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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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I watched S1 (plus maybe one more episode?) of Breaking Bad back when the show was still in its last or 2nd to last season and the absolute darling of many folks, and decided that, no, it really was full of people I didn't like.
It doesn't help that I am tired of the 'asshole dude antihero' lead character. I'm not *quite* burned out on "asshole dudette antihero" just because it's less worn out territory. One of the things I loved in "Jessica Jones" besides Jessica being a tire-fire is Jeri Hogarth being a glorious trainwreck. (Speaking of whom, I haven't seen any of S3 but one of my favorite minor beats in S2 was the sex workers sitting around chatting while Jeri's asleep.)
S2 was kind of annoying because I really didn't like how they handled Jessica's mom - frankly, Jeri's story was more interesting to me.
Had a similar response as you to Bojack Horseman. I am told that they eventually turn it into something better and there's good stuff later but, I'll pass for now, thanks.
On a better front, I'm partway through and enjoying "Counterpart", with JK Simmons and also JK Simmons.
Also, not a series, but if you haven't seen "Fast Color", you might want to check it out. It's a superhero movie that's a very different sort of superhero movie.
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I've long said that one of the best things about Jessica Jones is that it features a lesbian character who has a ton of problems... NONE of which are 'she's a lesbian'. I agree the Mom story was awkward AF and Jeri's story is the better of the two.
I have not seen "Fast Color" - shall look.
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Also - If you liked it, and you *haven't* ever read _Memoirs found in a Bathtub_, by Stanislaw Lem, you should do so.
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