive feel to fall apart.
Sparknotes w/o spoilers: Imagine The Departed crossed with Brothers (2024) but instead of using the “started from the bottom fight to be on top” trope, its more of a “keeping everything from falling apart after you make it off the bottom” kind of trope. So the same mood, theme and feel as The Departed minus the plot structure/plot twists and centered around a New York City restaurateur and his degenerate brother instead of Boston cops and mafia.
So many shows seem to try so hard to break the next Game of Thrones mold that you can see its affect in the writing by pushing for more than what the show was created to handle. It doesnt hurt shows necessarily, its just obvious when it happens. The noticeable difference in a show like Black Rabbit, im guessing, comes from it being created by relatively new to the scene screen writers. Zach Baylin has like 3 writing credits (King Richard, Creed III and I think another upcoming release other than Black Rabbit) and the other creator is Zach’s wife, Kate Susman who doesnt even have a wikipedia page. The priority they put into creating the best project of a great story is so refreshing over all the rebooted/sequeled/prequel stories created to be next the great project.
