Netflix Retrospective - Heartstopper Season 1 Episodes 7-8

Right, we’re back for the final episodes of Heartstopper, coming up:

•  Charlie messes with his hair;
• Older sister magic;
• And Nick talks about Popcorn

Netflix Retrospective - Heartstopper Season 1 Episodes 5-6

We’re back for a third look at Heartstopper and in this exciting episode:

• Elle wins a game of bowling
• Nick goes to buy a snack
• And Charlie wears a badge

Disney+ Retrospective - High School Musical The Musical The Series Season 1

So, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, let’s take a quick look at the first season. Why am I doing a retrospective and not a breakdown, partly because I only have so much room in the schedule, and partly because season 2 felt too much like a straight comedy and doing a breakdown of the plot would be akin to telling all the jokes. But because my time has some value to me, I’ll be doing only the 10 episodes of the first season. 

Netflix Retrospective - Heartstopper Season 1 Episodes 3-4

We’re back with another 2 episodes of Heartstopper and in the next exciting episode

• Harry hires a hotel
• Tao and Elle watch a movie
• And Nick stands outside in the rain

Comic Book Lucky Dip - Batman Family #4

Welcome back to Comic Book lucky dip and boy do I have a treat for you this time. I have recently subscribed to the DC Universe app so now my collection of comics covers a lot of DC History. I told the search to select at comic at random, I don’t know if it actually did but it came up with Batman Family #4 from 1976, easily the oldest comic I’ve ever reviewed.

Netflix Retrospective - Heartstopper Season 1 Episodes 1-2

OK, I have a new obsession, and you might have heard of it (makes a change, right?) I present Heartstopper.

Alice Oseman wrote a series of comics featuring a love story between 2 male protagonists but chose not to make them having misunderstandings and arguments the central focus of their relationship, as other shows, even one I like, tend to do. But adapting a comic into movie form comes with its challenges, COVID in particular, in this case. To do this show justice and… honestly to minimise the amount of work I need to do, I’m gonna do 5 reviews for this show. 4 covering the series itself, and another taking a look at it as an adaptation, the comics, whilst a very good read and available online for free, are short and more was needed to make the show a reality.

Pixar Playlist #23 - Soul

 Ladies and Gentlemen, whether you like it or not, the Pixar Playlist

Netflix Retrospective - The Dragon Prince Season 3 Episodes 7-9

We’re back with the final episodes of the Dragon Prince. Though the show was renewed for 4 more seasons none of them have surfaced yet and it’s possible the recent slashing of animation budgets may have hindered matters further. But I digress, enough theorising, let’s get to the meat of the matter.

Comic Book Lucky Dip - Detective Comics #1051

Today’s randomly selected comic is Detective Comics #1051. This is the most recent of the comics I’ve reviewed for this but time is meaningless here, this was the 5^th part of the Shadows of the Bat Storyline going on at the time, written by Mariko Tomaki, with art by Max Raynor and with a backup story written by Matthew Rosenberg with Fernando Blanco on art.

Netflix Retrospective - The Dragon Prince Season 3 Episodes 4-6

We’re back with more episodes of the Dragon Prince as a grand conspiracy is set into motion and time is running out for Callum and Rayla

Oceans 13

 We’ve had Oceans 11, Oceans 12, and now we’re at Ocean’s 13…

Oceans 12 had its moments but it didn’t really work for me, it’s attempt at being more high stakes resulted in it being more confusing and less interesting, relying on a final twist at the end to make the narrative work.

So with new writers at the helm, Oceans 13 takes things back to basics, it did OK at the box office, continuing the diminishing returns of the franchise, but has a better critical rating at 70% and average 6.4/10. But here’s my take on it

Netflix Retrospective - The Dragon Prince Book 3 Episodes 1-3

Time to take another look at the Dragon Prince

It’s been a while, but it’s time to see where Callum and Rayla are heading as Ezran heads back to his Kingdom.