I thought Mare of Easttown was pretty good
Also… Outlander was worth watching for the story/concept, bit of history mixed in and scenery it was set within…
Haven’t watched GoT or HoD. Rings of Power is abysmal.
Rings of Power would have been acceptable as a stand alone series… It is the unavoidable comparisons that drag it down somewhat IMO
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Well said 
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Abysmal is a bit extreme. It’s decent viewing. Certainly better than Wheel of Time
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GoT is worth the watch despite the last couple seasons.
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Yeah, I have heard good things about the Game of Thrones and I miss not watching it.
True. It’s a good watch for someone who isn’t invested in the original story.
Again disagree. I’ve been into LoTR and the Tolkein Legendarium since high school. While I don’t agree with all aspects of it, I’m still glad to see some more new Tolkein stuff from a different time period other than the Hobbit and the trilogy
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What about Severance?
Alice in Borderland s2 up next for me.
Just finished watching The Imperfects on netflix.
Was something to kill time and help alleviate the boredom of that period in between xmas and nye but was actually a lot more enjoyable than I was expecting.
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Really? I may give it another try then. Started to watch few weeks ago and couldn’t finish E1.
Enjoyed the first few episodes of S1, became somewhat tedious later on. More importantly, I have forgotten all that happened in S1.
I’m not saying that it’s bad. But I naturally expected it to be another epic like the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit (the book, the movie was crap) and it’s not.
Why did Jackson think it’s a good idea to stretch it out like that.
He didn’t. The studio wanted three films (£) and because they were set on a particular release date, they even had to start filming without a script. Jackson said he regretting not digging his heels in over the prep time.
We watched Wednesday over the last two days and we all enjoyed it.
Feel free to stop reading there if you have no interest in a critical opinion, especially one which has no bearing on the truth of the first sentence. Also ‘spoilers’.
Spoilers
Based on some of the gushing praise I’ve read on here, I perhaps expected a little more. Was it fun? Was it stylish? Was I entertained? Yes, yes and yes.
But there was very little here that hasn’t already been done a hundred times over.
Jenna Ortega was fantastic as Wednesday, but doesn’t do much more than channel the spirit of Christina Ricci and April Ludgate. That isn’t a negative, it’s faithful to the character. Just people acting like this is something completely new when it actually already exists is confusing to me.
The humor was dark, but again that’s what the Addams Family is. They should be praised for getting the tone and style correct, but it’s not a cutting edge take, it just is what it is.
The storyline is fun, but the outcome was clearly visible from a mile away, and the way the ‘evidence’ is dished out is as contrived as anything I’ve ever seen. Wednesday is a highly intelligent character with deep learning, yet for some reason the show decides to literally hand her every piece of evidence - here’s an old yearbook, here’s your uncle who never went to this school yet knows exactly where the safe is that you need to get into for the next bit of evidence, here’s a psychic ability that isn’t previously canon but will help you uncover the mystery etc.
The show premise itself is incredibly generic. That’s to be expected to an extent because of the subject matter. But as an example here is a list of some things which happened in The Chilling Adventure of Sabrina which was made 4 years ago:
Sabrina starts off at a normy school. At times here she protects her friends from bullies.
She then also starts attending an Academy for none normies, it’s the one her dad went to.
Upon arrival at the Academy she meets the self-appointed Queen Bee of the school, who happens to be a black girl with short hair. They immediately dislike each other but later have to work together for the good of the school.
She tries out for choir practice and is very good, the teacher remarks that the Queen Bee has some competition.
During the show she has a normy ‘boyfriend’ and also a non-normy ‘boyfriend’ from the Academy and they beef.
Her normy boyfriend has a difficult relationship with his father, ever since the death of his mother when he was a child.
One of her teachers is a meek, bespectacled normy who befriends our heroine, but turns out to actually be a baddy!
There’s an old tome which plays an important part, it’s called the ‘Book of the Beast’
Somebody has visions of a monster in a cave
There’s beef between the Academy people and the normies in the town which stems from some of the ancestors being witch-hunters who burned the Academy ancestors.
At some point one of Sabrina’s besties deals with identity issues and their family struggle with acceptance because of societal norms.
I’m pretty sure if you watch Charmed and Winx Saga or anything else that covers the same ground you’ll see many of the same tropes repeated. Now, none of these things existing make Wednesday not good. I just can’t marry up the overzealous praise with what I saw as a fun, enjoyable yet generic and narratively simple show.
As said by someone else, probably not made with a middle aged man in mind.
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Wednesday Addams dance routine taken to the ice skating arena…
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Tonight we are mostly watching this…
I felt the opposite after the shitshow the last season was of GoT. Do agree that it didn’t start that well, but definitely kept improving each episode.
I forget who said it, but the season only works if you treat it as one episode preceded by a 9 hour version of that recap they play at the beginning of each episode. Fingers crossed those teething problems they had in setting up the reasons for the civil war are behind them and the next season can find its feet.
Rejoice!