We’re moving into March 2024 and it’s definitely not a place where a lot of people thought we’d be. With the fall TV season being pushed back due to the strikes, a lot of films delayed and being adjusted, and of course just the nature of seasonal broadcasts, it’s been pretty light lately. We’ve had a number of things we’ve checked out but a lot of what I’ve been doing is rewatching older stuff or spending time on holiday programming. Which isn’t actually a lot to talk about when you get down to it. So, to kick off this latest week, we want to highlight some of the things we’re looking forward to this month.
I’m in the midst of finishing up a few shows with Masters of the Air and The New Look on Apple TV+ as well as getting closer to finishing off the second season of Halo.
But I’m also spending some time in the backlist as I’ve been rewatching Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. I enjoyed the show when it first came out – just getting underway before the pandemic – and I’m a huge fan of these kinds of musical style projects. It’s definitely a show that tries to hard in what it’s trying to say at times but it also delivers some really good performances and numbers while working through the larger throughline of trauma and tragedy and how to cope with it. I also love reconnecting with some of the actors, such as the supporting actress Alice Lee who is now voicing Lois Lane in the new animated Superman series. The show plays with songs well and while there’s a quasi-internal logic to how the singing element works, it’s easy to just let it go and enjoy what it’s trying to convey rather than micromanaging the logic of the world.
Yeah, I probably stuck too long with Fear the Walking Dead in the minds of many but the show had some stuff in the early seasons that I liked when it came to the settings and as it dropped most of the cast along the way, it grew into something a lot more. We had some neat crossovers with the mothership at times and I just enjoyed seeing a different part of the world explored and the differences that came from it. I was late to getting to the back half of the final season and while I wasn’t exactly thrilled that it leaned into Madison as much as it did, the show does provide for some larger closure overall with her story and that of her family. It delves into the nature of how to try and survive as communities here and the nature of redemption. There’s a decent bit of Walker material as well as you’d expect but the general idea of humanity being the worst is ever-present – but balanced against the good that people can do for others at large.
This past week also saw the sixth and seventh episodes of the final season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Yes, the episode is dark. And it really depends on how you watch it; it was a lot darker watching it on my desktop than my TV set. But there’s also a lot of mood built into the episode with its darkness focusing on a hidden rebel cell like what Rex has here. There’s a lot to like here as a double-episode and the expanded opportunities it provides. You could do a lot of it within the space of a single episode but that would be compressed and so fast in so many ways that it would lose the nuance that makes the show work so well in letting things breathe. I’m very happy with it as a whole and can’t wait to see what’s next as they nudge more things into the larger storyline.
Check out our full review.
Movie reviews:
- The Marvels Review
- The Zone of Interest Review
- GREAT PRETENDER razbliuto Anime Movie Review
- Night of the Comet Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD Review
- Hayao Miyazaki Says ‘Farewell’ with “The Boy and the Heron”
- The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes Review
- The Canterville Ghost
- Animation Is Film 2023: The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
- Animation Is Film 2023: Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower
- Animation Is Film 2023: The Concierge Review
- Animation Is Film 2023: The Boy and the Heron
- The Inventor
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Review
- Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Film Review
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods Review
- Justice League: Warworld Blu-ray Review
- The Little Mermaid
- The Boxtrolls Review
- Kubo and the Two-Strings Review
- Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Review
- Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends Anime Movie Review
- Sword Art Online The Movie – Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night Movie Review
- Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan’s Island
- Missing Review
- The Whale Review
- Point of No Return Review
- Blonde Review
- Wendell & Wild
- Clerks III Review
- Luck Review
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
- Hustle Review
- Top Gun: Maverick Review
- The Bob’s Burgers Movie Review
- Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers Review
- Stu’s Show Review
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition Review
- Bubble Anime Review
- Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis Anime Review
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Review
- Turning Red Review
- The Batman Review
- Belle Review
- Drive My Car Review
- The Power of the Dog Review
- Robin Robin Review
- BoxBallet Review
- Bestia Review
- Eternals Review
- Encanto Review
- 8-Bit Christmas Review
- Music Box: Jagged Review
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife Review
- Tick, Tick…BOOM! Review
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Review
- Free Guy Review
- My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission Review
- Dune (2021) Review
- Black Widow
- Jungle Cruise Review
- As the Village Sleeps Review
- Space Jam: A New Legacy Review
- A Quiet Place Part II Review
- Knots: A Forced Marriage Story Review
- School-Live! The Movie Blu-ray Review
- In the Heights Review
- Over the Moon Review
- Feeling Through Review
- Two Distant Strangers review
- Yes-People Review
- A Love Song for Latasha Review
- If Anything Happens I Love You Review
- Burrow Review
- 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?
