I watched the first episode last night based on your post. This show is impossibly stupid, but insanely funny. I don't think I stopped laughing during the entire thing. Something about it just clicked right for me.
What exactly has happened since the last one that the world doesn’t already know? Will it be like Making A Murderer 2 and go absolutely nowhere?
I watched the first season because a friend of mine was in an episode. I remember liking it, but I don't think I've caught up on the subsequent seasons.
Wow, did not expect a touching and perfect send off for Jessica Walter on tonight's season finale of Archer. I wasn't sure how they were going to resolve that. Well done, well done.
I guess it's not terribly new, but lately I am hooked on Ted Lasso which is on Apple TV. It can get a little cornball here or there but it is overall so well done. Great acting by so many cast members. The writing goes from more serious/dramatic scenes to amusing/comedic pretty seamlessly. I love the overall positive spin on most interactions, and how the bandaid is ripped off of "situations." None of this, if characters would just talk a simple problem would be resolved thing that really annoys the fuck out of me with many shows. Roy is seriously my favorite character. Just watched season 2 ep 8 last night and I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I teared up. Some scenes hit me so hard in the feels.
The end of season 1's Christmas episode is actually specifically what I was thinking about when I wrote "cornball." But, it's a Christmas episode. It's kinda supposed to be.
When you've got a property that is totally over-saturated, the best idea is definitely to spin off another series.
I only made it three episodes into this. It felt like it was all b footage front he first time around. Did anyone finish it? Is it worth it?
I finished it. It was more following the thread that was started in the first one than carrying on with the Joe storyline. There were a lot of WTF moments in it, and the way it was shot/edited it definitely makes it seem like there's some other shit going on that should have some serious results. It was pretty solid fodder for a time when there was nothing else on TV and it was pissing down snow/rain outside and you didn't want to do anything but sit on the couch and veg.
The one thing I have come away with so far is that EVERYONE involved in the big cat scene are fucking idiots.
Cowboy Bebop: I feel really charitable to it because animation is hard to translate in to real life instead of real life translating in to animation. Also, I love John Cho. Sadly, I think John was miscast here. He doesn't really have the loose, carefree feel that the original Spike had. I think if you wanted to stick with an Asian guy for the role, Simu Liu would have been better. It'd be nice to have someone akin to Jackie Chan though. He really ran that line between serious/funny, heavy/light well, and his fight scenes were always so good. On the plus side, Cho is jacked. The rest of the cast was great, especially Jet Black. The worst part comes at the end when they introduce the real "anime" character, Ed. It's bad, and that kind of kooky shit translates terribly. It was painful to watch. Is it worth spending your time on? I dunno. There is better stuff on television right now. It's fun enough, but it's not going to have you staying up until 5am watching it because it has your nuts in a vice of pure entertainment.
If you look at it like "hey, they are adapting an anime that was loved, game-changing, ahead of it's time, and nailed 'cool as fuck'" I think it's enjoyable. If you're looking at holding it up to that bar, or if you had no exposure to the original, I'd wager it comes off as awful. Spike's vibe had to be damned near impossible to cast, and I feel like Cho was acceptable. Fuck, his work in "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" is at least some evidence he could do a buddy-style comedy. I'm so glad Ed was on screen for so little time. That shit was like a pedophilic acid dream. Some of the villains/marks were a bit out there, unless you stop and go "Right. Anime." I did love the music, and it's beautifully shot. The ending sold me, but it's the kind of show where you have to realize it's a love letter to the original, and it can't hold up next to it. FWIW, "Hit Monkey", a Marvel show on Hulu had some highlights. I enjoyed it. Jason Sudekis clearly had a blast. The ending was pretty solid, and I'd line up for Season 2.
I mean, yea, but he was still the kind of straight-guy foil to Kal Penn's Kumar. "Pedophilic Acid Dream" basically sounds like what half the weebs on reddit thinking living in Japan is gonna be like. Enjoy https://twitter.com/theredvalue/status/1467196977163210761?s=20 this particular brand of weird creepy shit.