TV Shows

America's National Parks

The narrator is fine overall, but has some weak moments. The shots they captured are pretty good as well. Otherwise not much to say other than it's a decent documentary on some National Parks. Not Planet Earth by any means, but keeps your attention.

Atlanta

• Cinematography: 👍👍
• Story: Season 1, 2, & 4 👍👍, Season 3 😐
  • The bottle/standalone episodes in season 3 destroy what little flow is already there
  • The racial lessons mean a lot more when the regular characters are involved (which says something in of itself)

Band of Brothers

• A authentic feeling look at some soldiers journey during WWII.
• Anyone who romanticizes war should watch the 3rd episode entire series.
• Interesting to see how bureaucracy within the US Army could lead to some pretty crappy things.
• Episode 7 doesn't serve much purpose.
• The looting that occurs is (usually) disrespectful, but was probably worse in reality.

Better Call Saul

Uuuh, you better watch this show - Dunkey

• Story: 👌
• Characters: 👌
• Cinematography: 👌

McMillion$

A short HBO documentary about a McDonald's game piece scam in the 90's. It's shot well, and the structure of the interviews, clips, etc help tell the story. The reason so few people know about this, is 9-11 happened right as the FBI took this case to trial. Most of the people interviewed have interesting stories that are enjoyable to hear. Putting it all together in the end brings the whole scam/story to a nice conclusion.

Mr. Robot

It’s a crime this show wasn’t more popular. It does so much right. The story is well constructed. Little to no loose threads. Characters are interesting and act in realistic ways. Elliot’s condition is super interesting, and there’s nothing else in media like it. The hacking, commands, and technology they use is actually real (I’d know!). S4E7 is the best episode.

Peacemaker

• DC outputs the best superhero content when they're on top of their game.
• Disney firing James Gunn is one of the best things to happen to the DCEU.
• All the characters are interesting and have good development.

Sherlock

• Cinematography: 👍
• Story: 👍👍
  • At its best (85%) when it’s not trying to be an action movie (15%)
• Mystery: 👍👍
  • All of the cases are interesting and clever

Squid Games

• Definitely watch the subbed version. English wouldn't line up well with the mouth movements.
• Provokes a lot of thought on how humans would react in situations like the ones in the show.
• It's a really good show that's worth watching. Tough to say if the potential second season would be able to keep up the magic. That said, covering the other years of the games might be interesting. A 10 episode spin-off here and there could do just that.

The Last of Us

• Cinematography: 👍👍
• Story: 👍👍
  • It’s interesting to see the extra explanation required in a TV show compared to a game
• Faithful Adaption?: 👍👍
  • A few changes, but all the major story beats are intact

The Shrink Next Door

• Is the Dr a bad guy? Maybe a little unethical? He’s a bad guy.
• Nice to see Paul Rudd and Will Ferrel in non-comedy rolls.
• At some point Marty (Ferrel) is almost as much to blame for the terrible state of his life as Ike (Rudd) is.
• Could've been fewer episodes. It drags pretty hard around the middle of the series.

Witcher (Netflix)

Season 1

(3rd Viewing)

• It’s a shame so many people don’t like the multiple timelines. Not many shows have done timelines in such a subtle way. It might make them afraid to continue experimenting.
• Castings is rock solid. Henry Cavill is perfect as Geralt.
• Actions of characters have consequences on the world and other characters around them. It’s refreshing to see storytelling where plot points aren’t forgotten or brushed aside as inconsequential.
• Geralt fighting the Striga is fantastic.

Season 2

• Geralt fights more monsters than season 1. Big plus.
• Yennefer goes from someone you want to root for, to someone you hate, and kinda back.
• Pacing suffers a little in the final episode.
• Overall worse than Season 1.

Want To Watch

• Stargate SG1
• Trigun: Supposed to rival Bebop in how good it is.
• Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller: Documentary about the inner workings of the criminal underworld (Netflix).
• Person of Interest
• The Food That Built America
• Kaguya-sama Love is War
• PBS Inside Sleeping Giants (doc/show)
• Formula 1: Drive to Survive
• Freaks and Geeks
• Sunderland 'Til I Die
• Tacoma FD (maybe)
• Mythic Quest