Cameron

There need to be rule changes. The game's premise is very fun and entertaining but by allowing theft, arson, and destruction of other's property the show runners are creating a situation where contestants are essentially bribed with the promise of life changing money to compromise their morals and both physically / psychologically endanger each other. The villainization of team alpha especially felt like such a scumbag move on the part of the producers. Between the show's advertising and the way the players talk about sabotage from day 1, it's clear that the producers intended and encouraged theft and sabotage. However, as soon as team alpha starts to play dirty, the edit flips on a dime and demonizes them. They're made out to be the ultimate villains despite playing by the rules explicitly established and encouraged. I'd much rather have fallen in love with these character's clear strengths and inspiring determination, rather than watch them do despicable things for money. The fix is easy: No stealing personal possessions or food. No intentionally damaging other's property. This'd keep the politics of team swapping in tact and even let you have some light theft of game rewards if you really want to keep that aspect. But having players sleep in subfreezing temperatures because their sleeping bags are stolen or watch as another team surrounds them and destroys their camp and tools is dangerous and simply low quality.

It's Deadpool all right. Expect a long parade of expensive cameos and nearly wall-to-wall 4th wall breaking gags. The multiverse plot is bad and no amount of self deprecating jokes about thick exposition heavy conversations can overcome how boring thick exposition heavy conversations are. The action felt a little phoned in, the violence is gratuitous and repetitive, the choreography is uninteresting, and the CGI was just okay. It feels like Deadpool runs out of jokes at one point and just starts repeating earlier jokes, in fact, it feels like all of the character's just run out of stuff to say around the middle and spend the second half reiterating and repeating themselves. Hugh's dialogue is basically just different permutations of the same sentence with the f-bomb in different spots. It was fun though. There's a great soundtrack and at least half a movies worth of good Deadpool jokes.

I’m amazed that people like Blue Eye Samurai. The script feels like Netflix bought a really cool show idea and the writer accidentally attached the wrong script file in the email. Somehow we got the first draft outline where all the characters are still one-dimensional placeholders, the dialogue is 90% exposition, and the scenes aren't connected into one cohesive plot yet. The characters are all derivative archetypes. Mizu is the ruthless killer on a mission for revenge, no matter the cost (think Kill Bill, John Wick, Taken, Gladiator, Death Wish, Batman, whatever). Her dramatic backstory as a mixed-race child who was bullied isn't explored meaningfully; it merely serves as a shallow explanation for her anger. The other main characters are equally boilerplate: there’s a princess who opposes arranged marriage, a blind sword master, Sancho Panza, and a third spoke for the love triangle. The writing is noticeably bad, with almost every conversation featuring hyper-simplistic dialogue that spoon-feeds exposition and over-explains metaphors to the viewer. We spend almost no time with the characters living in the moment. The action is cool at first but quickly becomes boring as nothing they show you seems to matter. Mizu is portrayed as an unstoppable, unbeatable murder machine. The rest of the main characters feel almost no consequences for their actions or what happens to them. By the end of the show, you feel no emotion when a 3-inch metal rod shoots clean through Mizu’s ankle because she’s fine seconds later and moves on like nothing happened. Seriously, that’s not a spoiler. The villains are cartoonishly evil, seemingly written by a 13-year-old internet edge lord. They’re evil because they do evil at all times: they kill, they torture, they exploit sex workers, they’re kinky, they sell drugs, they sell guns, they murder babies, and they can’t have a conversation without yelling. The plot is littered with holes that never fill. By the end of the series, the episodes are so chaotic and poorly cobbled together that you can’t track the character's actions or intentions from shot to shot as people teleport around, whole armies disappear, and characters spontaneously reinvent themselves. All of the weak plotlines fizzle and fray until they’re finally abandoned for a pseudo-cliffhanger for the next season.