Oh that’s a delight of a show.

They’re creepy and they’re kooky
Mysterious and spooky
They’re all together ooky
The Addams family

An entire show with the dark worldbuilding and humor of the Addams family, focusing around Wednesday (my favorite)? Yes please.

The casting is great–especially Jenna Ortega as the lead and Emma Myers as Enid. A delightful pairing.

The mystery vibe is on point (and it’s right up to the end before you know for sure who the baddies are).

The setting is fun–even if the ‘outcasts’ of Nevermore seem curiously non-magical a lot of the times. And then in the big final numbers, we go full on magic–which also felt surprisingly weird for the Addams family. ut it works well enough.

Oh, I’m looking forward to season 2.

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Oh goodness. Another season down and only one more to go (plus some movies?). I’m not ready!

This one has a few primarily focuses:

Mary and her men… weird. I kind of liked both of them, but so it goes. Hints at what’s to come.

Isobel and Violet (of all people) getting romantically entangled. That I did not expect, much less with who. It’s fun, if sad at times.

Rose, speedrunning the relationship thing, all with yet another new family for people to disapprove of. It’s interesting that her dating a black man went so poorly, yet this ends up much better?

And of course the Bates. Oh the Bates. I truly wish that Season 6 could be quiet and happy for them… but I’m not holding up too much hope for that one.

Overall, yet another solid season. Like I said, I’m not ready for the end! But all good things must. Onward!

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3 year time jump!

Oh, there’s so much going on in this season.

Both large (Kaylon! Moclan! Krill! new friends and foes alike!) and small (so many relationships! new crew and old!).

It’s amazing to see how much this show has grown and changed. I just about bounced off the first few episodes, back when it was leaning hard into the humor and less into the sci-fi. But now… it’s amazing to see both the funny and the serious takes on all sorts of issues.

A delightful third season. If/when we get a Season 4, I’ll most certainly have to check it out.

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I managed to skip by this last fall, much to my now dismay. It’s–only sort of an MCU special; focused on the monster/‘horror’ side of Marvel comics rather than the super-hero business. They do open with a sillouette of the heroes we know and love… before all color drains out.

What comes next? An introduction to a monster hunting family/society and a competition to win the mysterious ‘Bloodstone’–which gives you a sort of power over/against monsters. And then–the HUNT/BATTLE ROYALE!

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And another season! Got away from it for a while, but it’s finally done. I’m glad they’ve managed to stay away from pure comedy and stick to a scifi show that’s also funny. It’s much better that way in my opinion–even if we do get some pretty ridiculous bits. The Great Release. I rest my case.

Other than that, we get a lot more to shake up the status quo. The Moclans and their all male* society take a front seat, but we also have quite the story line for Isaac and his people, more Krill, digging into how real simulations can feel, and so much more. It’s a lot.

I’m looking forward to the third (and final?) season!

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Somehow I’m always surprised when a highly rated show is actually good. 😄

From a modern, American, middle-class point of view, the idea of the early 1900s British Aristocracy is just so strange. They do next nothing (useful) and have an entire staff to support it. The entire estate could go to a cousin they’d never met and there’s nothing they can do about it … is so strange.

And yet… it’s oddly charming?

The Grantham’s are fascinating. Sybil seems good people, Edith is certainly going to figure out how to come into her own, Mary is spoiled and needlessly cruel–but may be learning. Lord and Lady Grantham are fun, if somewhat alien–and I do love watching Lord Grantham try and completely fail to wrangle three young adult daughters. 😄

The shining jewel of the family Dame Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess of Grantham. Oh she’s just wonderful.

Among the staff, you have a whole ’nother level of politics. They’re all great and terrible (as they should be) and there are every bit as many problems and politics as there are among the ‘family’. Turns out people are people no matter how much money they have or do not.

Man that’s a crazy amount to fit into seven episodes.

Onward… to war!

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Well that’s quite the thing.

They couldn’t/didn’t get the rights to the third age, so instead we get much older stories. Stories after the fall of Morgoth but still during the end of the era of Elves and Númenor. Before the rise of the kingdoms of Men.

There’s a lot crammed into eight episodes. One might argue too much. Leaves some stories a bit thin. But really, having seen them, I don’t know what I’d cut.

Worth a watch. Looking forward to season two!

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