FUBAR is more endearing than I expected. Yeah, yeah, maybe ‘endearing’ isn’t the absolute best word, here. Still, Arnie playing a cranky old dad Terminator is kind of funny. Especially if he spends the entire series driving his Action Girl daughter nuts. Busting the chops of your kids is an underrated pleasure.
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So, Netflix canceled 1899 after one season.
Like Netflix do. I’m not gonna lie, though: I’m not entirely upset about it. I enjoyed the first one, because 1899 was a legitimately creepy and weird little alternate-perception show (that you really should watch with subtitles*). It had its reveal, the reveal was cool, the second season had an excellent chance of being a disappointment. From an artistic point of view, better to end it at a dramatic moment.
Of course, I wasn’t counting on a paycheck from the show. I suspect that the actors and production crew might have a different opinion about how things went down.
Moe Lane
*I missed at first that there were two versions: one where everybody spoke English, and one where everybody spoke their own languages and nobody was a polyglot. I had to backtrack and rewatch the subtitled version from the start, because it completely changed the tone and flow of conversations.
I liked the first episode of WEDNESDAY.
I wasn’t sure if I would, but the reviews were good enough that I thought I’d check it out for myself. WEDNESDAY’s characters hit the right notes of the originals, I thought, and the plot is entertainingly gruesome. Worth catching at least the first episode.
The official Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Netflix trailer.
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities looks like fun! …At least, the Lovecraftian ones do. I’ll reserve judgement on the other ones until I see them. There’s gonna be some decent spooky horror stuff, this Halloween…
The WEDNESDAY Netflix teaser trailer.
It’s… bloodier than I expected.
Continue reading The WEDNESDAY Netflix teaser trailer.The DAY SHIFT Netflix trailer.
Not gonna lie: Day Shift looks like fun.
“Working-class professional vampire hunters” always fits my aesthetic, and Jamie Foxx has the right look for it. I also figure that there’s going to be action scenes in it. Like, a lot of action scenes. Lastly: according to the trailer, Snoop Dogg is going to show up with a minigun. …I understand that there are people out there who would not want to watch that, and that’s their privilege, but I like my way of life better.
The THE SILENT SEA Netflix trailer.
I might watch THE SILENT SEA, if only because the Lunar horror aesthetic matches a fantasy-horror project I’m… ah, never mind. Shouldn’t say too much ahead of time. Anyway, it is of interest.
The ‘It’ll be good if they played it straight’ HELLBOUND Netflix trailer.
I would be more confident of HELLBOUND if it lived up to this trailer.
Continue reading The ‘It’ll be good if they played it straight’ HELLBOUND Netflix trailer.Cast revealed for the live-action AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER…
…and, shockingly, they seem to have cast actors who look at least somewhat like the animated characters. Look, I don’t beat the representation drum overmuch, myself. But if you’re going to make a show that draws on Chinese/Japanese/Inuit/East Asian cultures as much as AVATAR did, the least you can do is not cast, you know, blonde people. I feel that this was a reasonable objection to make about the live-action movie. I am sympathetic to it.
Continue reading Cast revealed for the live-action AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER…THE WITCHER: NIGHTMARE OF THE WOLF Netflix teaser trailer.
Very anime, drops August 23rd. Features Vesemir, not Geralt. Coolness.