television

We finished the new Disney adaptation of Percy Jackson over the weekend. The whole family enjoyed it for the most part (though the biggest fan was MC, who’s 10 and generally doesn’t like anything too intense.) Overall, I thought it was a solid family-friendly series, even if it had a few things that held it back from being really great. Honestly, my biggest gripe with it was that it was too dark. I don’t mean thematically. I mean literally. So many of the scenes were poorly lit to the point that I had no idea what was actually happening on

I’d heard good things about the mini-series, All the Light We Cannot See, that went up on Netflix a while ago. I read the book back in 2016, which I enjoyed (gave it an 8/10), though honestly I couldn’t remember much of it other than that it was set in World War II. After watching it, my memories of the book didn’t exactly come flooding back, so I can’t evaluate it as a good or bad adaptation, though I can say I only gave it a 7.5/10, so that would seem to imply I thought the book was better. (Also,

I realized yesterday that I really dropped the ball with my year in review post, because I left off one of the most original, fun TV shows that we watched: One Piece. If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a live action adaptation of the anime series of the same name. Typically when those adaptations have been done, they’ve changed themselves to fit the norms of whatever the new media is. In other words, anime has some zany characters and costumes and general design. Live action shows will tone those down to make the show feel more realistic. One Piece

I had heard great things about The Bear (streaming on Hulu) for a good long while. That said, I’d never actually paid much attention to what it was about. I knew it was somehow classified by the Golden Globes as a comedy (though I’ve never really understood what makes a comedy vs a drama to the Golden Globes, and this hasn’t helped at all), and I knew it was about a chef running a restaurant. That’s about it. So maybe it’s not surprising that it took a long time for me to actually watch the show. I’ve got a streak