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Patrick Warburton's Tick was hilarious.
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How much of it is about his wife? That’s the one thing that stops me from watching it, because I don’t want to go from low hanging fruit of trump jokes to someone’s still processing their wife dying so suddenly, it makes me feel weird.
I feel like his stories on Conan were a better avenue to put them compared to a stand up special.
IMO it worked really well. Only the first 5ish minutes were spent on trump stuff. About half way through, after doing his "meet the front row" bit he launched into stuff about his wife. It was good material. It hit me right in the feels without bashing me over the head. His material was well thought out and respectful while still managing to sneak in a couple of well meaning jokes in the right places. I'd say the material about his wife was ~15 minutes of the hour long special.
Yeah, I meant Fallon.
After reading this I went from "just another stupid consulting detective with a twist" show to "gonna check that out." The knowledge that it was inspired by Sandman was the deciding factor. A few episodes in, and the show is alright.
Lucifer is a solid show that is more weighty than it appears at first glance.
Though this latest season it is obvious that Luci put another dot in Dominate, because he is starting to make people answer specific questions rather than just ask what they desire most. Runs the risk of becoming OP.
Annihilation is super great.
I really wish Netflix would change the image for that Bigmouth show. I really don't want to see teenage boners every time I log in, thanks.
Well, even though he's not really concerned about it, there is some new massive power out there. Maybe he did get an upgrade.
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A few weeks later, donates $1000000 to Puerto Rico.
Twitter is the problem.
Okay.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
I think we should shit on her some more for not doing her talk show first though. It's totally not a weird and random hate-on, I assure you.
Warburton's as the Tick would've been the only thing more I could've wanted out of the recent series. The thing that made me not get into Warburton's series much is that his whole world was as absurd as him, which didn't really interest me; he was absurd, his allies were absurd, his enemies were absurd, etc. It was basically a live-action cartoon, which didn't really grab me.
The new series is grounded enough that the Tick ends up having both his traditional bizarre dialogue but it isn't always flatly ridiculous because he's so sincere and goodhearted in a pretty disillusioned world. He's not just a goodguy, he's a good guy. I really enjoy the fact the Tick himself is a lot more than just an incompetent running gag and for the comedy to come from other sources than him just doing silly or stupid things. He's actually pretty great at being a superhero but also influences the people around him with more than just punchlines or actual punching, and the world he's influencing isn't itself a joke from top to bottom.
I never knew I wanted this until just now.
As for The Tick, I love the new show. I like that it's not just a live action cartoon, as that was done very well already and trying to be the same thing the first live action series was is only going to end in disappointment. The Tick needed to have its own identity, which I think they have managed very well. I'm pretty sure we won't be seeing Sarcastro in this incarnation, for example. Or Chairface Chippendale. And that is fine.
One of my favorite early comedy moments is
These things are not mutually exclusive!
I have no idea who Handler even is or know what she did or didn't do. Nor do I care.
I do hate Twitter, though.
Good on her, I suppose, however.
The casting is phenomenal
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It's what League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was supposed to be.
If the people who made League had the guts to go for an R rating.
In some ways I prefer it over the real thing. Especially when Moore went off the deep end.
Can't help but pronounce it like Mindtaker.
Whether or not we immediately leap into season 2 when it comes out in a few days is up in the air.
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