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chuckroCowboy Bebop (Netflix, Season 1) - On one hand, the style feels right and the actors are doing a great job, and they modernize a few things that didn’t age well. On the other hand, it just doesn’t hold my interest—it doesn’t feel different enough and the big plotlines they start don’t actually make me care about their outcomes. I appreciate the style, but I have things I’d rather actually watch.
Murderville (Netflix, Season 1) - A gimmick show where a celebrity guest is put into a murder mystery play without a script, so they need to improv their way through and guess the murderer at the end. We watched the Conan O’Brian episode and it was entertaining enough, but I’m predicting a lot of repetitive confusion bits and I’m only middling on awkward embarrassment comedy to begin with. If they do a Wayne Brady episode (or someone else with amazing improv chops) in a later season I’ll go back to it, but I’m not really into it otherwise.
Guardians of Justice (Netflix, Season 1) - A parody superhero show in which the Superman character seemingly commits suicide on live TV, and the highly-dysfunctional Justice League needs to both fill his shoes and find out what really happened. The problem is that as a parody it fails to be funny but also isn’t nearly as clever as it thinks it is; and while the animation segments are decent the live-action is horrifically acted and the costumes are painfully cheap—like, porn parodies typically manage better on both fronts. This isn’t even “so bad it’s good”; it’s just bad.
Murderville (Netflix, Season 1) - A gimmick show where a celebrity guest is put into a murder mystery play without a script, so they need to improv their way through and guess the murderer at the end. We watched the Conan O’Brian episode and it was entertaining enough, but I’m predicting a lot of repetitive confusion bits and I’m only middling on awkward embarrassment comedy to begin with. If they do a Wayne Brady episode (or someone else with amazing improv chops) in a later season I’ll go back to it, but I’m not really into it otherwise.
Guardians of Justice (Netflix, Season 1) - A parody superhero show in which the Superman character seemingly commits suicide on live TV, and the highly-dysfunctional Justice League needs to both fill his shoes and find out what really happened. The problem is that as a parody it fails to be funny but also isn’t nearly as clever as it thinks it is; and while the animation segments are decent the live-action is horrifically acted and the costumes are painfully cheap—like, porn parodies typically manage better on both fronts. This isn’t even “so bad it’s good”; it’s just bad.
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