The summer TV season here and it’s kind of grim in a lot of ways. There are a good number of shows rolling out to check out but I’m stuck in a spot where a few of them I’m waiting on my viewing partner to be back from isolation so we can watch together in person. The biggest of those is Dark, so I’m hoping to sneak in a repeat viewing of the first two seasons before the third/final season arrives to deliver its darkness.
This week has largely been about rewatching the first season of Doom Patrol as my eldest daughter is seeing it for the first time. We’ve been doing two to three episodes a night for most nights and have just about wrapped it up so we can get into the second season with my youngest daughter as well. The show holds up well in my second viewing of it so I’m definitely pleased by that, the deep cuts within it, and more.
The new show I’m watching is Stargirl still and that delivered a lot of really good stuff as it plays up the generational aspects of a new JSA – even if I’d root more for an Infinity Inc. version of some sort.
While I haven’t started watching it myself, I’ve been pulling my Blu-ray sets for the Fringe series after mentioning it to my daughter. The show is totally up her alley but it’s one of those lost shows in that it doesn’t get much buzz since it finished awhile ago and was a touch ahead of its time in order to be must-see appointment TV. I’d love to see a new incarnation of it surface and explore more themes but it’d also require wiping way the fifth season, which I’m fine with. The show was one that delivered beautifully for me so it’s one that I really just push whenever I get a legitimate chance to do so.