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Category: Review

  • Severance

    Severance

    Good show, very enjoyable.

    Not binge watch material, you might fall asleep if you try, and I mention that as a positive. It’s great to see a good show that doesn’t get you all riled up.

    You could watch an episode or two after work before bed, and successfully stop watching and actually go to sleep. This is quite unlike other shows, which would add cliffhangers and keep you wanting the rest of the story, keep you up all night.

    But I want to bring your attention to another aspect of this show and perhaps many others that I find rather concerning. While this show was popular and a while after as well, I noticed many references to this ‘Severance’ on News programs, podcasts and various other programs. The hosts would bring up the show or refer to it seemingly at random, as though it weren’t an ad that Apple had paid for. This could be manipulation of the public, the viewer, to artificially make the show more popular.

    Ayn Rand in her book ‘The Fountainhead’ describes a person ‘Ellsworth M Toohey’ and his gang of influential people who attempt to steer pubic opinion by manipulating that which gets printed in the news papers. In the book they together write false reviews and artificially improve the ratings of bad shows. The reader of column, an ordinary person, not wanting to sound stupid goes along with the reviewers and claims that the bad show is good, great even.

    Along with this, you ask your influential friends working in print media or news to add subtle references to your garbage show, so that people will come watch it and artificially raise demand. I guess this is called marketing now. Though you do have to declare when an ad is an ad.

    While Severance was a very good show, I did feel as though something similar was tried in this case. So many subtle references to the show every now and then, so that you feeling FOMO would want to watch the show, and maybe get an Apple TV subscription.

    Those are all just unproven hypotheses though.

    Should you give the show a watch?: Yes. It’s a very good show.

  • Dredd

    Dredd

    One of the coolest lesser known movies ever.

    I wish this movie scored more, but oh well.

  • Falimy

    Falimy

    Funny.

    Very funny.

    Give it a watch.

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  • Lazarus

    Lazarus

    An extremely well animated, well dubbed, well choreographed and well directed waste of my time.

    It didn’t matter how well every other piece was crafted, at the end of the day the story was mediocre and was told poorly told. Almost every episode felt like a filler episode, only slightly aiding to progress the story. More focus was instead paid to making cool looking action sequences.

    The series is still on-going. Maybe the next few episodes will make it all worth it. But presently I wouldn’t feel the need to recommend the series to anyone.

    I can’t really figure out what’s wrong though. Something similar was done in John Wick, it was a splendid success, and I really loved it too. Maybe it was the feeling that the main characters were in no real risk of death or serious injury. I never felt much excitement or fear during the fights.

    There was a sequence where a main character almost lost an arm, you would be shocked for a quick second, after which you would remember again that nothing serious would ever happen to the main characters. The crew would jump into dangerous situations left and right as if nothing could hurt them.

    It was quite well animated though. All the background characters had were pretty well written too. It’s just that most of the episodes felt unnecessary.

  • Berserk

    Berserk

  • Cromartie High School

    Cromartie High School

  • Dorohedoro

    Dorohedoro

    Unique!

    From the starting to the end Dorohedoro has been so unique in almost every way that you just want to keep watching and see what happens next.

    The world is so different, so violent and so mysterious, but so believable. The world building in Dorohedoro is fantastic.

    Caiman has a lizard head, why?

    – Dunno.

    There’s another person inside Caiman’s mouth, what’s that about?

    – No clue.

    What is happening?

    – Sure hope we’ll find out.

    There are so many things that aren’t explained in the story, but it all adds to the mystery element, only making us more engaged in the story. Seeing people live normal happy lives even as the whole world looks like it’s coming apart around them also adds character to the show.

    Writing: Very good. The characters are so easy to like and world build around them so easy to believe.

    World Building: While mysterious, brutal and chaotic, the world that been crafted is very well made. Caiman has spikes on his head so when he sleeps, the pillow sticks to his head. Caiman also brushes his lizard teeth just as normal people do. The main characters have normal jobs, hobbies and lives just as any normal person would have. The

    Excitement: The main characters are not invulnerable at all. There is a very real risk of something really bad happening to one of them, and because of this there are no fights where you can just sit back and enjoy the show, something serious could happen in the next 30 minutes.

    Sound: Excellent. Excellent dubbing too.

    Music: Great. But some songs have meaningless lyrics with words thrown together seemingly at random.

    Age Restricted: Yes. A guy dies a very gruesome death in the first 3 minutes of the show. It will give you an idea of what sort of violence to expect from the rest of the show.

    Should you watch it?

    – If you can stomach some blood and violence, then yes.

  • Chainsaw Man

    Chainsaw Man

  • One Piece

    One Piece