My twitter experience is that like 60% of it is stuff about Marvel movies. idk if it’s because I click on too much Marvel stuff or if everyone else has the same experience.
I just finished Avengers Endgame. Is Wandavision worth watching?
No, go watch Ragnarok.
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Has anybody watched “For all mankind” yet? I’m over halfway through season 1 and I find it to be an amazing show so far! It’s about what if we didn’t stop space exploration after the moon missions. (don’t watch the trailer, just start the first ep if you are curious because the trailer spoils too much).
Tried to search on the forum for it but got no results.
I enjoyed it. It’s not an instant classic or anything but I doubt anyone who enjoyed the first one will regret watching it.
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The S2 trailer is intriguing and I know Ronald D. Moore is the creator. I’m sure I’ll watch eventually.
oh yes. It’s fantastic. Just don’t go in expecting it to be typical marvel fare.
Also, probably should have a small content warning: if you have lost someone close to you recently, it might be either upsetting or cathartic, depending on how you personally deal with grief. I personally found it cathartic, but that’s just me.
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coming 2 america was actually pretty good, even though half of the plot is completely contrived.
this video is full of spoilers. I’ve timestamped it where they start discussing the series, the MCU, and why the weekly theory-fests kind of overshadowed the actual show. These guys pretty much say everything I thought about the episode and the series as a whole…it’s a really good discussion.
tl;dw: We’ve gotten so used to MCU movies dropping references and hints that we have just come to expect it, and all the searches for those every week overshadowed the fact that this is a standalone origin story that is about Wanda and her personal journey.
I do wonder if the Wandavision experience is an argument for or against weekly releases vs. dropping all the episodes at once. I guess that remains to be seen if people are pissy enough to affect ratings of future D+ MCU TV series.
Blasphemy.
I realize the big problem—there is a young love romance but we don’t see the movie from the perspective at all. The heart of the first is missing.
I really enjoyed it and thought they did a good job of building a full world out of what might have just started out as a cool elevator pitch. It also sent me down a rabbit hole of reading and watching docs about the early space program for a month or two after I watched, so be on the lookout for that possible side effect :)
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I have seen and heard so much wandavision that I finally turned it on for like five minutes and then came to my senses.
Not a judgment on the quality of content, just me remembering this Is not my cup of biscuit dunking juice.
Superhero stuff might be the remaining mass appeal entertainment option in existence. Audiences for everything else have become fairly narrow.
Forty years ago forty million people would share a random Tuesday night sitcom as an experience. Marvel is one of the few entertainment paths that can still garner near that much collective attention.
By the way I do not view this as necessarily a bad thing. In some ways it is a testament to how deep the content pool is now. But as someone who is not plugged into the superhero genre of marvel it is interesting to see from the sidelines.
I know for me personally, I am much more likely to hold off on weekly release shows and binge them later. Be it totally after the fact or just a few at a time.
Having experienced the weekly dissection of shows forever, I don’t find that missing in my life and for me, my primary enjoyment from television comes from the watching, not the post show analysis. I realize a lot of people enjoy that part and some like it even more than the consumption of the content itself. Just not something I care much about.
I definitely enjoy watching shows when I can consume multiple hours/episodes at once. I find watching a lot of a few shows every week is much more to my liking than watching a little bit of a lot of shows. I might consume the exact same amount of content over a year as someone who likes weekly releases (hypothetically as outside of network tv there are not very many weekly release projects) but we will just digest it differently.
Creatively there are things content creators can do to bolster one format or another for sure but almost all older content was designed to be ingested one episode a week and I prefer watching all of it in multi episode chunks.
You obviously have otter issues too. Some concern binge shows become disposable because they only hold the public’s attention for a fleeting moment. Wandavision is a perfect example. Had it all been released at once, it’s relevancy window would have been a couple weeks instead of a couple months.
Ironically if I was a content creator I would choose weekly releases even though it is not how I would choose to watch it.
For some reason my wife and I watched Season Two of The Sinner first. It had its puzzling moments, but in general we liked it.
We watched Season One next and were like “what the hell is going on here?” There’s the plot itself, which is bonkers and also has the aforementioned massive hole, but there’s also a ton of smaller stuff that just doesn’t make any sense logically.
Then in our opinion the show completely jumped the rails in Season Three and it turned into a hate watch for us. Among our various issues is the fact that Harry is a terrible detective with seemingly zero common sense. Obviously the character is supposed to be a weirdo so it’s sometimes hard to determine how much is intentional and how much is bad writing.
We will probably hate watch Season Four, assuming they make it.
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I’ve heard a lot of people say Season 1 of Schitt’s Creek is the worst and some even quit but I’m 4 episodes in and love it. It’s only going to get better from here?
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I’m on S1/ep8 and I’m still waiting for the funny stuff to happen. Watching O’Hara chew the scenery, Eugene Levy mugging exasperation at the camera, and Elliot being an annoying but harmless creep makes this feel like a comedy for the Murder She Wrote crowd.
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Yes. It’s simply the best 
I found that approaching Schitt’s Creek as an uplifting family “dramady” as opposed to pure comedy works better on the expectations side of things. Like, a comedic “This Is Us.”
You’ll see.
Lmao
This description makes me even less inclined to give it another shot