01-25-2021, 04:53 PM
You couldn't pay me to watch Upload, and I agree so completely with your excellent assessment that it feels like an average or even subpar episode of Black Mirror unnecessarily stretched out into a series. I saw the trailer and was like "fuuuck no".
I rather liked the animated "Undone", starring Bob Odenkirk from Better Call Saul (which, by the way, IS fucking amazing) and Alita's star Rosa Salazar. The animation and story are both the good kind of mind fuck. Also THE BOYS isn't complete garbage, but it's definitely not part of the television renaissance, however I really liked Karl Urban as Bones in Star Trek and loved him in Dredd, and his role as the leader of misfits who take on the world's super heroes (who, behind the scenes, are corrupt and sadistic bordering on evil) is his best work to date. A lot of people love Amazon's flagship scifi show "The Expanse", but to me it's like a dull soap opera in space. The only character I can tolerate is the show's bad boy "Amos"; I just basically forward to scenes that feature him, although recently he's getting more and more feminized by the writers, et al.
But yeah, Amazon seems pretty far from the pack in terms of awesome content.
Kind of OT, but have you seen DARK on Netflix? Holy fucking shit. It's the best use of time travel I've ever seen in any sci fi context, including HYPERION (by Dan Simmons), and all of the set pieces are elite, as is the acting, camera work, and the writing is at a super-high level. If you check it out, I would only say avoid the dubbed english version; watch it in the original german with subtitles, it's far superior. The people who did the voiceovers for the english dubbed version should be forced to change their careers, or worse.
I rather liked the animated "Undone", starring Bob Odenkirk from Better Call Saul (which, by the way, IS fucking amazing) and Alita's star Rosa Salazar. The animation and story are both the good kind of mind fuck. Also THE BOYS isn't complete garbage, but it's definitely not part of the television renaissance, however I really liked Karl Urban as Bones in Star Trek and loved him in Dredd, and his role as the leader of misfits who take on the world's super heroes (who, behind the scenes, are corrupt and sadistic bordering on evil) is his best work to date. A lot of people love Amazon's flagship scifi show "The Expanse", but to me it's like a dull soap opera in space. The only character I can tolerate is the show's bad boy "Amos"; I just basically forward to scenes that feature him, although recently he's getting more and more feminized by the writers, et al.
But yeah, Amazon seems pretty far from the pack in terms of awesome content.
Kind of OT, but have you seen DARK on Netflix? Holy fucking shit. It's the best use of time travel I've ever seen in any sci fi context, including HYPERION (by Dan Simmons), and all of the set pieces are elite, as is the acting, camera work, and the writing is at a super-high level. If you check it out, I would only say avoid the dubbed english version; watch it in the original german with subtitles, it's far superior. The people who did the voiceovers for the english dubbed version should be forced to change their careers, or worse.
