Reviews

I want to say right off the bat that I think anyone who enjoyed Love, Simon will definitely enjoy this show too. It's family friendly, enjoyable, and has characters with a lot of potential. To me, though, it just wasn't my thing, which is totally fine.

Most of the characters, especially Victor, feel to me like any other Disney/Nickelodeon live-action protagonist. Actually, a lot of this first episode kind of feels like the same style of those older 2010s shows, except with less goofy kid comedy and instead mixing it with a lighthearted highschool drama. I say this because these characters aren't necessarily relatable, but a watered down version of what high school is like. This completely makes sense for its rating, but I just prefer something a little less by-the-numbers. I think Everything Sucks is a show that feels a lot more free in the highschool setting, as an alternative.

Still, this looks like a nice show that could be a wonderful story for young queer kids to be inspired by. Maybe the dialogue is basic or the story a bit unengaging, but I hope this brings as much positivity to the LGBT story subject as much as Love, Simon did.

I'm sure we've all had enough of reboots and remakes these past ten years. However, this pilot is one of the most pointless ones I've ever seen.

Why even make a remake of a beloved show if you're not even going to go all out? A few references just reminds me how much better the original HIMYM pilot is compared to...this. It's not even that HIMYM was a top-tier comedy, or that I was looking for something exactly like it. But at least HIMYM didn't pull any punches. Ted's irrational relationship choices, Barney's charmingly unlikable attitude, and Lily and Marshall's wacky chemistry is already apparent in the first episode. Compared to this, its the most emotional experience ever.

There's nothing interesting about this pilot at all BESIDES the idea of a possible relationship, which is exactly the opposite of HIMYM's pilot (and honestly every other above-garbage sitcom). The style of the show is the exact same as any other, but with no fun. No crazy, fast, dumb jokes (something that HIMYM had perfected) but instead slow...dialogue...like something big is about to...happen. But nothing did. Even a WOOSH sound for flashbacks would energize this pilot a little bit.

Not to mention the massively cliched story with absolutely nothing else to glean from it. Posh British man thinks America is dirty wow. Man gets engaged and then...nothing. Some would say this is a fun introduction to the characters, that nothing HUGE needs to happen immediately. But, again, just watch HIMYM's pilot. It's leagues ahead of whatever this is trying to be. Nothing amazing, but it was clear that the writes were having fun, trying to be entertaining. HIMYF's story has nothing but a bunch of cliches and modern references. "Woah wouldn't it be funny if we made a siri joke, or an uber joke?" There's nothing to get from this, entertainment or otherwise.

I hope to all that continue watching the show that it gets better one day, but something tells me it will always be in the shadow of the original, because for some reason that's all it's trying to be. You can't change something that doesn't want to.

On a whim, I decided to check out one of these "Visions", even though I'm not necessarily an anime or Star Wars fan. However, I was left pleasantly surprised in some areas.

While the overall premise is surprisingly bland, I enjoyed how it unfolded. I'm glad it took its time to build its characters instead of the short entirely consisting of fighting (something that Marvel's "What If?", a show with a similar premise, seems to do), I wasn't necessarily invested in any of the characters.

I feel as though there was a very interesting backstory to this small town, and that it used the Star Wars elements of war really well. However, there just wasn't enough actual STORY to get me into it.

The visuals are STUNNING, which is why I'm giving this such a high rating. I'm just a sucker for beautiful animation. It definitely added to the whimsy of the story, even if the whimsy was short-lived, with only a classic "mysterious Jedi reveal" being the thing that kept my interest.

I'd like to see more of these, with hopefully a bit more substance. However, this was perfectly enjoyable, not to mention beautifully made.

I am not the BIGGEST fan of modern CW programs. From Riverdale to The Flash, all of their shows I've seen so far have either been dead in the water from the beginning, or run for so long, their stories get tired to death. I really, really hope that doesn't happen with this show.

I'm not that into DC projects, but I think I'll stick around for this one. Unlike what I've seen before (Note: I've only seen the DCEU films for reference), Superman is incredibly likeable, and actually seem like, you know, a real person. Unfortunately, many of the other characters I'm not yet completely onboard with. Their sons are probably the characters with the most potential, as this series seems to be equally focused on them as it is with Superman. The side characters aren't very unique, but I mean, I might just be nitpicking.

I don't want to be too harsh on this show and nitpick every little thing just yet. I'm generally used to big budget, exclusive streaming service superhero shows, where the budget can be as large as required. But this is new for me, and I'm interested to see where it goes.

I just hope that the villains don't do that annoying trope where they just keep getting more and more overpowered, until the rules of the show need to be broken just to end the story. In other words, please don't end up like The Flash.

I don't think I've seen a Netflix Original series premiere be so high quality since Stranger Things. Genuinely, this was pretty damn amazing.

The first thing I'm already on board with is how this show treats highschool. Yes, of course it's exaggerated, as all highschool shows are, but it treats the characters with respect. In many lesser shows (really anything on the CW), teens are sexualized, stripped of identity, and rely on tropes. But what I noticed in this premiere is how "unsexual" the sex is. Being a highschooler myself, I hardly know anything about real, genuine, adult relationships, but from what I know, this is as honest as it gets.

I am adoring the characters, and I love how we're already seeing some of the key dynamic relationships. Otis and Eric are both incredibly likable, and I hope we see their storylines progress, and not just drag like a lot of highschool shows do to keep the status quo.

I'm interested to see where this show goes, and if it can hold up to this standard of quality. Because wow, this was really enjoyable. Well-paced, never dragging, likable characters, and a premise that seems simplistic, but that has a lot of potential. Not to mention it was incredibly funny, which is something that a lot of coming-of-age-related "comedies" fail to do.

Can't wait to see where this goes.

Gotta be honest, I didn't like the premiere of Why Are You Like This at all. In fact, I felt a really strong urge to shut it all off throughout the entire first two-thirds of the episode. That is, until I realized...

yeah duh, it's supposed to be horrible.

The protagonists are absolutely obnoxious. Nothing about them is likable, and all the humor comes from their ignorance. But that's exactly where I missed the point.

This show is mean to point out the damage of performative activism, a trend that's dangerously popular in my generation (Gen Z) and in some millennials. The reveal at the end, I think, is the best way of showing just how awful this kind of activism can be, and the characters getting off scot-free is very common in reality as well.

This is the first time a show has made me feel empathy for 2 dimensional, underdeveloped side characters, and I think that's an achievement, even if it was achieved by making the three "protagonists" as awful as possible.

Unfortunately I still have to give this episode a 5, because I still hated everything for most of the episode. Hopefully I'll be able to see the next episode from a new, more informed point of view.