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Our Flag Means Death: Man on Fire (2023)
Ahhhh my Steak Knives
Can't believe they killed my boy Steak Knives so quick. New favourite character and he's gone like that. O7, brave soldier.
But seriously, an epic episode. With the switch juxtaposition between Stede and Ed, both seemingly wanting to want the life the other has had - romanticising it. And it's necessary! How would they know the life that they've sort for so long isn't what they really want unless they indulge in it... way too far and chaotically?
Pulls on my heartstrings though. The emotional beats are played so well. Character reintroductions are thoughtful, cheerful. As always it's a brilliant mix of humour and emotion. I want more!!!!!
Our Flag Means Death: Mermen (2023)
Another season needed for finality and clarity!
Such a sad but hopeful ending to such a lovely season!
Izzy dying hit me so hard that I was blinded from the beauty of what this season delivered for a while. There's so many stunning episodes that culminate beautifully.
But. Regardless of what this episode has left this season, it feels rushed - because it kind of was! With two less episodes, budget cuts, and far less time to tell the story, it FEELS rushed. This story deserves space to breathe. The show runners and creator deserve to be trusted - because we, the fans at least, know they can deliver.
This story feels, and is, incomplete without season 3. I just love it so much, and it feels like a disservice to the art and hard work put into it not to give it a chance. One more round!
Miraculous - Le film (2023)
So, the singing is weird
Why don't they match, why don't the voices match, the singing voices don't match, they should match, please make them match, it's so distracting, they should've matched-
(Especially if you've seen the earlier Christmas special episode that has the voice actors actually singing. They sound... ~~a little funky but absolutely loveable. This though. This thing scares me.)
And I get that it's a new story, and they don't know each other, but it feels like they COMPLETELY changed Adrien's character and because of that, their dynamic. The fact that he is goodkindpreciousboy is integral to their dynamic. Like... THE dynamic. Why would you change THE thing that the movie is made around?? The characters?? Like... I don't know who these people are, I want the Ladybug and Chat Noir movie, not these guys.
Breaking Bad (2008)
Art? I lose my mind???
Just a killer, solid show. There's nothing I can fault it for. Even the things I don't like, I'm like, well, they contribute to the art, so it doesn't matter. Mexico is green? Of course Mexico is green. This is the Mexico is green show that makes you feel kind of sick.
There's that one episode, The Fly, I believe it's called? I still think about it probably every month. And nothing happens in that episode - literally nothing. Conversation. Catching a fly. But it's so plot integral and perfect
This show is SO intelligent I still lose my mind over how well thought out this is. I'd say it's unbelievable, but it's just art.
Joy Ride (2023)
:/
I feel like the trailer promised so much that the movie didn't deliver? Like the best jokes were in the trailer, and the movie started off being funny, and then half way through my girlfriend turned to me and said it felt like Asian Scary Movie :/
Like yeah, some funny moments, but then a lot of jokes that either felt like they went too far, or the joke was that they went too far.
The ending was sweet(?? I guess?) But that's the thing, it kind of felt hard to wade through all of the intense and seemingly unnecessary jokes.
So much jumping on topics of being second generation immigrant and asian adopted, but also I didn't feel like it had much depth to say on these things. Just skimming stones over topics and using them as touchstones for miscommunication between characters.
Renfield (2023)
Ehhhh sensory nightmare?
Come on man, why's he eaten' bugs like that? :/
Kind of interesting concept, relating basically indentured servitude to like... codependant relationships. Kind of makes a farce of everything though. And that might sort of be the point, like it is a nonsensical movie, very campy, (why can he regrow his fangs like that come onnnnnnn? So quick and also why???)
It's just a lot. Excessive. Which isn't always bad but it didn't feel earned? Sometimes it just felt like it was for the shock.
And like, yeah. A LOT of colour. Sometimes very deep tones and then other times almost on like a fluro/pastel scale? It was very jarring. But yeah! Kind of a sensory nightmare in that sense. Why did I watch this when I had a migraine? It was there 🙃
Why Women Kill (2019)
Her EYES
SOOOOO GOOD. So good, so good. Genuinely an unmissable show. That first season is a piece of art, genuinely only a 9 star instead of a 10 because Alexaandra Daddario's eye's are going to forever haunt me.
(I don't want to write 600 words, that's all I have to say, but also s2 is a good different? It was nice to see Nick Frost around and I feel like he should be in more plz. Whoever is in charge of that. This show is so good for picking scarily strong women to just... bE? Love it. Also! Lucy Liu was fantastic and SHE needs to be in more too. It's very fun to see her in the fancy 80's clothes? Such, such, such a good show. Seriously.)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Ehh?
Honestly, kinda of annoyed and disappointed the first time around. I went in with expectations - who doesn't. And as a D&D player, who wouldn't have expectations for GAME:THE MOVIE?
Also realising that some of my issues with it because I've played with very annoying people who made very annoying characters similar to that of the paladin and the druid. It wasn't all frustrating archetypes though? I love what they did with the bard. Bard family man? Awesome.
Was also very cool to rewatch it with my mum and point out lots of D&D things that she had no idea about.
My main gripe is the abysmally uncreative tiefling design? THAT'S a tiefling?! I get that tiefling features are a spectrum, but tiny horns and a tail are are in a major movie when you could've gone crazy with creativity? No colourful skin, goat eyes, hoofs, claws, anything? Hell, chuck some wings on. Like, I barely recognised her as a tiefling. IDK, it annoys me so much I think I clouded over a lot of the movie. EIIIIIII. It's okay. But also. I would prefer if people knew exactly how I wanted movies made because I would never be annoyed. 🙃
The Legend of Vox Machina (2022)
Will never have enough
Such a lovely, lovely thing to be a long time Critical Role fan and watch the slow process of. Like, from a technical standpoint - interesting! But also, seeing people having the full fruition of the dreams they thought couldn't be real and you've been able to be a part of that the whole time? UNREAL.
I feel like that's what makes this so good. Not necessarily the exemplary voice acting and animation and storyline and everything else. But also the overall knowledge of being a part of something is unbeatable.
Also at the end of season one? Percy's storyline and how that resolves and seeing it animated? Chills. Every. Time.
I hope the beautiful cast get to do this for a very long time - to the end of the campaign and then further on into the Mighty Nein as is planned. Want to be there for it all. What a privilege.
Hilda (2018)
Do yourself a favour
I had such fears that s3 wasn't going to be what I wanted, that it wasn't going to deliver something... good? That it was going to be a let down in some way - because it feels like so much media is these days.
Hilda feels like such a heart show. It's filled with all the warmth you could conceivably want, nestled in the joyous valley somewhere between The Hobbit, Anne With an E, and Over the Garden Wall.
It's intelligent, and flush with life. It's where I want to be. I feel like Hilda is the kind of person I want to be, or the friend I wanted when I was younger, or some reflection of a neurological self - I don't know. But it makes me feel like I have friends when I feel lonely, and it makes meant to breathe forest air and make art. And that's good art.
Our Flag Means Death (2022)
Unlike any other
Love this show. It's one of my all time favourites. It's light, jovial, the representation surpasses that of many others that have tried harder and fallen further.
I feel like it's simple, doesn't take itself seriously, but because of that it becomes entirely welcoming to those that love it for what it is. No less than an utter ten stars. I rewatch it again and again at every opportunity - when the first season came out I was watching it daily. This show is such a warm place to exist.
My only problem is that it currently only has two season - I feel like it really needs the planned third season to bring the story home.