Silo (season 2) - Dunno what to say, usually split viewing is distracting but having more or less binged this show (pretty much binged season 1 as well) it sorta worked as you get to alternate which side is in setup vs which side is in climax which makes the show go faster. I heard lots of complaints that season 1 is slooooow but I didn't get that impression as much this time because of the alternate pacing. Maybe if I watched this show weekly I might have found it more distracting but doing 2 eps a day the week before the finale, worked.
Taxi Driver (2021) - Just started season 1 and am really enjoy it so far. It's like the perfect mix of action, investigation, revenge, and the coolness of a spy squad. They're filming season 3 now, but season 2 isn't even on Netflix so I guess I'll be off to the high seas soon. One thing I will say is that they could probably trim 5-10 minutes off each episode, mainly due to the overlap (1 story arc per 2 episodes).
The Expanse S5 and S6. Finally caught up on that one on the shelf. Pretty good ending to the show but you could feel that short 6th season had a lot more to tell... hopefully they'll get back to it one day but we also wanted that for Serenity and that didnt happen.
Silo S2 cool ending to that season as well and love the slow burn. Looking forward to S3 and S4. Not everything should be a short one season 6-10 ep series.
Nearly finished The Night Agent S2. Finding Rose annoying this season. Part of that could be because she says she's going to leave every 5 minutes and somehow gets roped back into things.
I swear I read something that Rose wasn't going to be involved much in S2 but she's been in it heaps. While I liked the stuff between Rose and Peter in S1, part of me wonders if the show would be better without her now. Either that or actually give her a proper role as a spy instead of this bullshit. Also I think a big part of why I don't like her is because she coded spy software to track people around the globe. Ethics board or not, that shit is bad. They needed to hook her back into Peter without that nonsense.
The supporting cast has been mediocre this time around too. Noor is okay, but the rest are meh. Alice was a good char and should have been in it more.
Finished Season 2 of Taxi Driver. Was again fantastic. It had more episodes where the team (mainly Do Gi) disguise themselves in funny ways and play a silly role. Got a good mix of serious and absurd. Last third was more of a continous arc again and more on the serious side.
Watched it on Kocowa.com because pirating was too slow. Kocowa also has behind the scenes footage and specials, so that's nice. Season 3 is supposed to be coming out this year and has the same main 5 cast.
It seems alright, mostly. Two leads are good. But I'm finding that it is sometimes glacial with its pacing. Also some of the story bits are not that logical and the mix of Korean and English is odd.
Wolf King (Netflix) - Oh boy, the character animation janks sometimes. The story feels rushed so contrivances, and secondaries don't get the development they deserve. And they ended it expecting a second season. I really wanted to like this one.
When the Stars Gossip (2025) had a trash ending that pretty much undid all the previous good work. The last 3-4 episodes were full of illogical crap and dumb plot arcs. Show would have been maybe 7/10 if it cruised to the end, maybe even 8 if it got better. Gets a 4/10 with those final episodes. Waste of my life.
Finished Melo Movie (2025) on Netflix. I thought it was great, possibly the best romance TV show I've seen 8/10 if not higher. Pretty slow burn, which is how it works best imo. Emotionally very deep though and the two leads work well, with an interesting backup romance.
Good Omens (Prime) - Season 1 was the better of the two as the plot seems tighter. Season 2 had large B plots which were fun (especially all the Dr Who refs) and the ending was not what I expected. We got Prime as part of an energy deal and I decided I needed a British fix more than I needed Fallout.
Daredevil Born Again (2025) was really not as good as the netflix series. The last two episodes showed some promise and are closer in quality to what it should have been. So many episodes just felt like filler. Almost all the side characters are terrible, including Cherry, Kirsten, and Heather. Hell I don't think I can name one good side character they introduced. Writers for episodes 2-7 should be ashamed.
Daredevil Born Again (2025) was really not as good as the netflix series. The last two episodes showed some promise and are closer in quality to what it should have been. So many episodes just felt like filler. Almost all the side characters are terrible, including Cherry, Kirsten, and Heather. Hell I don't think I can name one good side character they introduced. Writers for episodes 2-7 should be ashamed.
First off, the show went with the least enjoyable superhero storyline trope - the superhero that doesn't want to be a superhero anymore. Everyone knows he's going to wear the suit again, and instead we just get boring melodrama.
Muse was a drop-in villain. Such a big problem that no one in the city knew he was even killing people. And it turns out that he was really just mad that his parents made him (conveniently) learn martial arts.
Removing the original characters was a mistake. You lost the camaraderie of the friendship. Then you have to bring in a new love interest that nobody cared about. They also went with the tired trope of shoehorning the love interest into the greater plot of the villain by making her the couples therapist and the therapist for Muse. And then
they just bring back Karen again in the last episode. No character development, no reason, she just decides to show up at a crucial plot point and now they're happy together again
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The lawfirm partner was completely irrelevant.
I might be in the minority here, because a lot of people praised Fisk, but I found most of the Fisk scenes kind of dull.
And the finale only really served to set up next season. They didn't conclude a storyline. There was no season plot that came to an end while setting up the future. Rather the whole season built up to what Fisk was doing, which we'll supposedly see next season.
And, as for the new girlfriend Heather
does anyone really care that she teamed up with Fisk now? She's a psychologist. Not exactly a major threat, or anything that shifts the balance of power. Maybe she'll have some influence with her new book about vigilantes. I didn't care about her in the first place, and I still don't.
I actually thought the bank robbery episode (episode 5, I think), which was basically a bottle episode that didn't play much into the rest of the arc of the season was probably the most enjoyable episode.
Yeah Fisk's bits were dull, esp the therapy sessions and almost everything with Vanessa. D'Onofrio is good but I feel like most of his scenes are for setup purposes. I think Muse should have been the main bad guy for the season, instead he felt shoehorned in there and thrown away just as quick.
Fallout (Prime) - Never played the game so I thought I was missing alot but according to @ugly the story was "eh" and I agree. Was more interested in the world build than what the characters were going through.
I'm currently re-watching Person of Interest and I'm reminded of reading how a renowned but now quite aged author was weeping as he paged through one of his earliest works. "Such brilliance!" he was able to choke out to a concerned friend standing by. I'm lacking in creativity but I think watching such a gem of a show, of the kind that rarely gets made, gives me some small taste of the emotions that author was feeling. On a happier note, I see David Thewlis is playing Sherlock Holmes in a new series. Fingers crossed for that! I've been enjoying the Miss Scarlet and The Duke detective series and I think its popularity demonstrated that there was still an audience for a show of an even more popular detective set in roughly the same period.
