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Just spent the weekend trying to catch up on my DVR.
I didn't.
Geekly Weekly TV Rankings ( ➤ for new):
- High Maintenance *****
I love this show so much. I definitely consider it required viewing, and with like 25 things to choose from, it immediately jumped out at me. I've missed the show, I wish the seasons were longer. The way it just shows so many different types of people and aspects of life in such a real and honest way. It is like no show that exists, and it's only half an hour an episode. It's worth it. I really like the new girl. And she has Synesthesia! You know I'm a fan of Synesthesia. I'm all for that whole thing. More of this. I want it. 5 stars. - The Flash ****1/2
Great episode this week. I almost gave it 5 stars, but the Killer Frost / Catelyn dynamic can be so silly and corny and eye-rolly, it's kinda hard to take seriously. And it's so over the top, and it always just devolves into Catlyn talking to herself, and it's rough. I don't know what the fix would be, because I like Killer Frost, and I like Caitlin. But then put them together and it just doesn't work at all. Even the quick changes back and forth, when it cut to her running to check on Nora it was like "Excuse me while I jump into a 4 hour make up change and I'm there!" My favourite aspect of the episode was Sherloque. He's so much fun. And when the episode began, and he translated "Time is Malleable" I knew in that second I was like "Holy shit, the journal was written by Reverse Flash" and it suddenly seemed so obvious. So basically Tom Cavanagh is investigating himself. I love the reflection in the last shot of the episode. - Arrow ****1/2
Great episode of Arrow this week. I'd almosy give it 5 stars, but the flashforward held it back. What was going on with Rene? Why is Zoe super white in the past and then an Indian woman in the future? I honestly like the kid actress that plays her. I'd be cool with her getting more screentime and storylines more than "Is that the green arrow?" and then like 3 references throughout the episode. I mean, I appreciate that Rene at least remembers he has a daughter unlike some shows... and like some people on this show (Cough, where's Oliver's son, cough, cough I don't care either cough). I enjoyed all the stuff with Emiko. I even got excited with everyone else at the end with the build up to Oliver finally talking with her. I can't wait to see what they have to say to each other. I thought some of her fight scenes felt a little off, and also it's interesting you can clearly tell she's a woman now, when before it really could have gone either way. Begin of the season just way taller, completely different face structure behind the mask. But okay, whatever. I'll just tale their word for it I guess, cause as much as I've seen people complain about this episode online, I really enjoyed it. And I still like Arrow. I can't concieve of watching the Arrowverse but not watching Arrow, yet a lot of people do. It's the show people love to hate for some reason. - ➤Young Justice ****1/23x07: Only
watched the first episode of Young Justice so far, but it was great.
There's a large invasion fleet on its way to Earth, and it really was
absolutely massive, like a hundred thousand ships. And Vandal Savage,
done better even than the CW show, realizes all the machinations he and
Lex and Darkseid have gone through to destroy the justice league has
left it open to invasion. And so, seeing no other choice, he realizes he
has to be the one to stop it. So he takes a massive fuckign WarWorld,
no idea how he got it, this planet sized deathstar with a million guns
on it, or how it's not effecting the gravity of the earth, or how he got
from earth to it. I guess they have beaming tech. Anyway, while he's
saving the earth, some old lady keeps pestering his daughter about the
story of Vandal Savage killing a bear, and it didn't take me long to
suspect she had alzheimers, which was an interesting thing for a cartoon
to tackle. And then Savage snapped her neck at the end, and that was
also an insane thing for a cartoon to tackle. You realize, only then,
that she is another of his daughters, just grown old in his long life.
And he killed her! And his other daughter is just like "It was a mercy,
father." and man, that was an emotional impactful moment that really
landed. That's how you do emotion in a cartoon like this. Well set up,
well executed. Though there was one melodramatic scene to make my eyes
roll. It's always the same. They start out by saying something "funny"
and awkward, and then the other person says "heh, yeah" and then their
faces both get really serious, and their voices drop like 3 octaves for
some reason so they sound like some player asshole trying to pick up a
guy/girl at a bar, and then they're like "But seriously, I really care
about you." And then one places their hand on the other. And it never
works. It falls flat every fucking time, always feels forced. Just don't
force it. The Vandal Savage plot was flawless in it's execution, and
emotional, and hard hitting. And I still have 2 more eps of this... God I
wish it was one a week. These are meaty episodes. Besides this one and
the private security episode last week, all the others sorta clump
together in my mind.
3x08: Second episode was really good as well. The first story was great, the second story, well lets just say when I saw Tim Drake's Robin I squealed in delight. Which is weird. I thought the transition from the second to third story was a little clunky. I was expecting a batcave interlude but it was just a straight cut. That's pretty much the only problem I had with an otherwise great episode. Cool to see the whole Justice League splitting apart thing was all a lie. It was funny, when Wonder Woman was like "You're all okay with lying under oath?" and they all look at each other like "Yeah, we're cool with it."
3x09: Another great episode with number, uh, it's been 7 8 and 9. I'm unsure if it's the strongest or the weakest of the three. It might have been the weakest, but it most made me want to give it 5 stars. And the end credits were inspired. This show is a little crazy, and that's okay. I find it funny that so far all the villains have actually managed to do is good. Vandal Savage saved the planet from an invasion, Lady Shiva saved all the super kids and super wives from horrible horrible death, and Granny Goodness apparently invented the VR tech everyone has been running around with. That's horrifying, but the other two... I'm just saying it would be funny if end of the season "Hey, it's the justice league, jokes on you, turns out we just manipulated and tricked you into being good guys and doing a lot of good stuff with our superior intellects... Suck it Lex Luthor blalalallaalala" Batman is like "It was my idea."
3x10: The cruel bastards released another 4 episodes! In this one, Superboy fucks Miss Martian (And she sets him up for the perfect dick joke, and he doesn't take the bait...guess even this cartoon has its limits). Oh also melodramatic porn voice of the episode goes to Daddy Harper and his "Don't you want to come inside." to Cheshire. I'm sure she doesn't now. The plot with Batman and his group was probably the weakest of the episode, and the primary plot. Who is Metamorpho? Having him and the rest be radio silent for half the episode didn't help. I knew enough about Katana, but Metamorpho looked like a freaking clown mocking Batman and Katana and their ninja ways. - Star Trek Discovery ****1/2
Decent season premiere. The visual effects with the asteroid field, and all those strange gravitational pulses, was fun and interesting. Tig Notaro was weird. Pike was fun, and chill, and respects his team which was nice. I thought the weakest aspect of the episode was all the flashbacks. The acting was off, everything child Spock did was off, and Burnam's constant obssession with Alice in Wonderland is a little weird. Is it the only book she's ever read? It's not even that good of a story. The writer was quite likely a pervert! Also the end didn't land at all. Her face as she's like "Oh my god, it's CG bullshit!!!" And none of it meant anything. Just bullshit bullshit bullshit. But other than those complaints, great episode. :p - Supergirl ****
Everything with Brainiac was fun this week, from his date with Nee... nope not gonna try with that one, to him compartmentalizing his mind to protect himself from interrogation. I also found Alex's story to be really compelling, right up until they decided to wipe her mind at the end, which is insane. Why not just resign from the DEO instead of change everything about yourself? Ugh! Also, so far this season I don't think they made it really clear to us that the General didn't know Kara was Alex's sister. Cause I was really confused why the General trusted Alex so much about Supergirl matters, and this episode it was like "Oh, she doesn't get the connection." That must have been really confusing for her then. She must have thought they were like Lesbians or something. Which I mean Alex is. - The Good Place ****Fun Episode, my favourite gag was the slug that wrapped itself around Tehani. And then it gets turned into a scarf, but it just looks like a scarf, it's still a scary slug creature/ And by the end of the episode, I could have sworn the scarf became two scarves, I was hoping they would just start panicking about that, but it wasn't brought up.
- ➤ The Orville ****It wasn't a bad episode of The Orville. I thought it cool when they revealed the twist that they'd ash tyler'ed the woman, and the remainder of the episode was alright in his attempts to convince her not to be so fanatic to her religion and embrace the human she was pretending to be. It didn't really work, but the Billy Joel at the end was a nice outro.
- The Big Bang Theory**** Decent Episode, a little forgettable I suppose, cause I largely forgot it. Oh Penny has to work with Bernadette... was fine. Sheldon's story line was fine too, but they definitely underutilized Kal Penn and Sean Astin. I think my favourite part was the dean just giving Sheldon whatever he wants, and sucking up to him like he's an elite. It's so different from the way he used to be so exasperated and have no patience for Sheldon, and now that he's big man on campus the guy is just like "My job is to make you happy" "Maybe you just need to relieve some of that stress at the gym... let me show you!" It's hilarious. Definitely my favourite moment, maybe less for the actual moment, and more for just the continuing of this man's increasing subservience to Sheldon. And Sheldon does NOT know what to do with all of it. Great stuff. But that was one scene in an otherwise fine episode.
- ➤ Shameless ***1/2 I love this show, and when I saw all the poor reviews for this episode, I thought they were silly. There's never been a bad episode of this show. Well this episode wasn't bad. It was fine, but it was a little hard to watch because a lot of characters are going through some dark places right now, and watching these characters we care about fall apart is hard to watch, and not very funny. Also Carl's plot of stealing scooters was dumb as shit. Lip's storyline with his girlfriend was a little more interesting, if nothing more than for her reactions to how insane Lip's life is.
- ➤ Gotham ***1/2
The cliffhanger was a surprise. Did they just kill all the refugees? And the kid?
5x04: The Next episode was more of the same, pushing ridiculous unbelievable plots, over the top performances. This season has not been Gotham at it's best, and even Selena feels wrong. I'll be honest, I don't love the way things have been playing out, but the in the moment events do enough to keep me invested. Especially as there are now only 4 episodes left. - The Goldbergs ***1/2
It was an alright episode, dealing with the grief of actors moving to the spin-off, which as we remembered was terrible so good riddance? I could not care less about coach leaving, I never cared much for him at all. As for the main plot, as usual my favourite character was Geoff trying to help and getting nothing but hostility in return. Geoff is great. Also I was somewhat intrigued by the true story of Rosie Ruiz, how she thought she could get away with cheating at the marathon is insane. - The Gifted ***The episode started out strong. It really did! But then the show continued to tear apart every relationship it had, because that's the only way this show knows how to build drama. Next we're gonna have Vampire Bill cheating on Winifred Burkle. They've almost ruined daddy strucker, but AMy Acker is up to 25 pull ups so maybe she'll be the hero we all need. Oh and nothing we more ridiculous than Amy Acker soccer mom pulling out a piece from her minivan and just unloading on cops with her daughter. At that point the show lost all hope of a good rating. The cliffhanger ending was decent in it's ability to make me scream at my TV at how stupid Andy is. and NOOOOOOOOO!
- Roswell *
I gave it 4 minutes. Nope. The voice over lost me. One of her very first actual lines being "I'm a latina!" sealed its fate.
Geekly Weekly Talk Show Showdown:
- ➤Vice News Tonight
- ➤Stephen Colbert
- ➤Graham Norton
- ➤The Daily Show
- ➤ This Hour has 22 Minutes
- ➤James Corden
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