The month of April is here and we’re making our way through a few midseason finales, or shortened series finales, and waiting for some new things to start coming up to check out. We’re getting excited for what April has to offer as our HBO Max subscription continues to pay out well with Godzilla Vs King Kong and then get to finally see New Mutants and Mortal Kombat with its new film.
We’ve mostly whittled away our list of shows to watch in several of our streaming service queues so we’re definitely in a good place.
Current Netflix queue: I Am Woman, Rebecca, Cool Hand Luke, The Dig
HBO Max queue: David Bowie: The Last Five Years, Watchmen TV, Westworld S3, Game of Thrones S8
Hulu queue: Das Boot, Swing Things, I Kill Giants
With a few of the shows I watch wrapping up earlier with shorter production schedules, we’re not getting a lot to watch these days overall. Which feels weird. That said, we did hit up a few things here and there this past week.
It’s been about three years since the first trailer hit for New Mutants and I was finally able to see it when it landed on HBO Max this weekend. I’ve long loved this group of characters going back to when I first picked up the comics back when Kitty was forced to join them for a few issues. The film, to me, is nowhere near as bad as some people have said it was but it does play a little fast and loose with a few things. It serves as a decent way to introduce people to the characters, their basic backgrounds, and their powers in a small setting. With a smaller budget, this was the ideal way to explore more of the X-Men universe and build on it slowly. My only disappointment is with Illyana’s background not being as comics-accurate as I would have liked and they do their best to not namedrop anything from the main film line. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would based on all the negativity it seems to have.
First, we finished out Behind Her Eyes on Netflix and… well, it was just bland. I was glad that it was just six episodes overall but wish that it had more to it than it did. The series had a solid cast to it but it couldn’t really maintain the tension it needed to really work and there was nothing about the storyline that made it compelling.
With Superman and Lois off for a few weeks, I got the first two episodes of Supergirl to watch and it’s not bad as it tries to wrap up some of what came before. Jon Cryer continues to be the real delight in playing this version of Lex and his stuff is good. But I will admit that, with the long break between Arrowverse shows because of the pandemic, it’s taking time for me to really reconnect with these shows and get back on track with them. I’m hoping Legends of Tomorrow will be a quicker and smoother reconnect.
In catching up on older things that I’ve got in my collection that I’ve revisited while working while trying to avoid streaming so as to not use up my data cap, it’s an odd mix this week. Over the course of the week, I’ve background watched:
- Seven
- Red Dawn
- Oldboy
- Empire Records
- Solo: A Star Wars Story
Movie reviews this year:
- Godzilla vs Kong
- Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story Review
- Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years Preview
- Raya and the Last Dragon Review
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Review
- The Little Things Review
- In Other Words Review
- Earwig and the Witch Review
What did you watch this past week?
