The Futurama revival on Hulu. I watched the first episode about Fry trying to stream everything he's missed and was completely bored by it. Haven't watched any of it since.
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Willow, a show so bad Disney pulled it from streaming. I felt really bad for the actors. They were all quite good, just rubbish writing. It felt like someone dusted off some terrible generic YA script and doctored it up to be "willow".
Game of Thrones, but mostly because it was so good at the start. Controversially I think the series went to shit in Season 5, or even season 4, basically as soon as they started seriously deviating from the books. It's extremely clear what is original for the show and what is from GRRM because everything they came up with outside of the book material is stupid as shit and nobody's actions or motivations make any sense.
I don't think I finished season 4. It showed great promise, but I realised that in those 4 seasons nothing actually happened.
- Fireproof women walks through desert.
- Men in furs sit in snow.
- lots of people I don't really know get murdered at a wedding.
- Someone attacks a city, but fails.
the news
I got to watch the movie 'Network" go from cutting edge satire to staid docudrama in real time.
The anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s uzumaki. It’s a manga that I love and have read it many times, when I heard that there was an anime adaptation that was sticking with the art style, I was interested. When I saw the trailer and heard Colin Stetson’s bizarre music, I knew that this would be amazing. Time passed and I checked on its release every month. It was delayed again and again but I had patience, thinking that they just wanted to get it right. It finally releases and it was amazing, the first episode anyway. When episode 2 drops I can hardly contain my excitement. Yet, something is off with it, I try to ignore it. Third episode, same thing. Last episode, had some improvements but still wasn’t the same quality as the first. I go online and see that people are divided over it, with a very vocal majority saying that something is off. I felt deflated and didn’t join in on the discussions. Time passed and I forgot about it until recently when I saw an article where one of the production staff said that there was some pressure from higher ups and they chose to release what they had or it was gonna get cancelled.
That was some serious shitshow indeed. The director completely focused on the first episode and a very few parts on the other ones. When they were rushed, they sub-hired some Korean studios, and in the end even cheaper Chinese ones, if I recall correctly. I think the result speaks for itself. An absolute disaster.
season 3 of yellowjackets. meh. where’d that special thing go?
Didnt even know it was out, burnt out the story trying to keep it going.
It could have been a great 1 season of a closed story. They could have continued by looking into the conseqeunces of that story.
Hell it could have been an anthology series with the name being groups across time and space finding themselves in odd senarios.
I feel the same! Season one was so good. The second I didn't really like but it was still ok. This season feels like it's gone off the rails. But I love Misty and Walter
The consultant. Started off interesting, but yeah..
Wheel of Time.
Latest season has been a massive improvement if you haven’t watched it.
Maybe in the future.
I'm kind of burned out in high fantasy TV for a while. Thanks for the info, though.
Try something completely different.
"Slow Horses" is about MI-5's worst agents. Those who have screwed up in the field are sent to work on low priority garbage work until they retire or quit. Takes about one and a half episodes to hit its stride.
"Landman" is about a Texas oilman whose job is to manage everything from the drilling to getting the product to market. Billy Bob Thornton is a great anti-hero; divorced, alcoholic, in debt, and smarter than everyone else for all the good it does him.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Slow horses is great.
Seconded. It was just such an enormous pile of shit from the first episode.
Edit: felt like it was worth mentioning that I've read all the books multiple times, and love them. I just hate what they did to the characters.
Third.
Under The Dome.
It was an epic Stephen King novel, with a great story line, and a huge cast of interesting characters, including Big Jim Rennie, one of his best villains. King's output is notoriously inconsistent, but occasionally he is really great, and this was one of those times.
I was so excited that they were bringing it out as a series, since it could never be captured in a single movie, or even a trilogy. Then they announced that Big Jim would be played by Dean Norris (Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad), which was PERFECT casting.
The show started well, with the dropping of The Dome rendered perfectly. Then it went off the rails so quickly that by the third episode, I was enormously pissed off. They i troduced weird new supernatural elements. I assume they were supernatural, because I stopped watching. The story was good enough, they didn't need some hack network writer "fixing" it.
A huge lost opportunity. I hope someone takes another swing at it someday.
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