random rec’s from june!!
watched and willing to recommend:
killing eve (s4)-
overall, this show is pretty fucking good. dark, deadly, twisty, bloody, and two amazing women leads who are obsessed with each other to the point of ruin.
as for this season? it was my least favorite out of all of them.
I’m still dead sea levels of salty about the ending and the way they just didn’t put as much effort into the relationship between them. like they could have used the last three episodes to tell a super heartbreaking and bittersweet ending that would have just ended the show on such a good note but it fell super flat.
i think some of the writing could be better and the relationships fleshed out better but overall it’s just ass kicking assassins murdering everyone all the time.
also jodie comer is one of the best actresses i have ever seen!!! and sandra oh has always been a favorite of mine and she is just fucking breathtaking.
first bite-
so not the best show in the whole world but I like that the characters actually feel young in this. they act awkward around their crushes and they say really silly teenaged things, they focus on school and love a lot- not just the supernatural side of things and there are actual adults involved in the super dangerous things most of the time which doesn’t always happen. i feel like the romeo and juliet theme isn’t as terrible as i thought it would be (i just can’t with shakespeare) which may be because the wlw content but 🤷🏼♀️ also no one made a big deal about the fact that the two leads like each other but are both women— they are much more upset about the hunter/vampire thing, love seeing sexuality portrayed like it’s just a normal thing because it is.
the cgi isn’t the best and some of the plot and writing could have been better. it just felt like a new show with a low budget trying to be picked up and despite some of the flaws I enjoyed it. if they made a season two I would watch it.
also the bonus mom and son interaction at the end got me all in my feels, lort I even cried.
warrior nun-
so i actually really liked this. i passed over it multiple times on netflix because i was like ‘oh no not nuns...’ and despite me also being weird and loving weird things i just couldn’t pick it up. then i saw some cool ass gifs on tumblr that had badass women and women looking at each other lovingly — so I gave it a try.
there was a lot more comedy then I thought there was going to me and as a person who really values humor it made the whole show. the heavy and supernatural things weren’t overwhelming because of the funny and mundane things. cgi was okay— better then the untamed. lol
the plot could use some more attention to detail, like it wasn’t inconsistent and i had an inkling of who the bad guy might be at the beginning and i was half right so that was cool— i like that it kept me guessing. it just felt….incomplete. almost like they weren’t sure if they should go full throttle on relationship dynamics and didn’t want to make the storyline too confusing. i hope they really flush out the relationships and show all the emotions for season 2.
rewatch:
beyond evil —
okay, i know what you’re thinking, do you ever watch anything else? the answer is yes but this one is super special and i can’t stop rewatching it. this time i focused more on how joowon grew and his actions throughout the show but especially the later half of the show.
it was really interesting to just focus on him and how his mommy and daddy issues (said with affection) have shaped him. i tried to think more about his trauma, to understand his reactions and reservations. because at the beginning he’s super arrogant and annoying but still was a good person with the capacity to be even better. he was misguided, naive, stubborn, arrogant and so many other things but he wanted to good. he couldn’t ignore that he helped take someone’s life especially when he was literally seeing the aftermath it created.
as always i recommend this to everyone that even remotely talks about media around me.
still watching because of adhd:
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