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matt_zimmerAlso reviews for the latest episodes of Teen Titans Go!, The Great North, Night Court, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Organized Crime.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch "The Return"
Dee Bradley Baker really needs to put the Bad Batch on his Emmy reel. All of those characters sound both eerily similar and nothing alike at all at the exact same time.
I feel like the conflict between Hunter and Crosshairs was resolved too easily at the end, but the one thing I liked was the fact that Crosshair correctly pointed out Omega wouldn't have been captured if Hunter had listened to his warning. Him suggesting that's the actual thing Hunter was mad about was probably true. Omega's closeness to Crosshair since they've gotten back has got to sting Hunter a little.
Wrecker had the best attitude about this mess: If Omega trusts Crosshairs, that's good enough for him. Well, when you put it like that.
Strong episode. And somebody get Baker an Emmy already. ****.
Teen Titans Go! "Ship"
My reaction: This show has been on the air far too long. That's it. That's the review. *.
The Great North "Ready Mayor One Adventure"
Fourth poor episode in a row. Not good.
I do have to concede I really liked Wolf and Honeybee's conflict resolution. It was genuinely heartfelt. But the show is getting both annoying and stupid otherwise. **1/2.
Night Court "Chips Ahoy"
That was not just bad. That was not just awful. It was so embarrassing I was ashamed of myself that I sat through it. I watch a LOT of crap. That doesn't happen with most other shows I watch. When it does (like Riverdale) is when I start considering dropping out of it.
That was terrible enough to put this show on thin ice with me. I am seriously considering dropping it. My taste is simply not this terrible, and I shouldn't act like it is. 0.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "Carousel"
In its early years SVU was MUCH tougher to watch than it generally is now. Now only were the crimes more realistic and triggering, but they were plausible. You might say that because the show has sort of gone overboard in the meantime the show being grounded was better back then. But it was harder to watch and yeah, ickier.
It's on-brand for a recent season to add a DNA twist of a genetics lab keeping score of a sex game. But it's the sex game that creeps me out. I remember the so-called "Spur Posse" in the 1990's and that crap made me sick. It is too real-world credible for me to enjoy the episode.
But who says you gotta enjoy television? Fair point. But I'm the guy who is mad when he doesn't. **1/2.
Law & Order: Organized Crime "Beyond The Sea"
There is something very unsettling about the town-wide cover-up, mostly because we don't yet understand it or WHY it is as entrenched as it is. If it was JUST covering for the son, the whole town wouldn't seemingly be involved. The son being a serial killer strikes me as "inconvenient" to the town, because the extra attention will shed light on equally depraved and criminal things. We just don't know, so it's like the first half of Get Out.
Stabler is right to find the chief's behavior outright weird. It is. She seems pretty determined to solve the case. And is doing everything in her power to make sure she does not. I can't explain why both things seem true. But they do. Does she actually KNOW it's her brother? That would be a VERY unlikely turn in my mind. Her behavior defies belief.
The IAB guy played by Malcolm Goodwin is the franchise going back to IAB as bad guys, but there is something I try to keep in mind. While Stabler has evolved as a cop and a person decades later, I believe his behavior in the early seasons of Special Victims Unit was borderline corrupt and criminal. IAB wants to see a pattern of corruption? It already exists. I give Stabler the benefit of the doubt because I've seen his growth on this series. Why should IAB give him that same benefit when they have not? They're the bad guys, but I get why they want to nail him. He might be a departmental legend and White Whale.
Just so you understand how much Stabler has evolved, when the guy accuses him of engaging in cover-ups like his father, Stabler said something to him that he would never have said on SVU: "I don't know what you mean because you haven't actually asked me any questions." And the best part of that response to me is it was rational. It was thought-provoking. Which Stabler the SVU bulldog never, EVER was. Man, if Finn actually knew THIS guy, he might have even liked him.
This is an arc that's gonna be frustrating waiting out week to week. That's not a terrible problem for a show to have, by the way. "I need to know what happens next," is nowhere NEAR a formal complaint on my end. I am aware it's a good thing, even if it's frustrating. ****1/2.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch "The Return"
Dee Bradley Baker really needs to put the Bad Batch on his Emmy reel. All of those characters sound both eerily similar and nothing alike at all at the exact same time.
I feel like the conflict between Hunter and Crosshairs was resolved too easily at the end, but the one thing I liked was the fact that Crosshair correctly pointed out Omega wouldn't have been captured if Hunter had listened to his warning. Him suggesting that's the actual thing Hunter was mad about was probably true. Omega's closeness to Crosshair since they've gotten back has got to sting Hunter a little.
Wrecker had the best attitude about this mess: If Omega trusts Crosshairs, that's good enough for him. Well, when you put it like that.
Strong episode. And somebody get Baker an Emmy already. ****.
Teen Titans Go! "Ship"
My reaction: This show has been on the air far too long. That's it. That's the review. *.
The Great North "Ready Mayor One Adventure"
Fourth poor episode in a row. Not good.
I do have to concede I really liked Wolf and Honeybee's conflict resolution. It was genuinely heartfelt. But the show is getting both annoying and stupid otherwise. **1/2.
Night Court "Chips Ahoy"
That was not just bad. That was not just awful. It was so embarrassing I was ashamed of myself that I sat through it. I watch a LOT of crap. That doesn't happen with most other shows I watch. When it does (like Riverdale) is when I start considering dropping out of it.
That was terrible enough to put this show on thin ice with me. I am seriously considering dropping it. My taste is simply not this terrible, and I shouldn't act like it is. 0.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "Carousel"
In its early years SVU was MUCH tougher to watch than it generally is now. Now only were the crimes more realistic and triggering, but they were plausible. You might say that because the show has sort of gone overboard in the meantime the show being grounded was better back then. But it was harder to watch and yeah, ickier.
It's on-brand for a recent season to add a DNA twist of a genetics lab keeping score of a sex game. But it's the sex game that creeps me out. I remember the so-called "Spur Posse" in the 1990's and that crap made me sick. It is too real-world credible for me to enjoy the episode.
But who says you gotta enjoy television? Fair point. But I'm the guy who is mad when he doesn't. **1/2.
Law & Order: Organized Crime "Beyond The Sea"
There is something very unsettling about the town-wide cover-up, mostly because we don't yet understand it or WHY it is as entrenched as it is. If it was JUST covering for the son, the whole town wouldn't seemingly be involved. The son being a serial killer strikes me as "inconvenient" to the town, because the extra attention will shed light on equally depraved and criminal things. We just don't know, so it's like the first half of Get Out.
Stabler is right to find the chief's behavior outright weird. It is. She seems pretty determined to solve the case. And is doing everything in her power to make sure she does not. I can't explain why both things seem true. But they do. Does she actually KNOW it's her brother? That would be a VERY unlikely turn in my mind. Her behavior defies belief.
The IAB guy played by Malcolm Goodwin is the franchise going back to IAB as bad guys, but there is something I try to keep in mind. While Stabler has evolved as a cop and a person decades later, I believe his behavior in the early seasons of Special Victims Unit was borderline corrupt and criminal. IAB wants to see a pattern of corruption? It already exists. I give Stabler the benefit of the doubt because I've seen his growth on this series. Why should IAB give him that same benefit when they have not? They're the bad guys, but I get why they want to nail him. He might be a departmental legend and White Whale.
Just so you understand how much Stabler has evolved, when the guy accuses him of engaging in cover-ups like his father, Stabler said something to him that he would never have said on SVU: "I don't know what you mean because you haven't actually asked me any questions." And the best part of that response to me is it was rational. It was thought-provoking. Which Stabler the SVU bulldog never, EVER was. Man, if Finn actually knew THIS guy, he might have even liked him.
This is an arc that's gonna be frustrating waiting out week to week. That's not a terrible problem for a show to have, by the way. "I need to know what happens next," is nowhere NEAR a formal complaint on my end. I am aware it's a good thing, even if it's frustrating. ****1/2.
