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I really think Kaley Cuoco does a good job as Harley Quinn. When I watched this animated series, I see a lot of Kaley Cuoco in the animated character in gestures and attitude. This Harley Quinn might lack a lot of the insane evil of the Harley Quinn character. However, in this iteration, she is not just an evil minion for Batman, so being more than a two-dimensional villain is a good thing. Is it okay to be at heart a good person? Even if you are an insane, bleached clown themed carnival acrobat and super villain? A dose of Cuoco and smattering of some girl power bullshit doesn’t hurt this series with cringey eye rolling Wokeness. Worth a look.

I have to admit that I like the look of this series, I also like the acting. I understand that this is an alternative universe Batman precursor and a degree of comic bookish cheesiness is to be expected. But, American writers should not attempt to write British characters. The tropes are often two dimensional and embarrassing for a non American to watch. Kind of like an American trying to do an English or Australian accent, it's always awful and offensively stereotypical. Pennyworth however isn't quite that bad, its an Americans idea of what Britishness is about, but at least some half decent English actors are playing the roles. It could be better and I think a English writer like Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame could improve this.

I’ve watched the first season of The Orville, and at this point I’m kind of in-between with this series. This show doesn’t know if it wants to be a serious science fiction melodrama or a parody of the Star Trek franchise. Seth MacFarlane has stolen some plot ideas from Star Trek the animated series and included some tropes from Futurerama. Which is okay I guess, because as Pablo said: “Good artists borrow, but great artists steal.”
However, Seth’s Planetary Union officer Ed Mercer is no Captain Kirk. He’s kind of like that guy in the red suit who walks behind a rock and is devoured by an errant Gorn. That is if that guy can’t act, and slightly resembles Chas Bono.
There are a lot of good things going on with this show, it just needs to embrace the whole Trekkie absurdity of itself, and avoid acting like an episode of Voyager with even lamer looking costumes.

I started watching outcast because I liked Philip Glenister as an actor in “Life on Mars,” and because I’m not adverse to a bit of supernatural science fiction weirdness. This show is kind of like the “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” meets “The Exorcist,” meets a bunch of middle class rednecks. The acting is good, the storyline is okay and I watched the first season of the show, and thought …meh!
I’ve watched 8 and a half episodes of the second season and honestly I’ve lost interest in this show. I guess I’ve never really cared much about the fate of Kyle Barnes and Reverend Anderson, and the righteous self-consciousness of this show really started to irritate me. Outcast is a depressing show, which makes West Virginia look like a gloomy sort of purgatory filled with intolerant Bible bashers and crude oil entities that want to possess everyone, no doubt it’s a cunning plan by Enron.
This show is rather original, and if you can take the unrelenting gloominess of the production, then maybe “Outcast” is for you.

The writing on this show has been a bit ordinary. It lacks the edginess of other science fiction shows like “The Expanse” and “Legion” which it is competing against. It’s as if the writers, Producers and various Corporate Oompa Loompas at NBC are playing it safe with this production. Science Fiction audiences don’t want to have a history lesson every episode. The soldier boy, the too earnest girl historian, and the token African American Pilot of the time machine are well worn action figures from a 80s Saturday morning cartoon. I’ve been watching it because it’s got a time machine and I liked “Back to the Future.” I know there are fans for this show, I just don’t think it’s living up to its best potential.

I recently watched this show and I can’t say that I hated it, I also can’t say that I learned anything new about Outlaw Biker Gangs, and how they operate. The first season of this series did however keep me interested.
It’s a fictionalized version of Charles Falco's 2013 memoir, Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs. Damon Runyan not to be confused with Alfred Damon Runyon the Prohibition era writer, plays Charles Falco, meth dealer-turned-ATF confidential informant, undercover in the Vagos Motorcycle Club; from a "hang-around", a prospect, to a full-patched member. The storyline is similar to the Donnie Brasco lets infiltrate the Mafia film, and is therefore a little predictable. It didn’t have the likes of Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Michael Madsen in it. It was however much better than The Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston in it, another undercover autobiographical film of 2016. Don Francks who played Lizard, the Vagos Road Captain the oldest member of the chapter did an excellent job in this film, and Stephen Eric McIntyre as Kid, the Vagos Vice President and Falco's prospect sponsor was also good. One of the best scenes in the series involved Falco and these two characters demonstrating the spiritual aspects and the freedom of the Biker lifestyle. Sadly too little of this side of the culture was shown. I have to say that, the characters of Lizard and Kid were the only characters I really felt any sort of connection to. Damon Runyon was okay, and didn’t disgrace himself in the lead role.
The weirdest thing in this series was shown when the main character was locked up in an American prison, and the strange rituals, rules and xenophobic gangs that control that place. Does one really have to join a Neo Nazi gang in an American prison if you happen to be white? A question which sadly was not answered in Gangland Undercover. This series is worth looking at, but don’t expect too many surprises.

The Pilot was a bit slow, until Zorn gave his son the animated giant killer Eagle as his new ride. (Which was awesome, wish I had one). I think this show could work well if the writers play on the 80s animated series jokes alla Harvey Birdman. There’s a lot of comedy gold that can be gleaned from the likes of The Masters of the Universe and Thundercats. Wait and See?

The Irregulars is a light weight 19th century supernatural whatever sort of series which is reasonably entertaining. It's aimed at an adolescent audience, the acting is good, the characters are engaging. However, some of the casting choices were obvious Woke virtue signaling. This did not help in establishing suspension of belief in this series. No kids, 19th century England was not racially diverse, it was kind of crap if you were not white. The slave trade only ended there in 1833 and xenophobia was the norm. No, black aristocracy in the UK back then from what I've read. But maybe that doesn't matter, this is a work of fiction isn't it! But sanitizing history to make it woke? A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality, but have we really come to the point where History is a set of comfortable lies agreed upon. Watch it by all means but the I found that I couldn't really lose my self in it because of the lack of historical authenticity.

War of the worlds done walking dead style, its a slow burn series so you need an attention span longer than a gold fish's to get into this. And yes, there are subtitles for the the French dialog parts. (deal with it!)

Cursed (season 1) is a rather tame PG13 fantasy series, attempting to ride on the coat tails of GOT, it’s an entertaining lukewarm butchering of Arthurian legend. I lacks the sex appeal of Game of thrones and John Boorman’s Excalibur or Britannia. The tropes are all over the place, there are 14th and 15th century castles and armor, and a dark ages story line.
And how did Black and a smattering of Asian people end up in fake Medieval England in socially established positions, and seem unlike the fictional fairy people not to be subjugated to any racism what so ever?
This sort of Woke casting was my first major eye roll when watching this. I does not help to establish any sort of suspension of disbelief. The other was the use of an 1980s sounding easy listening type pop song over a sex scene where we saw absolutely no boobs or penises at all! This was my 2nd major eye roll. The character Nimue played by Katherine Langford the titular heroine of this story, has big things in front of her but alas this is no GOT, so don’t hold your breath waiting to see them.
But it is still reassembly entertaining, if a multicultural historically mad Medieval fair.