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: The Magicians, season 4 (Syfy, 2019)

April 23rd, 2019 09:48
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It took me a while to warm up to this show; by the end of the first season I was at "OK, it's fun, let's give it a chance" but it wasn't until the end of the second that I was fully on board. ( Read more... )
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TV: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, season 1 (Netflix, 2018)

January 19th, 2019 10:45
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I wanted to see this show because Kiernan Shipka is in it; more about that later. The basic setup comes from the recent Archie Comics thing, which was a scarier version of the long-running Sabrina the Teenage Witch and its many spin-offs (I haven't read or seen any of them), so this isn't exactly a case of trying to come up with a new take on a supernatural youth series.

Still, there are a few things that set it apart from Buffy, Charmed, etc. ( Read more... )
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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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