to each their own.  You liked the dumb melodrama, I did not.  I much prefer it being a character study of Johnny.  That is the hook that made it different.

I completely agreed with your review of season 2. It really turned into the nostalgia cartoon that everyone thought it would be. What made season 1 a surprise hit was the redemption arc for Johnny and the exploration of how one’s perspective of their life through their own mythmaking in their head makes a person blind…

The most interesting thing about season 1 (and what made it a surprise) was the thought that if done right, Cobra Kai’s karate was a perfectly acceptable form of Karate and not evil, the same way Johnny was not really evil. Season 2 went completely back on that to the movie theme that “Daniel’s Karate good, Cobra bad…

The worst part about the second season was making Cobra Kai into a cartoon again.  All of the bullied in season one became bullies and they made a big mistake bring back Kreese.  I guess they will always have season one, when this show surprised.  In season 3, they really have to go back to what made season one such a…

All good points. One of the reasons that comparatively little movies or TV shows have really shown WWI as compared to WWII was the “bad guys” in WWII are just much simpler to grasp and everyone admits they were evil, even the Japanese and the Germans.  WWI really did not have that.  Yeah, we fought the Germans, but…

Thank you! I agree. I think everyone needs to once again come to the adult conclusion in 2021 that “all people do not agree with everything YOU believe” and that is okay so long as it is merely opinion.

Thank you for saying that about the Flagg dream sequences. These are supposed to be scary but they are instead campy, and not in a good way. At all.

I saw the first episode, and as others have said on here, as a guy the word that pops into my mind to describe my thoughts is “completely silly but weirdly “R “ rated”. It is definitely not for me. I thought this would be a Downton Abbey/Belgravia type of thing, but it is more like a weird mixture of a fairy tale for…

I just saw it, it is like a “C”, mostly because for the life of me I do not get how the two stories really gel into a coherent whole. The acting is mostly the good part, but it just seemed to me Clooney was searching for some connection between the artic story and the space story that alluded me. I do not want to…

Agree. I think women Do look better for longer now than way back when King wrote this. People exercise, there i botox, all kinds of stuff that did not exist in 1980. For a younger guy (IDK how old Larry was in the novel, but I am assuming early 20's?) back then, they would think someone 50 was “old” and kind of gross.…

This was awful not just as Trek, but basic storytelling. If there was one criticism that really stuck on the old TNG/Voyager plots, it was the overuse of “reset button” endings to hand wave any permanent change in the status quo. And what does this do? Give an ultimate reset button ending. Between this and…

As someone who loved TNG, this was terrible.  The ultimate reset button ending.

As this is one of my favorite books, I hate to say it, but the “time jumps” have just been an awful decision. To anyone who did not read the books, this really spoils any dramatic tension at all. And I do not see how it has added anything after two episodes, other than spoiling that these people do not die and what…

Yep, this is a show I really wanted to like, especially since it was a network show and they do not do these kind of high concept sci-fi shows anymore. I would take them swinging and missing with shows like this over their dumb game shows/reality drek any day, but they do not see it that way. As an AV article says…

Yeah, I gave up on this series after about ten episodes, for many of the criticisms in this review. It is highly derivative (I tapped out when they did the mirror universe thing for the 100's time). The show it actually reminds me if the most is Scott Bakula’s Enterprise..and most people would not think that was a…

It will survive fine because people just do not go to movies just to watch a movie, they do it to see family, friends, dates and to go “out”. The same way you do not go to a symphony or concert to just hear Beethoven or Taylor Swift. You can listen to a symphony at home. You can listen to Swift anytime you want. You…

This reminds me of the movie “Back to School” where Rodney Dangerfield’s English teacher/girlfriend gave him an “F” on a paper about Kurt Vonnegut saying “you know nothing about Vonnegut!” When the joke is Rodney paid Vonnegut to write his paper and cheated. Um, she wrote the thing, so her opinion is pretty much the…

People can hold two thoughts at once, especially when they do not conflict. You can take a pandemic seriously and still be upset that your business is suffering. Movies and theaters are being killed by this, just like restaurants. I can take the pandemic seriously and still be mad that many people I know are suffering…

haha..poor you thinking that anything DC does actually will have any continuity at all and they do not just make up crap to fit each movie.

I loved the first one..all the way up to the stupid CGI “battle” at the end where they literally stated that a god caused war, and defeating him caused peace (so um, how did WWII happen? And every war since?) I will see this but I can say I think bringing back Steve was a mistake. I have never got these superhero…