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Krapopolis (2023)
Not actually terrible
Honestly it's infinitly better than whatever Disenchantment was and way better than Bob's Burgers has been in at least 5 years. It suffers from a lot of the same issues as Disenchantment; using the setting as the joke without writing an actual joke, breaking out of it's own universe to reach for a joke, repetitive one dimensional characters, leaning on the performances instead of giving the actors any actual material to work with. These are kind of staples of all post-golden age comedies now though and the redeeming parts of this show are absolutely the voice talent and art style. I do think it needs to pick a side and either take itself more seriously and get shmaltsy and feely like Community or go full Rick and Morty and just stop giving a sht all together.
The Mission (2023)
Glorifies religious arrogance while ignoring the North Sentinelese
The podcast Behind the B has an incredible series on this event and the history of colonialist and neighboring people involving themselves with the very unwilling North Sentinelese people that was very informative and interesting and made it very clear that these people want to be left alone and reinforcing that what Chau did was reckless, stupid, arrogant and selfish. I highly recommend the podcast if you want to actually learn about what happened, including what John did in the lead up to going to the island that helped him rationalize his decision. This documentary is borderline harmful in glorifying this man and treating him like a dreamer with a calling instead of a selfish moron while making the people he endangered take a back seat to this wannabe colonialist.
Invincible: Atom Eve (2023)
This should have been a 10 minute cold open for a regular episode of Invincible.
The writing is god awful. It feels like a product of the writer's strike or maybe just "uh, what else do we have" trying to crank out content. Didn't even get the Gillian Jacobs to do the voice which was just weird. The pacing is annoyingly bad. It feels like they didn't have enough story with just this one character to focus on for an episode so the whole thing just repeats itself over and over. Maybe if they had explored more characters during this time period they wouldn't have to rely on this one story that clearly couldn't fill an hour without getting frustratingly repetitive. This should have been a 10 minute cold open for a regular episode of Invincible.
House of the Dragon (2022)
You can't cram 4 seasons into 1 have it work
Most of the performances are fine if not good. The pacing and the script have a deep sickness that I doubt can be cured. The plot points and characters are fine and some of them are very interesting but everything is so rushed along that I can't care about any of it and the stuff I would like to care about isn't set up at all and just thrown in like they forgot they needed continued conflict. Way too many of the scenes are characters saying the same thing over and over in different locations like the show only has one thing to say. The original series also gripped people with immersion from set design and made the world feel lived in but from the first episode all the props and set pieces look so new and clean like they just came off an Amazon truck. Nothing is dirty or looks at all used or lived in. This is a minor gripe compared to the complete mess of the script. It's so horrendously bad I can't believe no one else seems to see this.