UnReal is special to me for many reasons, among the biggest being that I identify with Quinn and Rachel more than all of the male characters combined. Shit, I’d be content to be Quinn, and there are only a handful of fictional women who meet that standard. If I could teleport myself into a new career with a snap of my fingers, I’d be show-running The Bachelor and torturing pretty girls for a living.
IZombie is back, which makes me happy. Rose McIver’s face is the round, button-nosed essence of adorable, and the supporting cast is stronger than anything outside of an ensemble like The Magicians. Making everything better, Rachel Bloom made a cameo as an involuntary brain-donor this week, which upped the adorability through the roof. (As an aside, If you’d asked me ten years ago which Michalka sister would grow up to be “the hot one”, I would have said AJ. But damn, Aly. Damn. Also if you’d asked me ten years ago if I’d watch a show featuring the guy from One Tree Hill that isn’t Chad Michael Murray, I’d have laughed.)
While I’m thinking about iZombie… so both Saoirse Ronan and Rose McIver are in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones? How did this escape my attention? I skipped it at the time due to all the lukewarm-to-negative buzz… I wonder if it’s actually that bad, or if people were just all Jackson’d out in 2009? I haven’t liked anything he’s made since Heavenly Creatures, so it didn’t seem like much of a loss.
Altered Carbon was a giant, watchable mess; lots of big ideas, but no real payoffs. Meanwhile, everyone made a big deal out of the show’s nudity, but c’mon… it’s mostly just Joel Kinnaman and Martha Higareda striking sexy superhero poses with their clothes off. It’s aesthetically pleasing and all, but not hot. And as much as I wanted to like Dollhouse, it’s time we let Dichen Lachman go, or limit her to roles where she’s not required to read lines.
Thor: Ragnarok is now officially the first Marvel or DC movie I’ve enjoyed since the original Guardians of the Galaxy. And just to be clear, I would watch Tessa Thompson —who will always be “Veronica Mars’ Tessa Thompson” to me— in a Valkyrie movie ten times over before I would sit through one second of a Wonder Woman sequel.
Season two of Jessica Jones is going along fine; I’m only a few eps in, but I’m hopeful it’s going somewhere good. It’s still a little awkward, though… I try not to get all Cranky Fanboy about casting choices, but it bugs me that Krysten Ritter’s physical presence automatically changes Jessica from the dumpy, drunk, depressed schlub of the source material into a leggy model in tight jeans. And I love Krysten Ritter, for the record… Don’t Trust The B should still be on the air. I just think Jessica should be kinda short and generally wearing unflattering clothes.
The Last Jedi was good. I enjoyed every minute of it. And Mark Hamill actually seemed at-home on a movie screen for the first time in his life. Rian Johnson is clearly the 21st century’s Miracle Worker.
It was boring, because like Stranger Things, it’s too busy being about the ‘80s to be interesting. The ‘80s were terrible, people.
Legion is back. I have no idea what’s going on, and I don’t care. I just want more of it.
The Expanse is back, and honestly, I wish the entire show was built around Bobbie and Chrisjen. The rest is merely okay.
For the first time ever, I agree with Ronnie… Sam, you should have come back. It’s still fun having the Jersey Shore idiots back without her, but given that Ron is going to spend the entire show talking about her anyway, she might as well be there and collect the check. It’s interesting, though, how the relative maturation of most of the cast is making it clear that Vinny —once the most reasonable person in the group— is his own kind of dickish creep.
Last year, we decided to sit down and go through all eight or nine seasons of both Modern Family and The Middle. And I swear to you, no one is more surprised than me to learn that I’d rather watch the latter than the former… I’m sorry, but Sue is just the best. I’m only pissed that they’re all the way to the end of their run, and there hasn’t been a single Scrubs cast cameo other than Dave Foley. What, someone couldn’t throw a few bucks at McGinley to show up for five minutes to play an obnoxious high school basketball coach or something?
I’m glad Grant Morrison was able to get Happy! made. It’s gross and weird and I’m shocked it has any audience at all, but it’s very, very good.
