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I went into this series with high hopes and it shattered my expectations. Yes this is CG enhanced animation and it works beautifully. The characters are all amazing, the show is dark while also having enough humor to help balance this. The main thing that sets this apart is how much better this is due to being animated by an American Studio. I was initially put off by having a Japanese location show in English, however the voice acting is incredible. The best thing though? No censorship. While there isn't any high level graphical sexual stuff like in adult anime, they are able to show fully nude characters, genitals, and there is no censorship of any violence. There is also no Japanese kawaii humor nonsense that makes so much anime unwatchable. 10/10 show, I hope we get another season in 2025.

The concept of this show makes sense and for the first two episodes it seems to be going well. There are the games from the show, the alliances are fun to watch, and the pace is ok. Then after that the show devolves into a terrible LARP Soap Opera garbage show with no redeeming qualities. The show is boring, very boring. I would have rather it been bad than boring, but the challenges are so terrible as the show goes on. BORING. Just nothing for anyone to watch and enjoy in this terrible show. Netflix just pumps out so much garbage now and wonders why people no longer care about Netflix original shows. 3/10 - Very poor.

I saw this film when it released at a local small theatre in my area and promptly forgot about it until it popped in my head for some reason over the past week. I watched a bit of it to refresh my memory and it still is a pretty poor film with not much reason to watch it in 2018, let alone 2023.

There are some parts that are ok; I laughed at the Windows XP curtains and there was the really introspective part at the end where a young successful artist discusses the dozen or so young artists asleep on their floor. They talk about how there is so little way for anyone to be successful in this field and are essentially telling the co-main protagonist that they are woefully ignorant for trying to follow the quirky California artist arch-type.

Besides those, the main two characters just suck. Both are incredibly selfish and unlikable and I really do not understand the point of this movie. The "twist" at the end where both characters embrace while crying and say how much they want to break up with each other...get out of here.

4/10 - Largely forgettable and at times aggressively unlikable.

I know nothing of Castlevania lore from the video games and only know about the series lore from the original Netflix animated series.

So lets get this out of the way, this is not as good as the first season of the original series and the OG series is a 10/10 as a whole. There is a great deal of slow buildup in Nocturne that can drag on at times, however the buildup is worth it and I greatly enjoyed this series.

The reason this has so many bad reviews here on IMDB is because of angry white people who are upset that two of the main characters are people of color and that white on black slavery is one of the main storylines in the show. It is the same reason that the Lord of The Rings show was reviewed poorly on here and anything in nerd culture that dares to have people of color or LGBTQIA+ folk in the show will have bad reviews simply because of this.

This is a fine show and this season is a solid 8/10, don't let the angry nerds on here dissuade you from watching this. It also has a season 2 already greenlit because of how well received this was in its first week of release, so don't always trust the peanut gallery that reviews shows on here.

I really don't understand where the writers for this show were going with this. The season was great, the buildup for Gizmo becoming a vampire was four seasons in the making, and the writers manage to bungle possibly the most pivotal plot line in the show. I am getting so sick of shows resetting everything in the last episode of the season and not taking chances with taking a show in a new direction (The most recent example being The Boys which suffered the same issue in season 3). Why in the world did we not get a full on Vampire Gizmo for Season 6? If you want to change him back at some point late in Season 6, SURE that is fine, give us a bunch of episodes and then we can get invested in haveing him make the decision. Instead we had about 10 minutes and just a terrible cop-out. Not even excited for Season 6 now, I think this may have killed the show for me.

I'm currently going through the entire series to prepare for the new season and, while I watched the show here and there in the 2000's, I never did a full watch of the entire series. This is a terribly aged episode due to horrific anti-trans rhetoric.

I'm sure the not helpful button is getting mashed dear reader, but hear me out. It is one thing to go back to shows from this era and see anti-LGBTQIA+ jokes and, while still hurtful, many of these are not exactly cruel.

The anti-trans part of this is especially cruel. Bender is on a successful run as a robot wrestler, but due to sagging merchandise sales the head of the company wants to change his wrestling persona to "Make everyone hate him, he will now be Gender Bender".

Just look at this for a minute. This goes beyond some of the lesser-cruel jokes (Zapp Branigans trans date having a "surprise" for him on the Valentine episode) and is just straight up "Anyone who is non-gender conforming should be at least despised if not attacked for daring to gender bend".

Yes Matt Groening and the gang did end up creating some really awesome LGBTQIA+ affirming shows later on in the decade and obviously this is time capsule from 23 years ago. But just imagine being a trans person during that time at school, work, etc. Knowing that millions of people just watched a popular show that says trans people should be hated. There were not less trans people then, there were less people who could openly be trans because of awful garbage like this episode.

The series is fine, the new season will be great, this drek however really should come with a disclaimer at the beginning so people can skip this trans hatred.

1/10.

This series gained notoriety when it came out in Japan due to the unbelievable amount of censorship that was applied to episodes. Massive black circles would cover huge parts of the screen to block almost anything what was violent. The feedback was that the show was literally unwatchable this way and the series was a complete disaster with this incarnation. The series would soon find its way to CrunchyRoll in a completely uncensored form and, while it does have some novel ways it uses the high level of ultra violence in the show, the writing is just awful and this really is one of the worst sci-fi shows I have ever seen.

The plot makes no sense. Bug people have taken over Mars and are now going to come to Earth to kill humans. No weapons can harm them so Earth merges high-level human fighters with various bugs that has a 50% chance of death when done. These bug fighters are now on the way to Mars to kill the Bug people before they come destroy earth.

The story makes no sense. If guns and other weapons do not work, why not create Terminator like robots to destroy these bug people? It makes no sense that the earth bug people would somehow be stronger than killer robots would be, it is physically impossible for any type of hybrid bug fighter to be more powerful than a fleet of killing machine robots.

Either way, lets remove that plot hole, the series writing is awful. No characters are likable, the weird announcer makes the series seem like some 1980's Ultraman drek, and it just fails to be anything than a gore-porn crapshow.

Strong recommendation to avoid, 3/10.

This was a series I had high hopes for and was even telling friends about with the launch with the really well made trailer on YouTube. I watched the first two episodes and...it's pretty meh. It's not awful, but it really is a boring mess of a show that has no cohesion in each episode. Nothing was scary, nothing was interesting, just very boring stories with mediocre animation as well (the little kid dancing at the Seance was so badly animated, things like this stick out like a sore thumb).

Not sure who this is for, but as someone who loves horror this is just a lacking show with no real reason to watch.

I enjoyed the first season quite a bit but season 2 really devolved into a series of stale tropes, characters with unbreakable plot armor, cheesy rom-com teen nonsense, and all in all it's just a mediocre ending for the series. I finished episode 6 of season 2 and was so bored I looked up the spoilers and...meh. I had thought that each of the characters may be dead and in some type of trial to see where they would go and I wasn't too off the mark, but it still was just a boring ending.

The first season was good but to have all these characters come back for the second season....bleh. 5/10. Could have been better.

I had heard nothing about this show until Charlie Moisty did a video on it and I decided to check it out. This is the same type of humor in other poor animated shows like Chicago Party Aunt, garbage Simpsons episodes over the past 20 years, etc. Etc...

The show is not the worst thing I've ever seen and it really does not deserve all the one star reviews (for a one star show look at High Guardian Spice or Ex-Arm); the animation is serviceable, the narrative is able to be followed, it doesn't do anything absolutely awful besides the bad humor.

3/10 - Very poor show that takes a beloved IP and flushes it down the toilet.

The 1980's and 90's saw anime and animation in general become the incredible medium it is today. Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Evangelion, these were some of the pioneers of Gloom Tech animation - animations that took place in Blade Runner type futures where every type of technology is now available, yet humans still suck and all this does is create a high-tech dystopian hellscape.

Edgerunners is incredible and captures this vibe so well. EVERYONE is suffering in this show and the writers pull no punches in making sure that we know this. It's brutal, sad, and one of the best series I've seen in decades. 100% recommended.

Hoo boy...This was an abysmal ending to the second season and possibly to the entire series.

Quick recap - everything was amazing up until the final 10 minutes of this episode. The world building, the characters, the animation, everything was top tier. This has to be one of the worst finale episodes I've ever seen, and really it just all falls apart in the last 10 minutes.

Why on Earth would they have the final battle between Spear and Mega Fire Demon be so anti-climatic? It just felt so poorly done and this should have been an episode in and of itself, not about seven minutes of a pretty blah battle.

The end scene of Mira on top of Spear is one of the most cringe things I have ever seen. The dude has third and fourth degree burns on his entire body and we get a freaking sex scene!? Why did they just not have the sex scene the night before, it would have made total sense. It was just disgusting and so poorly thought out...have the people who write and animate this show even understand how nonsensical this was?

Terrible ending to a show that was flawless up until the last ten minutes of this terrible finale (even the weird one-off episode in the middle of season 2 was fine). Possibly one of the worst endings to a show of all time because this was a 10/10 show up until this.

I found the show when looking for highly rated animated shows on IMDB and don't really know any of the lore around it. The show is really good, especially the first few episodes that set the stage for the season. I am all about adult animation shows that are not afraid to curse, have violence, and are also LGBTQIA+ inclusive!

Vox Machina does struggle from some stale tropes at times. The characters are all pretty typical (the comedian, the stoic, the big dumb nice ogre character, etc.) and many parts of the story could have used some fleshing out. Not enough background is given for some of the characters and, while this has 12 episodes of about 300 minutes total season one length, the show struggles with pacing at times.

I believe that the show is well worth a watch and am happy it was picked up for a second season.

There are so many negative reviews here and I believe many are missing the beauty of this film in showcasing how these applications support people with disabilities. There are numerous characters in the film with disabilities and it was touching to see a world that is so inclusive.

That being said, I loved the style but can understand if the style turns people off. It's glitchy and ugly at times, but there is something really cool about the entire thing taking place in VR.

This film also succeeds in really pulling at your emotional strings. Some of the characters are really relatable and I cried several times during the movie.

There are so many negative reviews here and I believe many are missing the beauty of this film in showcasing how these applications support people with disabilities. There are numerous characters in the film with disabilities and it was touching to see a world that is so inclusive.

I was interested in this show as I enjoy some of the more mature themed superhero shows, however MODOK is terrible. The writing just isn't good and there are far better shows out there like the animated Harley Quinn that run circles around this crap.

Off the top of my head I can think of a few times an animated series throws out a "joke" episode as a way to mess with fans.

South Park had the Terrance and Philip special way back in the 90's when the episode was supposed to reveal Cartman's father, Perfect Hair Forever aired instead of the Squid Billies in 2005 after months of hyping Squid Billies, Sealab 2021 played an episode of the original Sealab 2020 that the series was parodying, etc.

The gag is fun I guess, but this time it really adds nothing new to the gag. The episode is pointless, just bickering amongst the main characters at an airport, low on actual animation changes (why put money into an episode most people will skip when they realize it is a joke episode), etc.

I understand the gag and yea it can be funny, but really is this the best time to put something like this out there? HBO, Adult Swim, etc. Are being devoured by the Discovery Warner conglomerate and so many shows are getting shelved due to this terrible merger. Smiling Friends was already shafted when it was delayed and then had to put all the episodes out at once instead of weekly, it may not help things if people are streaming this episode on HBO or AS and see that people stop watching it after just a few minutes. Of course, the show might already be on the chopping block, in which case yea this is a funny as hell sendoff...

I've watched hundreds of drama series and this one is just so slow that I can't be bothered to continue it. Made it two episodes in and it just dragged way too much.

This season had some incredible episodes. Herogasm especially was one of the best hours of drama in the history of the medium. However, all the buildup is wasted on a painted-by-the-numbers ultra-safe finale that would have been at home in one of the more mediocre Marvel/Disney hero movies.

The plot armor is just awful in this finale. No one dies. Yes Butcher has terminal cancer but there are no sacrifices that would have given power to this finale. One or more of the boys and Maeve should have passed away with everything that happened. With this finale, the season really accomplishes nothing in the way of advancing the overall plot of the show.

Soldier Boy is back to cryo-statis sleep and everyone in his team is dead, but this has no effect on our characters in the long run. Black Noir's death was easy to forecast, but he was such a bit character that it doesn't affect anything. Homelander finding Ryan was also inevitable and they very well could have offed Homelander in this finale and have Ryan take up the facism cause in his name. Yes we get to see Homelander be unapologeticly evil.

This series is incredible. Our titular character Kaiji is a 20-something loser who reads manga all day, works a dead-end job, and enjoys defacing property of those who he things are better than him. Kaiji is also incredibly intelligent, however he just has no drive but to do the bare minimum. Everything changes on one fateful day however as, in a brief moment of compassion, he agrees to co-sign a Yakuza loan for a friend of his and the friend defaults on the debt. Kaiji is now millions of Yen in debt to the Yakuza and would have to spend decades paying them back with interest.

Or he could erase all the debt in one night if he agrees to play some games...

That is all you need to know going into this. Everything from Squid Game to Alice in Borderland are no doubt influenced by this series and Kaiji is a series that is a 10/10 the entire time. The games are easy to understand and brutally terrifying and we get to see how Kaiji can finally use his intelligence to find ways out of seemingly hopeless situations.

This is a cant-miss series. There is nothing like it out there and it is intense every step of the way.

Highest recommendation to watch.

I made it to episode three and just couldn't continue because of how awful the show made me feel watching it. Something about this anime just made me so uneasy, but not in a good way like most psychological horrors do. It made sexual assault seem trivialized...just a really bad plot device and I just couldn't continue. Similar types of shows like Squid Game, Alice in Borderland, and Kaji the Ultimate Survivor (where people play high stakes games to survive) all have likable main characters while this show just doesn't. I can see why some like it, but it just isn't for me.

The Walking Dead just never did it for me and near the end of season 3 I just gave up on it. I had heard Fear the Walking Dead was good so I gave it a go.

Seasons 1 and 2 are wonderful. There are so many crazy moments and it just works really well. Season 3 gets bogged down at the ranch and Season 4 starts promisingly enough but gets bogged down as well by terrible writing and bad characters.

Give seasons 1 and 2 a go, then forget it.

I made it two episodes in waiting for it to "click" and it just never did. The whole premise makes no sense and the world building is awful:

1. If 45 random kids were born in one day with no prior pregnancy, they and their mother's would all be found by Special Forces around the globe and put in Area 51 type bunkers, not have seven of them randomly purchased by a billionaire.

2. If said seven special kids were straight up murdering bank robbers and other criminals, again they would all be targeted as enemies of the state. What world is this where everyone is just so blase' about all this weird stuff happening. Unlike the worlds of Invincible, The Boys, or the Netflix Hero series (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, etc.), there is not enough supernatural stuff in the world building here to excuse how little people seem to care about the fact that seven kids with powers are out murdering people.

3. TIME TRAVEL NONSENSE. I'm just so done with shows adding time travel in, it never goes well. How did Time Travel boy arrive at the EXACT MOMENT that everything was destroyed? There are still fires where all the buildings were which means that he arrived literally right after the destruction happened...why would it be this exact time when the other times he was time traveling it was just at random periods of time with nothing special happening. Lazy writing.

4. Why is big boy on the moon and then just comes home for the funeral? It's not like he could take a jet back home, is space travel so trivial that he could come back home at a moments notice?

5. The comedy falls flat. The capt. Jack Sparrow on heroin character isn't funny, just really poor.

4/10. I really wanted to like this show, especially with affirming LGBTQIA+ characters, but it's really not that good.

There are episodes in drama series that work so well and provide such a payoff that it makes a series transcend from excellent to one of the greatest shows of all time.

Two recent(ish) examples of this are Ozymandias from Breaking Bad, and Chicanery from Better Call Saul. Both of these episodes took place after years of build up and provided a payoff that has made these two shows stand out among scores of others.

With Herogasm, The Boys joins the elite drama series echelon and I cannot believe how masterfully crafted this episode is. We have so many plot lines, that have been building over the past three seasons, finally mature and give us the best possible outcomes imaginable.

Frenchie and Kimoko come to the realization that they are killers with or without powers and that their attempt at a moral high ground in going after bad super heroes is not enough to cover the darkness that has enveloped them both.

Mother's Milk ties his severe OCD to the death of his grandfather at the hands of Soldier Boy and that his quest for revenge against bad super heroes has come at the expense of all those who love him, specifically his daughter.

A-Train has one of the most intense face-turns I've ever seen in drama. He realizes at Vought tower that he is a murderer and has no right to claim a high ground. He apologizes to Hughie, a real apology where he realizes that his need to be in The 7 by using performance enhancing V led to the destruction of so many lives with his brother now crippled due to A-Train's inability to rise above. With this knowledge, and realizing he will likely die doing so, he murders Blue Hawk at the (possible) cost of his own life as Blue Hawk would never have been brought to justice.

Starlight finally stops letting others control her and realizes there is nothing left to lose and she can no longer play the role of "America's Sweetheart".

Hughie completes his transition into a man who also will not let others control him, even though this will cost him everything. His vengeance against Homelander has now become his reason for living. While we have not seen any appearances of Robin haunting Hughie in seasons 2 or 3, Hughie now has revenge as his sole purpose for being. Hughie tried to do things "the right way" by partnering with Victoria for a year, only to find out he was being played the entire time. Hughie has had enough and was willing to die with Butcher during Soldier Boy's explosion if it meant the death of Homelander.

Butcher's "Scorched Earth" line mirrors Hughie's transformation. Butcher has accepted his team leaving him and has gone against the dying wishes of Becca to help raise Ryan so that he could kill Homelander. Nothing else at this point means anything to Butcher and he was also ready to die from Solder Boy's explosion if it meant the end of Homelander.

Homelander finally realizes his place as the clown. He was created as a puppet to promote Vought and those who loved him only do so out of fear or to use him for some reason. Stormfront only wanted him to begin a new era of facism and she killed herself when she realized he would not do this. Black Noir has abandoned Homelander and was the only other person Homelander could consider a friend. Ryan hates Homelander as a father. Starlight won't be further manipulated. Maeve despises Homelander and continued to go against him even if it meant being black-bagged and possibly killed. Even The Deep, his most precious stooge, only follows Homelander due to outside influence and only because being in Homelander's good graces could possibly erase the awful history of The Deep. Homelander is nearly killed by Soldier Boy, Hughie, and Butcher, and Homelander realizes he is the poor-man's Soldier Boy. All of the awful things that Homelander has done are for nothing as he is now alone and now aware of how fragile he is.

10/10 - This episode alone has made The Boys one of the greatest drama shows of all time.

It is way too short and also, while the story focuses on several lesbian main characters, there is no actual romance shown between the characters which cheapens much of the relationship and doesn't affirm the LGBTQIA+ story that should have been stronger. Perish the thought of actually showing a same-sex kiss on a series build upon two women in love with each other.

5/10, I do not recommend this series.

The method of story telling in this film picks up all the stale tropes of modern documentaries. It is boring because the film just takes too long to actually go anywhere and the main characters are not interesting (Besides Deep F Value, that guy is a legend). I followed this entire story in real time on the Reddit WSB subreddit and I can't understand how this film failed to reflect how exciting this was at the time.

Two other huge things that tanked this for me:

1. I am so tired of stock footage being used in documentaries (e.g., when the narrator says welder and it cuts to a stock video of a welder or when it cuts to a Simpsons clip for no reason). It is lazy editing and adds nothing to the film.

2. This has to be the worst soundtrack for a film I have ever heard. IT NEVER STOPS PLAYING and is just the most basic score one could imagine. Let the characters talk, we don't need this bland garbage major key music playing for an hour and a half.

3/10, Strong recommendation to avoid.