The Weekly TV, Movie, & Games Discussion Post For Week Of June 1st, 2025

We’re moving through June, and there are a number of shows close to wrapping up, but always new ones around the corner. We’ve had a number of things we’ve checked out but a lot of what I’ve been doing is rewatching older stuff. There’s a good mix of things as we gear up to get back into our Nordic Noir and some Brit crime but as we barely watch any primetime broadcast stuff, it’s pretty much a feast or famine kind of situation for a lot of things.

With a lot of ongoings wrapped up, and the big investment of Andor, June has a lot to offer that I’m waiting on. Stick is on my radar along with Resident Alien returning. Syfy also has Revival to check out, and Netflix has the eighth season of Somebody Feed Phil. Add in projects like Ironheart, The Bear, Smoke, and Nautilus, and there is a lot to check out. And July has some big stuff with Sandman, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Foundation for me – never mind all the anime!

I’d taken a few weeks off from Brit crime and dramas to soak up some other stuff and stepping back into it with the 2022 season of The Responder was definitely hard. It’s got a solid cast all around led by Martin Freeman as a cop struggling with a lot of things in his life coming at him in all directions. It’s fairly straightforward in some ways, but I like that it takes place over the course of five nights, where he’s assigned a probationary officer after her partner ends up hospitalized for an encounter. Freeman’s guy has a bit of a grizzled and frazzled feeling about him and he’s caught up in things that are escalating because he’s trying to do the right thing but also has a sense of trying to make something good for himself at the same time. There are no “good” characters in this overall, but a lot of grim parts of reality and bad decisions cascading. It’s got a second season that landed in 2024 as well with both seasons clocking in at six episodes each.

For me, I’ve been enjoying some downtime after the weekly binges and writing for Star Wars: Andor. That’s sent me back to rewatching something a bit less intense with the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I’ve talked about it a bit on Bluesky while watching it in the background and this week had me working through the third season and doing a few episodes of the fourth season. This is when the show started working better in terms of both writing and acting as there was a better comfort in all of it and less of the utopian angle being pushed so far. It’s there as it should be, but it’s met with a bit more nuance compared to the first couple of seasons. It does take a bit for Beverly Crusher to find her place here, and we get the complications of Wesley and all, but it works even as they look for a way to move him on more. There’s a greater exploration of the Klingon side as well as delving a bit more into Romulans as well, especially as the fourth season gets underway. I’m more entertained here than I was in the first couple of seasons, so it’s a good step up. Plus, some good Guinan material and even some decent Q material. The Borg side already kind of bores me a bit because it’s fairly simplistic and I do think it became a bit of an albatross on the show in later seasons.

Movie reviews:

1. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning
2. The Lord of the Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim Review
3. Make a Girl Review
4. The Boy and the Heron Review
5. Perfect Days Review
6. Wicked Little Letters Review
7. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
8. The Marvels 4K UHD Review
9. HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle Anime Movie Review
10. The Crow Steelbook 4K Ultra HD Review
11. The Idea of You Review
12. SPY x FAMILY CODE: White’ Review
13. Sometimes I Think About Dying Review
14. Rascal Does Not Dream Double Feature Review
15. The Marvels Review
16. The Zone of Interest Review
17. GREAT PRETENDER razbliuto Anime Movie Review
18. Night of the Comet Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD Review
19. Hayao Miyazaki Says ‘Farewell’ with “The Boy and the Heron”
20. The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes Review
21. The Canterville Ghost
22. Animation Is Film 2023: The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story
23. Animation Is Film 2023: Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower
24. Animation Is Film 2023: The Concierge Review
25. Animation Is Film 2023: The Boy and the Heron
26. The Inventor
27. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Review
28. Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Film Review
29. Shazam! Fury of the Gods Review
30. Justice League: Warworld Blu-ray Review
31. The Little Mermaid
32. The Boxtrolls Review
33. Kubo and the Two-Strings Review
34. Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Review
35. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends Anime Movie Review
36. Sword Art Online The Movie – Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night Movie Review
37. Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan’s Island
38. Missing Review
39. The Whale Review
40. Point of No Return Review
41. Blonde Review
42. Wendell & Wild
43. Clerks III Review
44. Luck Review
45. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
46. Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
47. Hustle Review
48. Top Gun: Maverick Review
49. The Bob’s Burgers Movie Review
50. Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers Review
51. Stu’s Show Review
52. Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition Review
53. Bubble Anime Review
54. Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis Anime Review
55. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Review
56. Turning Red Review
57. The Batman Review
58. Belle Review
59. Drive My Car Review
60. The Power of the Dog Review
61. Robin Robin Review
62. BoxBallet Review
63. Bestia Review
64. Eternals Review
65. Encanto Review
66. 8-Bit Christmas Review
67. Music Box: Jagged Review
68. Ghostbusters: Afterlife Review
69. Tick, Tick…BOOM! Review
70. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Review
71. Free Guy Review
72. My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission Review
73. Dune (2021) Review
74. Black Widow
75. Jungle Cruise Review
76. As the Village Sleeps Review
77. Space Jam: A New Legacy Review
78. A Quiet Place Part II Review
79. Knots: A Forced Marriage Story Review
80. School-Live! The Movie Blu-ray Review
81. In the Heights Review
82. Over the Moon Review
83. Feeling Through Review
84. Two Distant Strangers review
85. Yes-People Review
86. A Love Song for Latasha Review
87. If Anything Happens I Love You Review
88. Burrow Review
89. Godzilla vs Kong
90. Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story Review
91. Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years Preview
92. Raya and the Last Dragon Review
93. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run Review
94. The Little Things Review
95. In Other Words Review
96. Earwig and the Witch Review

What did you watch this past week?

Chris Beveridge

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Chris has been writing about anime, manga, movies and comics for well on twenty years now. He began AnimeOnDVD.com back in 1998 and has covered nearly every anime release that’s come out in the US ever since.

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