The Apathy Of Television

ap·a·thet·ic - showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.

Apathy or feeling apathetic is something that plagues me far more often than I'd care to admit both personally and professionally. But this is not about that. This is about me experiencing this feeling regarding shows that I once cared about but no longer do. There are certain shows where I get straight up upset about and ones where it gets to a certain point and I just stop caring. I'll miss episodes for weeks or months telling myself that I'll binge watch eventually but never do.

Over the last four or five years I've watched more TV shows than movies when it used to be the other way around. I'm one of those people that when I like something I fucking love it. Allow me to use the Netflix series Luke Cage as an example. The first season had a good story, great characters, and cool music. The second season arrived last week and a few episodes in I could already feel my interest slipping. The story was sloppy. The directing was inconsistent. The music was overdone. By the time it was finished I hoped that they were not planning on doing a third season and wished that the one I'd just watched did not exist.

The Review: Luke Cage Season 2

Luke Cage Season Two 2/10

There will be a bunch of spoilers. To say I am disappointed would be an understatement. Season two of Luke Cage pisses me off not just because these Netflix series have been floundering when they get to the second season, but because it was not as if there were changes to the cast or anything. They just decided to take what you liked most about certain characters and flip them until they made no sense, dragged out the story (this could have easily been eight episodes), and tried way too hard to be cooler than the first season and failed super hard with that. I don't care how many musicians you have perform on the show. And why would these people want to even perform at a club that is owned by someone publicly known for being a criminal who deals in weapons and eventually drugs? And the songs were also too on the nose. If Cage is walking down the street the song would be like “Bulletproof Black man walking down the street, oh yeah...”

You Had One Job: New Joker Movie

Last year I heard talks of a Joker movie being made rolled my eyes so hard that I went back in time to seeing his portrayal in Suicide Squad and passed out. Names have been thrown around playing him such as Jared Leto again, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Joaquin Phoenix. Just knowing that this is on the horizon is like walking a plank with swords to your back and a pile of shit at the end. I know I am taking this ridiculously hard but it is because I love the Joker so damned much. I've written about who should play him in the past and am mad that Adrian Brody has still not been mentioned to play him. People need to work with me. I got Doctor Strange right by casting Benedict Cumberbatch.

The Review: Ghost Shark

Ghost Shark WTF/10

I was watching something online an offhand this guy started laughing talking about a movie from 2014 called Ghost Shark. I know there are a lot of shark movies or whatever but a simple clip from this one made me stop what I was doing and watch this immediately. I can't even rate this like another movie because I knew it was gonna be cheeseballs. This is just a series of waiting to see this goddamn ghost shark kill people in the dumbest ways possible and I was too happy to oblige.

Pride And Entertainment: Sylvester

Allow me to preface this by saying that I'm a straight Black dude. I know you have to be careful when writing or talking about things especially when talking to people you don't know about things you aren't. I just wanna point out that this is Pride Month and talk about someone who I'm a fan of and a while ago read about and thought “Holy shit. This dude was bold as fuck.” And that person is Sylvester James Jr. better known as the singer Sylvester. If you don't know who Sylvester is then shame on you because he made some awesome ass songs.

Sylvester was born on September 6th, 1947 in Watts, California. Read that again and let it sink in. If you said he was born in Watts 1987 and you knew about Watts back then you'd go “Yeesh.” Sylvester sang at church growing up before leaving after a combination of the church being against his sexuality and a sexual relationship with an older member of the church. This was when he was 13 years old so it is now about 1960. In his early teens after not being able to get along with his mother and stepfather he left becoming homeless.

The Review: Creep

Creep 2/10

I checked out this movie on Netflix called Creep after watching a Youtube channel that listed some good horror films. This was not good to me. This is about a videographer named Aaron played by Patrick Brice that gets a gig from an online ad. He heads to the place which take a while and when he arrives the guy is not there. He arrives scaring the shit out of Aaron. His name is Josef played by Mark Duplass. He is a weird acting guy immediately and this is the biggest problem with this movie.