If not the internet will fucking tell you. I'm never watching it because I'm already sick of it before seeing a second of it.
If not the internet will fucking tell you. I'm never watching it because I'm already sick of it before seeing a second of it.
It's not bad and has a fun concept. People are just so inured to the absolute mediocrity of Marvel/DC shit that they lose their minds when someone elevates it even slightly (also see: the Joker movie)
Plus there's kind of a drought of content rn due to COVID
I think they could have done a lot more with the concept. Using different eras of American television to examine the ideology behind each generation and its view of the american dream would be extremely cool, but instead they kind of just got their writer's room to jack themselves off showing how they can stylistically mimic old shows. I also don't like how homogenized American media is becoming as a result of major studios and streaming services sticking to the same few brands they know will sell rather than giving opportunities to new ideas.
All that said, I was still entertained by the show. It's like a 73/100 for me I guess.
This is 100% true, it is a bit of a waste of the concept. The theme song/opening montages are spot on though
Like Breaking Bad I'm going to not watch it out of spite for no one in particular.
Breaking Bad is the best show I would never watch a second time
It's potentially the best show I'm never going to watch!
That's not bad
Big oof on that one imo but I get it.
I'm fully aware that I'm missing out but it's a matter of principle at this point. It's a loop I will not be in. I have no rational reason for this and I'm being very immature but I'm gonna stick with it anyway.
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The more distance people have from it the more I feel validated in thinking it didn't seem that great to start with.
If you want to be even more spiteful, watch only the spinoff (which according to some people it's better, but you will miss out some cool references or moments for BB fans).
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It seems the world at large is starting to feel more that way.
Yeah there's always a ton of questionably organic "hype" for superhero shit and then it dies in a week
Better Call Saul is an infinitely better and more interesting show anyway, just watch that.
You get the same great cinematography and dialogue, but with a plotline that isn't driven entirely by the high stakes McGuffins at the start and end of the season.
you can skip breaking bad but there's no excuse not to watch better call saul. funniest prestige drama since the sopranos
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Don't Wandavision. Ignore things cause other people like them. Guardians 2 and Thor Ragnarok fucking slap though, I can agree with that. Honestly I wish they'd just go full Ditko and make a good chunk of Marvel movies into Heavy Metal style acid trip space operas cause I like those and will pay to watch them.
Guardians 2 is awesome, but Thor Ragnarok felt like two movies stitched together with a bandaid. It doesn't help that one of those two is bad and the other good.
Never saw Infinity War. I'm going to say, yes, you would like it
I think the problem with these films/stories is that they try to take genuinely engaging topics - blinkered nostalgia, our failing social order, imperialism and the horrors inflicted by the imperial core upon the colonies (WandaVision's big plot reveals serve as fantastic metaphors for a bunch of these) - and then paper it over with Robots And Wizards And Laser Beams.
Like, they're not strictly bad entertainment, which is why they get gobbled up by the public. But they're infantilizing these heavy concepts and looming crises. "Elevating" a Batman villain to bring to light our collapsing social safety net is doing to welfare reform what Captain Planet did to the environmentalist conversation. Except we're doing Big Budget Captain Planet For Adults, because we literally cannot digest our politics any other way.
And even past all of that, we're still in a very dangerous place because so many of these media spectacles still end up promoting our worst political impulses. Avengers lets us continue to believe Smart Military Officers With A Plan and Super Technology will defeat a single malicious actor commanding a horde of monsters. DC keeps pressing on the "Crime Is the Problem" button every chance it gets, adding more fuel to the Terrorists Everywhere hysteria we've been experiencing since 9/11 (and the Satanic Panic before that and the Red Scare before that).
We're losing our minds because this is junk food for our brains.