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Started now on Loki season 2. I've been a little lukewarm on recent Marvel TV offerings. She Hulk was entertaining but by no means a masterpiece, as was Moon Knight, and I just have no desire to sit down and watch Secret Invasion for various reasons. But Loki is a different animal. Been looking forward to this one since it's fairly important to the events of the whole multiverse schtick and what not, and for fun they happened to add another guy who just won an Oscar for starring in a multiverse-themed film in Ke Huy Quan.

The production design team must have an absolute blast with this show what with making up sets and gadgets that are futuristic, yet look like they're from the late sixties. They just suited up Owen Wilson in some ridiculous sumo-sized EVA suit with an outsized triangular-windowed helmet and it was magnificent.

The one problem: Jonathan Majors. Marvel and Disney made a pretty big commitment in hiring him to play Kang the Conqueror, the next Big Bad of the Avengers films, and of course here he's playing a few of the countless alternate versions of that character. He's a great actor but his off-camera troubles only seem to be getting worse, how long before Marvel does something they really don't like to do and recast him?

https://ew.com/tv/bruce-willis-moonligh ... ivre-gone/

Good news, Moonlighting is now streaming (can't believe it took this long) on Hulu.

Bad news, according to the show's creator, he's visited with Bruce Willis and the latter has deteriorated to the point where he's "not completely verbal" and at times doesn't recognize people.

The verbal thing is understandable given the continued progression of his dementia and resulting aphasia, but I'm sad to hear it's severely affecting his cognitive abilities so profoundly.

I've wondered about this as well, and I've come to the conclusion that it would not bother me a bit. They need to get it done sooner than later though.

And you forgot Ms.Marvel, which was slow but became so good.

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Ah, yes. Ms. Marvel, that one was definitely good. And that also reminds me that Wandavision was also quite enjoyable, but IMO it went the opposite route. Started out fantastic and petered out a bit at the end.

That show and Ms. Marvel both set up The Marvels which looks to be really good. I actually really liked the first Captain Marvel film.

I've watched like 2 Wandavision episodes. Can't bring myself to watch the rest.
Nobody in my family wants to watch Ms. Marvel, as they've heard it's awful and I'd feel creepy being the only one to watch a show about a teenage girl.
Captain Marvel was great.

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I also only watched 2 Wandavision episodes, wasn't my thing. But Ms. Marvel is good, its take on urban culture, and immigrant culture in particular makes it quite worthwhile. Its not a dark show if that is your thing and it does take a few episodes to get into it but worth it.

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Anam loved(and I enjoyed it too) Ms. Marvel, particularly the stuff where they visit Karachi(where she was born and spent the first few years of her life). That stuff is meaningful.

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Ohhhhhhh...Earn. Jesus, man. I did not see that twist coming.

Are you done? If so what did you think of Liam Neeson?

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Oh no, not yet. I just saw "The Homliest Little Horse," episode four of the final season. But yes I did see the episode of which you refer and damn, that was something. Quite poignant when he said as he exited "Us white people don't have to learn anything if we don't want to." Ain't that the truth.

Poor Alfred has the absolute worst time when he gets his own solo episodes.

Homliest Little Horse is awfully cringy............and it touches on so my levels. Yet, the touching on so many levels and the willingness to provoke the viewer to ask more questions is pretty much the show. The sushi restaurant stands out in similar fashion.

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Looks like Doom Patrol is back and wrapping up its final episodes. Its still absurd and often times borders on making little sense.....but that's the Doom Patrol schtick anyway.

I am actually enjoying Gen V at the moment. Didn't give it much of a chance but its good enough.

Powering through Shoresy the best I can....sure do like the French Canadian announcers.

Haven't started Loki yet.

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My wife isn't in the mood to watch Shoresy, so I gotta find time to watch on my own.

I'm mostly watching Dropout.tv lately. Especially Jeopardy style pop culture correction game show Um Actually. Who wouldn't like a show that rewards pedantic corrections?

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My wife won't watch Shoresy either. I binge watched the first season while away for a conference. I told her the first episode is the worst as far as insults and that it actually spins to have a somewhat decent lesson. She still opted out and now doesn't like Wayne as much on Letterkenny. I was supposed to go to a conference in early Nov and figured I'd binge the 2nd season then. Now I'm not going. The horror!

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Anam enjoyed Shoresy more than Letterkenny.

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Going to have to give props to Shoresy Season 2 Episodes 3, 4 and especially 5.....old tyme hockey players police themselves!

I was a bit worried where this season was going but I have really enjoyed these last episodes.

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Just finished Upload, season 3 and it'll be a huuuuuuge bummer if they don't renew for season 4 given the cliffhanger things ended on.

Gotta admit, it's a very enjoyable show, with some absolutely beautiful leads (especially Allegra Edwards) but I just feel like there's some missed potential there. It could be an absolutely caustic, darkly funny satire about corporate overreach and how we, the general public, just kinda sign our entire lives over to capitalism, but they choose not to go there. At least not in a way that would have me cringing and laughing and rethinking my entire existence...you know, the way really good comedies can do sometimes. They're settling for a sitcom-level show and I think they could've made it more interesting if they were really willing to give the show and its writing teeth. Whatever the case, there's some irony about this show villainizing the biggest corporation on the planet when it's literally brought to us from the biggest corporation (not counting the Catholic Church) on the planet.

Watched a bit of Upload S3. I'm shocked it made it this long, so anything I get is golden. Started off a bit like The Good Place but it's carved its own niche. Nora speaks with this ASMR type voice and it gets me every time.

I'm also loving Taskmaster New Zealand. I watch on YouTube. A+ comedy.

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I've been gradually watching DS9 for a while and when it popped up on Netflix that The Visitor was the next episode, I had alarms going off in my head that there was something about this episode, and I figured that the source of the alarms originated in OTP. This is up there as an all-time tear jerker. Amazing episode. Gonna go hug my sleeping kids.

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I got the Mrs watching Shoresey. Halfway through season 1. She's admitted that it's way better than she thought it would be.

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Posting your political views on social media is like sticking your head up your ass & whispering: You're just as likely to change someone's mind, and you'll always come out looking like a shithead.