Cavy TV

Rating: ★★★★ Arcane: League of Legends is a gorgeous video game adaptation that exists within the world of the steampunk genre. It functions on a lot of levels - in the beginning it lays the foundations of a strong and loving bond between two sisters, then throughout most of the middle episodes it focuses on the politics and system of the city (twin cities), and by season's end it unfolds into an outright coming of age punk tale.  One could say a better TV series would have fleshed out the entire narrative structure here, by offering slower storytelling in order to give greater backstory to these characters and their city's history which would in turn provide for greater empathy towards the characters and greater emotional payoffs across pivotal moments in the entire narrative. However, one must understand the platform for the show, it is a Netflix animated series after all, so the audience will be made up of the general public who would want to be entertained and not run the ...

  Rating: ★★★★  Follows the life of a middle-aged, divorced detective Mary-Ann, or just Mare, played incredibly by Kate Winslet as a series of serious crimes bewitch their small town. Missing young girls and murders are those crimes, and Mare is still fresh off dealing with the suicide of her eldest child. Lots of bleak you might think, and fair enough, since this kind of revives the small American town family despair atmosphere in some of the miniseries we've gotten from HBO recently such as Amy Adams' wonderful turn in Sharp Objects (2018) and the more underwhelming I Know This Much Is True (2020). Yet, there's so much lighter moments of comedy and raw love and emotion weaved into the show as well. The writing is tremendous for the first 4 episodes when the stage is still being set for these characters, their lives and relations with one another. Not only does every single episode end on a cliffhanger, but every single minute of those 4 episodes are absolutely entrancin...

Rating: ★★  With lots of hype, I entered Yellowjackets with equal expectation. The pilot was decent enough, didn't particularly blow me away like I heard it did for most. But it was the next couple episodes that did not convince me this is something I would enjoy. For this reason, I could only last a total of 3 episodes before I decided I have a firm grip of what this show is all about.  It depends on its mystery gimmick, multiple timelines and multiple characters to just drag everything out kind of in the vein of past series like Lost and Leftovers . The plane crash leaving survivors stranded on a mysterious island with some supernatural elements is of course literally the plot of Lost . So piggy-backing off other shows is already not a good idea, but at least you got to have intriguing characters to make it work, right? The show has none of that either as the characterisations come off as standard 2000s B-grade TV personality types. The only character that somewhat comes clo...