Recent TV Shows

Daredevil: Born Again is quite a drop off from the 2015-2018 Daredevil series. The story line is not only extremely thin, but what little is there is rushed through without much context or character development. I doubt the villain Muse had even 5 minutes of introduction before being elevated to both Daredevil's and Wilson Fisk's #1 enemy and then being dispatched in a single episode.  Daredevil's love interest is as exciting and bland-looking as a clam. Wilson Fisk and Vanessa go to couples therapy (boy, the therapy stuff that seemed so cool in The Sopranos has become oh-so-tired in the last 25 years) and spout cliché after cliché.  Huge disappointment. . .although I will say episode 8 was very good, and gives hope season two will be a return to form.

Yellowjackets season three continues the downward trend from season one, it's more comedy now than horror/mystery, but it's still enjoyable nonsense with a great cast of (mostly) actresses, with Melanie Lynskey continuing to steal the show.  Lynskey is that rare overweight actress who still seems sexy enough that all genders could fantasize about while masturbating.

Severance season two just ended, and it fell off the cliff from season one. A lot less screen time for Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walken, and way too much screen time for the fat character and his fat wife.  Plus, the story makes less sense now even though most of the big mysteries have been explained.  The one character who had a bigger presence and delivered was Mr. Milchick, well-played by actor Trammell Tillman.

Watched a horror series on Peacock called Hysteria. I don’t know how long ago it first came out, but it got steadily better as the season progressed.  Set during the late 1980s Satanic Panic era, three teenage outcasts form a fake Satanic metal band, inadvertently inciting a witch hunt amid mysterious disappearances and supernatural events in their small Michigan town.  Surprised that this was actually watchable for an entire season, and was actually mildly amusing, with a cast featuring some decent B listers (Anna Camp, Bruce Campbell, Garret Dillahunt and Julie Bowen) and a young actress, Jessica Treska (playing an amoral teen antagonist) who I would not be surprised to see become a *star.*

Tried to watch a spy series called Lioness about a covert CIA program where elite female operatives go undercover to infiltrate terrorist networks, but it was so bad had to quit after 3 episodes.  Gawdawful acting by the two female leads (Zoe Saldana and somebody named Laysla De Oliveira), they were so bad they seemed even to infect Nicole Kidman, who I've never seen give a bad performance before. One of the worst shows I've tried to watch this century.