[ SECRET POST #4727 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4727 ⌋

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Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[(Anonymous)]

I just started watching Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba after seeing a secret for it here, and... I am really enjoying it. That is not the surprising part. I'm a sucker for demon/shounen type animes.

What surprises me is that I love all the characters. Usually it's either the MC I dislike because the show pushes them up on this pedestal above all the others, or it's some of the side characters because at the expense of fleshing out the MC (and antagonist) they neglect to do anything substantial with anyone else and they become annoying one-trick shells.

BUT GUYS I LOVE EVERYONE! IT'S SO REFRESHING!

Re: Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[(Anonymous)]

Just starting to watch Marvelous Mrs Maisel and I wish someone had told me how much it improves in the second season

Re: Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[type_wild]

That the official title is "Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir", because I've only ever seen it referred to as "Miraculous Ladybug" and I think that goes some way to explain some of my non-surprise detailed below.

But I'm surprised that I like it at all, for starters. That I'd like it because I ship the teenage protags of a children's show that the show is REAL UNSUBTLE about, because I usually loathe those romantic dynamics.

What didn't surprise me until I sat down to think about it, is how focused it is on Ladybug as the heroine. Even if the title refers to both heroes, it's always Ladybug who saves the day and almost always Ladybug who is in the spotlight, and that definitely didn't have to be the case.

Re: Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[(Anonymous)]

I just finished watching The Boys and it's much, much better than I was expecting. The way it was marketed it just seemed crass and macho and not much else. It is crass, and at least on the surface it's pretty macho. But it's also really smartly written, and surprisingly sensitively written. Like, it's a harsh world and people do awful things, but the narrative itself is quite thoughtful and nuanced in how it explores its characters and concepts.

Plus, it's surprisingly good in how it handles its female characters and the misogyny and abuse and specific difficulties they face. I was expecting a rampant case of Men Writing Women Horribly but I was honestly impressed by how believable and real-feeling all the female characters were.

Re: Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[(Anonymous)]

I've been watching three new shows lately.

All Rise: honestly, I'm surprised I like it as much as I do. The commercials didn't look like my kind of thing at all, but it's way better than I expected. I love the relationship between the leads...I do sort of ship them, but I also appreciate their friendship because a platonic relationship between M/F characters with no 'will they-won't they' subtext is super rare. I also love that the good guys pretty much always win. It's not realistic in the slightest, but reality kind of sucks right now so I'm enjoying it.

Prodigal Son: it's much darker than I expected for a non-cable show and much more interesting than I expected. I'm pleasantly surprised by the pacing, too. A lot of times in mystery type shows things are revealed so slowly that it drags out and I just get bored. But even though we still know very little in the grand scheme of the story, they've done it in a way that hasn't been boring, at least in my opinion.

Evil: the show overall just isn't really what I expected. I don't know what I expected, but it's...weird. I saw reviews that compared it to the X-Files, and I personally don't find it at all similar. It's just strange, and kind of hard to describe, and I'm oddly intrigued by it.

Re: Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[(Anonymous)]

I've been watching Prodigal Son and am also pleasantly surprised by the pacing. I was NOT expecting the pivot away from Murder of the Week cases into the Junkyard Killer arc, and it's been really fun to watch everything unfold.

Re: Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

I was impressed by that, too. I thought I would get bored with the Murder of the Week plots unless the characters drew me in a la Elementary, but having an arc with mystery AND direct relations to the characters is definitely working in the show's favor.

Re: Things that surprised you about new shows you're watching!

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, I've been loving Prodigal Son too! I kind of meh'd out of Evil after 4 or 5 episodes, it just didn't hit enough interesting buttons for me.