The Review: Creature Commandos

Creature Commandos 5/10

I really wanted to enjoy this series but kept being snatched out of it by the music. It felt like every time I started getting interested in what was happening this strange ass music would start playing and I would have to turn the volume down. The story also felt like it would have been done in three episodes and not over the entire seven that this season was. The team is put together to protect a princess and all is not what it seems. I liked the characters of Doctor Phosphorus and G.I. Robot but we got their stories too early and too late. The other character stories weren't that interesting to me. I'm not gonna even get that into this. By the third episode I felt like I was just watching it because all the other shows I wanna watch don't start till next month.

Indira Varma as the Bride

Sean Gunn as G.I. Robot/Weasel

Alan Tudyk as Alex Sartorius/Doctor Phosphorus

Zoë Chao as Nina Mazursky

David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein

Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr

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Documentality: Yacht Rock A Dockumentary

Yacht Rock A Dockumentary 10/10

Last weekend L and I decided to check out this documentary on Max. We were like “Let's just check it out” and ended up sitting through the whole thing without pausing. This is unheard of. This had some really great music and I learned so much. I really didn't know that the term yacht rock didn't exist until a sketch group made a series online and used that name. I didn't know certain artists and bands were so blended together. I learned what counted as yacht rock and what didn't. I learned one dude from Steely Dan would likely stab you if you used that term in front of him. I found out that even Toto doesn't know what the fuck that song Africa is about. I also found out just when the genre started dying off. I swear, MTV was a curse disguised as a blessing. This is one of those things you could watch a few times and still enjoy it. I added a whole playlist to my Spotify Just a really feel good ass thing to watch.

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The Review: The Penguin

The Penguin 10/10

This series was fucking great. This is gonna be full of spoilers. When I first heard that this was going to be a thing I rolled my ass, scoffed, knocked papers off my desk Malcolm X meme style. Why was this happening? Did it need to happen? Why does DC have so much money to throw away? Seriously, they have far too many series and most seem like ass and the one I did like got canceled (Swamp Thing) and is available only on Tubi of all places. I had no need to watch this. But I did and after the first episode realized that I needed to shut my whore mouth and continue watching this because it was nothing like what I expected.

Documentality: The Black Widower

The Black Widower 3/10

This could have been a one hour episode of a larger crime show. Not to make too light of the fact that this dude named Thomas Randolph allegedly killed four of his six previous wives. I didn't get how this man pulled one wife let alone six of them. From listening to people that knew him it sounds like he was only good to you if you had something he needed. This guy would put out life insurances on women and they would die. He killed the hitman after the hitman killed one wife. He allegedly killed one after her surgery. The others I forget because this series dragged out so much that L. fell asleep during the second episode and I updated her on what happened in the final. I know I said one hour but with commercials this could have been told in 42 minutes. This was on Max.

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Documentality: Chowchilla

Chowchilla 7/10

So L. and I watch this documentary on HBO that was originally done on CNN called Chowchilla. This was insane. I had never heard about this case before where a bus full of 26 students and the bus driver were kidnapped. So these kids riding the bus just living their best weird ass Central California life when these guys wearing stockings over their face and holding guns stop the bus. Now the bus driver let them on and all I could think about was that if this ever happened on the public transit that I ride. The bus driver would immediately let anybody on seeing as how they let on screaming, yelling homeless people daily. So these kids get taken for a ride and then they're moved into this underground bunker type thing and next thing you know they hear dirt being shoveled on top of them. These kids started having hallucinations and pretty much losing their minds as you would expect. The bus driver tries to rescue them by lifting this lid and he can't do it but one of the boys is able to. This boy is a true hero this story but what sucks is that the bus driver got all of the credit. Even on this bus driver's Tombstone when he died years later they put that he was a hero.

The Review: Barry Season 4

Barry Season Four 10/10

Full of spoilers! Not sure why I never did a review for the third season, but I assure you that I watched it. I'm gonna try to recall everything that happened since I finished this months ago. Barry is in prison and I thought that there was no possible way that this show could go this many seasons let alone make the final one the best. Barry tries to contact his old acting teacher, Gene, whose fiancé he murdered for forgiveness as well as his ex, Sally who will be going through all manner of chaos herself. Gene wants to get some of his old fame back by cashing in on the murder of Janice and knowing that Barry was one of his acting students. Sally is trying to come to grips with the fact that she was sleeping with a murderer. Barry is losing his shit. His former friend Fuches is sent into the same prison as Barry and thinks he will be killed only for Barry to beg for forgiveness.

Documentality: The Stroll

The Stroll 9/10

I watched this documentary called The Stroll and kept having flashbacks of my life as a male prostitute...in my mind. Actually it reminded me of Hooker At The Point which I watched when I was younger and so should not have been allowed to. This is about Black and Latina trans workers during the 80's and 90's and the massive amount of shit they had to go through. Fighting cops who were arresting them and sleeping with them. Being attacked for just being alive. This isn't all depressing though because while some did not survive the ones that did are alive and well and still fighting for trans rights. The area that they worked was known as The Stroll and when they go to it in present day it is very gentrified. It doesn't even look like the same place anymore. I would suggest people who are into watching activists being active (which I am not and am not) and wanting to learn more about a world that you're not familiar with. If you are one of those people that are scared of things that are different you should definitely watch this.

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Documentality: The Way Down

 

The Way Down 8/10

I watched this months ago and have been slacking on reviews so I'll be attempting to post a few a day. I have been watching so much stuff that I have just been writing what I watched but not writing reviews. This one, The Way Down, was insane in so many ways. I had seen this lady, Gwen Shamblin Lara's face, but did not know why. I had no idea that she was running a church based weight loss program and the amount of drama and nonsense that wanting to lose weight and be closer to god could cause. This had everything from divorces, fat shaming, marrying an actor who left his family, plane crashes, Trump shit, self harm, and terrible music. When I watch stuff like this I think it happened years ago like in the 90's when people were easier to fleece. Nope. This was happening as recently as a couple of years ago and is likely still going on now. I watched this on HBO Max which is now just Max. Just a few episodes and doesn't drag out the material.

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