Television Round-Up
Sep. 29th, 2024 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI've been jumping around television shows - which I watch mainly on the weekends depending on time, which is sparse. So this is kind of over various weekends?
1. Scavengers Reign Limited Animated Sci-Fi Series- (Netflix, although created by MAX) - this is an innovative and critically acclaimed adult sci-fi animated series. (It should not be confused with a cartoon. There's a difference in styles, and this is more towards hyper-realism, while cartoons tend to be more caricature art or representative, also cartoons are usually (not always) targeted towards 6-25 year old audience. I would not show Scavengers Reign to children, it would give them nightmares. And has adult content.)
The set-up? The Demeter space cruiser, along with its crew and passengers is redirected by one of the crew, who has investments in getting their cargo to a specific destination - to a hostile alien planet, that supports human life, but like all planetary environments has its own hostile and non-hostile inhabitants. I'm not clear what the cargo of the Demeter was, or where it was headed, just that it had to go a different course due to a an asteroid storm, and a rogue engineer who felt they could get through it, reset the course.
The series follows about five or six survivors of the escape from the damaged ship, wandering about the planet, trying to find each other, the Demeter, and trying to survive in the increasingly futile hope of rescue from a planet that has hidden dangers throughout.
It's among the most innovative human/alien planet series that I've seen to date. But falls within the sci-fi horror trope. And thank god, it's animated. I wouldn't be able to watch a live action version, assuming it could be done, and I'm not so sure it could be.
During it - I thought, well, I wouldn't want to be trapped on a hostile planet awaiting rescue. Then realized, I'm already on a hostile planet. Depends on where you are. Just as the characters in this story realize - it depends on what they do and where they are and what they run into. I mean there's hidden dangers here too, and all sorts of things that could kill me, invisible and otherwise.
I'd call this biological science fiction or ecological/bio sci-fi, as opposed to space opera. More sci-fi than horror, although it does fall within the horror genre - in that horrifying things happen during it.
I'm eight episodes in, with four remaining. It's a limited series with 12 episodes in all. One season.
2. Nobody Wants This -a new rom-com by Erin Foster, on Netflix, about 10 episodes, and stars Kristin Bell (Veronica Mars/The Good Place), Adam Brody (The OC, Startup).
Kristin Bell (Joanne) runs a podcast with her sister entitled "Nobody Wants This" and at a party hosted by her agent, runs into Adam Brody (Noah) who is a Rabbi. This takes place in LA. I'm watching mainly for the comic timing of Bell and Brody, who are both great with one-liners, banter, and self-deprecating snark. Think Veronica Mars runs into Seth from the OC when they are well into their 30s and established in their lives.
Quibbles? Like all sitcoms in this day and age, it's a touch heavy on the insult/tease humor. I've yet to find a sitcom that isn't. Also, a tad heavy on the sex and dick jokes. Which it does, at least, apologize for, so there's that. "Yes, yes, we're doing sex and dick jokes now - we know, sorry, not sorry." Appears to be the general attitude.
When it veers away from both, or in some scenarios does the joke from a situational context - it is rather funny. But when it digs down on the annoying family stereotypes, I want to smack it. The first three episodes are kind of brutal in this regard. I wanted to lock the couple's families in a room together, out of sight, and just watch Brody and Bell banter.
After that? It appears to find its footing and veer away from them, except for the siblings, which actually work. And their workplaces.
Less is more in regards to Noah's annoying ex-girlfriend, and the writers seem to be picking up on this. Since we only really see her in the first episode, and just in reference afterwards.
The series tackles head on the Jewish and Gentile stereotypes from both groups. And perhaps too heavily? It became annoying at times. But by the fourth episode, it kind of goes away. So, if you try it? Give it five episodes. It's uneven, like most sitcoms.
1. Scavengers Reign Limited Animated Sci-Fi Series- (Netflix, although created by MAX) - this is an innovative and critically acclaimed adult sci-fi animated series. (It should not be confused with a cartoon. There's a difference in styles, and this is more towards hyper-realism, while cartoons tend to be more caricature art or representative, also cartoons are usually (not always) targeted towards 6-25 year old audience. I would not show Scavengers Reign to children, it would give them nightmares. And has adult content.)
The set-up? The Demeter space cruiser, along with its crew and passengers is redirected by one of the crew, who has investments in getting their cargo to a specific destination - to a hostile alien planet, that supports human life, but like all planetary environments has its own hostile and non-hostile inhabitants. I'm not clear what the cargo of the Demeter was, or where it was headed, just that it had to go a different course due to a an asteroid storm, and a rogue engineer who felt they could get through it, reset the course.
The series follows about five or six survivors of the escape from the damaged ship, wandering about the planet, trying to find each other, the Demeter, and trying to survive in the increasingly futile hope of rescue from a planet that has hidden dangers throughout.
It's among the most innovative human/alien planet series that I've seen to date. But falls within the sci-fi horror trope. And thank god, it's animated. I wouldn't be able to watch a live action version, assuming it could be done, and I'm not so sure it could be.
During it - I thought, well, I wouldn't want to be trapped on a hostile planet awaiting rescue. Then realized, I'm already on a hostile planet. Depends on where you are. Just as the characters in this story realize - it depends on what they do and where they are and what they run into. I mean there's hidden dangers here too, and all sorts of things that could kill me, invisible and otherwise.
I'd call this biological science fiction or ecological/bio sci-fi, as opposed to space opera. More sci-fi than horror, although it does fall within the horror genre - in that horrifying things happen during it.
I'm eight episodes in, with four remaining. It's a limited series with 12 episodes in all. One season.
2. Nobody Wants This -a new rom-com by Erin Foster, on Netflix, about 10 episodes, and stars Kristin Bell (Veronica Mars/The Good Place), Adam Brody (The OC, Startup).
Kristin Bell (Joanne) runs a podcast with her sister entitled "Nobody Wants This" and at a party hosted by her agent, runs into Adam Brody (Noah) who is a Rabbi. This takes place in LA. I'm watching mainly for the comic timing of Bell and Brody, who are both great with one-liners, banter, and self-deprecating snark. Think Veronica Mars runs into Seth from the OC when they are well into their 30s and established in their lives.
Quibbles? Like all sitcoms in this day and age, it's a touch heavy on the insult/tease humor. I've yet to find a sitcom that isn't. Also, a tad heavy on the sex and dick jokes. Which it does, at least, apologize for, so there's that. "Yes, yes, we're doing sex and dick jokes now - we know, sorry, not sorry." Appears to be the general attitude.
When it veers away from both, or in some scenarios does the joke from a situational context - it is rather funny. But when it digs down on the annoying family stereotypes, I want to smack it. The first three episodes are kind of brutal in this regard. I wanted to lock the couple's families in a room together, out of sight, and just watch Brody and Bell banter.
After that? It appears to find its footing and veer away from them, except for the siblings, which actually work. And their workplaces.
Less is more in regards to Noah's annoying ex-girlfriend, and the writers seem to be picking up on this. Since we only really see her in the first episode, and just in reference afterwards.
The series tackles head on the Jewish and Gentile stereotypes from both groups. And perhaps too heavily? It became annoying at times. But by the fourth episode, it kind of goes away. So, if you try it? Give it five episodes. It's uneven, like most sitcoms.