After watching Righteous Gemstones and Vice Principals, I obviously had to go back and finally watch the original Danny McBride HBO show. Here is how I rank the seasons.
Category: Television
Ranking the Dune Adaptations
The Dune book series adaptation must be so incredibly tempting and for so many reasons. A space opera series that will eventually build to the hero becoming an oppressive dictator? Who could want anything more? After going back through every Dune adaptation (that has happened so far), I think I can safely conclude that some books are just not meant to be adapted into movies or television shows. It’s been approached in a number of ways, and none of them are all that inspiring. I am however a sicko and will keep slopping up this shit.
Ranking the Frasier Seasons
Frasier kind of feels oddly forgotten and overlooked as one of the great sitcoms of the last forty years? Maybe my perception is skewed a bit, but it just seems the show does not get discussed or referenced as much as it should in comparison to some other huge hits from that time period. Whatever. Anyway, here is how I rank the seasons. Continue reading Ranking the Frasier Seasons
Ranking the Veep Seasons
Veep is one of the greatest sitcoms every. Each season is good which is something only a handful of shows ever can say. Here is how I rank them.
Ranking the Industry Seasons
Industry seemed like the fakest show in all the world. In August I heard about this supposed “season 3” of this show that no one ever heard of before and was reportedly good. I was very suspicious. A trusted friend though assured me it was worth watching, and I was shocked to discovered that Industry was in fact an Actually Good show.
The Tape Crusaders – Episode 20: Batman: Caped Crusader
Somehow, Mike & Matt have returned to Gotham because DC decided to make the first new Batman cartoon in over a decade!
They discuss the tone of the show, the big creative swings, the villains, Batman himself, the possible future of the series and of course the career of John Vernon.
Continue reading The Tape Crusaders – Episode 20: Batman: Caped CrusaderRanking A Song of Ice & Fire Television Seasons
Game of Thrones was a genuine cultural phenomenon. Given how badly it ended, you might forget there was a point when it was perfectly fun genre television. I would even say it’s worth going back and watching some of it. And shockingly enough, the spinoff shows are intriguing so far. Find out which seasons were worth the time.
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Mike & Matt’s X-Cellent Adventures – Episode 21: Legion (Season 3)
(Pretend you’re hearing this joke for the first time) After dusting off X-Cellent Adventures to review Deadpool & Wolverine, Mike & Matt just had to clean up some unfinished X-Men business. That’s right, it’s the third and final season of Legion!
We summarise the events so far, discuss THAT episode, the ending, David’s journey, the shrunken cast, Noah Hawley’s career and the X-Men franchise in general.
Continue reading Mike & Matt’s X-Cellent Adventures – Episode 21: Legion (Season 3)Ranking the Legion Seasons
Legion was a show that I watched because of X-Men and Noah Hawley. I will probably never watch anything again just because of the presence of either of these components (never mind them combined), but it is notable that even in my late twenties I could be seduced into viewing something because of that. Hawley has proven to be a bag of false goods, but this was probably one of the more consistently strong things he has ever done. Maybe?
Some of the many previous X-Men articles on this site:
Top 10 Performances in the X-Men Films
5 Takeaways from Re-Watching X-Men [2000]
8 Takeaways from the “The X-Men Adventure” in Spider-man and his Amazing Friends
7 Takeaways from the Juggernaut Episode of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
11 Takeaways from the Pryde of the X-Men Pilot
7 Takeaways from The New Mutants
Top 7 Villainous Sidekicks in the X-Men Cinematic Universe
Review: Behind Every Good Man [1967]
Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner recently published their book, Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema. First of all, it is a fantastic book and you should buy it. Secondly, one of the films that they discussed that stood out to me the most was Nikolai Ursin’s Behind Every Good Man.
Maclay and Gardner explain in their book: “Ursin…shot a hybrid of documentary and scripted fiction to depict the everyday life of a trans woman…[the film] is a stunning eight-minute document focusing on a trans woman of color that, in 2022, was added to the National Film Registry in the United States.”
Reading that, I could not help but feel like this was a truly historic text that needed to be watched as soon as possible. Thankfully, Maclay and Gardner also explained that the film had recently be restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, so it was rather easy to find the film and watch it myself. Continue reading Review: Behind Every Good Man [1967]
The Reel World 