I’m not exactly sure what Bricken personally is asking for, but The Mandalorian was MOSTLY not set on Tatooine. It did go there a couple times, which Bricken complained about, but the vast majority of the show was set in a variety of different locations with different looks to them. That does not quite support the…

The sad thing is that even though I was no fan of the prequels in general, the settings were by FAR the best part of them! Terrible dialogue, wooden acting, poorly-conceived characters, inexplicable plot choices, and on and on? Sure. But the settings were actually good!

So obviously magical realism in general does that on purpose, introducing fantastical elements into an otherwise real-world setting. Often that is at least in part for the purpose of providing social commentary. And of course a lot of satire and other subversive comedies include implausible/impossible elements for…

Excellent point. It would be easy for her character to just be an annoyance, but I find myself really liking her and sympathizing with her, and finding her scenes to be funny.

I personally really appreciate Amanda being available as a surrogate for any normal parents watching the show. Not just her initial reactions to things, but also things like her failed attempts to get Daniel to prioritize properly, her failed attempt to take legal action against Kreese, and so on. Those beats capture…

Speaking just for myself, the adults plus SOME of the kid stuff was more than enough to keep me entertained and interested overall. And actually, I was more or less OK with pretty much all the content involving Miguel, Eli/Hawk, Demetri, Aisha, Tory, and other supporting kids.

I just went through a season of HS soccer as a parent, and unfortunately it is sadly realistic for certain adults “that the goings-on of a local [] sport for teenagers would define [their] personalities immediately upon entering its orbit,” and that “[t]he kids [would] continue to be largely pawns in [their] ego…

Shrinking is one of those scifi things like time travel which is kinda easy to imagine on a surface level, but is virtually impossible to make plausible once you starting really thinking about how it would intersect with the ordinary physical world.

Yeah, as someone who finds most sincere musicals to be “excruciating,” I thought this was a very effective and funny parody.

Honestly, good but not great is sort of how I feel about the book series too. It does not exactly stand out in my mind as one of the greatest book series I have read, with lots of notable flaws or simply mediocre aspects, and nothing really groundbreaking. But it was engaging enough due to the loving…

Yeah, this poster was looking for reasons to dislike the show all along.

FATWS was flawed and the worst of the live-action Marvel shows, but far from the worst genre show of 2021.

Yeah, I thought it built really well on the first season, and it was definitely one of my top 10 or so shows this year.

My experience with WandaVision was definitely different from yours. Until the disappointing finale (and even that had its moments), it was one of my favorite shows this year.  Because of the finish I do consider it a flawed season, but to me, at least, not a forgettable one.

Any excuse to mention Schitt’s Creek is a good one.  Very funny and yet also at root very humane.

I thought The White Lotus was fun and well-done. It was probably a top 25 show for me, not sure top 15, definitely not top 10.

Who let her into my future basement?

I definitely thought FTWS was the weakest of the live action series. It had some moments, but it was not nearly as exciting to me as WV or Loki, nor as consistently good as Hawkeye. I thought it was particularly weak in the ending, which WV and Loki also had issues with.  But in their cases they had earned much more…

As I suggested in another post, I would probably start with Sex Lives of College Girls as the biggest omission on this list. That was incredibly well done, right up there with Hacks for me, and definitely ahead of The Other Two.

Interesting. I found It’s a Sin to be very emotionally affecting, but maybe I am just an easy mark.