First two episodes of Hawkeye were pretty good I thought. Worryingly light for what’s essentially 1/3 of the whole show but hopefully there’s more meat in the next couple of episodes. Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye run is probably my generation’s Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns so it’s an incredibly high bar and this show doesn’t quite have the zip or spark that Fraction’s writing has but it’s a decent attempt. Kate Bishop’s going to be great moving forwards though, the casting’s brilliant and she really captures the spirit of the character. Thinking about it, there’s no way they won’t do Young Avengers now as out of the original lineup they have Kate Bishop, Cassie Lang, Patriot, Wiccan and Speed already in the MCU. Technically Kang was a member too and they’re fair game. It’s only really Hulkling that hasn’t been introduced and he could easily be written into Secret Invasion. Kamala Khan could realistically be a part of the team too!
So I just started using Disney+ today after having not used it since January this year and holy crap have they added tons of stuff since then! I'm genuinely amazed by all the new content, especially the Marvel TV shows. I feel like I really need to get through all the necessary MCU movies now so that I can watch the TV shows that take place after Avengers Endgame. People have told me that I need to watch the Iron Man, Captain America and Thor movies as well as others before I watch Endgame, which means I need to do all of that before watching the shows.
Gonna have a lot of stuff to watch from here on out, which is good because I'm honestly starting to lose interest in HBO. Everything I start to watch just isn't interesting. I've been watching Doom Patrol and that show is an absolute snoozefest. Then I started watching Walking Dead and because I'm rewatching the last season I watched before stopping, it's also making me lose interest. Finally, I decided to watch True Detective and while that show is very good so far, it just doesn't do anything to stand out. I really have to watch all these shows when I'm in a better mood because apparently I'm in a Disney/Marvel mood right now, lol.
Also, you know what's interesting? A lot of Marvel content that's been removed from Netflix is now on Disney+, such as Marvel's Agent Carter. On top of this, I mentioned a while back that a Marvel show on HBO called Inhumans was removed and now I find it on Disney+, lol. Anyway, there's a lot of other good stuff besides Disney/Marvel content that they've added this year and one show that stood out to me was Burn Notice. I used to watch the first few seasons when I was younger together with my brother! I'm definitely interested in watching the rest now as I absolutely loved that show as a kid.
Like holy crap, Disney+ is genuinely a very appealing service to me now. I think if I ever get my interest back in HBO that I'll be primarily using those two services from here on out.
Started DopeSick and my god is it good! The missus and I weren’t even that keen on it going in as we have seen a lot of OxyContin season long-arcs recently in other shows (Bosch, Goliath etc.) and while we enjoyed those storylines, we just wondered what else could be added to the subject? Well… a lot as it turns out. It is as addictive a show as is its subject-matter and I’m left feeling a bit devastated that D+ doesn’t hold all of the episodes right now… phenomenal show!
@Kidfried Glad you’re enjoying Get Back and it does sound interesting. I like the documentary style films that give rare footage of things have interest in. I’m not the biggest Beatles fan in the world but I might get in a mood to watch it one day.
As for Disney+, if you’re not a fan of the animated classics, Pixar films, Marvel, or Star Wars, then there not much else on offer. The extraneous content originals don’t interest me much either. Stuff like Bake-offs, The Jonas Brothers, and That’s So Raven just don’t do it for me.
However, you have a lifetime of The Simpsons, which never gets old. Same goes for Phineas and Ferb. For a music aficionado like you, some old classics are sprinkled throughout like The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins for when you’re in the mood for that. But for you… I’m guessing you might enjoy Hamilton (although very American, I admit), and a couple of the newer fantastic music themed Pixar movies like Coco and Soul — both very enjoyable and although they have the Disney sheen, feel less cookie-cutter than some of their output.
If none of that seems interesting, then at least you’ll get to experience The Mandalorian which is fantastic, and worth the month’s subscription fee by itself.
@Kidfried@Th3solution See, this is where things get complicated. At least here in the UK, Star on Disney+ adds probably more content I’m interested in than the Disney stuff. Like they just added The Last Duel in 4K which I’ll definitely watch, same with Summer of Soul. A lot of good TV shows as well like The Americans, Fosse/Verdon, Atlanta and even stuff like The Golden Girls. I think a lot of the stuff is Hulu content that we get as part of Disney+ cause we don’t have Hulu over here.
@nessisonett Yeah, we don’t get those unless you buy the Hulu package (which I haven’t). That’s awesome that you get all that too. I want to watch The Handmaid’s Tale, but refuse to get Hulu just for that.
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@Thrillho Honestly, the Never Mind the Buzzcocks reboot was brilliant but that’s mostly because of the panel they had and an obviously winning format. The rest have all been pretty garbage.
@Thrillho I didn’t realise people weren’t big on her. Hadn’t really seen her on anything before but thought she was really funny. Beats having the same 2 faces on every panel show.
After the first episode I was like "Okay this is pretty decent... I don't quite get the rave reviews about it though"
Got to the credits of episode 3 though and I was like "Oh. Oooooh"
I've watched five episodes now and gotta say the 3D animation IS pretty dang good with a nice art style as well (I do quite like the 2D flourishes at times like smoke or such.)
Noticed Yuri Lowenthal was in there as Mylo & I thought J.B Blanc (Ryotaro Dojima in P4 or Rost in Horizon) did a terrific job as Vander & Hailee Steinfeld as Vi/Violet is pretty spectacular too. Honestly the voice cast is pretty much on point.
I liked Powder but I'm a little unsure how I feel about "Jinx" at the moment though.
And yes the storytelling is pretty good in it as well and the characters are rather well developed.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I definitely need to check that out. The trailers look really good.
I’ve been gradually watching Castlevania and have found it pretty good. I’ve at the beginning of Season 3 and the series has been ‘hit-or-miss’, but mostly ‘hit’. Sometimes the animation looks fantastic and sometimes it looks ‘Saturday morning cartoon’ quality. Mostly it’s quite good though. The narrative is also mostly good but once Dracula was killed, it’s become less interesting. I’m not discounting that he will make some kind of miraculous return in order to keep the story going
There has been some decent quality video game related shows of late, whether animated or live-action.
Another show I was looking at this weekend was Cowboy Bebop. Anyone watched that yet and if so how is it? I’ve never watched the anime.
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@Th3solution I was really really trying to be optimistic about Cowboy Bebop because the sort of people that were bashing it before it came out were doing it for reasons that I felt slightly uncomfortable about. But it’s unfortunately pants. Absolute pants. Perhaps you’d get something out of it if you haven’t seen the anime?
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