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Ehh... nope
I usually review things I've seen all the way through, and I thought it would be fun to talk about the things I've noped out on recently. As you can imagine I've been watching a lot of stuff. I'll do some more positive reviews next.
Jessica Jones, Season 3. This was sort of disappointing because I felt like S2 built on and was somewhat better than S1. When you're centering an antihero - in this case an alcoholic who really doesn't want to be a hero - there are always challenges. But the cast was interesting and they did some hard-good things, so OK. Season 3, though... ugh. I gave up because I basically hated everyone. Five or six episodes in everyone is being awful to everyone else and there's just nobody to like and no reason to care if any of them crash and burn.
Bojack Horseman. Didn't even make it through one episode of this. It came highly recommended by several Arisians who, I guess, just have very different senses of humor from me. I found none of it funny; the main character is a raging asshole and again there's nobody to care about, nobody to root for. I don't feel like it's worth my time to watch someone be nasty to others.
Breaking Bad. I really wanted to like this one but it was tough going. Made it through five episodes where I thought they dragged out a number of things that should've been resolved more quickly, but fine. I gave up at the start of 6. The deal-breaker for me was the main character's constant lying. I couldn't see a motivation for it. I thought they did a good job of exploring why a person with potentially terminal cancer would make certain (bad) choices but I just don't grok - and cease to care about - a person who is married to a partner long enough to raise a child to teenager-hood and yet has separate bank accounts and no problem just flat-out lying about crucial stuff.
Altered Carbon:Resleeved. An animated one-shot set in the universe of Altered Carbon. In fact, it's just a rehash of plot elements that the live series did so much better. It's formulaic and copycat. The live series dives deeply into what it means to have a personal relationship with a human when that human can wear any body, and what it means even to be human in a world with effective immortality and sentient AIs. The cartoon has none of that - it's just an attempt to do action anime with characters and settings some audience will recognize. BO-RING.
Black Mirror. Another one that came highly recommended. I watched two episodes. One featured a lot of pointless humiliation and ... just, why? The other walked right up to the line of exploring gender identity and attraction and then veered away because Reasons. Also, spending 60 minutes watching something that would've been fixed in five minutes if adult people had used their adult words to talk to their close adult partners is so very NOT my thing. I dislike how much modern entertainment turns around infidelity to begin with, but seriously talk to each other. I almost shouted at the screen, never a good sign.
Jessica Jones, Season 3. This was sort of disappointing because I felt like S2 built on and was somewhat better than S1. When you're centering an antihero - in this case an alcoholic who really doesn't want to be a hero - there are always challenges. But the cast was interesting and they did some hard-good things, so OK. Season 3, though... ugh. I gave up because I basically hated everyone. Five or six episodes in everyone is being awful to everyone else and there's just nobody to like and no reason to care if any of them crash and burn.
Bojack Horseman. Didn't even make it through one episode of this. It came highly recommended by several Arisians who, I guess, just have very different senses of humor from me. I found none of it funny; the main character is a raging asshole and again there's nobody to care about, nobody to root for. I don't feel like it's worth my time to watch someone be nasty to others.
Breaking Bad. I really wanted to like this one but it was tough going. Made it through five episodes where I thought they dragged out a number of things that should've been resolved more quickly, but fine. I gave up at the start of 6. The deal-breaker for me was the main character's constant lying. I couldn't see a motivation for it. I thought they did a good job of exploring why a person with potentially terminal cancer would make certain (bad) choices but I just don't grok - and cease to care about - a person who is married to a partner long enough to raise a child to teenager-hood and yet has separate bank accounts and no problem just flat-out lying about crucial stuff.
Altered Carbon:Resleeved. An animated one-shot set in the universe of Altered Carbon. In fact, it's just a rehash of plot elements that the live series did so much better. It's formulaic and copycat. The live series dives deeply into what it means to have a personal relationship with a human when that human can wear any body, and what it means even to be human in a world with effective immortality and sentient AIs. The cartoon has none of that - it's just an attempt to do action anime with characters and settings some audience will recognize. BO-RING.
Black Mirror. Another one that came highly recommended. I watched two episodes. One featured a lot of pointless humiliation and ... just, why? The other walked right up to the line of exploring gender identity and attraction and then veered away because Reasons. Also, spending 60 minutes watching something that would've been fixed in five minutes if adult people had used their adult words to talk to their close adult partners is so very NOT my thing. I dislike how much modern entertainment turns around infidelity to begin with, but seriously talk to each other. I almost shouted at the screen, never a good sign.
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As for Walter White, what is he proud of? What is he defending with his lies? As I said it's not just the lying, it's that I don't see the motivation for it. Like, sure, I totally get that you don't tell your straight spouse that you're cooking meth. But I don't get why he dislikes her so much, and yet has been with her for this long and they're having another kid? I don't mind if characters are dislikeable, so long as I can grasp their motives. I'm writing my review in another window for Altered Carbon S1 and in that series the main character's sister (Reileen Kawahara, played amazingly well by Dichen Lachman) is really f'ing bad. But I get why. I don't _agree_ but I see what drives her to do what she does and it's consistent.
As for Black Mirror I think it's hilarious that everyone agrees that I watched the wrong ones (S1:E1 and S5:E1) and if I just watched these OTHER ones (on which nobody agrees) I'd see it differently.
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I had the same reaction you did to the first episode, and haven't delved much further yet. (I did watch one or two more, and they were vastly more watchable, but I've had other priorities.)
But as to this: virtually everyone I've talked to, and every critic I've read, seems to agree that "San Junipero" is worth watching, even if one watches none of the rest of the series. It's the one episode that seems to be pretty universally acclaimed...
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