Coming Up This Week: from: Season 4 (MGM Plus), Running Pointe: Season 2 (Netflix), Criminal Record: Season 2 (Apple), as well as new shows Half Man (HBO MAX), Kevin (Amazon), Unchosen (Netflix), and a few movies including the Disney Nature release Orangutan (Disney Plus) and the Charlize Theron/Tarn Edgerton thriller Apex (Netflix). Oh, and the NFL Draft if you’re into that sort of thing. There’s also this Stranger Things off shoot, Tales From 85. It’s an animated series taking place between Season 2 and 3, and No, I don’t know why Netflix thinks this is the thing people want from the franchise.
TV Shows Watched: Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord: S1E4 (Disney Plus) with audio description, Wondla: S3E5 (Apple) with audio description, Vladimir: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Rooster: S1E2 (HBO MAX) with audio description, and Young Sherlock: S1E2 (Amazon) with audio description
Maul: Shadow Lord- Devan reunites with her Master, Maul makes his move on reclaiming his control over the planets criminal enterprises, and the Captain may never forgive Two boots. Dave Wallace’s audio description through Deluxe is really good. I know the Star Wars stuff is put under a microscope, but it really does create these fully realized worlds where people live.I love how we keep focusing on Maul’s eyes, those haunting yellow eyes everytime something bad is going to happen.
Wondla- Seemingly close to the end, Ava gets closer to saving the planet from the evil humans. James Cameron needs to watch this for some ideas that could creatively push Avatar forward. He’ll have competition soon, since Amazon is making a live action Ferngully that no one asked for.
Vladimir- It’s quirky, light, fluffy, and has a casualness that works in its favor. Compared to some of the writing on other female friendly shows like Emily In Paris, Vladimir has a bit more heft to it, not just through its writing, but its cast. It is funny that this late in the series, we still do not have a name for our lead, so she’s consistently referred to as the professor.
Rooster- I did kind of forget this show existed.My Bad. Rooster is the kind of show that has some fun elements to it, but the sum of its parts seems to still fall short. Carell certainly has had better characters, the plot is pretty simple, I can see how this could be a great show, but it just feels like it is wasting its potential most of the time. The weirdest thing is it feels less like a HBO show, and more like something that gets lost at Apple or Netflix. Nothing about it so far feels HBO to me.
Young Sherlock- I’m really enjoying Guy Ritchie’s what if on Sherlock and Moriarty being best friends and trying to work through this series of mysteries at Oxford. My fear is that Ritchie will try to pull these two apart sooner rather than later, when I think the series is far more interesting because everyone knows where they end up. let it be contradictory for a little while longer, and keep Holmes and Moriarty bouncing off each other. We’ve seen Holmes and Watson done to death. This dynamic is just different enough to make it work.