3 episodes in. My impression is more positive than this. I watched the first season of the Simpsons again last year, and the first season of Futurama again a few months ago. This is definitely closer to Futurama, but it’s its own thing (the jokes don’t have to be squished into 22 minutes - whether that’s better or worse I’m not really sure)
“Speak no more of Leavo”, “KING FIGHT,” the entire cocaine starting-a-band monologue, top-notch sign gags, “drive him mad with your indecisiveness” “… I don’t know”
The good shit’s still there, the jokes per minute are low. But I love when they have the confidence to do a too-smart wordplay joke and then just walk away from it. Alongside stupid shit like the king’s running joke about carefully inspecting things and elaborately narrating the process. The physical comedy on the lethal/disfiguring violence is 100% on-point.
Season 2 dropped on Netflix and I went through the whole thing [of The Good Place]. Saying it now, that’s one of the best seasons of a comedy television show. I found Season 1 to be pretty enjoyable, but Season 2 goes places I never expected and pulls it off brilliantly. It just throws convention out of the fucking window. Loved what they did with Ted Danson’s character. The discussions over philosophy are so candid and the way the show incorporates them into the overall theme and plotting of some episodes are straight up glorious.
It’s honestly the only show I’ve ever seen that will essentially completely reboot the entire show from one season to the next, and actually does it well.
AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
All That
The Amanda Show
The Angry Beavers
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
CatDog
ChalkZone
Clarissa Explains It All
Double Dare 2000
Doug
Guts
Hey Dude
KABLAM!
Kenan & Kel
Legends of the Hidden Temple
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
Nick Arcade
Rocko’s Modern Life
Salute Your Shorts
The Wild Thornberrys
Ultimate Beastmaster on Netflix is my guiltiest of guilty pleasures. It’s getting better each season as they develop the rules and game design to make it more fair, rigorous, and entertaining. It’s a show I could talk about for hours, and do with Juliane.
I watched a couple of episodes. I couldn’t help but compare it to American Ninja Warrior but with sillier mouse trap type challenges.
It reminded me of those old Nickelodeon shows like Guts and Double Dare. I do like the team aspect of it versus Ninja Warriors individual challenger. That and how each country has their own announcers and booths.
Watched half a season with spouse and we are loving it. The shade from each country’s commentators has me dying. I am rooting for anyone to see if they can achieve it. It’s also hilarious seeing people catch bad ones.
Season 3 is much better for big upsets and unexpected face plants. It’s way less “are you a professional climber? So go right to the final”, which was the theme of the first two seasons, and more “you’re going to have to not be stupid for a moment” and some non-climbers can make it.
Korea has the best commentators, though I am loving this guy doing England for S3, the flat matter of fact play by play with that voice is hilariously awesome.
For the entire run of every episode I’m right on the edge of “oh shut up commentators and let’s just see the action” but then I’m also grinning all the way through it, and cracking up at how bad the Brazilians are this season and giggling at home much the Italians and French constantly throw jabs at each other. And how much the Brazilians and Mexicans love each other.
Just got the final to watch now. My money is on the Mexican and the first Australian to be on the tower together.
Iron Fist Season Two was much better than the first season. I give it a solid C+/B-.
The show still suffers from the problem that pretty much every character is more interesting than the “main” character, but after seeing Finn Jones in Luke Cage Season 2, I have come to the conclusion that this is more the writers’ fault than the actor’s. The show still has no idea what to do with Danny Rand or how to portray Iron Fist as a compelling character.
