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Sugar: Go Home (2024)
Confusing Show
This show is a real puzzler. The whole setup of this show, Sugar's search for a missing granddaughter, has increasingly became a background element. What is the show? We've known for a while now that something isn't right with Sugar, and the final reveal in this episode is so anticlimactic. There's no tension because we've been expecting something like this, and outside of smaller details about why it's important for Sugar to stop investigating the case, there's really little that is keeping me invested. They should have just given us the sci-fi show they clearly want it to be, or stopped pretending it was a noir detective show way earlier. Strange.
Lessons in Chemistry: Living Dead Things (2023)
The dog, really?
Framing this episode through the eyes of the dog is the most idiotic and shocking choices I've seen for any show trying to take itself seriously. The dog doesn't know anything, stop treating it like possesses a human level of sentience. It doesn't know that Elisabeth is pregnant. It doesn't know what loss is. It doesn't understand the beauty in running or the meaning of the words Calvin spoke. It's a dog. Dog culture is psychotic.
It took me out of the episode every time the narration started. There's a lot to like in the show, but it's also super heavy handed at times and probably revisionistic in some ways.
The Patient: Company (2022)
good so far
I typically appreciate the week to week release schedule for shows that have a lot of material to chew on... Better Call Saul is a prime example. But for this type of show, its challenging to have to wait week to week, espeically given its short 21-23 minute runtimes. With each episode picking up right where the last left off, having to wait a week to reenter the scene iis definitly uncommon these days.
I've generally had a good sense of the plot direction so far. The earlier episodes were somewhat predictable and I hope that we can move past that in the final half. Steve Carell is good, per usual. Want to see him in more movies.
Better Call Saul: Fun and Games (2022)
Simply Extraordinary
From the masterful intro, to the long quiet sequences, to the heartbreaking last few moments, this show remains absolutely top notch. I'm floored by how it keeps moving. I was not expecting what we just witnessed in the last few minutes. I'm honestly speechless. It's a whole different thing now. We've made it.