Category Archives: TV

Agents of SHIELD

by Revis Edgewater

Whenever Mrs. Revis and I don’t have anything in the current TV season to watch, we’ll go back and rewatch a show we’ve already seen before. A while back, we went through the entire series of Castle again. Castle was such a good show. I just wish they would’ve gotten one more season so they could give the show the finale it deserved.

Our current rewatch series is Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. There are 7 seasons of this show, but we only watched until somewhere between midway to three-quarters of the way through the fourth season when the show was originally airing. The first half of the fourth season was pretty good, but the quality dropped really quickly as the season went on. Back when it originally aired, there weren’t streaming services where you could stop watching something and easily pick it back up again. So, when we stopped watching it to focus on shows that we liked better, we never picked it back up.

We were scrolling through Disney Plus not too long ago and saw that they had added it. When we needed a new rewatch, we decided to go with it… and I’m glad we did.

At this point, we’ve only gone through the first two seasons and a handful from season 3, but right now, the series is just as good, if not better, than I remember it. There’s a good mix of humor, superhero action, and intrigue. Agent Colson is one of my favorite MCU characters, and each member of his team adds a little something to the show.

I’m hoping that we’ll be able to make it past the part we left it the first time and finish the show. Only time will tell, though.

Twisted Metal

by Revis Edgewater

Way back in the Playstation 1 days, I used to play the game Twisted Metal 2 quite a bit. I never really played the first one, and the third game wasn’t as good, but I used to love playing the second one. Driving around in cars, shooting and blowing other cars up? That’s all kinds of fun. Once I bought the original Xbox, though, everything Playstation got pushed to the back burner and eventually faded from thought.

So, when I was randomly scrolling online a while ago, and saw that Peacock adapted Twisted Metal into a TV show, it filled me with both nostalgia and dread. The nostalgia, obviously, is from all the great times I had playing the game. The dread was because there was a very good chance that they were going to mess it up.

Because I have kids, and there’s a lot of stuff in the show I didn’t want to watch while they were around, it took me a while to make it through the 10 episode season. I’m glad I did, though. Don’t get me wrong, it had its flaws, but overall, I liked it.

I don’t want to get into specifics, because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who may want to watch it, but the finale definitely had the car carnage you’d expect from a show carrying the Twisted Metal name.

If you have Peacock, you should give it a try

Game of Thrones

by Revis Edgewater

It seems like half of my newsfeed on Facebook the past couple of weeks has been about Game of Thrones. Out of those posts, half of them were talking about how they’re excited for this new season, while the other half are bragging about how they’ve never seen a single episode. In fact, I think five different friends of mine posted the same picture that said “I’m part of the 1% of the population that hasn’t seen a single episode of Game of Thrones”. Given how many people I’ve seen share that picture, I doubt the validity of the math on that one.

I, myself, am in the latter group. I have never seen an episode of the show.

When it was only a season or two along, I was thinking about giving it a try. Then, in an ironic twist, it was somebody who was trying to talk me into watching the show that ended up talking me out of it. He said, and I quote, “You should watch Game of Thrones. It’s a good show, once you get past the incest.”

Ummmm…… excuse me?

Incest? No thanks. I’ll just be over here in the incest free zone.

Revivals

by Revis Edgewater

I just got done watching the third (and final) season of Dark Matter on Netflix (if you haven’t given this show a chance, you’re missing out) and I’m angry about its cancellation all over again. I would love to be able to give it at least one more season, if for no other reason than to tie up all of the storylines.

A few days ago, my team lead said something similar, except he would like to do a reboot of the show Heroes. He likes the first season, but the rest of the series kind of blows. His idea was to start completely over and to get rid of all the inconsistencies in the story that were added during the later seasons.

So, that got me to thinking: if someone from a TV network or streaming service, like Netflix, told me that they would let me develop shows based on any property that weren’t currently in use, what would they be?

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Coming Back

by Revis Edgewater

Have you ever noticed that when you’re watching a movie or TV show about someone who either goes missing for a long time or comes back from the dead, their significant other always hooks up with the missing person’s best friend or family member? And it’s always the same story too. It’s always, “We didn’t plan for this to happen. We just got close while we helped each other cope with the grief of losing you.”

Maybe it’s happened before, and I just haven’t seen it, but I would like to see one of those scenes where the friend or family member doesn’t say, “I don’t know how to tell you this but… I hooked up with your significant other.” Instead, they tell the person who just came back, “I don’t know how to tell you this but… I haven’t seen them since the memorial service we had for you. We hated each other. We just faked it for your sake.”

It would just be a nice change of pace.

Ross Hate

by Revis Edgewater

Is there a character that is more hated by the writers of their show than Ross Geller of Friends? I don’t think there is. In 10 seasons, Ross was constantly abused by the writers. It all started in the pilot.

The first thing we learn about Ross is that he is divorced because his wife left him for another woman. That’s pretty bad. What makes it worse, however, is that everyone in his life, his friends and family included, try to make it seem like he should be ok with the fact that his wife announced that she was a lesbian and left him.

The best example of this is the episode where his ex-wife, Carol, marries her new lover, Susan. His own sister not only caters the event, but acts shocked and appalled that Ross says he’s not attending it. At one point she even tells him to get over it and help her prepare the food. Ross responded by saying that if Carol was marrying a man, none of them would be pushing him to go to the wedding. Instead of thinking about his response, his friends make a joke out of it with Joey saying that if Carol was marrying another guy, she’d be the worst lesbian ever.

But, if you think about it, Ross had a point. If Carol had left him for another man, nobody would have been taking her side. So, Carol gets a pass just because she’s a lesbian? She’s allowed to break his heart and devastate him because she left him for another woman instead of a man?

Look, I’m not saying she shouldn’t have left Ross. She should have. She did what she had to do to make herself happy. Staying with him out of guilt would only have made her miserable, which eventually would have made him miserable. I get that. I don’t blame her for leaving.

At the same time, however, she has to be held accountable for her actions. I’m pretty sure that somewhere in the series I heard them say that Ross and Carol were together for 7 years. That’s 7 years where she lied to him. She led him on and made him think that she felt the same way that he did. Then, when he was madly in love with her, and happy to be spend the rest of their lives together, she drops this bomb on him and leaves.

She does this to him and everyone he cares about is telling him to be ok with it? How hurtful is that?

And that’s just the beginning. Let’s see some of the other things the writers made Ross go through:

  • They give him a monkey for no apparent reason.
  • They turn him into a jealous wreck that ends up pushing Rachel away until the series finale.
  • They make him get divorced two more times.
  • The longer the series went on, the more mentally unstable he became.
  • They had him admit that he had once been dumped during sex.
  • They make him so desperate for sex that he tries to bang his cousin.
  • They had him inadvertently make out with his sister.

There are more, but those are the ones that stick out to me. I mean, look at that list. Look at what they put him through. It’s brutal.

Poor Ross…