One season forgettable comedy is exactly the way to describe what I’d been hearing. It looks like the season is only half out so I’ll let it finish up and then give it a go.

I’d heard mixed reviews so this wasn’t high on my watch list. If it’s getting a second season then it’s probably better than I’d heard.

Anyone who’s watched got any thoughts?

It’s been a busy week.

• Shrinking had their season 4 finale and it really felt like a series finale. Supposedly it was originally planned as such but they decided to do one more season.
• Invincible came in hot this week after a huge episode last week. Quality is just so good.
• The Boys is back for its final season and it kicked off a strong two episode premiere.
• Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord premiered and is off to a good start. Lots of potential and things to set up, but I like where we’re going.
• The Testaments, a follow up to The Handmaid’s Tale also just premiered. I don’t quite know what story they’re telling this time around, but I like the characters so I’ll stick around.
• The Pitt, as always, is great. This week (today) we get the penultimate episode. Feels like we just started the season, but so much has happened.
• Daredevil: Born Again had an amazing opening scene this week. I feel like we’re still building, but I’m intrigued.

if you search Twitter/X, or Instagram, or social media platforms in general, you will come across “Pitt” fans undergoing what seems to be some sort of mass delusion.

If my source is “someone on Twitter” I can prove anything. The Pitt is actually about unicorns, source: Twitter.

I wish I could understand if this is an actual trend or just one person. Hell I’ve had conversations with people in real life about certain shows only to realize they completely missed the point or got stuck on something minor that “ruined” the show for them, even though that thing was just a minor part of it.

Yes, people die on “The Pitt” (it’s set in a hospital emergency room), but it’s not really the type of show to bump main characters off like “The Sopranos,” or, again, “Lost,” which killed main characters left and right

At the height of its popularity ER killed off a main character. One suddenly (with John Carter surviving) and one slowly over the course of several seasons. More similarly to ER we have characters who just leave. Dr Collins was a big character in season 1, in season 2 she’s just gone with a quick mention.

I don’t expect someone to die ever week because this show takes place over one shift. But between seasons? Dr. Al-Hashimi is great this season, but is clearly hiding something. She could easily be gone next season. (Or she could be around for the next 10 seasons.)

It’s probably my number 2 (animated Disney+ MCU) right behind Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.

Individually I think Clarke and Richardson did great. I don’t think was sold by the end of the first episode, but after the second (or third?) I was really starting to enjoy it. The premise is a little silly, but once we get into it I think it works well.

Also Vic Michaelis has a supporting role in this and they’re great.

The whole Multiverse saga has been bungled.

This scene was great at setting the stakes, the most powerful thing from the last saga are now paperweights. That was a great scene. Loki knew how powerful these stones were, he used one of them,m but now they are nothing. If I recall correctly this was after he tried to use his own magic. So it was confirmation that whatever this realm was, it didn’t just work on him, it worked on the most powerful thing he could have imagined.

And then of course you look at the rest of that show. It set up a great villain. The only person who was actually in control of this crazy world Loki found himself in. He acts and behaves exactly as someone who knows everything would. He taunts, he has fun, and he ultimately gives Loki a reasonable choice. Chaos, which could unravel all of time, or order, which means some must sacrifice.

And a choice is made. By… Loki? Other Loki. Different Loki. The same Loki?

That was a hell of a setup.

And then Ant-Man kills Kang.

(And the Kang actor is arrested [and eventually convicted] for assault.)

The Multiverse saga was already having a tough time, but to lose your villain… That’s rough from a story perspective.

The other thing, going back to the Infinity Stones themselves is that you needed to nerf them somehow. We do get a Multiverse Infinity Stones story in What If…? with Ultron. So that story is also told.

No one is going to complain when the Infinity Stones don’t show up in Doomsday or Secret Wars. But if they do we can point to Loki to point out how they don’t always work in whatever magical thing we end up seeing, or point to how they already told the Multiverse stone story.

Yes, but the Infinity stones called dibs and the multiverse respects dibs.

Actually we saw in Loki season 1 the Infinity stones exist in each universe and as the multiverse is infinite, so are the Infinity stones.

They’re mostly used as paperweights.

Yes, they’re adults now. (They were adults before, but now they’re adults playing adults.)