Episode 5 of The Mighty Nein - oof. Even knowing the story from season 2 of Critical Role, that’s an episode of tv that just hits hard. It’s turning into a really great animated series.
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after a string of romance animes, I started Skip and Loafer. Only 2 eps so far and it’s hilarious.
Rewatched Tokyo Ghoul. One of the last animes I’ve watch around a decade ago before I stopped. Didn’t like Tokyo Ghoul:re, it’s just a mess pacing-wise.
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Finished Skip and Loafer. I love it and hope there’ll be a Season 2.
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Finishing our rewatch of Schitt’s Creek before it leaves Netflix in Germany at the end of the year. Such a good show. And the growth the characters do during the seasons. Just great show.
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Agreed. Such a good show. They all change so much during the seasons, it’s great.
I’m enjoying it.
I did wonder how they were going to write for it. It is quite challenging given the setup.
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Pfft, call that a board game collection
Still mostly One Piece. We are in the 730s now. Tonight probably the finale for Dress Rosa.
I think Punk Hazard was my recent favorite though.
I am also on S3 of My Hero Academia. I got hooked somehow by the characters.
Plus various iterations on Villainess timeloops and Punchy Princess aka „May I ask for one final thing“
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I’ve been working my way backwards through Taskmaster NZ, after finding that series 6 (the latest) was genuinely good (including at least one task/segment which I think would have been top-tier even on the UK show).
I figure that a major problem with Taskmaster outside of the UK is simply not having Greg and Alex. You can have funny contestants and creative tasks, but if the studio sections are bad then it spoils the whole show.
The NZ version did incredibly well with casting the taskmaster’s assistant role – Paul Williams (who I didn’t know of previously) is superb. He’s not trying to replicate Alex, but he knows what’s needed, and brings a delightful low-key energy to the role that works perfectly. He’s been great from the get-go.
Which makes it even more of a shame that the NZ taskmaster is awful. He can read a teleprompter just fine, but he’s not a comedian and doesn’t have much in the way of improvisational abilities. Which might have been fine, were he not absolutely crap at the #1 requirement: judging the contestants and justifying his decisions. I watched the first series, and was so consistently irritated by the taskmaster’s failings that, when the next series rolled around and I saw that they’d retained the same person, I didn’t bother watching.
I gave it another chance with series 6, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Everything about the show has gotten better. The taskmaster is still the weak link, and remains a dismal substitute for Greg; but he’s not as bad as he was to begin with, and so he doesn’t spoil things as much as before.
I’ve since watched series 5, 4, and am currently watching series 3. S5 was almost as good as S6; S4 and S3 less so, but still enjoyable.
If you’re a Taskmaster fan and hankering for more, give T:NZ series 6 a try (if it’s available… TVNZ+ may or may not work). If you like it, work backwards (and if it gets irritating, stop :).
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Been binge watching TV series on streaming services I haven’t seen before.
Altered Carbon season 1 was sci-fi nonsense that was quite fun. Apparently based on a book, which seems almost required for a series to be any good these days. Heard season 2 was bad so haven’t watched it.
Severance season 1 was really intriguing, then season 2 seemed to be trying to drag too many character arcs along and together and it… kind of stopped working for me. Still well done, but also disappointing.
Stranger Things partway through season 1, and I guess I was expecting more after all the hype. Going to give it some more time.
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I quite liked Altered Carbon Season 2, but it isn’t as tight as Season 1. I also think the actor who plays Takashi in S2 is better, but he had a worse script to work with.
I hated Severance, though. The pacing and the nonsense of what is going on just bugs me, but it was exceptionally well made (and the cliffhanger at the end of S1 was great).
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Love Altered Carbon! Season 2 doesn’t hit the same highs but I think it’s still good.
Book 1 is a surprisingly old-fashioned noir just as much as SF, but later books go very deep on future worldbuilding and revolution. Unfortunately the author later turned out to be disappointing in real life, but in ways that are the precise opposite of the books, so I still enjoy them.
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I really enjoyed the books way back when and even re-read as a group read them at some point.
I have seen S1 and didn’t even know there was a 2nd one.
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Rewatching The Mandalorian, as my wife doesn’t remember a lot of it, and it was just a fun series. Just finished season 1.
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Philippine Airlines needed to make people listen to their safety announcements, so turned them into a full-on romantic soap opera.
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I watched Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny over the weekend. While I thought all the actors gave excellent performances, they couldn’t save the abysmal script writing. Unfortunately, it had been so long since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that my expectations had reset, only to leave me disappointed once again. If you haven’t seen it I recommend you keep it that way and do something else with the two-and-a-half hours you’ve saved.
I have higher hopes if ever I get around to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which I’ve heard described as the best Indiana Jones film of the past 35 years despite it being a video game.
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I thoroughly enjoyed DoD at the cinema, and set about watching it again on streaming…. But found myself bored about 40 mins in and with no real enthusiasm to watch the rest. I agree, the plotting is the problem, or the pacing. It just felt too long and a bit dull. But I enjoyed the ending the first time.
**Indiana Jones and the Huge Oval ** is, indeed, very very good. Although I did find the final boss fight quite frustrating which soured it for me a bit.
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binged all of Demon Slayer - except for the Infinity Castle movie. Honestly, the only reason I stayed is because of Tanjiro being a pure soul and the Taisho period setting is interesting to me. His companions are really annoying and Nezuko is just a plot device.
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Yeah, that was pretty much my take, though I haven’t sat through the whole thing.
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