This show caught my attention. I thought Sophia Lillis was great in IT and I am LOVING the content that Netflix is putting out right now. I had just previously binged You. So, I thought I would give this one a try.
There will be a few spoilers ahead... Superpowers?! I knew ZERO about this showing going into it. All I knew is that the folks who made Stranger Things and the director of The End of the F***king World were behind this. I loved both of those. Frankly, this show was the absolute perfect marriage of both those shows. Here is the official synopsis: I Am Not Okay with This. Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her. I had no idea that Sydney would be getting superpowers at all. So, it was quite the surprise for me when they dropped that in the show. It is not campy at all. They do a great job of keeping it grounded and seeing what an angsty teen would do with getting superpowers they know nothing about. (sorry, nothing like SHAZAM!). Each episode is a easily chewable 20ish minutes. There are also only 8 total. So I binged this in a couple of nights after the kiddos went to bed. On that note... it is very TV-MA. The kids deal with lots of sexual situations, drug use, and the language is pretty rough... f-bombs galore. Oh, and there is just the right amount of violence as well. In fact, I think the show does a great job with how they use the violence. It does what violence should do... shock you. I think so many shows now overuse violence to the point you become numb to it. Not here... there were a few occasions I audibly said "woah!" It wasn't until I watched this, did I find out it was based on a graphic novel of the same title by Charles Forsman... needless to say, I will be picking it up. Hopefully the second season is already slated for release. The episodes flew by and of course left us with a huge cliffhanger. Netflix has done a good job not leaving us hanging on that cliff for too long before the next release. the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina come to mind with how it has been released in parts vs seasons and even gave us a Christmas special. Word on the street is that we can expect to hear something about Season 2 as early as March. Again, if you need something to tide you over until the next season of Stranger Things, this will for sure do the trick. These episodes come at you fast... so I think I will give it a rewatch to see what I missed the first time. Looking forward to what the next season has in store. I give this show 4 stars. For sure worth the quick binge! -CBD
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As you go along in your years reading comics... I think it turns into more to what type of books speak to you. Yes, I love a good superhero romp or a group book teaming up to stop a world ending event, but sometimes you just want to read a quality book and Joe Hill delivers that.
I have been super intrigued by the DC Hill House Comics line... The Low Low Woods, Dollhouse Family, Basketful of Heads. This book, Plunge, was written by Joe Hill himself, so I figured this would be a good one to try on. For me, this book checked crossed a part of my Venn diagram that I love... nautical horror. So here we go... SPOILERS AHEAD! You're Going To Need A Bigger Boat This book is very much a set up issue. While I was hoping for a little more cutaways to some sea monsters or haunted shipwrecks, Joe does a great job of building out our cast of characters and give you a chance to actually care about the awful things that I am sure will happen in the issues to come. Our crew is brought together because the Rococo International has heard a distress signal from one of their ships after a huge tsunami, but whats weird is that this ship went missing 40 years ago. The first of the crew recruited is Moriah, a marine biologist, because something also seems to be up with the sea life in the area. Captain Carpenter and his crew who run a salvage operation pulling stuff off the sea floor. In fact they just pulled up a crate full of dildos... yes, dildos. Their ship is where it looks like the setting of the book will be taking place mostly. Then lastly, we have David Locombe, the stogy exec from Rococo who will be there to make sure their investment is going to be recovered. Of course... the ship they are hunting, was going after some "rare wildlife"... so I'm sure that'll be coming up later. They set off to find the Derleth, which is half sunk on a reef near an atoll where a meteor had crashed millions of year ago. They arrive at night and decide to camp on the atoll before they start recovery of the Derleth the next day. They set up a fire, have some drinks, and of course nothing weird will happen right? Nope, Moriah heads off to a pee break to find what seems to be a fairly new dead body of a man in a orange jumpsuit. He is holding a knife in his hand and has a slit throat. To make it even weirder... there are a couple of sea critters in his neck and they talk to Moriah, telling her its alright to scream... and of course thats how we close the issue. In Joe I trust... Like I said before, I would have liked some more scary build up, but, we have five more issues to deliver all of that creepy goodness.. I did love all of the Jaws references... the salvage crew dubbed their members as the Hooper and Brodie of their crew. Working that in was such a great bite to take in this book. Joe set up these characters well, and I want to see what happens to them next. I will for sure be picking up the next issue to see what happens to this group of misfits as they step foot on the Derleth in the next issue. I think you should too. Pick this book up. -CBD Decided to change things up this week with the release of Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn (this will be the only time I type out the entire title!) and give you guys a SPOILER FREE review.
As I type this up, I have been seeing news that Birds of Prey sadly under preformed at the box office and is expected to bring in around $33 million while it was projected to bring in $40-$50 million. So we will talk a little bit about why that might be as well. So here we go... again, this will be SPOILER FREE. I want you to experience this one on your own. Egg Sandwich First lets talk about the things that worked in this film...
I really enjoyed this movie. Yes, it was a girl gang movie all the way. However, I did not feel pressured by any politics or other sub agendas at all. Again... it was funny, great action, and took you to a corner in the DC movie universe that we have not seen before. It was fresh and original from start to finish. I will be seeing again. 4.25/5 stars -CBD |