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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Whose Show Is This? (2022)
Fourth Wall breaking ruins the MCU
Breaking the fourth wall ruined the whole MCU. If characters are now aware that they are just in a written movie or a TV show for entertainment takes away the whole excitement for great events like Endgame or No Way Home. It immediately turns it all off. Deadpool could break the fourth wall finely because his movies were meant to be parodic in nature. Also DP broke the fourth wall for jokes, whereas Walters breaks it META. You can't mix this up with a saga that already has its genre well-defined, serious story. This is literally like turning season 3 of The Mandalorian into a musical, or adding Dora the Explorer to The Walking Dead.
Whosever idea was to break the fourth wall in She-Hulk must be fired, they destroyed the continuity, ruined my favorite hero Daredevil, and wasted the opportunity to make a more interesting plot involving Hulk's family or the Abomination. How did we get from such a ferocious, dark, action-packed fight from 2008 to THIS?
These people should seriously come out and apologize for having cancelled the good shows (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Punisher) to make space for this gargabe instead. Such a great character like She-Hulk deserved better.
BoJack Horseman: Nice While It Lasted (2020)
A personal farewell to the best cartoon I have ever watched
I can't even recall how I met BoJack Horseman. But I'm eternally grateful for the day I added it to my watchlist.
It's been almost thirty minutes since I finished this episode, I haven't stopped crying yet. I'm still not even sure why am I crying. Perhaps for all of its best and most touching moments that instantly came back to my mind by the ending? Or probably because the greatest animated show I've watched is over at last? Whatever the reason is, I'd like to use this review to offer my sincerest thanks to Netflix, and to the entire cast and crew behind this one-off piece of art.
I highly doubt I'll ever find a show that gets to to make me go through such an endless sea of emotions, while also accomplishing to get so unexpectedly real (despite being set in a cartoonish, fanciful world), caring about all its characters till the very end. A masterpiece like that sounded too perfect six years ago. Thankfully, I somehow stumbled on it. Today I saw its conclusion, and cried a last time. An eighth and last time so far in fact.
I will always cite BoJack Horseman as one of the brightest gems ever to be found on Netflix, as well as the best company I could have ever asked for during this last couple of years of my life. I dare to conclude that this is the best cartoon in history.
Thank you, BoJack Horseman, for all of the irreplaceable laughs and tears I had with you.
I C U.
Everything Sucks! (2018)
Everything Sucked!
The story sucked. Things just happened, and characters were only subject to their unstable story. When Luke's team was about to film one of his movie's scenes in California, their production is briefly stopped by a police officer who showed up all of a sudden for they didn't have a permit, but the problem is immediately solved by putting her in the movie (and then she gets laid with the teacher), and the story moves on as though nothing happened at all. This is basically how Everything Sucks! Tells a story.
The characters sucked. They did not even have a clear goal. The relationship between Luke and Kate is awful. Once Luke finds out Kate is into girls, he starts taking her on dates and trying to make her take pity on him, maybe in order to receive a pathetic kiss (from a girl who doesn't even like boys), almost as though he was trying to turn Kate into her "prisoner girlfriend" or something. Also, he sometimes seems to be maintaining a good relationship with Kate's father, while for other moments he only yells and insults him for being on a sexual relationship with his mom. Speaking of, was the romantic story arc between Luke's mom and Kate's dad really that necessary for a teen comedy like this?
But that's not all. The show was only cool and interesting at times, yet often maculated by teen drama clichés. It's completely tension-free. Let's focus on Kate - If she hypothetically found out she's not a lesbian but bi, no character would really mind, the show would just continue. She even ends up dating Emaline, an older girl who even went as far as to writing "DYKE" in her locker. (By the way, seriously, did anyone noticed that this is a 20-year-old girl kissing and dating a 14-year-old child?) Although things eventually got better between them as the show proceeded, it's already clear enough that there's no chemistry between them for those two main reasons. Let's now focus on Luke - The story implies he loves filmmaking, but he hardly ever demonstrates it, for he's too busy talking and thinking about Kate. Does he know how to write a script? How much does he know about cinema and its history? Which are his favorite movies?
Everything Sucks! Englobes all the possible clichés from teen shows you can imagine, and you can readily notice them from the very first episode. Tough, cool students bullying the nerd ones; a straight boy having a crush on a lesbian and then becoming best friends; Family issues... The cast, the cliffhanger at the end, and the accuracy in its 90s atmosphere seem to be the only aspects in which it didn't suck, but not even these managed to save this Netflix original from being noticeably flawed.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013)
The pinnacle of Marvel storytelling
Although it's not quite a superhero show, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. does take place in a superhero cinematic universe, and by keeping that in mind, you might already get an idea of what to expect from it, especially if you have watched the Arrowverse's series. Heroes vs villains, a new antagonist on every episode, or a cliched ending in which death means practically nothing and everyone lives. But once you reach the middle of Season 1 (which is where the filling episodes and dullest moments end), you find out you were wrong.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the definitive pinnacle of storytelling, not only in the entire MCU, but arguably in any other series ever made. Its first five seasons are divided into two slices. The first half focuses on a certain plot, and after a plot twist, the second half commences, focusing on a different one. But their events are always interlinked, thus maintaining a complexity that doesn't really make the show difficult to understand as long as you keep an opened mind. Its last two seasons follow a different and more light-hearted format, but the storytelling remains at its best.
That which at the beginning seemed illogical is later explained via perfectly made flashbacks. The character that at first seemed annoying or worthless later turns into a great villain. The character who was once dead somehow comes back, but not by resurrecting, this series always knows how to bring them back by magnificently unpredictable ways, remaining stylishly raw at all times. When you feel like there could be no more twists, another one happens all of a sudden. Just when you think the main problem is solved, a new one pops out, and perhaps it was already there and you probably haven't even noticed, but it does never leave loose ends. And these are just a few examples of why this show's storytelling is literally the best you'd ever find. Ever.
Needless to say, this was also an outright must-watch for all Marvel fans. Some of the most satisfying villain deaths, saddest moments, and rawest story arcs from the MCU used to be played here. And most importantly, it did never go downhill. Quite the opposite, in fact. It always knew the right way to leave the audience bowled over and longing for more.
Magic, science-fiction, espionage, crime-fighting, romance, action, thriller, and a light dose of comedy, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. flawlessly embodies what makes Marvel so impressive and popular. Its performances, visuals, and writing make The Flash and Arrow look like Disney shows, and if it wasn't for Netflix's Daredevil, this would undeniably be the best work Marvel Television once had to offer.