In terms of TV shows, I had a decent spread across streaming services, with a decent number of seasons of shows on Netflix, but also entries from Hulu, Amazon, HBOMax and Disney+. I also watched a lot of movies with a similar spread (22 that I logged, but I know I missed a few) and haven’t seen the inside of a theater all year.

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Legends of Tomorrow (Netflix, Season 6) - This show knows exactly what it is and starts off with an incompetent-but-well-meaning bang to remind you of that. There’s a ton of logic that totally falls apart if you squint at it (Gary’s been an alien this whole time? How did that work with the demonic nipple if his glasses are just a hologram projector ( Read more... )

Our favorite immortal asshole misfits are back to ask, “WHAT THE F#$%?” for a third go-round.

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Jefferson took another round of semi-retirement after the Markovian War ended and his best friend was killed. But crime in general (and Tobias Whale in particular) doesn’t take a break in Freeland.

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Brooklyn 99 (Hulu, Season 8) - This had to be a really, really hard year for sitcom writers doing “current-day” stuff. B99 does a one-year time skip that covers both Amy’s maternity leave and several waves of covid, with a throwaway line that “all first responders are vaccinated” so they only have to wear masks for flashbacks. Then we got several ( Read more... )

My name is Barry Allen, and I’m the dumbest man alive.

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Masters of the Universe: Revelation (Netflix, Season 1) - Following on from the original cartoon (but generally ignoring the follow-up cartoons and comics), this drew in all of the middle-aged fanboys and then drew their ire, because (first episode spoilers!) He-Man dies and it becomes the Teela show for four episodes. Given that Sarah Michelle ( Read more... )

Jupiter's Legacy (Netflix, Season 1) - A knockoff Justice League who all got powers in the 30s are trying to deal with their superpowered children in the modern world. Millar was clearly trying his hand at a generational superhero story that was trying to deconstruct the Silver Age (which, honestly, was done better in a bunch of other places), and ( Read more... )

WandaVision (Disney+, Season 1) - Though breaking this up into episodes helped them build buzz, probably improved the pacing, and let them make good use of the sitcom gimmick, this is really a long movie. It’s a complete story fitted solidly into the Marvel movie canon. It also changes tone fairly radically over the course of it (though there are ( Read more... )

The city of Freeland, home to an assortment of unstable metahumans due to the drug Green Light, has been completely locked down by the ASA as the country of Markovia looks to invade.

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