Metal Reviews

I'm fine with the conversations in Daredevil. About six episodes in and enjoying it. Really doing justice to the show.

Three in and yes, it's definitely getting much better, enjoyed ep 3 much more.

Burned through about 4 seasons of Parks and Rec before finding it repetitive. The show had some really great character performances: Leslie, Ron, and Tom all have their comedic moments but the heart of the show is actually the April and Andy interaction: Chris Pratt is perfect in his role. Ben kills the show with his boring ass though.

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is next on the docket.

P&R is very samey, to the point where I originally gave up after the first season. But the second is much better, and it is much more fun in small doses. I still think 30 Rock is better overall, though.

30 Rock is probably better, I'd agree, because it fell into less predictable writing patterns. P&R season 1 was pretty bad, but fortunately it was very short too. Seasons 2+3 were the real strength of the show, but season 4 was a real struggle.

The pilot of Kimmy Schmidt showed a lot of promise.

I nearly stopped watching P&R after the first season. So fucking awful. And I think I made it till season five before giving up on it. I never liked 30 Rock.

Daredevil finished strong and I think set itself up for a solid second season in the process. First episode of Penny Dreadful's second season wasn't great.

I managed to get through season 4 of P+R but the start of 5 had me quickly bailing for good. Going through Kimmy Schmidt now, which has been a blast thus far. Hold and Catch Fire will probably be next.

Almost halfway into the show and, while not perfect, is a welcome shot of noir-ish Marvel Knights grit to counterbalance the company's lighter, big-budget affairs. Really loved the Battlin' Jack Murdock scenes in the first couple episodes and D'Onofrio as Kingpin was just perfect casting. The final fight scene at the end of episode two has been a Season 1 highlight for me. The fight choreography is dirty as hell with our hero barelling through bad guys like a Krav Maga-wrecking machine all the while sustaining believable injuries and really feeling his lack of cardio by the end of it. Good stuff!

Game Of Thrones is off to a much slower start this season. I guess they couldn't keep killing two characters an episode forever and it is interesting to see the politics of that universe explored in greater depth, not quite as engaging thus far in season 5.

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This was a given based on how the books went. In fact, the North, Dany and Tyrion's storylines all don't exist in book IV, but resume in book V. So by that gauge, the season has actually gone pretty well. I do hate the Sansa Ramsay storyline departure from the books, and Brienne is so boring. However, the North was my favorite part of book 5, so it is nice to see it featured here so far ahead of when I expected it.

I actually haven't read the books. Too often when I do it completely ruins movies inspired by the book and I imagine it would be much the same with tv shows like Game Of Thrones. Once the series has run it's course I'll pick up the books.

From what I've read about the Sansa-Ramsay story, because people have been sour about the whole switch, I hope they change it a whole bunch. But then against if RR Martin dropped the balll and just kinda forgot about Sansa in his storytelling, it would make sense for them to utilize her as opposed to some rando. I hope this just leads to them altering that story altogether, because I don't think I'm up for what that is supposed to be all about.

I don't mind Brienne. And I'm real excited about the Jaime/Brann storyline and hope that goes somewhere. They've oddly become two of my favorite characters, barring that whole Jaime raped his sister thing.

Arya's storyline is interesting for pretty much the first time. Jon leading the Night's Watch could be interesting, Tyrion has been a little boring so far though very unlike him.

Yes, the Sansa switch makes sense from a point of confusing people, my concern is that they will take it into a typically disgusting HBO direction. My hope is it won't get that far, because the longer it exists the more it really alters Sansa/Littlefinger/and Brienne's places in the world.

I have no problem with the actress playing Brienne, just think whenever HBO has altered/expanded her storyline it has been in the obvious GirlPower! direction. Plus the showrunners used her as a sounding board last week for their continued and inexplicable love for Renly vis-a-vis Stannis, which makes no sense to bookreaders: when Renly was holding jousting tournaments with his army in series 2 he was blockading King's Landing and starving the innocents of the city, afterall.

And Jamie's book storyline in 4 wasn't all that exciting, so sending him on a mission to Dorne should do a better job of keeping everyone's interest, agreed.

And yes, RO, Arya's storyline has been much better so far this season than it was in books, hope that continues.

It's funny that after season 1 the Starks have been pretty much irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Maybe HBO is coming up with these storyline departures to give Arya and Sansa some small semblance of importance? Let's face it they're about as important to the plot as The Hound and The Mountain.

The Starks will return to prominence, and I think you have to consider Jon a Stark, whether he wants to be known as one or not. The story begins with a Baratheon King needing a Stark's help against a bunch of pretenders, and currently in the storyline the series is basically at the same place. This is why I think Shireen will be betrothed to Rickon (when he is found). Had the Baratheons originally been married to the Starks instead of the Lannisters (aka Lyanna reciprocated Robert's interest) then I think you have a peaceful Westeros, and no reason for a story.

Hadn't been feeling this season of Penny Dreadful so much until this third episode. Wish they built the whole show around Eva Green sometimes rather than making it The Surprising Erotic Adventures of Dorian Grey.

Oh, good. The show had me kinda worried there. I still need to watch the third episode so looking forward to that.

Well, GoT got interesting real fast.

Finished Daredevil, bit of a rushed ending but great all in all. Caught up with eps 4 & 5 of Penny Dreadful, definitely better than the first two even if I'm still finding Dorian Grey's subplot completely out of place. Started the new Netflix original thing, Sense8, and stopped after ten minutes because it's fucking unwatchable.

Last Game Of Thrones was great. Best episode of this season for mine with all the sub-story developments. This week's could be even better which is always exciting.