Watching as the current season gets spread out in order to try and have something for the coming weeks has been interesting, but it’s also disheartening – and entirely understandable – as planned spring finales are being adjusted to launch the next season in the fall. That’s going to make for some awkward finales for a few shows I’m sure. but in this time of the coronavirus, it’s the smallest of worries but something tangible that you can latch onto and work with amid the bigger worries. And sometimes that’s a good coping mechanism for many.
At the moment, we just finished our weekly look at Star Trek: Picard with its finale as well as working through Star Wars: The Clone Wars. We also did reviews of the finale of See as well as the finale for The Mandalorian and we’re now working through the second season of Harley Quinn.
A lot of my evening viewing really is going toward comfort shows while mixing in some other things. Last week saw me binging through Pennyworth and that came after burning through The Outsider. But after I finish off a couple of episodes of those each night I end up getting into some sitcoms. The main one continues to be New Girl as I close in on wrapping up season four and wishing Megan Fox was back already. I’m also enjoying going back through Happy Endings with its second season as I haven’t seen it in an age. The new shows that hit this week were fun as well with things like Schooled and Brookyln 99 and I’ll admit I’m already missing Modern Family a good bit.
After mentioning it last week and my curiosity about it, I ended up burning through the full Tales from the Loop series on Amazone Prim. I had caught a visual on the Apple TV suggestion bar that was just a still and it was like seeing something one might find in Black Mirror or anything. The series launched its eight-episode run on the 3rd of April with no fanfare and I had even missed the trailer for over a month ago. The project is art book by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag and is streaming on Amazon Prime. Going through the show, it’s one that requires enjoying a certain very slow and precise pace to set the mood. It’s not big on action or events, instead just going for low-key unsettling as it progresses. There are some real tragedies in the mix and the technology plays a part but it’s almost always humanity that’s the real problem. But it doesn’t overplay it as it’s almost always down to individual choices. It’s a show that definitely appeals in contrast to so much of what’s out there.
