Year of the Rabbit. Matt Berry at his sweary best. “This city is a rat eating its own babies. Babies made of shit.” As Detective Inspector Rabbit, he brutally investigates crimes and swears, usually at the same time, in 19th century London. Somewhat assisted by his naive by-the-book partner and an intrepid lady amateur detective, he knocks criminals around and fails forward into solving crimes. Berry’s unique approach to acting (see also Toast), is incredible.
So following advice from you all, we watched season 1 of Ted Lasso the last few nights. I don’t really like the half hour comedy format for TV, the dreaded Sticom. But I LOVED The Good Place, so anything that looks like it could be that type of human/comedy interests me. The first couple episodes I was wondering what you were all thinking, but we stuck it out and glad I did. While not TGP, it did really grow on me, and I do actually care about the characters, and so it really worked. Good recommendation.
We also watched the first two episodes of WandaVision that dropped yesterday. I don’t know the backtstory at all, so we went in blind. So far, very intrigued and entertaining.
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I won’t be able to watch WandaVision for another couple days, but knowing the back story (and having a basic presumption about how/why the show is how it is), I would think it is extra-strange for the uninitiated.
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Enjoyed Wandavision, although I think some of the ‘reveals’ are very unnecessary.
There are 2 episodes of a show called Marvel Studios Legends on Disney+ that cover the backstory for each of the two characters in the show. They are only 8 minutes each.
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Watched one of them for Wanda. I have seen all of the MCU stuff (although that was a good reminder.)
I was under the impression though that this WandaVision story is also something additional that is being adapted from the comics. I have Marvel Unlimited and have been trying to catch up (I had stopped collecting in 2004) but I am only up to about 2008 right now.
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I have not read the book and I don’t know where exactly it fits into the comic universe but The Vision (2016) seems to be the book you’re referring to. I do think they partially adapted the show from that run, but also had to tie it in to the MCU.
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WandaVision kicks off Phase 4 of the MCU, as I understand it.
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These were great for a quick refresher of the most important plot points for Wanda and Vision.
Also found this review of the first 3 episodes (seems to be spoiler free.) If anyone is on the fence, give it a read.
I like how Wandavision switches the decade of sitcom it’s an homage to each episode. It’s an interesting premise, but I’ll be interested to see if they can keep that weird premise going with revealing the mystery behind “WTF is going on?” They seem to have have plan based on the trailers (unlike something like Lost), so we’ll see how well they pull it off.
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Back. Mitchell and Webb do a comedy series playing possible siblings in uncomfortable co-ownership of a pub. This is an excuse for Robert Webb to be his insidious best as a duplicitous two-faced shit, and for David Mitchell’s star turn as a man holding onto his life with his fingernails, and increasingly becoming more stressed as he attempts to cover up how progressively driven up the wall he is. I love his performance deeply, and empathise with it in every scene. A man ranting furiously whenever given the slightest crack of a chance, before abruptly switching into teeth-grittingly forced cheer is my spirit human.
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Just finished season 1 of Alice in Borderland on Netflix, we really enjoyed it. It is a lot of fun (brutal, but fun.)
Bonus game when you watch is to try to connect the characters in the show to Alice in Wonderland characters.
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My wife and I just finished the first series of Taskmaster and I think it is rather brilliant. Some of the tasks are ingenious and some of the solutions even better. Looking forward to further seasons as I’ve been told it just gets better. We are watching on YouTube.
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Tried and abandoned the latest version of The Stand. Absolute shite.
Attack on Titan. This series makes me very happy and I’ve never been more motivated by an anime to watch someone get torn apart.
Leverage. Quite sceptical about this at first, and it’s undeniably cheesy, but it’s also having fun and is actually self-aware. I was looking for a similar series I couldn’t remember the name of, more gritty and serious, but this will do for now.
Wandavision. It’s all going a bit ‘Twin Peaks, but for normies’, and the latest character is very irritating. It’s also at this point made the reveal at the end of the first episode completely redundant. Imagine if the first episode of Legion had ended with Dan Stevens saying “I’m fucking mental, or am I?”
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Leverage does not get better or worse. It just kind of goes along following its own worst impulses but being periodically clever, yet I watched I think all of it because I’d watch Tim Hutton in anything.
I can’t think of the show you’re thinking of either. Burn Notice? Person of Interest? They’re doing a new version of The Equalizer over here starting this month, I think, which is conceptually similar to Leverage, but I can’t imagine you were thinking of that.
You might like Terriers (on Netflix here), if you haven’t seen that. It’s better than the level of actor would lead you to believe.
I’ve also been watching C.B Strike, and the first case is great, the second is ok. On the third one right now.
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I can’t think of the show you’re thinking of either. Burn Notice? Person of Interest? They’re doing a new version of The Equalizer over here starting this month, I think, which is conceptually similar to Leverage, but I can’t imagine you were thinking of that.
Nope, neither of those. Nor is it the Blacklist. I thought it was much like Leverage (motley team, escapades, etc) but with more moral gray. Can’t remember a single other thing about it now, and suspect my mind has made it up out of my wishes.
You might like Terriers (on Netflix here), if you haven’t seen that. It’s better than the level of actor would lead you to believe.
I will chase that up, thank you.
Liking LEVERAGE quite a lot, should probably finish watching SUITS first…or rewatching the whole of WHITE COLLAR
Although it’s easily 80% of it because it’s Tudyk, I’m really enjoying this.
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Just started Leverage, having finished Suits, and we’ve bailed after 4 episodes. Oh my god, it is so bad. Script, acting, production values, the awful awful background music. It’s Knight Rider bad, without the excuse of it being the 1980s or the charm. As plan B, we’ve started The Blacklist, which is much better with James Spader chewing All Of The Scenery.
Like everyone, I’ve watched Lupin, which is charming, well-told, and how to tell a heist story. Just need the second half of the season to finally arrive.
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My wife and I have been plowing our way through various sitcoms on Netflix, starting with The Good Place and moving on to Schitt’s Creek. We’re currently on the last season of Community and trying to figure out where to go next. I’m kind of sad to report that mockumentary-style shows are out—tried both The Office (American version) and Parks and Rec and neither clicked.