What TV shows are you watching right now?

Next week will also bring to an end season one of House of the Dragon. Enjoying it as well, but not as much as the best seasons of the original show. 

Also starting the concluding parts of the current seasons of The Walking Dead and Resident Alien.

I'm also, now it's been a few years, re-watching Grimm. As well as the odd episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (re-watch) and Cowboy Bebop here and there when I have a shorter window to watch something in. Cowboy Bebop is the original anime series, not the more recent live action version. I'm not many episodes in yet, but enjoying it. 

Meh. It had some nice character moments, and I did actually like the finale quite a bit, but it took ages to really get going, and it felt like it was constantly stalling, with the occasional exciting bits interrupted by long stretches of filler. A lot of it wasn't even al that interesting either, and simply felt overextended, to hit a quota of 8 episodes, when the story had maybe 4-6 episodes of content, if I'm being very generous. I'm giving these a bit of a break, to try Moon Knight, and then I'll likely have a couple weeks without watching anything, but hopefully The Punisher will be better than these last few shows, lol

I actually thought this was brilliant, at least up until the finale. I usually get annoyed when shows alternate rapidly between being dark and being comedic, but this pulled it off really well, largely thanks to the nature of the MC, which really helped everything make sense. I thought the way it handled his mental illness was quite fascinating, and pretty much everything surrounding the character was amazing. The fifth episode in particular was some of my favorite Marvel story-telling ever, and obviously Oscar Isaac was fantastic the whole way through.

 Even the finale was setting to be fantastic, with some great plot moments and badass action, up until around 3/4 of the way through, where it felt like the writers pretty much said "Oh shit, we need t wrap this up in a hurry, let's just come up with whatever cheap bullshit we can and call it a day!" and left it as is. I do understand what happened there, and it made sense when it happened earlier in the season, but to pull that off in a big climactic sequence during the finale? NOPE Otherwise, though, I thought the series was fantastic, and that one disappointment can ultimately be forgiven. 

Speaking of which, that's perfect timing for that announcement, because I just started Season 1 of his series last night  Four episodes in, and it's already absolutely obliterating anything else from that universe since at least Daredevil 2.

Well, apparently this image I used  for Season 1 was actually the Season 2 one along, lol

Either way, I liked this much more than Season 1. It did a nice job of building on things from that season, as well as ridding the bad taste that finale left by following up on things nicely and actually having a real fucking ending this time  Still not one of my favorites in this universe, since it does get repetitive at times, and I'm not too fond of some of the mainstay characters, but overall this season greatly improved it for me.

This was reported to being removed from Netflix recently, but was saved at the last minute so I had to start watching it again. I didn't feel I had time to watch all three seasons again before it was supposed to disappear, which was disappointing. 

I'm also recently finished two Star Wars shows:

This is filler, but it's good filler, showing gaps in the story that explains so much like why Ahsoka suddenly went to using two lightsabres, the fate of Yaddle and when Kamino was deleted from the Jedi archives. 

Andor was good and interesting to see Star Wars without Jedi, but even so, it does also feel kinda weird to have Star Wars without Jedi. The show also suffers because we all know where Andor's story is going to end. 

I really liked this one. It had some cheesy moments, and the humor definitely shows signs of some of the cringey shit Marvel has been doing lately (I'm really dreading She-Hulk, LMFAO), but I really enjoyed seeing Hawkeye's relationship with Kate evolve as the series went on, and while I've heard people say the latter in particular shines while the series namesake doesn't, I'd disagree, and say he has some of his best character moments throughout this series, and I think they did a really good job of building on his personal arc, while bringing Kate and other characters into it. I do seem to be in the minority, though, in that I've always found Hawkeye to be underrated, in that he may not be as flashy as some of the others, but I actually like how grounded he is, and how he constantly doubts himself (especially after certain events in Infinity War/Endgame). I find that far more relatable than a lot of the other characters, tbh.