Shareefruck
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Mr. Robot: Season 1 - 1.5 (Neutral)
Damn, somebody really loves Fight Club. That, and switching in and out of focus.
One thing I really love about this series is how they set up the opening titles. It looks and sounds great and interesting pretty much every time. I wish more shows would do it this way.
I thought the show had some potential but was also a little put off by the whiney mopiness early on. A premise like the one in Fight Club can get a little obnoxious but is saved by its nihilistic wit, black humor, sense of playful fun and charm. In this show, just about everything about that movie is lifted here except the humor. It takes itself seriously. They do that thing where the protagonist is an angsty misanthrope that you're meant to feel a bit sorry for, but at the same time they try to make him act cool. He does a pretty spot on impression of the dead, drawling narration in Fight Club, but for some reason, it sounds self serious and silly rather than stylish and cool (you just want to tell him to get over himself). The European antagonist guy was pretty good. I like the way it looks and feels, but I'm not too big on the writing/execution/storytelling.
It starts losing me in that episode where they do that heist and he goes into withdrawls. By the time the twist hit me, I started to think "this is getting a little lame", and the final few episodes where they show the aftermath of what they did, it felt like two messy hours that wandered nowhere. Parts of the ending felt stupid to me.
It also has that problem that I always talk about TV dramas having in general. They all start to blur together and feel the same to me. A character gets in over his head having to deal with some intense life or death scenario and repeatedly has to dig himself out of these hopeless situations while accidentally creating new problems along the way and it all gets out of hand. Feels like every drama does this exact same thing except for a handful of exceptions (and pretty much all of the extra time TV Shows have to explore things is spent almost entirely on doing this over and over again). I find it tiring, formulaic/gimmicky/pointlessly manipulative and boring. This is the single biggest reason why I think the whole "Television has caught up to film" narrative is total bull**** and it's still got long ways to go before it even comes close. It's been improving, but the medium's still in its infant stages, IMO.
Overall, not a bad show, well produced, but I also don't want to bother recommending it to anybody.
One Punch Man - 1.5 (Neutral)
Damn, somebody really loves Fight Club. That, and switching in and out of focus.
One thing I really love about this series is how they set up the opening titles. It looks and sounds great and interesting pretty much every time. I wish more shows would do it this way.
I thought the show had some potential but was also a little put off by the whiney mopiness early on. A premise like the one in Fight Club can get a little obnoxious but is saved by its nihilistic wit, black humor, sense of playful fun and charm. In this show, just about everything about that movie is lifted here except the humor. It takes itself seriously. They do that thing where the protagonist is an angsty misanthrope that you're meant to feel a bit sorry for, but at the same time they try to make him act cool. He does a pretty spot on impression of the dead, drawling narration in Fight Club, but for some reason, it sounds self serious and silly rather than stylish and cool (you just want to tell him to get over himself). The European antagonist guy was pretty good. I like the way it looks and feels, but I'm not too big on the writing/execution/storytelling.
It starts losing me in that episode where they do that heist and he goes into withdrawls. By the time the twist hit me, I started to think "this is getting a little lame", and the final few episodes where they show the aftermath of what they did, it felt like two messy hours that wandered nowhere. Parts of the ending felt stupid to me.
It also has that problem that I always talk about TV dramas having in general. They all start to blur together and feel the same to me. A character gets in over his head having to deal with some intense life or death scenario and repeatedly has to dig himself out of these hopeless situations while accidentally creating new problems along the way and it all gets out of hand. Feels like every drama does this exact same thing except for a handful of exceptions (and pretty much all of the extra time TV Shows have to explore things is spent almost entirely on doing this over and over again). I find it tiring, formulaic/gimmicky/pointlessly manipulative and boring. This is the single biggest reason why I think the whole "Television has caught up to film" narrative is total bull**** and it's still got long ways to go before it even comes close. It's been improving, but the medium's still in its infant stages, IMO.
Overall, not a bad show, well produced, but I also don't want to bother recommending it to anybody.
One Punch Man - 1.5 (Neutral)
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