I watched the 9-episode animated series Exploding Kittens on Netflix.
My normal habit wiith Netflix is to check Rotten Tomatoes before watching anything since you never know what you’re going to get. To my surprise, the show got good ratings, so I gave it ago, still with low expectations.
I got one-and-a-half chuckles each 30-minute episode. It’s attempts at irreverence are very tame. It’s jabs at pop and gaming culture are lame. Even so, I was mildly bemused enough to watch it all (over the course of 4 nights). How’s that for a recommendation?
Eventually (and that is a long eventually) I managed to finish The Mandalorian season 2.
Recently I have been taking it easy with regards to the FOMO related to series, movies and so on. The last two examples have been the last seasons of two series I used to binge on as soon as they released, like Cobra Kai and The Boys. Due to one leaving me a bit cold (CK) and one being so gory I cannot watch it with the kids about (TB; the girls are getting older, and by the time they have been long enough in bed that I know I will not wake them up, I am half asleep myself).
With Mando I feel a somehow similar vibe as with The Boys (without the gore). Some episodes feel a bit slow, and while it is a slow I can enjoy, I need a right frame of mind to endure it. If it is after 10 PM, that frame of mind enters a dangerous territory where I wake up in the sofa once or twice and I have to give it up. So this has lengtheneed the process somehow.
Anyway, this weekend was father’s day here in NZ, and after a nice picnic in the park with friends we came back mid afternoon; while the girls were washing my car as a treat and their mum was having a well deserved nap, I managed to finish the last three episodes of season 2, which I though were great.
Just a few comments that I will blur for spoilers:
-Bobba Fett? How? And how on Earth he gets his armour so clean for the last two episodes. I’m looking forward to his watching his own series. I knew he had one, but I was not sure if it was a prequel to the original trilogy.
-I had mixed feeling about the Luke Skywalker finale. Somehow his plough thorugh a gazillion dark troopers left me feeling a bit meh. I think the combat scenes could have been a bit better, showing a slight more of a struggle. His dad had way more presence in that corridor of Rogue One.
-Esposito is a delight. In anything he performs as.
-Pascal as well, but in a different way. With so little, he can give a lot, and it is not something I had seen him doing before.
Also managed to watch Willow on Friday night. The girls started watching it with me, but got put off with the chasing beasts (cross between hound and giant rat thingies) and left me to enjoy it by myself. I still thing the pig transformation is remarkably good. And Madmartigan armour rocks. Even with mail over his helmet.
Kind of okay if you are willing to put up with the spill over nonsense from Prometheus and Covenant and are willing to suspend your disbelief that Weyland-Yutan can find a small organic object in deep space but totally miss a larger escape pod.
