Season Review

Season or series reviews of shows, summarizing all you need to know in one post.

Garo – Vanishing Line: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Garo – Vanishing Line is bloated and surely not going to push you to look into the other series under the Garo umbrella.

Kokkoku: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Kokkoku ultimately is like walking down a dead end street, reaching the end, and continuing to walk forward, into an empty lot, hoping to find something valuable.

Citrus: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Citrus has its moments. Especially when addressing female homosexuality in Japan. However, despite the growth of character Yuzu, it’s more about tantalization than substance.

The Good Doctor: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

The Good Doctor starts strong but as you get used to the tear-jerking patients and moments of the hospital staff, you begin to see flaws which can use some patching up.

The Chi: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

The Chi acts as a bridge between the 80s – 00s Black Renassiance to the modern one by reviving familiar stories, continuing ones that got cut short, as well as featuring characters who were seldom seen or heard.

On My Block: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

On My Block balances what it means to live in an urban gang area, while never forgetting these are but 13 – 15-year-old kids trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Requiem: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Requiem is, by all means, an adequate, I got a few hours to spare, TV show to binge, but nothing you are going to want to push others to watch and talk about.

B – The Beginning: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

B – The Begininng seems like the kind of product that had too many people involved with writing the script and left one person to ultimately salvage what could be used.

Marlon Wayans: Woke-ish – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Unpredictable and outlandish is the only way to describe Marlon Wayans: Woke-ish, as he proves not just why the Wayans are one of the funniest families in comedy, but why he is one of the funniest comedians period.

Black Panther (The Animated Series): Season 1- Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

With this series, we get a taste of the Black Panther in such a way that may never be seen with this much investment again.

Notes From The Field – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Over the course of 18 characters, Anna Deavere Smith doesn’t just present a masterclass in acting but also understanding the various aspects of the school to prison pipeline.

Chris Rock: Tamborine – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Chris Rock, thankfully, brings a comedy special light on Trump and while it delves into his personal philosophies, he doesn’t turn his standup into a college lecture.

Altered Carbon: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Altered Carbon stumbles quite a bit in its first season, but thanks to the characters of Quell and Rei, it leaves you craving for a second season.

One Day At A Time: Season 2 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

The second season of One Day At A Time comes swinging hard and though it gets formulaic after a certain point, it never really loses its heart and passion for what it is trying to represent.

GATE: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri, or simply Gate, slowly turns from something which seems like a silly ecchi filled anime to something which really holds clout in terms of presenting fantasy, action, and character development.

Harith Iskander: I Told You So – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Harith Iskander’s “I Told You So” is the kind of comedy special which makes you hope Netflix snatches Iskander up and offers him more than additional special, but perhaps a show.

Marvel’s Runaways: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Marvel’s Runaways seems like a FreeForm show that got dropped but being that it is a Marvel product, Disney decided to slap it onto Hulu just to see what would happen.

Katt Williams: Great America – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Katt Williams: Great America won’t make you think Katt Williams hasn’t missed a step since his height in 2008/2009, but his set will bring enough nostalgia to see you through till the end.

Grisaia no Meikyuu (The Labyrinth of Grisaia) – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Overview The prequel to Grisaia no Kajitsu (Le Fruit de la Grisaia) is much darker, a bit more shocking, and definitely more screwed up. Though, it certainly gets the job done in providing us how come Yuuji is the way he is.

The End of the F***ing World: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

The End of the F***ing World is undoubtedly Netflix’s first big hit of the year, and one of the few which may not be overhyped.

Devilman Crybaby: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Like many a violent and graphic anime, while Devilman Crybaby starts off strong, it loses steam quickly and avoids the more interesting avenues it could have taken.

Rokka no Yuusha (Rokka – Braves of the Six Flowers): Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Every now and then a show comes along which you didn’t anticipate for it wasn’t on your radar. Rokka no Yuusha, for me, was one of those shows. Thankfully though, superficial curiosity led me to read the summary and somehow within the first few minutes, I knew I found something which certainly had to be…

Girl Meets World: Season 2 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

As a new year begins in Riley’s life, she is reminded that despite life often focusing on bending to her will and whims, she is not the center of the universe.

Gangsta.: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Introduction Gangsta. strangely takes your usual mafia, crooked cops, and slightly nuts hero trope and brings some sort of freshness to it by doing one thing many animated programs aren’t good at: balance.

Girl Meets World: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Though certainly a bit cheesy, and featuring the comedic style of many Disney Channel shows, Girl Meets World has just enough of Boy Meets World to be considered a success.

Grisaia no Kajitsu (The Fruit of Grisaia) – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Overview What appears to be a slightly ecchi shounen harem, about a former military teen who gets the chance live some semblance of a normal life, has more than what meets the eye.

Just Because!: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

Though void of drama and staying true to its genre’s name, “Slice of Life,” Just Because’s melancholy nature surprising can win you over.

SMILF: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)

SMILF is perhaps one of the few shows which doesn’t try to glamorize or make it a thing of comedy to be working class, or maybe even poor. Nor does it seek to make it into awards bait. It just presents life as many of us live it – fantasies of better and all.