TV: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, season 2 (Netflix, 2019)

June 10th, 2019 20:18
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I'm still very much into this, and I think it probably still works great for its intended younger audience, so when I say it's lowered its ambitions I only mean it's not currently doing so many things that tickle my literary nerd interests. That first season was a hard act to follow, and this half-length season is coasting to some degree by just being really good.
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TV: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, season 1 (Netflix, 2018)

January 19th, 2019 10:43
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I'm not really the target for this since I'm neither 1. a little girl nor 2. someone with nostalgia for the '80s version (I think I watched it once or twice, but I knew it was related to He-Man and I didn't like He-Man because I didn't like anything with big muscles in it). But it's really good even without the nostalgia. The style is a blend of various kinds of '80s fantasy art with the look of many modern popular kids' comics—i.e. the comics that the new show's creator Noelle Stevenson has worked on—and Stevenson and the other writers bring some solid storytelling and character development, and a concern for diversity, while keeping it (I think) very accessible for kids. It's simultaneously high-minded and plain fun.
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TV: Big Mouth, season 1 (Netflix, 2018)

January 19th, 2019 10:41
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This is sort of an anti-nostalgia show, in that it wants to remind you how scary and disgusting it was to be 13. I didn't feel I needed that, so I hadn't really been tempted to watch it. Well, it's pretty great.
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