Category Archives: Television
There’s Gonna Be More Beavis and Butt-Head
We knew this was coming, and now we’ve got a trailer! The new movie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, came out a couple of weeks ago and it was a hoot! Maybe not as good as the good old days, but nonetheless quite a funny and enjoyable film. And that’s going to lead into a whole new revival series this fall.
Bring it on! We have a million things to watch these days, so why not more Beavis and Butt-Head straight from Mike Judge? Close Enough just got cancelled. And the new season of Tuca & Bertie arrived with so little fanfare that I might forget to watch it. There’s so much stuff! So I’ll gladly take more Beavis and Butt-Head!
The new show starts on Aug. 4 on Paramount+.
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The Rings of Power Hasn’t Hooked Me Yet
There’s going to be a big, expensive Lord of the Rings TV show. It’s going to be set millennia before the movies, focusing on some supplemental material from J.R.R. Tolkien. It’s going to be called The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime, and it’s going to look like this.
And I don’t think it looks like anything. This trailer looks gorgeous. Clearly the money was spent on big CGI landscapes. Because all the character scenes look far less expensive. And none of them are talking about anything interesting. It all looks really cool. But this trailer doesn’t reveal anything about plot or story or characters that gets me excited.
It looks like Amazon put all of their money into making this big show, but have probably failed to come up with any sort of story worth telling.
I hope I’m wrong, obviously. I’m going to watch this show. There’s no reason the showrunners and writers can’t have come up with something really great, that just so happens to have billion-dollar CGI landscapes.
So I’m going to keep my hopes up for when The Rings of Power premieres on Sept. 2!
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Nightwing Joins Awesome Harley Quinn Cartoon!
We’ve got an even bigger and better trailer for season 3 of Harley Quinn, which is coming to HBO Max at the end of this month. I love this show. It’s pretty much perfect. And I can only imagine it’s going to get even better in season 3! Largely because we’re getting Nightwing!
We’ve also got Harley and Poison Ivy in a relationship, with promises from the showrunners that they’re not going to break them up or fill their relationship with a bunch of will they/won’t they nonsense. They’re a same sex couple and they’re damn proud and awesome about it. So great! And Joker is running for mayor! That sounds fun too!
I can’t wait for Harley Quinn season 3, kicking off on July 28.
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Check Out This Sweet Dragonball Z Fan Animation
The internet gives us many things. Some good, some really bad. But sometimes you stumble upon a really awesome Dragonball Z fan animation by the good folks at Studio Stray Dog.
I like Dragonball Z as much as the next person, and this video is cool as heck! That is some smooth and gorgeous animation. Some great voices. And some really awesome interpretations of classic DBZ characters. This is everything one could want in a fan video. Kudos to the whole team at Studio Stray Dog!
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How Far is the Paper Girls TV Show Gonna Go?
Paper Dolls is becoming a TV show on Amazon Prime later this month! It’s a really cool comic, but it’s also a really wild and weird comic. Writer Brian K. Vaughn and artist Cliff Chiang go balls to the wall in terms of crazy time travel and sci-fi shenanigans.
Will the show be able to match that stuff?
We had a teaser trailer last week, and this full trailer doesn’t fill me with too much confidence. It grounds the whole thing in the part where young Erin meets adult Erin, because that’s understandable. But that stuff is only a small part of the madness to come. Will we get that madness? Are they saving it for a season 2, in the hopes that they get a season 2? I guess we’ll find out! But this first full trailer plays things a little too safe for my tastes.
Paper Girls arrives on Amazon Prime on July 29!
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