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chuckroHarley Quinn (DC Direct, Season 1) - This is terrible and hilarious and definitely not for kids. The writers clearly didn’t care about Tumblr’s opinions (the treatment of Jewish characters is not great, and Poison Ivy dates men), but the creative team was heavily female and that shows. Also, it’s a show about villains being terrible; it actually feels right and representative to have some of the terrible people be minorities. As an additional note, Alan Tudyk is the best Joker since Mark Hammill.
Ducktales (TV Series, Season 2) - The new series remains strong going into the second season. I like the focus episodes where they delve into somebody’s secret backstory, like learning Flintheart Glomgold’s real background. (I did get a bit sick of Glomgold after a few appearances. His insane incompetence got annoying.) Della (whose similarities to Donald are played delightfully) both adds another female recurring character to the cast, but also quietly adds a disabled one. For that matter, a fair number of recurring characters who just happen to be female start showing up. There were a couple of hanging plot points that get dropped (it’s never clear why Scrooge’s pick-pocketed money clip convinces him to make the bet with Glomgold), but for the most part, they do a good job setting things up and keeping the series reasonably episodic while having a through plotline.
Brooklyn 99 (TV Series, Season 7) – Honestly, like season six, a number of things feel like retreads at this point. They still come up with a lot of fun stuff, though. The major plot through-line is Jake and Amy’s attempts to get pregnant and then have a baby, which does have some solid material. It’s basically a half-season (13 episodes), though I suspect that the fact their timescale is kinda blurry will help when they need an entire coronavirus plotline next season.
Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series, Season 1) - I’m not sure how much this feels like “Star Trek” to me. It’s very continuous (as opposed to episodic), it lacks the trust and teamwork I’d come to expect from Starfleet officers, and while I appreciate the snark, the tone feels off. It took me a while to nail down where this fell in the timeline (pre-TOS, though it retcons the first appearance of a cloaking device). We also had issues with the Klingon subtitles only showing up if the full closed captioning was activated, which was weird. They introduce a number of cool female characters (including a Captain, an Admiral and a Chief of Security) only to kill them off relatively quickly…though I suppose they managed to bring a number of them back creatively. Hell, they kill and un-kill an awful lot of characters! (Still waiting on how they’re going to bring back half of their gay couple…) I liked Harry Mudd, though the turnaround time on his return was kinda ridiculous. (I realize they only had 15 episodes to work with, but the season would have benefited from a few more one-offs that allowed various revelations to “breathe”.) Jethrien successfully called the Tyler revelation; we both missed the Lorca revelation, and I ended up shocked they didn’t walk back the timeskip. I’ll likely watch the next season, but that’s mostly because I heard they got the tone more consistent and properly Trek-ish.
Ducktales (TV Series, Season 2) - The new series remains strong going into the second season. I like the focus episodes where they delve into somebody’s secret backstory, like learning Flintheart Glomgold’s real background. (I did get a bit sick of Glomgold after a few appearances. His insane incompetence got annoying.) Della (whose similarities to Donald are played delightfully) both adds another female recurring character to the cast, but also quietly adds a disabled one. For that matter, a fair number of recurring characters who just happen to be female start showing up. There were a couple of hanging plot points that get dropped (it’s never clear why Scrooge’s pick-pocketed money clip convinces him to make the bet with Glomgold), but for the most part, they do a good job setting things up and keeping the series reasonably episodic while having a through plotline.
Brooklyn 99 (TV Series, Season 7) – Honestly, like season six, a number of things feel like retreads at this point. They still come up with a lot of fun stuff, though. The major plot through-line is Jake and Amy’s attempts to get pregnant and then have a baby, which does have some solid material. It’s basically a half-season (13 episodes), though I suspect that the fact their timescale is kinda blurry will help when they need an entire coronavirus plotline next season.
Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series, Season 1) - I’m not sure how much this feels like “Star Trek” to me. It’s very continuous (as opposed to episodic), it lacks the trust and teamwork I’d come to expect from Starfleet officers, and while I appreciate the snark, the tone feels off. It took me a while to nail down where this fell in the timeline (pre-TOS, though it retcons the first appearance of a cloaking device). We also had issues with the Klingon subtitles only showing up if the full closed captioning was activated, which was weird. They introduce a number of cool female characters (including a Captain, an Admiral and a Chief of Security) only to kill them off relatively quickly…though I suppose they managed to bring a number of them back creatively. Hell, they kill and un-kill an awful lot of characters! (Still waiting on how they’re going to bring back half of their gay couple…) I liked Harry Mudd, though the turnaround time on his return was kinda ridiculous. (I realize they only had 15 episodes to work with, but the season would have benefited from a few more one-offs that allowed various revelations to “breathe”.) Jethrien successfully called the Tyler revelation; we both missed the Lorca revelation, and I ended up shocked they didn’t walk back the timeskip. I’ll likely watch the next season, but that’s mostly because I heard they got the tone more consistent and properly Trek-ish.
