Group tv extras into yes/maybe/no

_posts/2023-12-30-Television-2023.md

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 Here are some other shows that are worth a little mention.
 
-- [Succession : Season 4](https://www.hbo.com/succession): This show remains a compelling train wreck of extreme nepotism. You still thrash between loathing and rooting for these terribly privileged children. More of the same, but it's good.
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 - [Hilda](https://www.netflix.com/title/80115346): This show is a comforting warm bowl of soup. Reliably beautiful, whimsical, and charming.
+- [Succession : Season 4](https://www.hbo.com/succession): This show remains a compelling train wreck of extreme nepotism. You still thrash between loathing and rooting for these terribly privileged children. More of the same, but it's good.
 - [Crown: Season 6](https://www.netflix.com/title/80025678): This show has been very evenly enjoyable. It explores different storylines of the paradox of the British monarchy. Humans raised in an inhuman system, destined to dysfunction but also intertwined with history. The setting is grand but the individual storylines are often incredibly petty, in a way that seems wholly accurate. Supposedly this season is the end of the line, even though the real dysfunction marches on, and I'm a bit sad to not have more.
-- [The Marvelous Ms. Maisel: Season 5](https://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Mrs-Maisel-Season/dp/B0875GWS52): This final season is largely more of the same. Charming, quick-witted, very New York, very Jewish, very period piece. And all of that is a pleasant watch. But it's time to wrap it up.
 - [White Lotus: Season 1 and 2](https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus): To me, this show is about people in the hospitality industry dealing with entitled travelers… and then things going terribly wrong. The first season really lands that, and is a wild ride (with a particularly captivating hotel manager). The second season has a bit more sympathetic guests and less interesting hosts, and so doesn't land quite as well. But I enjoyed both.
+- [House of the Dragon: Season 1](https://www.hbo.com/house-of-the-dragon): Given the uneven landing of Game of Thrones' final season, I had my doubts about this one. But I think it's good. I like the large multi-generation timeline of it all. Like the Crown… but with dragons.
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+- [The Marvelous Ms. Maisel: Season 5](https://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Mrs-Maisel-Season/dp/B0875GWS52): This final season is largely more of the same. Charming, quick-witted, very New York, very Jewish, very period piece. And all of that is a pleasant watch. But it's time to wrap it up.
 - [The Witcher: Season 3](https://www.netflix.com/title/80189685): Long ago we decided this was a ["vibes"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZStkUxC4iL4&t=2801s&pp=ygUVcGF0cmljayB3aWxsZW1zIHZpYmVz) show, which is to say don't think so hard about it and instead focus on the vibe. It's best when it's a "monster of the week" serial focusing on Geralt being a gruff monster detective. Sadly the show seems far more focused on big politics that are less interesting than when the show is small.
 - [The Mandalorian: Season 3](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/the-mandalorian/3jLIGMDYINqD): As with the Witcher, this show is best when it focuses on smaller vignettes. Space western bounty hunter, yes please. Big overwrought politics and mythology, no thank you. This third season leans heavily into the larger story, and gets more Star Wars than it should.
 - [Loki: Season 2](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/Loki/6pARMvILBGzF): For a show about a god and time travel, this show should be more fun. It's surprisingly dry. And focuses a lot on the precise rules of time and multiverses that frankly don't really make sense. The show does have some moments. When Loki finally actually plays around with time travel, it hits. But my least favorite parts of the last season were Kang, and… this season leans heavily on that weak point.
-- [House of the Dragon: Season 1](https://www.hbo.com/house-of-the-dragon): Given the uneven landing of Game of Thrones' final season, I had my doubts about this one. But I think it's good. I like the large multi-generation timeline of it all. Like the Crown… but with dragons.
 - [Ms. Marvel: Season 1](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/ms-marvel/45BsikoMcOOo): I've read the first few books of the Ms. Marvel comics, and was eager to see this live action version. And the first few episodes hit the vibe. Kamala Khan is a _kid_ (and a nerdy fangirl at that), so small stakes work really well here. The second half of the season _really_ muddled things though. Can we please just focus on small human-scale stories?
-- [Hawkeye: Miniseries](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/hawkeye/11Zy8m9Dkj5l): I watched this while my family was out of commission sick for a week. And I remember precious little about it. It certainly has very little Hawkeye in it, but maybe that's okay? I remember it ending with some Scooby-Do quality mooks. Meh. This is not Marvel focusing on doing its best.
 - [Moon Knight: Miniseries](https://ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/moon-knight): I liked that this didn't try to fit into a crowded Marvel universe. It was a weird story of multiple personalities and Egyptian mythology. It didn't really sink in for me; I couldn't really tell you what it was about. But I appreciated it for trying to be different.
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+- [Hawkeye: Miniseries](https://www.disneyplus.com/series/hawkeye/11Zy8m9Dkj5l): I watched this while my family was out of commission sick for a week. And I remember precious little about it. It certainly has very little Hawkeye in it, but maybe that's okay? I remember it ending with some Scooby-Do quality mooks. Meh. This is not Marvel focusing on doing its best.
 - [The Wheel of Time: Season 1](https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Time-Season-1/dp/B09F59CZ7R): I've read the first Wheel of Time book, and only that one. It didn't grip me. The show… yeah kind of the same. I don't know if I've been terrible fair to it; I never gave it a chance to be good. It's… fine? There's something about this brand of fantasy that just doesn't land for me.
 - [Sex Education: Season 4](https://www.netflix.com/title/80197526): The previous seasons of this show have been really amazing; the fourth season... not so much. The characters and setting have turned practically cartoonish. As is, I'd recommend stopping after season 3.

_posts/2023-12-31-Movies-2023.md

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Thanks to Patrick H Willems for [this recommendation](https://www.youtube.com/wa
 
 Here are some other movies I had thoughts on.
 
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 - [Dunkirk](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/): For a period as well traveled as World War II, I never felt like I had seen this movie before. The mechanism of telling 3 different storylines advancing at different rates (an inevitably combining for the climax) worked really well. Very engaging.
 - [Three Thousand Years of Longing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9198364/): dris Elba is a genie in a bottle found by Tilda Swinton. It's a vibrant movie with Shahrazad vibes of storytelling, magic, and history.
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 - [Renfield](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11358390/): Nick Cage chews up all the scenery, and that's appropriate. It's campy, there is some comedically gratuitous action violence... but it didn't really land as all that memorable or interesting.
 - [Strange World](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10298840/): Some interesting visuals but ultimately forgettable. As in I literally had to watch the trailer to remember what happened. It felt very... well-tread.
 
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 - [Magic Mike's Last Dance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16280138/): The first two Magic Mike movies are excellent. This one is not. It has a completely dissonant romantic relationship and loses all of the positive masculinity of the previous film. There is some good dancing, but not enough to make up for its sins.
 - [Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630029/): Well that certainly looked expensive. Was the story dumb and lazy? Yep. Were the whales cool? Yep. Did the whole thing overstay its welcome? Yes absolutely.