Netflix Month 2 - Titans Season 1 Episodes 7-8

We’re back with Titans, will they find a subject to talk about that isn’t Dick Grayson? Let’s find out

Netflix Month 2 - The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Episodes 5-6

Note: Sorry this is so late, I've been busy

We’re back for Netflix Month 2, and the next 2 episodes of the Umbrella Academy. A difficult day was had by many in the last episode, let’s see if that continues

Netflix Month 2 - Titans Season 1 Episodes 5-6

We continue with Netflix Month 2 as we take another look at Titans, now Beast Boy has joined the team, will there be an up in quality?

Netflix Month 2 - The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Episodes 3-4

It’s Netflix Month 2 and I’m annoyed, not because this show is bad, even the last episode of Titans was decent, but I’ve just reviewed these 2 episodes, then I forgot to save before I put my computer to sleep and it restarted to install bios. I hope this doesn’t come across in my re-written reviews but if I sound a little jaded this time around, that’s why.

Netflix Month 2 - Titans Season 1 Episodes 3-4

 

So we continue with the adventures of Dick Gray… I mean titans, for this edition of Netflix Month 2

Netflix Month 2 - The Umbrella Academy Season 1 Episodes 1-2

 2 semi-serious shows about Superheroes form Netflix Month 2, who would’ve guessed?

It seems the process of adapting comic books into TV shows has expanded beyond the Big 2, we have the reasonably interesting Locke and Key adaptation, which I may cover at some point, the pretty decent Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which for various reasons I will not be covering, and The Boys, which I adamantly refuse to watch given its horrific source material. Among those is also Dark Horse’s The Umbrella Academy, by writer Gerard Way, the guy who helped give us some songs by My Chemical Romance, and Also Peni Parker and SP//dr, I’m sure we’re all welcome.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at the first Season of the Umbrella Academy and see what it has to offer.

Netflix Month 2 - Titans Season 1 Episodes 1-2

It’s March, you know what that means, It’s Netflix Month 2

If 2020 was the year of anything (aside the virus, obviously), it was the year of streaming. From the launches from the big 2 film studios (Disney+ and HBO Max and I know, Disney+ technically launched in 2019, but it waited until 2020 to release elsewhere)) to the what the f*ck where they thinking launches of things like Quibli, there’s no doubt that Netflix has stronger competition than it ever had. At the same time, it can no longer rely on being able to secure the rights to famous TV shows and films, and will have to rely on their own content.

This year I’ll be doing 2 sequel theme months, concentrating largely on original programming from streaming services. It’ll be adding a few new shows to my ever-growing roster.

And we’re starting with Titans, which may confuse those of you in the US who found the show debuting on the DC Universe app, which is being rolled into HBO Max for it’s non-comic content, but internationally, it debuted on Netflix, and since there’s no sign of HBO Max in the UK yet, it’s still there.

The show gained a level of infamy before its release with a trailer where Dick Grayson says “Fuck Batman” before knocking out a criminal. We’ll get to that momentarily but long story short, its tone became an issue before it even launched. We’ll be covering season 1, the first 11 episodes as part of this theme month and in April we’ll do a special review of the opening episode of season 2. The remaining 12 episodes of season 2 I’ll try and cover next year.