Here
is a list of the series I watched the past year. More than I expected
to watch considering I don't get into many new shows. I just sit
around and wait for a couple to return or suddenly find out that it
was canceled or get mad that a show is still going on after it wore
out its welcome. Mot of my favorite series are based off of comic
books with two of them being shows I didn't even plan on watching. I
have never done a list like this regarding shows I watched so I am
keeping it formatted like by Best Movies Of The Year 2019 and Worst Movies Of The Year 2019 and Honorable Mentions. I honestly did not expect 2019 to have as
many good shows as it did which is awesome. Hell, and I even missed a
few that I'll have to catch up on this year. Seriously. Legion should
be everyone's favorite show.
"I
have been enjoying the shit out of this season. I know a lot of
people are mad and want another season or a redo of this season. I
grew up in a world where shows just disappeared with no goodbye so
when I see all these people whining harder about this than how their
own parents raised them to be such shit birds I get annoyed. Then I
get entertained."
So sad
that people hated this season so much and that when getting all my
reviews ready I actually forgot that this aired just months ago. This
series and all the rage it caused feels like it was actual years ago.
Hell, since it ended there was another show being made, canceled,
rumored to not be canceled, but is actually not happening. I'm not
upset about it. I have the books sitting across the room and haven't
started them yet but from what I have read about the books I know
that it is very different from the series. I also know the author of
the books is not in a rush to make a ending that is better than the
one the HBO series gave us. I had no issue with how the series ended.
I laughed, cheered, gasped, and got mad at characters too much during
the season to sit here and pretend that I didn't enjoy the fuck out
of this.
"What
a great season of television! I was not excited about this show being
made after watching the trailer but the first episode yanked my ass
right into it and never let go. The acting, the story, the music, the
characters were all so damned good! I have zero complaints and
nothing but praise for this series and how it was done."
When
the trailer first came out I shit all over it. I was so annoyed that
I didn't even bother writing a post about how stupid it was to make
this. I liked the comic book. I liked the movie until I watched it
again and realized that I like the fight scenes in the movie. And
then years later realized that the movie just looks cool but is
pretty dumb. The guy who created wants nothing to do with anything
related to it. There was a group that looked like Rorschach. In my
head there was so much working against it that it was doomed to suck.
Then I watched it and immediately got hooked. Everything about this
show is good. Everything. There is not a single thing I could even
begin to suggest they change to improve something. Every question I
had was answered by the time the season ended. You know how good this
was? I don't need another season of it. The story is done as far as
the writer for it has said. He said someone else could create a whole
'nother Watchmen story with none of these characters which is true.
But I suggest no one try. I wanna read that statement from myself two
years from now and laugh.
"I
seriously liked this show. I did not think I would and it turned out
to be a show I had to stop watching last night and save some for
today. Ten episodes were perfect. My only complaint really is the
sound which seems to be a Netflix issue. I had to turn my captions on
by episode three because while the talking would be low the shouts
and gunfire would be loud as shit."
I
vaguely knew that this was based off of a comic book since I had
never read of it. I saw posters for this and thought it looked stupid
and told me nothing about it. Netflix is notorious for having the
absolute worst posters and ads for their shows. I don't even remember
what made me give this show a try but I did and am glad because this
was for sure one of my favorite series in recent years. Every
character in this gets to shine and their story explained even ones I
didn't care about. Meaning there is one character I think sucks but
then I found out why she sucks and then she finds out why she sucks
and all hell breaks loose. It ends on such an insane cliffhanger that
they absolutely need to make another season. I ended up blowing
through this season way faster than I expected to. I just read that
season two is currently being made. Good.
"I
usually have to do a deep dive to remember what happened on each
episode before writing these reviews but with this show I don't. They
made things memorable. If you aren't even a fan of Star Wars this is
a series that you can watch and fall in love with. There are only
eight episodes and the longest is close to fifty minutes which makes
it easy to watch, remember, and enjoy. If you are on the fence I
suggest you check it out."
I had
zero desire to watch this show but once I started I was all the way
in. This was a space Western in the best of ways with characters, no
matter how small their role, were perfectly cast. The fact that I had
to wait a week in between viewings, and two for the finale, gave me
time to research more of the lore of the characters and creatures in
it. As much as I enjoy binging through a series I could not do that
with most of these and that helped me allow things to sink in and
actually makes things more memorable. This was by far the most fun
series I watched this year. Another season is currently in
production.
"This
show has a fish man committing sexual assault, a tiny man diving into
a lady's vajayjay, a very religious hero that is all the way gay but
sponsors pray the gay away programs, and a beloved hero that is
jealous of a baby and the attention it gets. Its fucked up and
brilliant."
Such
violence! I know that is what most people took away from this show
and I can't be mad. It is pretty damn violent. This, like Watchmen,
is a show that shouldn't work. After seeing so much gore and the
shittiest human beings ever it seems like it should get old real
quick but it doesn't. This show somehow managed to stay interesting
every single episode. There is not one throwaway episode the entire
season which is something I can say for every series I enjoyed this
year. They also kept things to ten episodes or less which is the
limit. If you can do a show in eight and be good that is groovy.
Y'all can keep those CW shows with twenty-something episodes with
breaks in between that run for years. The last scene of the finale
made me scream at my screen and hope that another season would be
made. It is coming out this year. Yay!!!
Dishonorable
Mention
"It.
Is. Too. Much. And what did I learn from this season? That it should
not continue, really. I liked the first season. Liked the second even
better. But this one felt like a bunch of odd filler episodes until
the real story got going."
The
nerve of people to get mad that this was canceled. I have stated that
the first two seasons were good. The third season was a piece of shit
that got cocky. The creator of the series even stated that they had
like a five season story set up and likely assumed that they would be
around to create it. Nope. They fucked up by making a third season
that was nothing but fillers. It is rare for a series to do that but
not unheard of. This show had something in the last scene of the last
episode that made me actually say fuck this show and take a glib
pride in the fact that it was canceled. Not because people are now
out of work or anything like that. But I do hope that it let people
see that you are not guaranteed another series and you can't coast
the way this season did. I can't even remember why I gave it a 3/10
and not something lower. Probably because I like that actress Ramona
Young.
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