Weekly “What are you watching” Thread || Week of December 3rd, 2023

Here are some shows that I have watched or have been watching

• Fringe (S04)

  • I'm at episode 9 right now ::: spoiler I'm really liking how they interact with characters from season 1, and from alternate universe :::

• Amazing Stories 1985 (S01)

  • This show won some Emmys, right? Somehow it feels like a kid's show. I was expecting it to be tonally more like 1959's Twilight Zone, but it doesn't seem so. Maybe I should adjust my approach to it.

• Impractical Jokers (S01)

  • I've finished the season, and it's definitely up there as a comedy show. I still feel weird / scared about some of the pranks, e.g. randomly eating people's food at a Chinese restaurant, but they are hilarious.

• What We Do In the Shadows (S03)

  • The first 2 seasons were okay-ish, but it seems like the 3rd season is way funnier. The jokes are funnier whenever Matt Berry is involved

• Castlevania Nocturne (S01)

  • It was suddenly over. I'm just not feeling it. Just like the other Castlevania shows.

• Love, Death & Robots (S01)

  • Just finished the first episode... it looks pretty. Not sure about the writing yet.

• Gunbuster (S01)

  • Finally finished all the 6 episodes. I can see it as a prototype for other more bombastic mecha shows like Gurrenn Lagann or Evangelion. It started out low key, then undergo a sudden tonal shift to darker tone.

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (S05)

  • Netflix really hurt the season by splitting it into two parts. I've just finished watching the episodes where they defeated the invisible zombie guy and started to fight the feng shui geezer. It's still really good, I still prefer Jolyne's story arc to Giovanna's. I wonder if they'd eventually do a Steel Ball Run anime.

• Oppenheimer (2023)

  • I'm amazed at how much I'm liking it. Somehow social media buzz was making it to sound like a jingoistic nuclear proponent movie. But it's not, it's a story about Oppenheimer's feeling about atomic weapons, the slimy politicians and physicists who became slimy, and surprisingly around half of the movie is about McCarthyan red scare witch hunt.

That's the recap of my week, how about yours? What have you been watching last week?